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1、朱自清背影中英文版It is more than two years since I saw my father last time, and what I can never forget is the sight ofhis back In the winter of more than two years ago, Grandma died and father lost his job. Misfortunesnever come singly. I left Beijing for xvzhou to join father in hastening home to attend g

2、randma,s funeral.When I met father in Xvzhou5 the sight of the disorderly mess in his courtyard and the thought ofgrandma started tears trickling down my cheeks. Father said, “that things have come to such a pass, nownot be too sad .Fortunately, Heaven always leaves one a way out.After arriving home

3、 in Yang Zhou, father sold out all the fortunate in order to pay off the debts. Healso borrowed money to meet the funeral expenses. Between grandma,s funeral and father,sunemployment, our family was then in reduced circumstances. After the funeral was over, father was togo to Nanjing to look for a j

4、ob and I was to return to Beijing to study, so we started out together.I spent the first day in Nanjing strolling about with some friends at their invitation, and wasferrying across the Yangtze River to Pukou the same day. Father said he was too busy to go and see meoff at the railway station, but w

5、ould ask a hotel waiter that he knew to accompany me there instead. Heurged the waiter again and again to take good care of me, but still did not quite trust him. He hesitated forquite a while about what to do. As a matter of fact, nothing would matter at all because I was then times-After some wave

6、ring, he finally decided that he himself would accompany me to the station. I repeatedlytried to talk him out of it, but he only said,“ never mind! It wonlt be comfortable for them to go there!We entered the railway station after crossing the River. While I was at the booking office buying aticket,

7、father saw to my luggage. There was quite a bit of luggage and he had to bargain with the porterover the fee. I was then such a smart-aleck that I frowned upon the way father was haggling and on theverge of chipping in a few words when the bargain was finally clinched. Getting on the train with me,

8、hepicked me a seat close to the carriage door I put on the brownish fur-lined overcoat he had tailor-madefor me. He told me to be watchful on the way and be careful not to catch cold at night. He also asked thetrain attendants to take good care of me. I sniggered at father for being so impractical;

9、for it was utterlyuseless to entrust me to those attendants, who cared for nothing but money. Besides, it was certainly noproblem for a person of my age to look after himself Oh, when I come to think of it, I can see howsmarty I was in those days!I said, “dad, you might leave now. But he looked out

10、of the window and said J Im going to buyyou some tangerines. You just stay here. Donft move around. I caught sight of several vendors waitingfor customers outside the railings beyond a platform. But to reach that platform would require crossingthe railway track and doing some climbing up and down. T

11、hat would be a strenuous job for father, whowas fat. I wanted to do all that myself, but he stopped me, so I could do nothing but let him go. I watchedhim hobble towards the railway track in his black skullcap, black cloth mandarin jacket and dark bluecotton-padded cloth ling gown. He had little tro

12、uble climbing down the railway track, but it was a lotmore difficult for him to climb up that platform after crossing the railway track. His hands held onto theupper part of the platform, his legs huddled up and his corpulent body tipped slightly towards the left,obviously making an enormous exertio

13、n. While I was watching him from behind, tears gushed from myeyes. I quickly wiped them away lest he or others should catch me crying. The next moment when Ilooked out of the window again, father was already on the way back, holding bright red tangerines in bothhands. In crossing the railway track,

14、he first put the tangerines on the ground, climbed down slowly andthen picked them up again. When he came near the train, I hurried out to help him by the hand. Afterboarding the train with me, he laid all the tangerines on my overcoat, and patting the dirt off his clothes,he looked somewhat relieve

15、d and said after a while/ I must be going now. Dont forget to write me fromBeijing!” I gazed after his back retreating out of the carriage. After a few steps, he looked back at me andsaid, Go back to your seat. Don5t leave your things alone. I, however, did not go back to my seat untilhis figure was

16、 lost among crowds of people hurrying to and fro and no longer visible. My eyes were againwet with tears.In recent years, I have been living an unsettled life, so did my father, and the circumstances of ourfamily going from bad to worse. Father left home to make a life when young and did achieve quite a fewthings all on his own. To think that he should now be so downcast in old age the