一年前

Three years ago I wrote about one of those Tarot archetypes, The Fool or Jester, and specifically the interpretation of one Australian writer of the card's meaning

三年前，我写过一篇关于塔罗牌的典型的文章，其中主要围绕一张愚者的塔罗牌，尤其侧重对一名澳大利亚的作者就此牌的含义的解释

The expedition had taken with them an elderly Arab whose main qualifications as a guide were that he had crossed the sand sea twice before in his lifetime, once as a young lad. To the expedition's amazement , he had kept the vehicles at an exact compass bearing right across the sand sea, apparently based solely on his recollection of minor features in the landscape (a hump on the horizon or a patch of unusual red sand) that he had seen only twice many years before.

该远征队随行带上了一位年长阿拉伯人，他作为向导的主要资格就是他平生曾两次穿过这个大沙海，其中一次他还是个年青小伙子，令远征队叹服的是，他带领车队迳直横穿沙海时与罗盘方向完全吻合，显然他全靠回忆那些只在多年前见识过两次的细小的地貌特征(如地平线上的一个土丘或者一片非同一般的红色沙漠)。

In an incredible twist of fate, the curly-haired woman with green eyes who was his date for the evening turned out to be his childhood savior, the girl who had thrown him apples all those years before: his "angel at the fence".

有一次，一位朋友帮他安排了一次相亲。命运就是这么奇妙，那晚和他约会的那个绿眼睛、卷发女子正是他童年时的救星，那个多年前给他扔苹果的人——他的&铁丝网外的天使&。

And then it struck me: It was 17 years ago that I first met my friends and sat across from then with cups of coffee and books in smoky caf s and dim-lit libraries. 17 years: Where in the world has the time gone?

然后我一下子就震住了：我第一次遇到这帮朋友，和他们一起，坐在烟雾漫漫、灯光又暗的咖啡馆里，一杯接着一杯地喝着咖啡，啃着书本，居然已经是17年前的事情了。17年呐：时间都跑到哪里去了？

We must confess that for many years, we were not able to see the hidden meaning of the poem. Two years ago, we were rather intrigued by the line "茂林斧过尽为薪"(line 14). Literally, it means: Lush forests, swept by the axe, completely transformed into firewood. We thought this was a very clever pun because firstly it means that a person without education is transformed through learning into someone useful, as befitting a university. Secondly, Nantah stood on land that was once covered by a rubber estate which had now been cleared to build the university.

老实说，好几年来，我们都没法十分了解此诗隐藏的背景，大概是两年前吧，我们还正在思考此诗中第14行&茂林斧过尽为薪&一句，如果是直译即&利斧把森林砍了，森林就变成薪木&，我们当初以为这句的暗喻是说，正如大学教育一般能把一个无学的人，教育成有用的社会栋梁，正巧南大校址，本来就是一片茂盛胶园，而现今宏立了一所大学，不正是说得极合适，也不就是&茂林斧过尽为薪&吗？

Some years ago i knew the chairman of a n american industrial company who was forced out of his post after a losing bitter takeover battle with a foreign conglomerate7）.this chairman,already in his 60s,could easily have moved on to a second career as a well－paid consultant,giving speeches,lecturing at business schools,and functioning as an eminence8） grise in his field.but losing his company rankled him——to the point where,within weeks of his departure,he announced that he had acquired control of a new company and planned to compete directly with his old company.i'm sure this decision was totally ego－driven;he wanted to show the world that he hadn't lost a step.unfortunately,running a start－up company is nothing like running a large organization.tasks that he could delegate to several layers of staff in his previous life were now his alone to do.without his old company's resources,he couldn't function at his best.

