【每日英语听力】伊甸园1-2

五月初，一些园子里，水仙花已经开放满在果树的周围。   It was early May. In some of the gardens the fruit trees were encircled with dense clusters of daffodils.

赤杨树已经长出了嫩绿的叶子。   The birches were already in pale green leaf.

每年这个时候万物复苏，多么美妙啊！   It was extraodinary how everything burst forth at this time of year!

天气回暖和所有的雪都融化了的时候，是什么驱使无数花草树木从荒芜的大地生长开来?   What made this great mass of green vegetation come welling up from the dead earth as soon as it got warm and the last traces of snow disapeared?

当Sophie打开花园的门时，她看了看信箱。   As Sophie opened her garden gate, she looked in the mailbox.

通常是一堆垃圾邮件和妈妈的大信封，堆放在厨房的桌子上她回到房间开始写作业。   There was usually a lot of junk mail and a few big envelopes for her mother,a pile to dump on the kitchen table before she went up to her room to start her homework.

偶尔也有一些银行寄给她爸爸的信，不过Sophie的爸爸不一般。   From time to time there would be a few letters from the bank for her father, but then he was not a normal father.

Sophie的爸爸是一艘大油轮的船长，几乎一年都在外面。   Sophie’s father was the captain of a big oil tanker, and was away for most of the year.

有几个星期他在家，他会上下细心打点，为母女俩把房子整理得漂亮舒适。   During the few weeks at a time when he was at home, he would shuffle around the house making it nice and cozy fo Sophie and her mother.

但是当他出海后却显得离她们遥远无比。   But when he was at sea he could seem very distant.