情迷锡耶纳双语散文

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情迷锡耶纳双语散文

Ciao, Bella

After four trains and a wrong turn in Florence, I was in Siena, Italy, carrying too much luggage and struggling for words I didn't know. It was November, and I was going by myself to a city with tones so unusually rich, a color is named for it.

The family I was to stay with, a relatively elderly mother and her twice-my-age son, didn't speak a word of English and weren't expected to. I was the one who was supposed to learn a language; I was to go to Italian class three hours a day for the next month. But the day I got there, all I knew was "Non parlo italiano," and I said it all the time.

The family was short with me at first, and I understood enough to figure out the words for "that's the thing with Americans, they don't know how to speak." But it would be they who would teach me most of the Italian I learned there―and a few added lessons along the way.

I went to Siena for a few good reasons. I left Chicago for a million more. I had just quit a job to go to graduate school, and the people there resented me for it. I had just quit a boyfriend. And I had quit an apartment where the landlord was a little too friendly. I was tired of quitting things; I was ready for big, shining starts.

I picked Italy for its art, and Siena was full of it. It was just so old. The town hall was built in the 12th century, and all the other buildings weren't much younger. A thick high wall circled the town as if the whole thing had been thrown like a discus into the Tuscan hills. The Duomo was made of ancient striped marble, and St. Catherine's skull was in a church named for her, where it's been for 600 years. Everything was medieval and preserved, and nothing was like where I came from.

The first morning of class, my host-mother, Signora Franci, escorted me on the bus so I wouldn't get lost. She was about 4-foot-11 to my 5-9 and she talked continually to me in Italian, though she knew I was still oblivious. She left me at the Dante Aleghieri language school with a tip-toed kiss and a "Ciao, bella." I could love a country where absolutely everyone called you beautiful.

My class was a stray collection of 21-year-old Australian girls. I took them on as my friends; we'd circle through the city after class every day, then sit in the town square, dodging pigeons and eating gelato.

But I suddenly wasn't good at having friends. Something from the month before had made me shy. I wasn't very happy about people in general and it showed with these women. I questioned when they were nice to me and bristled when they whispered about anything. I was sure I was just weird to them, some older, freaked-out American who trusted no one.

And my boyfriend had been tricky. Yes, we broke up before I left, but the actual night before I got on the plane, he gave me presents and talked about missing me. So now I missed him.

I went to Rome to look at the Sistine Chapel, and I called him from a pay phone in front of St. Peter's to describe every detail. He screamed things back to me: "What are you doing there without me?" "When are you coming home?" And it rained the whole time and some guy grabbed my butt right there in Vatican City, but I didn't care. I felt filled up with Michelangelo and a boy and bringing worlds together.

But all that rain wasn't good for me. Back in Siena, I woke up the next morning and I couldn't stand up. Being sick is the one thing that can make you feel completely alone; and that was a feeling I didn't need reinforced. When I wasn't up for school, Signora Franci came into my dark, blue room. "Io sento malo," I told her. I felt bad. She immediately started rushing around, yelling at her son to call the doctor. I understood that much, but events were out of my hands. I lay in bed and she brought things to me: a hot water bottle, tea, soup.

I wondered how she could be so concerned, not knowing me, not even knowing my words. But I was so far away from home, I never needed taking care of so badly. I stared at that ceiling, and thought about every friend, every boyfriend, I ever lost too soon. I could see all the people I missed now. The people who hurt me, the people I didn't understand, just drifted away.

Hours later, Signora Franci came in again, this time with green velvet slippers she had bought because I always walked around in socks. She said something I equated as: Of course you're going to get sick if you have cold feet all the time―warm them. "Mille grazie," I said. But a day later, when I was feeling better much sooner than I thought I would, I wanted to thank her more.

It was three weeks into the trip, and she had made me realize why I came to Italy. It wasn't just to see art―though I saw it, and it made me feel creative and part of history and enriched. And it wasn't just to get away. What I needed, and what I never got from sweet Australians or kind teachers, was the returned belief in basic human kindness. Signora Franci didn't take care of me because of anything else but basic human concern: Someone is sick, she's away from her home, make her better. I was 25 years old, I had just started seeing more bad in people than good―and I needed to see that kindness in action.

