NPR 06-26:Father vs. Father: Two Traditions Square Off这就是我的父
时间：2018-12-19 作者：英语课 分类：2007年NPR美国国家公共电台
Tony Gargagliano's father came to New York from Italy and held on to many of his Old World ways
Time again for StoryCorps, the project that is travelling the country recording 1 your stories. Today it's hailed from New York City, that is where Cathie Campbell spoke 2 with her friend Tony Gargagliano. He remembers his father Paul who immigrated 3 from Italy.
My father was a goat-herder in Sicily. When he came to this country he learned how to use the sewing machine and became a tailor, and he never approved of me being an artist. He used to say, "hey, look at the bum 4, he's drawn 5 and painted dirty pictures, all of nude 6 women. He is a bum."
My father one day, came to visit me and he was 84 at that time. He says "oh, you know my third wife, she's gone to Italy, she's left me all alone. I told her you go on, you no find me when you come back." So I said "well, you know you can get an annulment 7, dad." And he said "what's that?" I said "that is when one part of the marriage does not live up to the marriage for us. If your wife disappears in Italy, then you have a perfect right, that's not a marriage any more." He says "you will find me an Italian priest"
I found a monsignor, who was the head of the church. And I set a date, took my father. We entered the room, and the monsignor greets us. The first thing out of my father's mouth was "Eh, you know, father, it is not natural for a man to be without a woman." Just the monsignor was, just one look at me, I know he's accepted his celibacy 8. Yeah, my father continued telling his story. And he's just to speak like this and the monsignor, he would say to me "well, tell your father" you know, and before I know I was translating English into English, the monsignor said "tell your father that the church does not move very quickly." My father said "I, I am in no hurry."
Did he ever do it?
No, she wrote him a love letter and he sent her the money to come back.
Tony Gargagliano with his friend Cathie Campbell in New York City, this interview will be archived along with all StoryCorps interviews at the American Folk Life Center at the Library of Congress. And you can subscribe 9 to the StoryCorps podcast at npr.org.
- How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
- I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- He immigrated from Ulster in 1848. 他1848年从阿尔斯特移民到这里。 来自辞典例句
- Many Pakistanis have immigrated to Britain. 许多巴基斯坦人移居到了英国。 来自辞典例句
- A man pinched her bum on the train so she hit him.在火车上有人捏她屁股，她打了那人。
- The penniless man had to bum a ride home.那个身无分文的人只好乞求搭车回家。
- All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
- Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
- It's a painting of the Duchess of Alba in the nude.这是一幅阿尔巴公爵夫人的裸体肖像画。
- She doesn't like nude swimming.她不喜欢裸泳。
- The annulment caused a profound impression in Japan. 同盟的废止，在日本发生了强烈的反响。 来自辞典例句
- Law An annulment acquittal; dismissal, of a court order. 取消，宣告无罪；法院命令的撤销。 来自互联网