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“It’s a scholarship. A French scholarship, and I was hoping you’d recommend me. I have had a lot of work with you, and all. The French Department will recommend me, but I have done my minor in English, you know. What you’d say would count a lot.”
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● hesitated：吞吞吐吐地说。fumbling：摸索。next year：下学年，可能就是同年秋天。
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● If I can make it：假如能走得成的话。这句话没有说完全，意思是跟着上面那一句来的。
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● scholarship：奖学金。I was hoping you’d (=you would) recommend me意思比I am hoping you’ll recommend me委婉。用现在式显得太迫切，用过去式只是表示“我在来看你之前”或是“知道有这个奖学金的机会的时候，我是这样希望”。现在是不是也这样希望，没有明言，对方如加拒绝，两方都不致太难堪。recommend：推荐。
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● and all=and everything else：我曾跟着你学习过，还有别的种种（关系）。这两个字有点含糊，但说话的人恐怕也不想指明什么，含糊一点好。
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● The French Department：法语系，是此君的主系（major），英文系是他的辅系（minor）。
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● 最后一句用虚拟式，也显得很客气。“我不知道你会不会保荐我，假如你保荐我的话，那么你所说的（what you would say）将很起作用。”
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“Howell,” Professor Millen said, judicially putting the tips of his fingers together and inspecting the boy, “I’ve never had a better student than you are. Possibly never one as good. I’ll say that in my recommendation. I’ll write a strong one.” He felt his enthusiasm mounting as he spoke, and a warmth suffused him as though at the prospect of some piece of happiness, some success for himself.
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● judicially：像法官似的（把两手手指对顶起来）。inspecting：仔细地看。
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● Possibly never one as good.=Possibly I’ve never had a student as good as you are.
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● that：那件事实，即“你是个杰出的好学生”。
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● a strong one=a strong recommendation：一封强有力的推荐信。
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● enthusiasm：热忱。mounting：往上升。suffused：遍布。prospect：所期望的东西。他觉得说话的时候很兴奋，心头热了起来，好像自己将要有什么得意的事一般。
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“I certainly appreciate it,” the boy said. “This is about the only thing I’ve got in sight for next year, and I’m graduating. Oh, I reckon I could get a little teaching job or something for a year or two to save up some money to go on. I don’t think I ought to ask my family for any more—they’ve been swell, putting me through college and giving me that trip to France two years back—”
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● appreciate=am thankful for。about=almost。
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● in sight：现在可以看得到的出路（thing）。I’m graduating：快要毕业，大学四年级下学期。I reckon=I suppose。I could…的实现可能性比I can…小，could是can的虚拟式。to save up：储蓄。to go on：继续下去，指进研究所攻读。
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● any more=any more money。swell是俚语（slang）“很好”的意思，这个字二三十年代很常用，大约同北京话的“棒”或上海话的“崭”相仿。
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● 末一句讲：他的家庭供给他读四年大学，两年前还送他到法国去游历一次，待他很好，他不应该再问家里要钱了。
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“Yes, yes,” Professor Millen said abstractedly, “oh, yes, you did go over one summer, didn’t you?”
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“Oh, that was just for fun,” Howell said, “but this time it would be for work. And when I get back I ought to be able to get a pretty good job so I could save enough to get my Ph.D. quick. Up East.”
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“A year of study in France will be a fine opportunity,“Professor Millen said. That enthusiasm and warmth which had filled him like a promise of happiness was waning now, he did not know why. He wished the boy would get up and go and leave him alone.
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● abstractedly：心不在焉地。go over：到那边去。
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● for fun：去玩儿的，同for work（去念书的）相对。那学生还不知道自己能不能去成，只好用虚拟式“it would be…”。
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● a pretty good job：相当好的差使。Ph.D.：哲学博士。Up East：到东部去攻读博士学位。他们的大学可能在美国南部，华伦自己曾在南部教书多年。
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● 教授认为他去法国留学的可能性很大，故云…will be a fine opportunity（好机会）。
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