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could give Audrey a comfortable life.后来母亲在结婚后5年内生下连21、In 1947 I graduated from John Hopkins and learned that the 我在内3个孩子。但是，1930年我爸爸离开了人世，母亲一贫如洗，Baltimore Sun needed a police reporter. Two or there classmates at 不得不将最小的孩子奥德丽送给别人收养。也许母亲做过的最勇敢的Hopkins also applied for the job. Why I was picked was a mystery. It paid 事就是让我叔叔汤姆和婶婶葛黛收养了10个月大的奥德丽。叔叔汤$30 a week. When I complained that was insulting for a college man, my 姆是爸爸的亲兄弟，他在铁路上有一份好工作，能够给奥德丽舒适的mother refused to sympathize.1947年，我从约翰·霍普金斯大学毕业生活。 时到了解到《巴尔的摩太阳报》需要招募一名治安记者。另外有两三14、My mother headed off to New Jersey with my other sister and me to 个霍普金斯的同班同学也在争取这个职位，为什么最后我被录用了是take shelter with with her brother Alen, poor relatives dependent on his 谜。这份工作的薪水是30美金一星期。当我在母亲面前抱怨这样的goodness. She eventually found work pathching grocers‘smocks at ten 待遇对一个大学毕业生来说是一种耻辱的时候，她拒绝给我同情。 dollars a week in a laundry. 22、―If you work hard at this job,‖she said, ―maybe you can make 母亲带着我和另一个妹妹直奔新泽西州暂时寄居在她哥哥阿伦家里，something of it. Then they‘ll have to give you a raise.‖假如你在这个职成了投奔我那好舅舅的穷亲戚。母亲后来总算在一家洗衣店找到了一位上好好干，她说，也许你是会有所作为的，到那时他们就不得不给份周薪10美元，修补杂货商穿用的工作服的工作。 你涨工资了 15、Mother would have liked it better if I could have grown up to be 23、Seven years later I was assigned by the Sun to cover the White House. President or a rich businessman, but much as she loved me, she did not For most reporters, being White House correspondent was as close to deceive herself. Before I was out of grade school, she could see I lacked heaven as you could get. I was 29 years old and puffed up with pride. I the gifts for either making millions or winning the love of crowds. After went to see my mother‘s delight while telling her about it. I should have that she began nudging me toward working with words.假如我现在是总known better.7年之后，我被《巴尔的摩太阳报》任命为驻白宫记者。统或者是富有的商人，妈妈应该会更满意的。虽然母亲很爱我，但她对于大多数记者而言，成为驻白宫记者被看成是离上天只有一步之并没有欺骗自己。在我高中毕业之时，她就意识到了我缺少那种日进遥。那时我29岁，踌躇满志。我回有对母亲讲自己晋升的事想看到斗金或博取群众爱戴的能力。从那以后她就开始把我往写作的道路上她高兴。但结果却出乎我的预料。 推。 24、―Well, Russ,‖she said, ―if you work hard at this White House job, you 16、Words ran in her family. There seemed to be a word gene that passed might be able to make something of yourself.‖嗯，罗素啊，母亲说，假down from her maternal grandfather. He was a school teacher, his 如你把白宫记者当好了，你会有所作为的。

daughter Lulie wrote poetry, and his son Charlie became New York 25、Onward and upward was the course she set. Small progress was no correspondent for the Bltimore Herald. In the turn-of-the –century South, excuse for feeling satisfied with yourself. People who stopped to pat still impoverished by the Civil War, words were a way out.母亲的家族有themselves on the back didn‘t last long. Even if you got to the top, you ?d 从事写作的传统。从她的外公开始似乎就有一种语言基因代代相传。better not take it easy. ―The bigger they come, the harder they fall‖ was 她的外公是一位教师，他的女儿露利是诗人，儿子查理后来成了《巴one of her favorite maxims.进取、进取、再进取，这是母亲给我设定的尔的摩先驱报》的通讯员。在世纪之交，南方还没有从因为内战而大方向。小小的进步是不足以自我满足的。那些因成功而沾沾自喜停下伤气的状态下恢复过来，写作在当时是一条谋生之路。 来欣赏自己的人是不会持久的。即使你已经到达顶峰，你也最好不要17、The most spectacular proof was my mother‘s first cousin Edwin. He 放松。爬得越高，摔得越痛，是母亲的至理名言。 was a managing editor of the New York Times. He had traveled all over 26、During my early years in the newspaper business, I began to entertain Europe, proving that words could take you to places so glorious and so childish fantasies of revenge against Cousin Edwin. Wouldn‘t it be far from the Virginia sticks that you own kon could only gape in wonder delightful it I became such an outstanding reporter that the Times hired and envy. My mother often used Edwin as an example of how far a man me without knowing I was related to the great Edwin? Wouldn‘t it be could go without much talent.最充分的证据要数我母亲的一位表兄艾delicious if Edwin himself invited me into his huge office and said, ―Tell 德文。他是《纽约时代周刊》的执行主编。他曾经遍游欧洲，这证明me something about yourself, young man?‖ What exquisist vengeance to 文字可以将你带到那些远离弗吉尼亚边远山区无比美好的地方，令你reply, ―I am the only son of your poor cousin Lucy Elizabeth Robinson.‖的亲戚惊讶而又嫉妒。母亲常以艾德文为例，告诉我一个不是很有才在我从事报业的头几年，我就不怀着幼稚的要报复地表兄艾德文的怪气的男人能走多远。 念头。假如我能成为非常杰出的记者，让《纽约时代周刊》在不知道18、―Edwin James was no smarter than anybody else, and look where he 我和艾德文关系的情况下雇用我，这难道不是件快乐无比的事情吗？is today,‖ my mother said, and said again, so than I finally grew up 如果艾德文将我请到他那宽敞的办公室，对我说：年轻人，能请你介thinking Edwin James was adill clod who had a lucky break. Maybe she 绍一下自己吗？我是你的穷表妹露西·伊丽莎白·罗宾逊唯一的儿子。felt didn‘t have to be brilliant to get where Edwin had got to, that the way 这回答是多么绝妙的复仇啊。

to get to the top was to work, work, and work.艾德文并不比任何一个孩27、What would one day happen was right out of my wildest childhood 子聪明，看看他今天已经在哪了？母亲总是这样遍又一遍地对我说，fantasy. The TIMES did come knocking at my door, though Cousin 以至于我长大以后认为艾德文·詹姆士不过是碰上了好运气的平庸之Edwin had departed by the time I arrived. Eventually I would be offered 辈。也许母亲也是那样看待他的，但她的 …… 此处隐藏：9981字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……