新高级阅读前（双语）60（1126）

PASSAGE SIXTY

Self-drive travel

1.Poet William Stafford once said that we are defined more by the detours in life than by the narrow road toward goals. I like this image. 

2.But I as quite by accident that I discovered the deep meaning of his words. For years we made the long drive from our home in Seattle to my parents’ home in Boise in nine hours. 

3.We traveled the way most people do: the fastest, shortest, easiest road, especially when I was alone with four noisy, restless kids who hates confinement and have strong opinions about everything.

4.Road trips felt risky, so I would drive fast, stopping only when I had to. We would stick to the freeways and arrive tired. But then Banner, our lamb was born. 

5.He was rejected by his mama days before our planned trip to Boise. I had two choices: leave Banner with my husband, or take him with me. My husband made the decision for me.

6.That is how I found myself on the road with four kids, a baby lamb and nothing but my everlasting optimism to see me through. We took the country roads out of necessity. 

7.We had to stop every hour, let Banner shake out his legs and feed him. The kids chased him and one another. They’d get back in the car breathless and energized, smelling fresh from the cold air.

8.We explored side roads, catching grasshoppers in waist-high grass. Even if we simply looked out of the car windows at baby pigs following their mother, or fish leaping out of the water, it was better than the best ride down the freeway. 

9.Here was life. And new horizons. We eventually arrived at my parents’doorstep astonishingly fresh and full of stories. I grew brave with the trip back home and creative with my disciplining technique. 

10.On an empty section of road, everyone started quarreling. I stopped the car, ordered all kids out and told them to meet me up ahead. I parked my car half a mile away and read my book in sweet silence.

11.Some road trips are by necessity fast and straight. But that trip with Banner opened our eyes to a world available to anyone adventurous enough to wander around and made me realize that a detour may uncover the best part of a journey—and the best part of yourself.

第六十篇

自驾旅游

1.诗人威廉·斯塔福德曾经说过，我们被生活中的弯路所定义，而不是被通往目标的狭窄道路所定义。我喜欢这个画面。

2.但我发现他话中的深层含义却是偶然的。多年来，我们从西雅图的家开车到我父母在博伊西的家需要9个小时。

3.我们以大多数人的方式旅行:走最快、最短、最容易的路，尤其是当我独自带着四个吵闹、不安分的孩子时，他们讨厌被关在家里，对什么都有自己的看法。

4.自驾游感觉很危险，所以我会开得很快，只有在必要的时候才停下来。我们会坚持走高速公路，到达时很累。但是班纳，我们的羔羊出生了。

5.在我们计划去博伊西的前几天，他被他妈妈拒绝了。我有两个选择:把班纳留给我丈夫，或者带上他。我丈夫替我做了决定。

6.就这样，我带着四个孩子和一只小羊羔上路了，除了我永远的乐观主义，什么都没有。我们不得已走乡间小路。

7.我们不得不每隔一小时停下来，让班纳抖抖腿，喂他吃东西。孩子们追着他，一个追一个。他们上气不接下气地回到车里，浑身充满活力，从寒冷的空气中闻到一股清新的气息。

8.我们探索小路，在齐腰高的草丛里捉蚱蜢。即使我们只是看着车窗外跟着妈妈的小猪，或者跳出水面的鱼，这也比在高速公路上最好的骑行要好。

9.这就是生活。还有新的视野。我们终于来到了父母家门口，精神饱满，充满了故事。在回家的旅途中，我变得勇敢起来，在训练技巧上也变得富有创造力。

10.在一段空旷的路上，每个人都开始争吵起来。我停下车，命令所有的孩子出来，告诉他们在前面等我。我把车停在半英里外的地方，静静地读着书。

11.有些公路旅行必须又快又直。但是和班纳的那次旅行打开了我们的眼界，让我们看到了一个世界，任何有足够冒险精神的人都可以在这个世界上漫游，也让我意识到，一次绕道可能会发现旅行中最好的部分，以及你自己最好的部分。