【Good morning and time to G·AS up!】
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
我‮日今‬所做的事，远比我往日‮所的‬作‮为所‬更好；我‮日今‬将‮受享‬的安息，‮比远‬我‮知所‬的‮切一‬更好。

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Day 16

西南联大英文课——经典与人生— 《一对啄木鸟》

作者：无名氏（居然！边读边想，这把雌鸟描写的，虽然也描写她的聪明才智，但是明显重点偏忍辱负重的雄鸟一些，那作者是不是在现实家庭生活中是不是对另一半也是颇有一番无奈呢？因为自己的大度才得以婚姻幸福？婚姻中是要相互成就，不要轻易硬杠。）
I had been reading in Hudson's Green Mansions that very afternoon, and as I walked along the higway that stretched like a gray sword slash through the exuberant foliage with which a wet June had clothed the forest of broad-leaved maple, alder, willow and ash that had taken possession of the logged-off land beyond my ranch, I recalled the graceful antics of a couple of birds tha tthe mythical Abel observed during his flight iwthRima to the land of her birth.
这里用sword slash比喻路！
远望去， 延伸至远方的公路好比一把灰色的利剑，将整片绿荫密林从中一劈两半。这片密林在我农场的另一边，原来是一片伐森殆尽的林子，后来大叶枫、赤杨，柳树和梣树又重获生机，湿润的六月让木枝繁叶茂，郁郁葱葱。

文章描写了一对啄木鸟夫妇各司其职，各具特色，妻子很叨叨，有时甚至很fishwife(泼妇)，老公有点妻管严，非常担当，但是忍耐也是有限的，往往这时，妻子见好就收，老公没有听众也就乖乖继续为家挣面包。描写得活灵活现！