In my last week in Siena, I just took in the medieval walls, the green narrow hills and the wet, wet air. My Italian class performed a terrible spoken version of "Don Giovanni" for the whole school. I rode to other hill towns on huge buses with my Aussie friends, and the last night we drank wine and wandered through the streets yelling phrase-book expressions at each other.

Days before I went home, I knew I'd be ready for it. There were people to get back to, and I knew who they were. People, in general, could be terrible and wonderful. Sad that I had to go to Italy to realize that. Amazing that I could.

拓展阅读

1、我的惆怅与惘抒

身边的朋友都以为我是个有梦想,有明确的人生目标的人。我以前也以为至少我还有梦,我不像大多数人一样蹉跎时光,过一天是一天的日子。而到底什么才是我满怀希望,满怀信心去追求的?我糊涂了,我怕了。原来我也不过如此。

电影,我是喜欢。可没条件供我去尝试,供我去努力。似乎有了这个梦我更不知所措。从来没有人给予过我支持和理解,他们以为我不需要吗?还是只是忽视了我的存在呢?我为什么要充当这样的角色,他们烦恼了疑惑了伤心了,我就在一旁抚慰,给予支持和理解。我疑惑惘了呢?你们都看不出,还是你们以为我可以靠自己撑着?

做什么都被牵制着,难怪找不到自我。因为我家里没条件让我去学习电影,也因为我懦弱不敢去追求自己喜欢的东西,我害怕伤害到亲人,我应该是成熟点,懂事点的。可是我好痛苦。

我该怎么办?我又能怎么办呢?

这样的生活,真的让我想到了死。

做自己不喜欢的事,读书读书大学大学工作工作。我快要崩溃。

要这样一直下去吗?

不,我不能。

如果有那么一天,我鼓起勇气离开了你们,去寻找自己喜欢的东西。那么你们是会愤怒伤心崩溃还是怨恨我的自私?不管怎样,对不起了。

会有那么一天的。

就算伤痕累累,我也样尝试,我的人生不该留下遗憾。遗憾比痛苦还要让我恐惧和悲哀。

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2、没有什么比生命重要,没有什么比活着更好。

3、没有被禁锢的城,只有离不开的爱,再艰难,爱不会离开!#__加油#中国加油!

4、疫之下,从午夜到天明,他们始终坚守在工作岗位!期待花开疫时,致敬战斗在前线的每一位平凡岗位上伟大的人[心] _加油,中国加油?

5、在家里躺着,能吃能喝的我,已经是最大的幸福者了。这平凡的人生里面,遇到的所有烦恼,难过痛苦,在这疫前面,什么都不是。

6、军人.普通百姓共克时难.共同战“疫”。哪有什么从天而降的英雄,只有挺身而出的凡人。

7、漫漫人生路,修行和风险管理是一辈子的旅程,就像这次疫,就像突然的噩耗,都在告诫我们,做好自己。

8、一场春雨,一次花开,春悄然到来,生活不尽如意,但应如春一样洒脱。时光匆匆,不过几十载,愿一切烦恼随风而逝,带来新的生机,一心向往,看遍万紫千红。

9、出门如见大宾,使民如承大祭。

10、志士仁人,无求生以害仁,有杀身以成仁。

11、祝福祖国,希望疫过后,我们更加过的美好昌盛。

12、爱我的人和我爱的人,都好好活着就行。

13、疫过后,春暧花开依然还在,祝福我们伟大的祖国繁荣昌盛。

14、你要相信,冷清是一种力量,宁静也是一种美好,更是一种坚强。一切都将过去的,黑暗之后是黎明,送走寒冬必迎春暖花开,待疫过后,你我定会有更美的相逢。

15、君子欲讷于言而敏于行。

16、每个时代有每个时代的英雄,灾难面前,他们毅然逆向前行,不畏生死,他们当之无愧是这个时代的英雄,向英雄致敬,愿英雄早日归来。

17、金钱,在健康面前,不值一提,名利,在平安面前,啥都不是。只要我们健健康康,我们的家人平平安安,我们的生活就是美满的生活,我们的日子就是顶好的日子。

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20、这,注定是一场艰难的战“疫”,也是我们所有人共同的战“疫”。这些充满力量.直击人心的声音,将为历史留下特殊的记忆!众志成城抗疫,向发出声音的他们致敬!为__加油!

