终身难忘的一段往事(英汉对照)

终身难忘的一段往事

An Unforgettable Thing for Life

In 2001, in the wave of streamlining structures and improving efficiency, I was transferred from the technical office to work in shifts. I was reduced, the youngest in the department, and the only one with full-time academic credentials in the office.

As for the reason, I knew better. Having no tact and just keeping slogging away, I only pulled the cart forward, without raising my head to look around. Furthermore, I couldn’t act according to circumstances, and suck up to leaders through all means. And I even did not understand the principle of “You must learn more things beyond poems if you want to learn writing them.”Thus, if I don’t go to hell, who will? In that leader’s opinion, I could enjoy reading in the still of night in the new job place.

That year, my daughter was only 6 years old. My wife worked in shifts in a branch factory in the downtown area 10 kilometers away. If I went to work in four shifts, who would look after my daughter at night? Mother needed to take care of my grandparents in the family, so my daughter was sent to the nursery from the age of one year old.

As I was in such a desperate position, I went to the leader’s home for help, carrying my daughter in my arms. Naturally, she

exhausted herself by talking more unrelated words of no importance: as it is an irresistible trend, and a pressing situation, everyone has the possibility to be reduced, and you should find ways and means to overcome it.

I did not say anything more, holding my daughter, I got out of the door of my leader. All of a sudden, tears came into my eyes... Along the way, I lowered my head and walked silently, for fear that my daughter would see it. But my daughter in my arms stretched out her hand to wipe the tears from my eyes, without saying a word.

Returning home, I put my daughter on the sofa, wondering how to tell my daughter about the future plan about her. My daughter, sitting on the sofa, suddenly said, "I’ll fight with her", which I would never forget.

My daughter, who was only 6 years old, knew everything and understood the hardships and difficulties of life. Therefore, after growing up, she has always been strong-minded and independent.

After a whole year’s work in shifts, when I got a really tough time, I resigned from the original factory and joined a foreign trade company. In 2003, I was admitted to the government department by the entrance examination.

In 2008, the factory where I once worked went bankrupt because of poor management.

Even today I still think of this thing sometimes—even if I