一路 BBS

 找回密码
 注册
搜索
查看: 814|回复: 0

Writer Bill Harby Moves to Switzerland and Lives There

[复制链接]
发表于 6-22-2017 15:43:47 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
本帖最后由 choi 于 6-22-2017 15:45 编辑

比尔·哈比, 这是最完美的爱情故事吗?  BBC Chinese, June 21, 2017
www.bbc.com/ukchina/simp/vert-tra-40357341

, which is translated from

Bill Harby, Is This the Most Perfect Love Story?  An American hitchhiker meets a Swiss miss in her hometown. They spend three lovely days together, then part forever — or so they thought.  BBC, May 23, 2017.
www.bbc.com/travel/story/2017051 ... -perfect-love-story

Note:
(a) "By the medieval Old Town of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, I sat in the sun, sipping a beer on a cafe’s terrace. * * * The time was June 1975, and I was hitchhiking around Switzerland and France the summer [~22 years old] before grad school in Chicago."

Neuchâtel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuch%C3%A2tel
(city has 34,000 inhabitants; official language of Neuchâtel is French)

(b) "Maïf, short for Marie-France, was 19 * * * She’d just finished a day of Baccalaureate exams to graduate from high school."
(i) French orthography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_orthography
("Diaeresis or tréma (ë, ï, ü, ÿ): over e, i, u or y, indicates that a vowel is to be pronounced separately from the preceding one: naïve, Noël")
(ii) International Baccalaureate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Baccalaureate#Europe
(is a not-for-profit educational foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and founded in 1968; students aged 3-19)

(c) "at a low-key club where she gave me a coin for the jukebox and asked me to punch in G5 for her favourite song by George Benson"

George Benson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Benson
(American)
(d) "here came Maïf on her little black scooter, putt-putting up the hill"

putt -putt (vi; imitative): "the chugging sounds made by the engine of a motorboat, motorbike, etc"
www.yourdictionary.com/putt-putt
(e) "Her boyfriend had gotten otherwise involved."

Her boyfriend was involved with another woman, not her.
(f) "In real life, I’d been living in Akron, Ohio, when Maïf and I met in 1975."

Akron, Ohio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akron,_Ohio
(The name derived from the Greek word "ἄκρον" signifying a summit or high point)

(g) "we both loved Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Vic Chesnutt"
(i) Leonard Cohen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen
(1934 – 2016; a Canadian singer)
(ii) Tom Waits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waits
(1949- ; an American singer)
(iii) Vic Chesnutt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Chesnutt
(1964 – 2009; James Victor "Vic" Chesnutt; an American singer)

(h) a postcard of Montreux

Montreux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux
回复

使用道具 举报

您需要登录后才可以回帖 登录 | 注册

本版积分规则

快速回复 返回顶部 返回列表