21、团结一心战胜疫,祝愿祖国永远繁荣昌盛。

22、挫折是人生的常态,在我们遭遇疫挫折时,不应一味放大痛苦让其充塞心灵。我们要学会调适心弦,坦然面对,全国人民团结一致,就一定会战胜疫

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26、人生不易,且行且珍惜!当你还能陪伴在父母身边时,要珍惜他们在的每一天,父母的爱是我们生活坚强的后盾。

27、一场疫,清醒你我!一场疫,明白所有!一辈子,再长不过三万多天,数着数着人到中年,我们唯有过好每一天,才不负此生匆匆来过。余生愿我们每一个人,都懂得珍惜!

28、没有一个冬天不会过去,没有一个春天不会到来。在这个特别的年份,全国上下守望相助,共克时艰,等待春天的到来。__加油!中国加油!我们一定赢!

29、当你仍然对自由向往,便不顾一切冲往远方,当你不再对物质渴望,证明你足够看透人生,当你感觉平凡人生.健康身体.平淡生活的可贵,证明你读懂了人的一生。

30、新年的钟声已经敲响,万紫千红的春天已经不远了,我相信:在全国人民的共同努力下,我们一定能打赢这场“战疫”。

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33、祝愿祖国繁荣昌盛,希望疫早点过去。

34、有些故事教会你感恩,启发你奉献,却不会告诉你,很多事可以争取,可以改变,也可以有另一种结局。

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36、生活确实很艰难,让我们常常无力抵抗,但我们不妨换个心态,换种心,给自己减负,为生活发一块糖。

37、最美的她】芬芳三月,巾帼如歌。她们是各条战线上的明星,她们是新时代女性的楷模!

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40、你要相信,冷清是一种力量,宁静也是一种美好,更是一种坚强。一切都将过去的,黑暗之后是黎明,送走寒冬必迎春暖花开,待疫过后,你我定会有更美的相逢。新的一天,早安!

41、我们会坚持不出门,不聚会,勤洗手,勤喝水,听从国家安排,一起抗击疫,好好学习,以后我要当对国家有用的人。

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46、感谢所有在前线无私奉献的人们,是你们略显瘦小却又无限强大的身躯撑起抗疫精神,谢谢你们!

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48、疫期间全国人民共同奋斗,祝福我的祖国繁荣昌盛。

49、疫终会过去,静候春暖花开。

3、晚安心正能量

1、我真想用梦温馨你的眼角使你不会再落泪,我真想用相拥驱逐走你全部的苦恼,我真想我用的真心实意陪你一辈子,就算山高水远,坎坷不平,我还想要。如果没有你,我也不知道应该怎么办!

2、无论这一路上,会碰到多少的艰辛,我就会始终守候在你的身旁,不许你流一滴眼泪,不许你遭受一点的伤;晚安!

3、生命是一场又一场的相逢和分离,也是一次又一次的忘却和逐渐。晚安!

4、愿我祝愿永伴你,道声晚安祝有利。

5、富人喜爱说“钱非全能的”,长得好看的人喜爱说“长得好看有什么作用”,瘦人喜爱说“实际上胖一点好,身心健康”,勤奋的人喜爱说“勤奋并不是关键性要素”。她们仅仅虚假地随口说说,但你却都用心地信了。

6、春风十里不如你,夏阳漫山不如你,秋风秋雨淅淅不如你,冬寒白皑皑不如你,梦里梦外都是你。

7、那么冷的天,我可以想起最温馨的事便是抱紧你,晚安,你是冬日暧阳。

8、若逢新雪初雯,满月万里晴空。 抱紧我,风吹雨打再大我都是你的黑恶势力;抱紧我,夜晚再悠长我都是你的保护神;抱紧我,路面再艰辛我都是你的守候者。不论什么时候无论何地,只需有我陪着你,你也就不容易孤独,親愛的的,祝您拥抱人节开心!

