Question

2014陕西英语高考阅读翻译

When I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines, Iowa,he told me about the only time
he had been there. It was in the 1930s, when hewas an editor if the literary magazine of
Southern Methodist University（SMU）in Dallas, Texas. He also worked as a professor at SMU,
and there was agirl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease. Shecouldn;t
afford the operation because her family was poor.
Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston, a seaside town near Houston, Texas.She
was cleaning out the attic（阁楼）one daywhen she came across an old dusty manuscript（手稿）
. On its top page were the words, “By O. Henry”. It was a nice story, andshe sent it to her
daughter at SMU, who showed it to my father. My father hadnever read the story before, but it
sounded like O. Henry, and he knew that O.Henry had once lived in Houston.So it was possible
that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed inthe Gainestown boardinghouse,
and had written the story there and left themanuscript behind by accident. My father visited an
O. Henry expert at Columbia Universityin New York,who authenticated the story as O. Henry’s. My father then set out to sell it.Eventfully, he foud himself in Des Moines, meeting with
Gardner Cowles, a topeditor at the Des Moines Register. Cowles loves the story and bought
iton the spot. My father took the money to the girl. It was just enough for herto have the
operation she so desperately needed.
My father never told me what the O. Henrystory was about. But i doubt that it could have
been better than his own story.

Answer 1

当我告诉父亲，我是到得梅因，爱荷华，他告诉了我他唯一的一次
在那里的事情。它是在20世纪30年代，当他作为文学杂志的编辑
在达拉斯，德克萨斯南卫理公会大学（SMU）在工作。他还曾在新加坡管理大学的教授，
有一个学生在他的班上谁遭受严重的背部疾病。她什么都不能做，因为她家很穷。
她的母亲住在加尔维斯敦寄宿公寓，一个海边小镇附近的休斯敦，德克萨斯。有一天当她
在清理阁楼（阁楼）碰到了一个老满是灰尘的手稿（手稿）
。在页面顶部有一句话，“亨利”。这是一个很好的故事，她送给她的
女儿。我的父亲从来读过这故事，但它
听起来像是亨利，他知道欧亨利曾住在休斯敦。因此它是可能的
那个著名的作者去了海滩，呆在四层公寓，
他写了她背后的事故。我的父亲去了
欧亨利专家在纽约哥伦比亚大学的认证，谁的故事了。我的父亲亨利着手出售。最终，他发现自己在得梅因，会议
加德纳Cowles，在得梅因的一个topeditor寄存器。考尔斯爱的故事了
在现场。我父亲花了钱的女孩。这是刚够她了
她迫切需要的操作。
我的父亲没有告诉我是什么.。但我怀疑这是否可能
比他自己的故事。