The Tibetan Antelope Kneeling on Its Knees

by Wang Zongren

It is a true story that I heard about Tibet. Although it happened many years ago, whenever I travel by bus across the depopulated area in North Tibet, I can’t help recalling the heroine of the story, a Tibetan antelope that embodied its deep maternal love in kneeling on its knees.

In those days people who frequented North Tibet would often meet an old, thickly bearded hunter along the Qinghai-Tibet highway. Wearing Tibetan boots, his long hair falling over his shoulders, and his hunting rifle shiny from use carried at his side, he walked in front of two yaks that carried heavy load of games. After he sold the games, he would only keep a little money for his own use while he gave the larger part of his earnings to the pilgrims he met on the road, and each time he would, with tears in his eyes, pray to Heaven for their safety.

He lived on hunting wild animals but he was a benevolent man. The very thing that made him stop taking animal life was an unexpected incident. Early in the morning one day, he went out of his tent and stretched himself after he soundly slept for a whole night. When he was ready to have a cup of creamed tea, he suddenly spotted a strong, fat Tibetan antelope on the opposite grass-covered slope just a couple of steps away from him. Activated at once, he raised his rifle and aimed at it without hesitance. To his surprise, the antelope did not run for its life. It looked imploringly at him, stepped up toward him and then knelt on its knees with tears streaming down from its eyes. Softhearted for a flashing moment, he did not pull the trigger. But after all as a hunter that could not be moved by the imploring antelope, he shut his eyes , pulled the trigger and the antelope fell onto the ground in a kneeling position with discernable tears still on its face

He did not cut up and skin it that day as he had usually done before. The kneeling antelope repeatedly appeared before his eyes. He wondered why it knelt on its knees before him. The next day as he restlessly cut it open with a hunting knife, he cried with 1

shock and the knife fell on the ground with a crash. He saw a baby antelope lying in the womb, surely dead. All of a sudden he realized why the antelope was strong and fat and why it heavily knelt before him: It was imploring him to have mercy on its baby!

In the world the kneeling of a man’s or an animal’s kind mother is sacred.

The old hunter buried the antelope and its unborn baby together with his hunting rifle that day...

跪拜的藏羚羊

文／王宗仁

这是听来的一个西藏故事，发生故事的年代距今有好些年了。可是，我每次乘车穿过藏北无人区时总会不由自主地想起这个故事的主人公― 那只将母爱浓缩于深深一跪的藏羚羊。

那时候，经常跑藏北的人总能看见一个肩披长发、留着浓密大胡子、脚蹬长统藏靴的老猎人在青藏公路附近活动。那支磨得油光闪亮的权子枪斜挂在他身上，身后的两头藏耗牛驮着沉甸甸的各种猎物 。老人将猎物换成钱，除了自己消费一部分外，更多地用来救济路遇的朝圣者。每次老猎人在救济他们时总是含泪祝愿：上苍保佑，平安无事。

杀生和慈善在老猎人身上共存。促使他放下手中的权子枪是在发生了这样一件事以后。那天大清早，他从帐篷里出来，伸伸懒腰，正准备要喝一碗酥油茶时，突然瞧见两步之遥对面的草坡上站立着一只肥肥壮壮的藏羚羊。沉睡了一夜的他浑身立即涌上来一股清爽的劲头，丝毫没有犹疑，他举枪瞄了起来。奇怪的是，那只肥壮的藏羚羊没有逃走，只是用乞求的眼神望着他，然后冲着他前行两步，两条前腿扑通一声跪了下来。与此同时只见两行长泪就从它眼里流了出来。老猎人的心头一软，扣动扳机的手不由地松了一下。但他是个猎手，不被藏羚羊的乞求打动是情理之中的事。他双眼一闭，扳机在手指下一动，枪声响起，那只藏羚羊便栽倒在地。它倒地后仍是跪卧的姿势，眼里的两行泪迹也清晰地留着侧。

老人没有像往日当即将获猎的藏羚羊开宰、扒皮。他的眼前老是浮现着向他跪拜的那只藏羚羊。他有些跷蹊，藏羚羊为什么要下跪？次日，老猎人怀着忐忑不安的心情对那只藏羚羊开膛扒皮，腹腔在刀刃下打开了，他吃惊得叫出了声，手中的屠刀咣当一声掉在地上...... 原来在藏羚羊的子宫里静静卧着一只小藏羚羊，它已经成型，自然是死了。这时候，老猎人才明白为什么藏羚羊的身体肥肥壮壮、也才明白为什么要弯下笨重的身子为自己下跪：它是求猎人留下自己孩子的一条命呀！

