奇特的购物卡—英语翻译实践优秀论文

The Exotic S hopping CardThe town called Guantang is a remote country ,which is located in west of Shangdong Province. There is only a supermarket in the town. The boss is called Sande Liang, being an upright person, he is very sincere to his customers, and even the folks in other villages preferred to shop in his supermarket.The Lantern Festival just passed, one day evening, when the supermarket was to be closed, a young man entered and looked around the shop and then came to Mr. Liang, said, “Sir, do you have shopping cards in your supermarket ? "Since the opening of the supermarket, it was the first time to be asked for shopping cards. Ordinarily, a supermarket of the town, the customer is the villagers from the villages nearby. Like a similar drop by, during the time of taking a bag of smoking they could arrive at the shop, choosing what they need as they chat, then they paid and left. There is no need of shopping cards at all. So when he heard that the young man to buy shopping cards, Mr. Liang cannot help being stunned. He glanced at the young man and said,” shopping cards? I really do not have it.”However, the young man seemed to be well prepared, he said, “Can you do me some shopping cards in pieces of paper? Write some words on it, covered with the supermarket seal.”Mr. Liang was still puzzled, said,” If you want to buy things, why not just come and get them. It is no need of the shopping cards.The young man said, “I will go out to work in a few days, I want to –well, I cannot make you understand it in a few minutes, but I want to buy the shopping cards for more than one thousand yuan, It is not a small count, why do not you take it into consideration? ”Although the supermarket is not large, but it still costs more than fifty–thousand yuan, at the moment, Mr. Liang was in the need of amount of money for his purchase, he certainly did not want to miss the revenue of more than one thousand yuan. So he said to the young man, “Follow me please.” Then the man was brought into next door of a room.The young man entered, and he pulled out a piece of wrinkled paper from his trouser pocket, and spread it below the table lamp, said, “I have thought it over at home; the shopping cards can be made according to what I had wrote on it.Mr. Liang glance at it, and he found it a piece of paper full of ragged words. He took it over and look it carefully for a long time, said, “Your handwriting is so scratchy。

Would you please explain it for me?”The young man took the paper ,said, “It is 18th January, as for shopping cards I want to make them from the Lunar February. I plan to make two cards in February , one is to buy eggs, meat and milk class and something else, make it 50 yuan, the other card is to buy vegetables, which is also made 50 yuan. I would order two cards each month until the twelfth lunar month. A total of eleven months, to do 22 cards and a total of eleven hundred yuan, you see, is not it?”Mr. Liang thought it is so wordy to do that and said,” You need not to do it every month, why not just make two cards, each card with 550 yuan, right? ”The young man smiled awkwardly, saying, “I think my plan is better, it is also convenient to make a plan for each month. I am so sorry to make you so much trouble, but I hope that you can do it as my idea.”It is not too trouble to write over 20 cards. So Mr. Liang did not say anything anymore. He found out a big piece of paper from the drawer, cutting it with a knife into the size of an identify card and then took one to write on:In February,You can buy eggs, meat and milk powder, etc.At 50 yuan.After being finished, he came up with the seal of the supermarket, covering the card with a seal. Then passed it to the young man,” Please have a look at it, is it ok? ”The young man took it and looked through and said, ”Add a few more words like that … It should be run out within the month or it will be expired ‟. ”Mr. Liang looks at the young man surprisedly saying nothing. He took over the card and wrote what the young man said below the “ fifty yuan”. Then he made the other cards as this. Half an hour later 22 cards were all done well. He handed them to the young man, taking the one thousand and hundredyu an from the young man, saying, “elder brother, can you tell me why you do those cards?”The young man said: "these cards are made for my old mother. I will be away from home to work. But she cannot bear to spend a penny, so she only eats bread with pickles and cool boiled water. My neighbors told me that my old mother had faint twice last year And once she was sent to the hospital after being found that she was in quite serious illness. Those days during the Lunar New Year, I have been thinking that if I leave my mother money, she will still be reluctant to spend. If