【新視野大學(xué)英語(yǔ)】(第一冊(cè))關(guān)鍵時(shí)刻的真兒子(5/5)
來(lái)源:滬江聽寫酷
2012-12-13 19:23
概述:
說(shuō)完這些話后,海軍陸戰(zhàn)隊(duì)?wèi)?zhàn)士轉(zhuǎn)過身,離開了醫(yī)院。。。
Hints:
the North Carolina
Marine Corps
Brooklyn
Red Cross
"I knew immediately there'd been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn't here. When I realized he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, I guessed he really needed me. So I stayed."
With that, the marine turned and exited the hospital. Two days later a message came in from the North Carolina Marine Corps base informing the Brooklyn Red Cross that the real son was on his way to Brooklyn for his father's funeral. It turned out there had been two marines with the same name and similar numbers in the camp. Someone in the personnel office had pulled out the wrong record.
But the wrong marine had become the right son at the right time. And he proved, in a very human way, that there are people who care what happens to their fellow men.
“當(dāng)時(shí)我就知道弄錯(cuò)了。但我同樣也知道,他需要他的兒子,而他的兒子又恰好不在。當(dāng)我發(fā)現(xiàn)他病得這么重,都認(rèn)不出我不是他的兒子后,我想他確實(shí)是很需要我的。所以我留下來(lái)了。”
說(shuō)完這些話后,海軍陸戰(zhàn)隊(duì)?wèi)?zhàn)士轉(zhuǎn)過身,離開了醫(yī)院。兩天后,北卡羅來(lái)納海軍陸戰(zhàn)隊(duì)基地給布魯克林紅十字會(huì)發(fā)來(lái)一份通知:老人真正的兒子正在前往布魯克林參加他父親葬禮的路上。原來(lái),軍中恰好有兩個(gè)海軍陸戰(zhàn)隊(duì)隊(duì)員同名同姓,并且編號(hào)相近。人事部的官員拿錯(cuò)了檔案。
但是,這個(gè)假兒子在老人真正需要兒子的時(shí)刻卻成了真正的兒子。而且他以一種非常人道的方式,證明了在這個(gè)世界上確實(shí)有人會(huì)關(guān)心自己同胞的遭遇。