At Forty-One

I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than forty years before, had begun, one bulb at a time, to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountaintop.

我心中想着这位我从未谋面的女子，在四十多年前，从种下第一株水仙花球根开始，把她自己所想象的美丽和快乐带到一个隐蔽的山峰。

But under pressure from matrons not much older than herself - for a fieldman's wages being as high at twenty one as at forty, marriage was early here - Tess at length consented to go.

但是她迫于年纪比她大不了多少的妇女的压力——因为一个种地的工人，在二十岁时挣的工钱同四十岁的工人挣的工钱一样多——苔丝最终还是同意去了。

The United States entered the war in December of nineteen forty-one after Japanese planes attacked the Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The surprise attack sank many ships.

美国自1941年12月日本飞机偷袭美军在夏威夷珍珠港海军基地后，正式投入到第二次世界大战中，日本的这次偷袭击沉了美国许多战舰。