[導(dǎo)讀]2010年中級(jí)筆譯輔導(dǎo)：十秒鐘翻譯訓(xùn)練(1)
　　"Mom, you must have been terribly bored staying at home when I was a child",I said.

　　"Bored? Housework is boring.But you were never boring“.

　　"I didn’t believe her, so I said.“Surely children are not as stimulating as a career.”

　　"A career is stimulating,“ she said. ” I’m glad I had one. But a career is like an open balloon. It remains inflated only as long as you keep pumping. A child is a seed . You water it, 你盡力照看他，他自己就可以長(zhǎng)成一朵美麗的花。

　　單詞提示：

　　stimulating adj. 刺激的，有刺激性的

　　inflated adj. 膨脹的

　　參考譯文：

　　You care for it the best you can . And then it grows all by itself into a beautiful flower.