天下所有慈母的跪拜，包括动物在内，都是神圣的。

当天，他将那只藏羚羊连同它没有出世的孩子掩埋了，同时埋掉的还有他的猎枪? ? 注释

选自《 三峡晚报》。

[l]句子中“浓缩于深深一跪”不能按字面直接翻译，因为这不符合英语的词汇搭配。为传 2

达含义，译文在词汇上做了一些调整，译为embodied its deep maternal love in kneeling

on its knees。

[2]译文改变了原文的句法结构，按英语的表达方式重新组成句子。

[3]在文章中，我们可以看出，“杀生”实际指他猎杀野生动物。译文将此具体含义明确表

达，以利于读者理解。

[4]译文对原文的结构做了适当的调整，将下一句话中的“沉睡了一夜”移到本句中，和“从

帐篷里出来，伸伸懒腰”译为一句话。将其余部分译成一句话。这样表达，使他看到羚羊的

时间更显得精确。

[5]译文打破了原文的句子结构，按英语的叙事方法重新组织句子，将关系密切的句子合并，

[6]这两句话关系密切，第二句话是对第一句的补充说明。因此，将两句话合并，将第二句

转换为介词短语。

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第二篇：英语美文欣赏

How to keep your skin healthy

1. The importance of skin

When it comes to your skin, there is an important fact that you must keep in mind: Your skin is the largest organ of your body. Therefore, it is crucial for the health of skin and its protection. Your skin does everything for you. It can keep your body hydrated (水合的) and regulate your body?s temperature.

Now, here are some helpful tips for you to protect your skin:

2. Avoid being in hot sun

Protection against harmful rays from the sun is one of the most important steps that you need to take. With this in mind it is necessary for you to avoid strong sunlight as often as possible. As for sunscreen you need to buy products that contain UVA-1, UVA-2 and UVB protection.

3. Have a balanced diet

Your diet also has a direct impact on the health of your skin. The most important aspect of your diet in relation to the health of your skin is to make certain that you eat a proper amount of food items that contain the proteins and nutrients necessary for cellular (细胞的) maintenance, repair and regeneration.

4. Be sure to have enough water

Water is also important to the health of your skin. While you certainly have heard it before, it actually is true that you should drink at least eight 8-ounce glasses of fresh water every day. There are many health benefits to be derived (得到) from drinking water daily, including maintaining healthy skin.

5. Keep away from smoke and alcohol

Finally, when it comes to the health of your skin today and into the future you should smoking and excessive alcohol consumption can negatively impact the health of your skin in significant ways.

Questions：

1. Try to translate the underlined phrase into Chinese properly.

2. Do you have anything to add, share with us.

How to laugh more often

If you’re sad, anxious, ill, or you’ve just had a bad day, you should probably laugh more. The saying “laughter is the best medicine” is true. Among its many powers, laughter has been found to improve mood and strengthen bonds between people. Here are some fun steps that will help you laugh more.

Just Smile — Even if you’re not happy. If you smile at something that’s slightly uplifting, you are training your body to laugh more.

(1) Be Thankful — It’s easy to develop a habit of being thankful once you’ve thought of all the things you have to be thankful for in the

first place. The more thankful you are, the less you think about yourself, and the happier you become.

(2) Practise Laughing — Try to laugh more for no reason at all. This might be difficult if you are really sad. Making laughter sounds can even cause us to really laugh more.

(3) Find Funny Entertainment— Cartoons and live comedy shows are great at helping you laugh more. If you don’t know what type of humour suits you best, try watching all types of comedy and sooner or later you will be laughing.

(4) Surround Yourself with Funny People — Even if you don’t feel like leaving the house, force yourself to spend more time with people who laugh a lot. Just being around them will cause you to laugh more.

(5) Be Playful — If you’ve ever seen a lot of children playing, you’ve probably heard them laugh more than most adults you know. This is because they haven’t taken control of their inner playfulness.

Invite Laughter — Encourage your loved ones to laugh more by talking about funny things that happen in their lives. Maybe they haven’t laughed enough today either. Exchange funny stories until tears pour out.

What is emotional eating

内容简介：

何谓“情绪化饮食”？人们的饮食和情绪有着怎样的关系？它对人们的健康又有什么影响呢？

What is called emotional eating and its influences?

