A Happy Walk in a Forest一次愉快的森林漫步

周硕

This is just something I am really happy about and I need to share it withyou all.

这是一件让我非常高兴的事，我必须和大家分享一下。

My mother has been very sick since I was little. She could be in a wheelchair1by now， but still goes without one. She fights every day to walk or even stand up atsome point.

我妈妈从我小时候起就病得很厉害。她现在可以坐轮椅了，但她还是不坐。她每天都在努力行走，甚至于在某个时刻站立起来。

Recently2 she got some walking sticks3 and we started to go on small walkstogether just in a forest down the road. Today I told her I was going to a lake nearwhere we live， and she went there with me. I was very surprised when she got in herbathing suit4， because I never saw her in any kind of water before. We used to haveholidays at the Baltic Sea， but she always stayed on the beach.

最近她得到了几把拐棍，我們开始一起在路那头的森林里散步。今天我告诉她，我要去我们家附近的一个湖，她和我一起去那里。当她穿上泳衣时，我非常惊讶，因为我以前从未见过她下水。我们过去常去波罗的海度假，但她总是待在海滩上。

“Maybe Ill go in a bit，”she said.

“也许我可以再往水里走一点。”她说。

We were there and I got in very quickly after helping her walk over thesand. I swam a little round and when I turned back I saw her knee5 deep in thewater！ I was so surprised and swam back at once. To my surprise she went infurther and further and laughed like a little child （I have never in my life heardher real laugh）. And then she did it. She took the last step and just swam！

我们到了那里，在帮她走过沙滩后，我很快就下水了。我游了一小圈然后往回游时，我看到她的膝盖深深地浸在水中！我很惊讶，立刻游了回去。令我惊讶的是，她越走越远，笑得像个小孩子（我这辈子从未听过她真正的笑声）。然后她做到了。她迈出了最后一步，游了起来！

She swam less than ten seconds because of her legs and she was afraid todrown6. I helped her back and she laughed the entire7 time.

因为她的腿不好，她只游了不到十秒钟，而且她害怕溺水。我扶着她回去，她一直笑个不停。

We talked about it and she said that this is the lake she used to8 visit when shewas a child. Her mother would take her here to swim nearly every weekend in thesummer. She could not even remember the last time she swam， but it was before allmy sisters and brothers were born. My oldest brother is over 30 by now.

我们谈了谈这事，她说这是她小时候经常去的湖，在夏天几乎每个周末她妈妈都会带她来这里游泳。她甚至记不起自己最近一次游泳是什么时候了，但那是在我所有的兄弟姐妹出生之前。而我最年长的哥哥现在已经30 多岁了。

I am just so happy for her.

我真为她感到高兴。

▏Notes

1. wheelchair . 轮椅

2. recently 最近；不久前

3. stick 拐杖

4. bathing suit 泳衣

5. knee 膝盖；膝关节

6. drown 溺死；淹没于

7. entire . 全部的；整个的

8. used to过去；经常