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托尼特里维松诺的美国梦

He came from a rocky farm in Italy, somewhere south of Rome. How or when he got to America, I don't know. But one evening I found him standing in the driveway, behind my garage. He was about five-foot-seven or eight, and thin.

他来自意大利罗马以南，一个艰苦经营的农场。我不知道他是怎

样或者是什么时候到达美国的。但是一个晚上我发现他站在我的停车

房后面的车道上。他大概有五尺七八寸高，而且很瘦。

"I mow your lawn," he said. It was hard to comprehend his broken English.

“我帮你割草。”他说。他的破英语让人难以明白。

I asked him his name. "Tony Trivisonno," he replied. "I mow your lawn." I told Tony that I couldn't afford a gardener.

我问他他的名字。“托尼特里维松诺。”他答。“我帮你割草。”我告诉托尼我没钱雇用一个园丁。

"I mow your lawn," he said again, then walked away. I

went into my house unhappy. Yes, these Depression days were difficult, but how could I to turn away a person who had come to me for help?

When I got home from work the next evening, the lawn had been mowed, the garden weeded, and the walks swept. I asked

my wife what had happened.

“我帮你割草。”他又说，然后就走开了。我不开心地回到家里。没错，这些经济衰退的日子实在很艰难，但是我怎么能够拒绝一个来

向我要求协助的人？当我第二天晚上回家的时候，草坪的草已经割好，花园里面的杂草也清除掉了，而且小径上也打扫干净。我问妻子发生

什么事了。

"A man got the lawn mower out of the garage and worked on the yard," she answered. "I assumed you had hired him."

“有个男人从割草机从停车房里取出然后在院子了工作，”她说。“我以为你雇用他了。”

I told her of my experience the night before. We thought

it strange that he had not asked for pay.

The next two days were busy, and I forgot about Tony. We were trying to rebuild our business and bring some of our workers back to the plants. But on Friday, returning home a little early, I saw Tony again, behind the garage. I complimented him on the work he had done.

我告诉了她前一晚发生的事。我们对于他没有要求薪金感到奇怪。跟着的两天都很忙，而我也就忘了关于托尼的事了。我们在试图重建

我们的生意并且让我们的一些员工回到工厂来。但是在星期五的时候，我早了一点回家，又在停车房后面看到了托尼。我对他的工作表示赞赏。

"I mow your lawn," he said.

“我帮你割草。”他说。

I managed to work out some kind of small weekly pay, and each day Tony cleaned up the yard and took care of any little tasks. My wife said he was very helpful whenever there were any heavy objects to lift or things to fix.

我设法准备了某种小金额的周薪，而托尼每天都把院子清理干净

并且帮忙了很多小事情。我妻子说每次要拿重物或者有东西要修理时，托尼都非常乐意帮忙。

Summer passed into fall, and winds blew cold. "Mr. Craw, snow pretty soon," Tony told me one evening. "When winter come, you give me job clearing snow at the factory."

夏天慢慢转成秋季，冷风开始吹起了。“克劳先生，很快就下雪了。”某天晚上托尼对我说。“当冬天来到的时候，你把工厂的除雪

工作给我。”

Well, what do you do with such determination and hope? Of course, Tony got his job at the factory.

The months passed. I asked the personnel department for a report. They said Tony was a very good worker.

好吧，对于这种决心和希望你会怎样做？当然，托尼拿到了工厂

的工作。几个月过去了，我向人事部要来一份报告。他们说托尼是个

非常棒的员工。

One day I found Tony at our meeting place behind the garage. "I want to be 'prentice," he said.

We had a pretty good apprentice school that trained laborers. But I doubted whether Tony had the capacity to read blueprints and micrometers or do precision work. Still, how could I turn him down?

Tony took a cut in pay to become an apprentice. Months later, I got a report that he had graduated as a skilled grinder. He had learned to read the millionths of an inch on the micrometer and to shape the grinding wheel with an