The Professor（22）

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But a saving embrace came into Morrie's life the following year: his new stepmother, Eva.

但在第二年，莫瑞的新继母伊娃如同一个拯救的拥抱来到了莫瑞的生活。

She was a short Romanian immigrant with plain features, curly brown hair, and the energy of two women.

她是一个矮个子的罗马尼亚移民，有着扁平的身材、卷曲的头发和一身相当于两个女人的能量。

She had a glow that warmed the otherwise murky atmosphere his father created.

她浑身自带的光环温暖着莫瑞父亲带来的其余暗沉氛围。

She talked when her new husband was silent, she sang songs to the children at night.

当她的新婚老公沉默时她则会滔滔不绝，夜晚时她还会给孩子们唱歌。

Morrie took comfort in her soothing voice, her school lessons, her strong character.

莫瑞能够从她抚慰的声音，她的学校功课，她充满力量的人格中获得慰藉。

When his brother returned from the medical home, still wearing leg braces from the polio, the two of them shared a rollaway bed in the kitchen of their apartment, and Eva would kiss them good-night.

他弟弟从诊所回来以后，还带着小儿麻痹留下的腿部矫正器，他们俩兄弟会共享一张放在公寓厨房里的折叠床，伊娃会亲吻他们道晚安。

Morrie waited on those kisses like a puppy waits on milk, and he felt, deep down, that he had a mother again.

莫瑞像小狗狗等待牛奶一样期待着这些晚安吻，内心深处，他觉得他又有妈妈了。

There was no escaping their poverty, however.

然而，生活的贫穷让他们无处可逃。

They lived now in the Bronx, in a one-bedroom apartment in a redbrick building on Tremont Avenue, next to an Italian beer garden where the old men played boccie on summer evenings.

他们现在生活在纽约布朗克斯区，住在特雷蒙大街一栋红砖建筑的一室户里，隔壁是一个意大利啤酒馆，夏日的夜晚那里总有一些老男人们打保龄球。

Because of the Depression, Morrie's father found even less work in the fur business.

由于经济大萧条，莫瑞的父亲能在皮毛生意行业找到的工作机会更少了。

Sometimes when the family sat at the dinner table, all Eva could put out was bread.

有时候当一家人坐在餐桌旁，伊娃所能端出来的所有食物只有面包。

"What else is there?" David would ask.

“还有别的吃的吗？”大卫会问。

"Nothing else," she would answer.

“没有别的了，”她只能这么回答。

When she tucked Morrie and David into bed, she would sing to them in Yiddish.

晚上睡觉前伊娃给莫瑞和大卫掖好被角时，她会用意第绪语（犹太人的语言）给兄弟俩唱歌。

Even the songs were sad and poor.

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