独自在家(Staying at Home Alone)

　　独自在家

　　2003年11月16日 星期四 晴

　　我拿着成绩单小心翼翼地回到了家中，不料竟发现妈妈不在。她去了阿姨家，晚上才回来。从桌上的便条中我知道了这些。我还是有点害怕，好像妈妈会突然回来。

　　一看到成绩单上的低分，一想到妈妈那冷冷的脸，我几乎怕得发抖。如果妈妈知道我得了这么低的分数，特别是英语，她会撕了我所有的漫画书。我喜欢漫画，那是我的最爱。长久以来，我把这些漫画书当作了我的生命，但是妈妈总是认为漫画分散了我的学习精力，给我造成了很大的影响。说实话，我也已经意识到了。妈妈厌恶这些书，她曾警告我，如果我再考低分，她就把它们部清除掉。即使我从此以后不再碰这些书，我还是想把它们保存下来。我应当怎么办呢?我知道说服是徒劳的，我要阻止妈妈那么做。

　　突然，我想出了一个主意，我把所有的书集中起来放进一个箱子，然后把箱子藏在床下。小心翼翼地做完这些后，我舒了一口气。

　　我打开英浯书，坐在桌子前看了起来。我想，的确是该认真学英语的时候了。

　　staying at home alone

　　thuesday nov. 16, 2003 fine

　　i took my school report and came back home cautiously only to find mother wasn't at home. she went to my aunt's and wou!d come back in the evcning. i knew that fi'om a note on the table. i was still a little bit frightened as if mother would come back suddenly.

　　seeing the low marks on the school report and remcmbering mother's cold face, i almost trembled with fear. lf mother know i got so low marks oa the subjects, especially english, she would tear all my cartoon books which are my fovourite. i have been treating them as my own life for a long time. but mother always thought cartoon diverted my attention from study and had a bad effect on me. frankly speaking, i had realized it. mother hated those books. she had warned me if i got low marks once more she would get rid of them. i still wanted to keep those books even if i would mever touch them from then on. what should i do? i knew that any persuation was in vain. i would prevent mother from doing that.

　　a good idea stroke me. i gathered all the books and put them in a box. then, i hid the box under my bed. having done it carefully, i had a breathing spell.

　　opening the english book, i sat at the desk and began to read. it was really the time that i learned english carefully, i thought.