致女朋友的一封信
One day a young man was writing a letter to his girl friend who lived just a few miles away in a nearby town. Among other things, he was telling her how much he loved her and how wonderful he thought she was. The more he wrote the more poetic he became. Finally, he said that in order to be with her he would suffer the greatest diff
iculties, he would face the greatest dangers that anyone could imagine. In fact, to spend only one minute with her, he would climb the highest mountain in the world, he would swim across the widest river, he would enter the deepest forest and with his bare hands fight against the fiercest animals.
He finished the letter, signed his name, and then suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to mention something quite important. So, in a postscript below his name, he added: "By the way I'll be over to see you on Wednesday night -- if it doesn't rain."
一天,一個青年男子給住在離他幾英里遠的鎮(zhèn)上的女朋友寫信。除寫了其他的事情外,他告訴她他愛她有多深,他認為她有多好,他越寫越富有詩意。最后,他寫道,為了能和她呆在一起,他將克服最大的困難,他將面對任何人能夠想像的最大的危險。實際上,為了能和她呆上一分鐘,他將爬越世界上最高的山,他將游過最寬的河,他將赤手空拳進入最深的森林同最兇惡的野獸搏斗。
他寫完了信,簽上了名,突然,他想起忘了寫一件挺重要的事。因此,他在信末簽名后又補充道:“順便說一下,我將在星期三晚上去看你--如果不下雨的話。”