几年前，我认识一位美国工业公司的经理，他和一家外国联合企业展开一场相互吞并的竞争，结果失利被迫辞职。这位经理已是花甲之年，完全可以另辟蹊径，去做收入不菲的顾问，四处演讲，到商学院讲课，在他的领域当一个无冕之王。但失去他的公司使他气愤不已，以致他在离开几周之后就宣布他又买断了一家新公司，并打算直接与他过去的公司展开竞争。我敢担保这一决定纯属是受自尊心的驱使；他是想让人们瞧瞧，他没有失利。不幸的是，管理一家新公司和管理一个大企业完全是两码事。过去他可以把任务交给层层下属去做，如今他只得事必躬亲。没有了他过去公司的左右依仗，他无法发挥其才能。

Other side of the bow is the direction of the sea, the huge platform in a water depth of the next meters, Xiu pitting the deck, the hatch in the clear water in the debate, extending to the front of Bai Yumi, but they are forever from parking In this area has. 60 years ago with the shame of the awe-inspiring, iron rust in the wreckage of the waves in the gap opened to the Dangyang.

另一侧海面便是船头的方向，巨大的平台陷于水下一米左右深处，朽蚀的甲板、舱盖在海水中清晰可辩，延伸至前方百余米，只是它们从此永远地停泊在这片海域了。60年前的威风与耻辱，在锈铁残骸的缝隙中一波一波地荡漾开去。

Then, the crowds for ever passing and repassing on the bridges (on those which are free of toil at last), where many stop on fine evenings looking listlessly down upon the water with some vague idea that by and by it runs between green banks which grow wider and wider until at last it joins the broad vast sea--where some halt to rest from heavy loads and think as they look over the parapet that to smoke and lounge away one's life, and lie sleeping in the sun upon a hot tarpaulin, in a dull, slow, sluggish barge, must be happiness unalloyed--and where some, and a very different class, pause with heaver loads than they, remembering to have heard or read in old time that drowning was not a hard death, but of all means of suicide the easiest and best.

同为一桥，盖免税之桥，众人过之，情形迥异。有人凭栏怅望，恨滔滔流水，碧草夹岸，终成江海，逝者如斯夫；至若苦旅之人，稍得停驻，遐想乘舟一叶，随波逐流，睡热毯，抽烟斗，逍遥快活，此乐何极？亦有相反之阶层者，不堪重负，万念俱灰，犹忆旧时之言，溺水而亡，为简便易行之解脱。可能会有人说这是火星文，看不懂。不过我觉得，也只有中国的古文，才配得上一百多年前大师的行文风格。呵呵。今天先到这里了，以后写作之余，还会继续翻译下去，若能译完，也是一件美事哈！

Come 30 years, our travel day and night, billow of battle wind scoop, below swallow foot of a hill the Great Wall enters the sea to be in, high speed is high grade built port of island of emperor of the Qin Dynasty one, 2 period oil jetty, one, 2, 3, dock of 4 period coal, man of armour, third, the fifth of the ten Heavenly Stem personal grocery commercial and transportation center, make this hundred years old harbor ascends very quickly personally at the world of 100 million tons of big harbor forest.

30年前，按照周恩来总理&三年改变港口面貌&的指示，交通部第一航务工程局在秦皇岛成立了第五工程处，光荣担负起秦皇岛港建设的艰巨任务。30年来，我们披星戴月，战风斗浪，在燕山脚下长城入海处，高速优质建成了秦皇岛港一、二期油码头，一、二、三、四期煤码头，甲、丙丁、戊己杂货码头，使这座百年老港一跃跻身于世界亿吨大港之林。

Several years ago, the director of the Center for the Development of Disadvantaged People in Chennai looked for a better way. Sethu Sethunarayanan worked with a mechanical engineer to design a steel trap.

几年前，Chennai弱势群体发展中心主任Sethu Sethunarayanan就在寻找一种更好的捕鼠方法，他与一位机械工程师合作设计了一种钢制捕鼠器。

However, as the name（read－only memory）implies, CD disks cannot be written onorchanged in any way.

然而，正如其名字所指出的那样，CD盘不能写，也不能用任何方式改变其内容。

Galvanizes steel pallet is mainly export which suits standard packing of European Union, the North America. galvanizes steel pallet is suitable to heavy rack. Pallet surface can design plate type, corrugated and the gap form, satisfies the different requirements.

镀锌钢托盘多用于出口，替代木托盘，免薰蒸，符合欧盟、北美各国对出口货物包装材料的法令要求；喷涂钢托盘适用于重载上货架之用，托盘表面根据需要制作成平板状、波纹状及间隔形式，满足不同的使用要求。