I make some expired shopping cards, she would have to come and buy something. When she comes to buy something, if she asks to retreat the cards into money, you should not refund her money.”After his listening, Mr. Liang understood the care and filial piety of the young man, and he lost in thought, then being immersed in contemplation.It was said as the young man, an old woman come to the super half a month later. The old woman bought some eggs, vegetables and half a catty of pork. When she came to the checkout counter, she took out the shopping card of February. Obviously, the old woman is the mother of the young man who once came to him and made the shopping cards.Shortly thereafter, Mr. Liang heard that the young man named Dashun Wei, who lives in Shilihuangchong village located in the east of Guancheng town.In his twenties, his father had a hemiplegia and paralyzed in bed. In order to take care of his father, he cannot go out to earn money, so he even did not marry a wife. Until the spring of the year before, the old father died, Wei had been 35 years old. So he came up to go out to work for a few years to earn some money to build a new house and marry a wife.And so, one year passed quickly. At the end of the year, Mr. Liang was cleaning the house one day. He suddenly saw Wei came in, raising two canvas bags, carrying a bulging bag,. Obviously he was just off. Mr. Liang hurried to put down the broom and the things off Wei and let him into the house.After they were seated, Wei said, “I am off in the town, just passing through your supermarket. When I get into the supermarket, I find that the boss has been changed. The boss tells me that you would have quit, the supermarket is transferred to him. Elder brother, is it true?”Mr. Liang nodded, said “I would have quit.”“However, I asked the boss if there was an old woman who once bought in the shop with the shopping cards, he says no. My brother, how do you quit? “Apparently, Wei was worrying about the food problem of his old mother.Mr. Liang looked distracted, said, “In fact, when you came to buy the shopping cards at the beginning of the year, my mother was diagnosed a tumor in the stomach. Although it is benign, but the doctor said it has the possibility to be malignant at any time. During that time. I am very contradictory. On the one hand, I have just opened the supermarket less than one year. There is no extra money for the surgery of my mother. On the other hand, I am also worried that the tumor in the womb should turn into malignant, there will be more trouble. However, I still do not want to transfer the possession of my supermarket. I plan to earn more money cure to cure my mother‟s disea se half a year later, by holding fluky psychology. However,the day when you come to buy the shopping cards eliminates my plan. After a month, I coped with my supermarket.“The ~?” Wei still would like to ask about the shopping cards.But Mr. Liang did not answer the question of Wei. He went on to say, “But it is too late. When I bring my mother to the hospital to do the operation, the doctor told me that the tumor has been deteriorated. Just like that, my mother‟s illness is not cured and she died five months later.Seeing Mr. Liang suffered from the unfortunate thing, it is inconvenient to talk too much. So he said a few words of comfort, then borrowed a bicycle from him and went home.When he arrived home, Wei saw the old mother being good health, and his heart calmed down. At noon, the old mother had the two cocks killed, which were raised more than one year. During the lunch, Wei asked his mother about the shopping cards. “You say those pieces of paper, my son? I think that Mr. Liang is a good person. I go to the supermarket to buy things. He see that I am too old to walk there. He tells me that I need not to go to his supermarket myself, and he will send the goods to me. Mr. Liang comes to our house three times a month and brings me some vegetables, milk powder and pork until the bottom of this year, he did that almost one year long.”After listening to the thing his mother told him, Wei became stunned, filling the bowl with chicken. He filled a bowl for his mother, and filled to the brim of a big bowl and put it aside, then there is only a little chicken left in the pot, about half of the bowl. The old mother saw that and asked him, “Ah, my son, why not eat more? That bowl chicken is for --?”Wei said to his old mother, “I will ret urn the bicycle to Mr. Liang this afternoon. I want to bring the chicken to him and let him eat it.”The old mother smiled and said, “Right, it should be, I have made some sun dried meat and sausage. You can also bring some to him, which is a little af fection of mine for him.”奇特的购物卡文 / 犀利兔观城镇是鲁西的一个偏远小镇，镇上只有一家超市，超市的老板叫梁三德，做人、开店都很实诚，七里八村的都爱来他这里买东西。