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1、正确答案:More than two years have passed since I saw my father, and what I can never put behind my mind is the sight of his back. As the sayings goes, misfortunes never come singly. That winter, my grandmother passed away and my father lost his job. I left Beijing for Xuzhou to join father in hastening homes to attend grandmother"s funeral. When I saw him in Xuzhou, I caught sight of the mess scattered about in the courtyard and remembered my grandmother, with tears running down from my cheek. Father said, "Things have come to this stage, and don"t be too sad. Luckily, heaven will always leave a door open. " Returning home, father sold out the mortgages so as to pay off the debts and made funeral arrangement with the borrowed money. Those days, the family was at a greatly reduced state, partly due to the funeral and partly due to father"s unemployment. After the funeral, father would go to Nanjing to look for a position and I was to return to Beijing to study, so we set out together. I spent a day in Nanjing seeing sights at a friend"s invitation. . The next morning, I was to ferry across the Changjiang River to Pukou and then take the afternoon train to Beijing. Father said he was too busy to see me off, and had asked a waiter he knew well to accompany me there instead. Though he had told the waiter to take good care of me many times, he was still unable to trust him. He hesitated for a moment. As a matter of fact, I was twenty then and had travelled to and from Beijing several times, so there was nothing to worry about. After some wavering, he at last decided to see me off himself. I repeatedly tried to advise him not to, but he said, " It doesn"t matter. I don"t want them to go. " We crossed the river and entered the station. I went to buy the ticket while he was busy taking care of the luggage. There was quite a lot of luggage, so we had to tip the porters and he was busy bargaining with the porters. I was then so smart that I thought lowly of his way of bargaining and was about to interrupt, but the fee was finally settled. Accompanying me onto the train, father found me a seat next to the door. I unfolded on the seat the purple fur overcoat which father had had the tailor made for me. He asked me to be careful on the way , and to be alert and not to catch cold at night. He also asked the attendants to take care of me. I snickered at him for his obstinacy, for it was absolutely no use entrusting me to them—because they mattered nothing but money. Besides, there was for sure...no problem for a man of my age to take care of himself. Oh, in retrospect, how smart I was in those days! In recent years, father and I have been living an unsettled life while the circumstances of home have gone from bad to worse. Father left home to make a living at a very early age and made some achievements all by himself. He had never thought he would be so depressed in such an old age. Seeing these unsatisfactory states, father can"t help feeling sorrowful. His suppressed feelings had to find an exit, that is why even family trivialities often made him angry. Gradually he became less nice with me. But the two years" separation made him forget my problems and think about me and my son. After I came to Beijing, he wrote me a letter, in which he said, "I"m all right except for the severe pain in my arms, which made me so hard to hold the chopsticks and pens. It seems not long before I pass away. " Through the glittering tears, I once again saw the back of my father"s round figure in the dark blue cloth cotton-wadded gown and black mandarin jacket. Oh! When shall I meet him again! Translate the following passage into English.
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