Ｉ　Ｗｉｌｌ　Ｒｅｍｅｍｂｅｒ　我會記得

瑪　麗

Until I was eight, I spent every Sunday outside in the garden with Nana. The zucchini(西葫蘆) plants quickly became my favorite.

在我8歲之前，我的每一個周日都是和奶奶一起在外面的菜園里度過的，那種叫西葫蘆的植物很快就成了我的最愛。

The magic of taking care

Every Sunday I returned to the garden to check on the zucchini plants, and each time I saw more and more zucchini.

“Do you think there are so many because I take good care of the plants?”

“Yes，”Nana said, “when you look after things, good things tend to grow. You should remember that.”

照看的魔力

每個周日，我都回到菜園去查看那些西葫蘆藤。而每一次，我都會看到更多的西葫蘆。

“結了這么多西葫蘆，您認為是我精心照料它們的緣故嗎？”

“是啊，”奶奶說，“當你照料事物的時候，美好的事物容易生長。你應該記住這一點。”

Nature has its rules

Each Ｓunday I was proud to see more zucchini for months. Until one day, when they stopped appearing.

“Nana, whats wrong with my plants？” I asked tearfully,“They are not growing anymore.”

“Thats what happens, darling. Things grow but then they stop. Nothing lasts forever.”

“But I was so good to them.”

“Yes,”she said, “but old things end so new things can start.Seasons change, but for everything that ends, something new will take its place.”

“Ill remember that, ”I said.

萬物自有道

在隨后的幾個月里，每一個周日我都會自豪地看到更多的西葫蘆。直到有一天，它們不再結出新的西葫蘆。

“奶奶，我的西葫蘆怎么了？”我眼淚汪汪地問，“它們不再結出新的西葫蘆了。”

“就是那樣的，親愛的。事物生長，然后停止生長。沒有永遠持續的事物。”

“但我對它們那么好。”

“是的，”她說，“但舊事物結束了新事物才會開始。四季交替，每一個消亡了的事物總會被某種新事物取代。”

“我會記住這一點的。”我說。

To give up is to gain

One Sunday, I watched as she took the clippers and cut off one whole branch of a tomato plant.

“Nana!”I put my hand over my mouth in shock,“What did you do that for?”

“The plant isnt strong enough to have two good branches full of tomatoes,”she said,“I had to get rid of one so the plant could make the most of the other one.”

“Oh.”

“You might have to make the same kind of choice some day,”she said,“because sometimes you just cant have everything.”

“Ill remember that，”I said.

放棄是為了收獲

有一個周日，我看到奶奶用一把剪刀剪去西紅柿的一整根枝條。

“奶奶！”我驚訝地用手捂住嘴巴，“您為什么要那樣做啊？”

“那棵西紅柿藤是支撐不住兩根結滿西紅柿的粗壯枝條的，”她說，“我必須去掉一枝，讓剩下的那枝結出最好的果實。”

“噢。”

“將來有一天，你可能也必須做出同樣的選擇，”她說道，“因為有時候你不可能擁有一切。”

“我會記住這一點的。”我說。