双语美文之似水流年 (98)爱的约会(3)

“Going my way, soldier?” she murmured. he made one step closer to her. Then he saw Hollis Meynell. “问路吗,军人?”她轻轻地说。他又走近一步,接着,他看到了霍丽丝梅内尔。 She was standing almost directly behind the girl, a woman well past 40, her graying hair tucked under a worn hat. She was more than plump; her thick-ankled feet were thrust into low-heeled...

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双语美文之似水流年 (96)爱的约会(1)

Six minutes to six, said the clock over the information booth in Grand Central Station. The tall young Army lieutenant who had just come from the direction of the tracks lifted his sunburned face, and his eyes narrowed to note the exact time. His heart was pounding with a beat that shocked him because he could not control it. In six minutes, he would see the woman who had f...

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双语美文之似水流年 (97)爱的约会(2)

His mind went back to that book-the book the Lord Himself must have put into his hands out of the hundreds of Army library books sent to the Florida training camp. 他又想到了在训练营时看过的一本书—《人性的枷锁》, Of Human Bondage, it was; and throughout the book were notes in a woman’s writing. He had always hated that writing-in-habit, but these remarks were d...

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