Roses for Mama

by C.W. McCall翻译：未几

你有多久没给妈妈送过礼物了？又有多久没跟她表达你对她的爱意了呢？或许，我们现在每天都能幸福地与她吃饭、聊天，但时光飞逝，这种幸福并不代表着永恒。所以，当你和妈妈仍在一起的时候，记得好好享受你们的时光，好好表达你的爱哦！

A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers. He wanted them to send the flowers to his mother and she lived two hundred miles away. As he got out of his car, he found a young girl sitting on the road crying. He asked her what was wrong and she answered, “I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother. But I only have seventy-five cents, and a rose costs two dollars.”

The man smiled and said, “Come on in with me. I’ll buy you a rose.” He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they were leaving, he offered to drive the girl home. She said, “Yes, please! You can take me to my mother.”

She brought him to a1)cemeteryand she placed the rose on a2)grave.

The man returned to the flower shop, cancelled the order, picked up some flowers and drove the two hundred miles to his mother’s house.

参考译文

一个男人，在一家花店旁停了下来，想订一些花。他希望花店能将花送到住在200英里（约322千米）外的母亲手上。下车时，他发现一个年轻的女孩坐在路边哭泣。他问她发生了什么事，她回答说：“我想给我的妈妈买一支红玫瑰。但我只有75美分，而一支玫瑰要2美元。”

男人笑着说：“跟我进来吧，我给你买一支玫瑰。”他为小女孩买了玫瑰，又给自己的母亲订了花，当他们离开时，他提出送女孩回家，她说：“好的，拜托了！您可以把我送到我妈妈那儿去。”

她把男人带到了一片墓地，然后把花放在了一个坟墓上。

男人回到花店，取消了订单，然后买了一些花，驱车200英里（约322千米）去了他母亲的家。

词组加油站

★ come on in 来吧，进来吧

★ pick up 购买，付账

1) cemetery ['semItrI] n. 墓地，公墓

2) grave [ɡreIv] n. 墓穴，坟墓

名师考点小结

send意为“送，派遣”，后可接双宾语，其结构为send sb. sth或send sth. to sb.“把某物寄给某人”。例如：Mother asked him to send me some clothes.

=Mother asked him to send some clothes to me. 妈妈让他给我寄些衣服。

拓展：类似用法的动词很多，如：give sb. sth./give sth. to sb.“把某物给某人”；pass sb. sth./pass sth. to sb.“把某物递给某人”。