青少年双语美文第05篇 The Shaved Eyebrows 眉毛刮掉以后

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[00:00.36]05 The Shaved Eyebrows	眉毛刮掉以后
[00:06.74](By Ariel Subrahmanyam)	
[00:09.47]It was evening and time for my little sister and me to take our showers and get ready for bed. 某一天晚上，我和妹妹是时间去洗个澡，准备上床睡觉了。
[00:17.40]As I passed the mirror in the bathroom, there it was - a wild hair right in the middle of my forehead, threatening to be the beginning of the third eyebrow. 当我从浴室的镜子前走过时，我看到了它――我前额正中间的那绺乱发，似乎要长成我的第三条眉毛了。
[00:28.37]I went into the shower trying to think of a solution, and then I spotted a razor. 我一边洗澡，一边努力想着解决办法，然后我看见了剃刀。
[00:34.79]I took it and started trying to shave off the savage hair. 我拿起它，开始试着把那绺乱发剃掉。
[00:40.11]Usually I would trust my mom's advice about what to do in this sort of situation, 通常，我都会听从妈妈关于如何处理这类问题的建议，
[00:45.77]but this was just too complicated for her -or so I thought. 但这个问题对她来说太复杂了――或者我是这样认为的。
[00:50.20]Well, while I was shaving that hair off, the razor slipped, and I ended up shaving off half my eyebrow! 然而就在我剃那绺头发的时候，剃刀一滑，结果我的半条眉毛被剃掉了！
[00:58.90]Then I did what any girl would do in this situation -I tried to even them out . 然后，我做了任何一个女孩在这种情况下都会做的事――我试图将两边的眉毛修成一样的。
[01:05.13]When I was finished, I looked in the mirror. 弄完后，我照了照镜子，却发现惨不忍睹！
[01:08.36]It was a disaster! 真是堪比灾难现场！
[01:10.34]I tried to figure out if there was any way to fix this mess. 我努力想找个法子搞定这一团糟。
[01:14.70]Thankfully, I found a way to hide my mistake. 。谢天谢地，我找到了一个办法来掩饰这个失误。
[01:18.37]I put my bangs over my eyebrows. 我用前额的刘海遮住了眉毛。
[01:21.35]It worked perfectly!	效果好极了！
[01:22.83]Just then my parents called me to come and say good night. 就在那时，父母喊我去和他们道晚安。
[01:26.99]Nobody noticed my eyebrows, but they did notice my little sister's eyebrows!谁都没有注意到我的眉毛，但他们却都注意到了妹妹的眉毛！
[01:32.69]It turned out that while I was fighting the stray hair, she had found another razor in the drawer and began copying me. 原来，就在我处理那绺散乱的头发时，妹妹在抽屉里又找了把剃刀，开始照着我的样子做。
[01:40.58]Now her eyebrows were completely missing! 现在，她的眉毛完全没了！
[01:44.50]My parents were very confused until they finally noticed that half my eyebrows were gone as well . 父母非常困惑，直到他们最终发现我的一半眉毛也不见了。
[01:52.30]After a lot of questioning, I broke down and confessed to what had happened. 经过一番追问，我哭了，坦承了发生的一切。
[01:57.70]I thought that my parents would be mad at me until my mom took me aside to tell me that when she was a preteen, she had done a similar thing. 我以为父母会生我的气，但妈妈却把我带到一边，告诉我她在十一二岁时也做过类似的事情。
[02:07.15]In her case, it was her underarms . 只不过她那次是发生在腋下。
[02:10.27]While away at camp on a swimming day, she was extremely embarrassed because she had some long hairs in her armpits . 在外出露营游泳的时候，她觉得非常难为情，因为她的腋毛太长了。
[02:18.28]My grandma, her mom, had told her she was too young to shave yet. 她的妈妈，也就是我的外婆曾告诉过她，她还没到该刮腋毛的年龄。
[02:23.69]But she went against her mom's wishes and borrowed her friend's razor and shaved her armpits. 但她违背外婆的意愿，借了朋友的一把剃刀，把自己的腋毛刮掉了。
[02:30.61]Then she wrote her mom a confession letter telling her that she had done a terrible thing and that she was very sorry. 然后，她给外婆写了一封忏悔信，说自己做了一件很可怕的事，感到非常抱歉。
[02:38.90]At the very end of this long two-page letter, she finally told her mom what she had done. 在那封长达两页的信的末尾，她才最终告诉外婆自己做了什么。
[02:45.21]As my grandma read through the letter, she was so worried about this terrible thing that her daughter had done that by the end of the letter she laughed, 外婆读那封信时，一直在担心自己女儿所做的那件可怕的事情，但读到信的结尾时，她笑了。
[02:54.58]because she was just so relieved to find out about what had actually happened. 因为她终于知道到底发生了什么，长长地松了一口气。
[02:59.97]My grandmother totally understood how my mom had felt, just like my mom now understood me. 外婆完全理解妈妈那时的感受，就像妈妈现在理解我一样。
[03:06.69]This ended up bringing my mom and me even closer together. 这件事让我和妈妈变得更亲密了。
[03:11.64]I still wouldn't ever recommend trying to shave your eyebrows. 我仍然无论何时都不会赞成你试着刮掉自己的眉毛。
[03:15.10]I suggest that you find a different way to get closer to your mom!	建议你另找一个方法来拉近你和妈妈之间的距离！
[03:19.40]As for my little sister, it took a long time for her eyebrows to grow back in. 至于我的小妹妹，过了很长一段时间她的眉毛才长回原样。
[03:25.13]From then on, I've learned to be a better example to her because she still copies everything I do!	从那时起，我学会了为她树立一个更好的榜样，因为她仍然会模仿我做的一切！

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青少年双语美文第05篇 The Shaved Eyebrows 眉毛刮掉以后