Emotional eating is that people use food as a way to deal with feelings instead of to satisfy hunger. We’ve all been there, finishing a whole bag of chips out of boredom or eating cookie after cookie while preparing for a big test.But when we have done a lot — especially without realizing it — emotional eating can affect weight, and even health. Not many of us make the connection between eating and our feelings. But understanding what drives emotional eating can help people take steps to change it.

Emotional eating can be affected either by negative feelings or positive feelings.

One of the biggest misunderstandings about emotional eating is that it’s caused by negative feelings. Yes, people often turn to food when they’re stressed out, lonely, sad, anxious, or bored. But emotional eating can be linked to positive feelings too, like the romance of sharing

dessert on Valentine’s Day or the celebration of a holiday feast. We’re all emotional eaters to some extent. But for some people, emotional eating can be a real problem, causing a serious weight gain.

The reason for knowing the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger.

The trouble with emotional eating is that after the pleasure of eating is gone, the feelings that cause it remain. And you often may feel worse about eating the amount of food you did. That’s why it helps to know the differences between physical hunger and emotional hunger.

The example of how to overcome emotional eating.

Next time you reach for a snack, check it out and see which type of hunger is driving it. For example, do you come home from school each day and automatically head to the kitchen? Stop and ask yourself, “Am I really hungry?” If all the signs point to hunger, choose something light and healthy to eat.

Laughter is good

内容简介：

俗话说“笑一笑，十年少”，开心的笑不仅仅可以使人保持年轻的心态，还能有效预防心脏病。阅读下文，看看科学家是如何阐释这一问题的吧！

Can a laugh every day keep the heart attack away? Maybe so. Laughter, along with an active sense of humor, may help protect you against a heart attack, according to a recent study by researchers at the Maryland Medical Center.

“The old saying that ?laughter is the best medicine? appears to be true when it comes to protecting your heart,” says Michael Miller, director of the study and a professor of medicine at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine. “We don?t know yet why laughing protects the heart, but we know that mental stress can cause a heart attack and laughing can effectively reduce the stress.”

In the study, researchers compared the humor responses of 300 people. Half of them had either suffered a heart attack or heart disease. The other 150 did not have heart

disease. Both of them were asked to answer some questions to find out how much or how little they laughed in certain situations. Miller said that the most significant study finding was that people with heart disease responded less humorously to everyday life situations and they generally laughed less.

“The ability to laugh — either naturally or as learned behavior — may have important effects in societies where heart disease remains the number one killer,” says Miller. “We know that exercising, not smoking and eating foods low in fat will reduce the risk of heart disease. Perhaps regular, hearty laughter should be added to the list.” Miller says it may

be possible to take laughter into our daily activities. “We could perhaps read something humorous or watch a funny video and try to find ways to take ourselves less seriously,” Miller says. “The suggestion for a healthy heart may one day be exercising, eating right and laughing a few times a day.”

A miracle of tears

内容简介：

那天简直是这个干燥季节里最热的一天了，我们已经快一个月没有看到雨水了，庄稼也蔫了，小溪干涸了。如果再不下雨，我们就会失去一切……

It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. The crops were dying. The creeks and streams were long gone back into the earth. If we didn’t see some rain soon, we would lose everything. It was on this day that I learned the true lesson of sharing and witnessed the only miracle I had seen with my own eyes.

I was busy preparing lunch in the kitchen when I saw my six-year-old son, Billy, walking toward the woods. Minutes after he disappeared into the woods, he came running out again, toward the house.

I went back to make sandwiches, thinking that whatever task he had been doing was completed. Moments later, however, he was once again walking in that slow purposeful stride (大步) toward the woods. This activity went on for an hour: walk carefully to the woods, run back to the house.

Finally I couldn’t take it any longer and I crept out of the house and followed him on his journey.

As I leaned in to spy on him, I saw the most amazing sight. Several large deer loomed (隐约出现) in front of him. Billy walked right up to them. And I saw a tiny deer lying on the ground, obviously suffering from dehydration (极度脱水) and heat exhaustion, lifted its head with great effort to drink the water cupped in my boy’s hands.

When the water was gone, Billy jumped up to run back to the house. I followed him back to a spigot (水龙头) that we had used to shut off the water. Billy opened it all the way up and a small trickle began to creep out. He knelt there, letting the drip drip slowly in his makeshift “cup”. When he stood up and began the trek again, I was there in front of him. His eyes just filled with tears.

“I’m not wasting,” he said.

As the tears that rolled down my face began to hit the ground, they were suddenly joined by other drops, more and more.

All I can say is that the rain that came that day saved our farm — just like the action of one little boy saved another.