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To keep Mother’ s Day, after breakfast we had it arranged as a surprise for Mother that hire a motor car and take her for beautiful drive away into the country. Mother is hardly ever able to have a treat like that, because we can only afford to keep one maid, and so Mother is busy in the house nearly all the time. And of course the country is so lovely now that it would be grand for her to have a lovely morning, driving for miles and miles.
But on the very morning of the day, we changed the plan a little bit, because it occurred to Father that a thing it would be better to do even than to take Mother for a motor drive would be to take her fishing. Father said that as the car was hired and paid for, we might just as well use it for a drive up into the hills where the streams are. As Father said, if you just go out driving without any object, you have a sense of aimlessness, but if you are going to fish, there is a definite purpose in front of you to heighten the enjoyment.
无为了庆祝母亲节,我们打算在早餐后给母亲准备一个惊喜:我们要租一辆摩托车,开车带她去美丽的乡村游玩。因为我们家里只请得起一个女仆,因此母亲几乎一直在忙碌着,很少有机会享受这样的待遇。当然载着母亲在美丽动人的乡村中行驶数英里肯定会让她母亲节的早晨过得特别开心。
不过到了母亲节那天早晨,我们的计划稍稍有些变动。因为父亲突然想到带母亲去骑车兜风还不如带母亲去钓鱼。父亲又说,既然我们已经付钱租下摩托车了,就不妨骑着摩托车去河流所在的小山。他说,如果你漫无目的地出去兜风,你会感到阵阵空虚感,不过如果你要出门钓鱼的话,这样你兜风就有了目的,兴致也会更高。