9、一句问好,随着夜色阑珊,将密倾吐耳旁;一句祝福,胜于被子温馨,将温暖缭绕心底;一句晚安,句简洁明了却浓蜜意,蕴涵成千上万挂念与想念;祝您晚安!

10、在这个宁静的夜晚,托星星捎去我对你的深深地想念缕缕祝愿!愿我的祝福能消退你一天工作中的疲倦和烦恼!伴你进到美妙甜美的睡梦中!祝您晚安!

11、你需要存款你的动能,垂青你的心地善良,越来越英勇起來,当这世界愈来愈坏,我只期待你能越变越好。晚安!

12、我比所有人都希望你幸福,仅仅想起之后你的幸福快乐并不是由于我,你的快乐并不是我给的,依然会很难过。

13、遇到你是一种缘份,陪着你是一种幸福快乐。假如你思念,我便回家到你身旁,要是你愿意,我便会一生为你守候。

14、但愿一生勤奋,一生被爱要想的都有着,无法得到的都放下,抖音短视频的好朋友,美梦。

15、漫漫的梦闪烁一盏灯,听我愿望一声声,只愿你的人生再也没有伤疤,但愿你平安一程又一程,只愿全部的幸福放满您的梦,祝您今夜美梦!

16、无论在何处,万里或千万里,无论在什么时候,十年或近百年,我还深深想念着你,疼惜着你。我虽然否定一切神灵的存有,但我想始终信念这个“新造物主!

17、想念不因疲劳而更改,祝愿不因歇息而减慢,问好不因劳累而变懒,关爱随星星眨眼睛,挂念在深更半夜仍然,轻轻地道声:祝您晚安,親愛的的!

18、诉衷,晓月寒,晚寒症,恋人新春佳节独往还,顾影自凄然。见亦难,思亦难,慢慢长夜抱恨眠,问伊怜不怜。

19、与你认识是一种缘,与你相爱是一种美,与你相逢是一种福,我和你相伴到永远。

20、深吸气,甩开全部性子,淋场雨,舍弃全部繁杂,等七色彩虹,等候全部漂亮,赞性命,如此杰出的信念,睡一觉,和天明,说句晚安。

21、愿我的祝福像崎岖不平的贝壳风铃,让你带去叮当哒哒的开心!假如你在梦里也会笑出声来,那一定就是我带来你的!

22、也许大家如今或是无关的两人,可是我告诉你,在我的故事中,你是我心中一辈子的爱人,是我不愿易醒的原因,晚安,漂亮女孩。

23、每当黑夜降临,就是估计你的逐渐,星星不眨眼,你也就为它绚丽,今天北半球地图夜晚最长的一天,也就是我一年中想你较多的一晚!

24、撇开日常日常生活的零碎,忘掉大白天运行的疲劳,让拂面微风当床,让微微清爽当被,要我美好的祝福陪着你入眠,晚安!美梦! 别老惦记着取悦别人,你越在意他人,就越低贱。仅有好好爱自己,并让他人来取悦你,才会令你更有使用价值。一辈子不长,记牢:对自己好一点。晚安!

25、摘上一朵鲜红色的玫瑰花送上小小一张信用卡表述着我对你无尽的想念愿它能给你们提供很大的温暖。

26、你是那般地美,美到象一首抒诗歌。你浑身充满着美少女的清纯和年轻的风彩。交给我印像深刻的就是你这湖泊般清亮的眸,及其很长,一闪一闪的眼睫毛。好像探寻,好像关心,好像问好。

27、人生就好像一段旅途,大家一路走来,我们无法去预料遇上的景色,真心实意去赏析,那麼会发觉一切都是美不可谈。晚安!

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