(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
When I was in the third grade, we had a scavenger hunt at school.
在我上三年级的时候，我们会在学校玩寻物游戏。
We gathered up chalk, pencils, stones, and poorly hidden tchotchkes, rapidly filling our checklists. It was a very close race.
我们收集粉笔、铅笔、石头和隐藏得很差的一些小玩意，迅速填满了我们的清单。这是一场势均力敌的比赛。
I was out of breath when I reached the clover patch in search of the last, most hard-to-find item: a four-leaf clover.
我上气不接下气地跑到三叶草地去寻找最后一片叶子，是最难发现的那种：四叶三叶草。
I was pretty sure that I was going to win. I had a trump card.
我很确定我将赢得这场胜利，我有一张王牌。
The thing is, I have always been able to find four-leaf clovers. I just see them.
最重要的是，我总是能发现四叶草。我就是能看到它们。
I spent my childhood collecting and pressing four-leaf clovers into books at my mother's house.
我的童年是在母亲家里收集四叶草并把它们压在书里面度过的。
I started with big cloth- and leather-bound books. Joyce's Ulysses, the complete works of the Shakespeare, my great-grandmother's copy of Les Misérables.
我从布面和皮面的书籍开始。乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》，莎士比亚全集，还有我曾祖母的《悲惨世界》的抄写本。
When I ran out of romantically bound volumes, I be-gan to slip my treasures into anything I could find: well-thumbed fiction paperbacks, cookbooks.
当我在浪漫装订的书里都放了四叶草后，我开始把我的宝藏放在我能发现的任何书里：经常翻阅的小说平装本，烹饪书籍。
The same is true in my house today. Shake a book, and a papery treasure just might fall into your hand.
现在在我家的情况也是如此。摇晃一本书，一个薄纸样的宝贝可能就会落到你的手上。
I believe that there is casual magic in everyday acts.
我认为在我们日常的行径中都存在着偶然的魔法。
A few years ago, in Nova Scotia, my husband and I pulled off the road for a picnic.
几年前，在新斯科舍省，我和丈夫开车去野餐。
The ground was thick with clover. Some shoots had four, five, even six leaves.
地上长满了三叶草。有一些嫩芽有4片、5片甚至6片叶子。
I lined them up on the picnic table to admire as my husband, never yet having found one four-leaf clover, looked on with awe.
我把这些三叶草放在野餐桌上排成一排，欣赏着它们，而我那从没发现过一个四叶三叶草的丈夫则敬畏着看着它们。
To me, it was simple. The differences in their shapes popped out, breaking the pretty pattern of the conventional clovers with their three perfect leaves.
对我来说，这很简单。它们形状的差异突然显现出来，打破了传统三叶草的有三片完美的叶子的美丽模式。
Two summers back, while wait-ing for an airport shuttle in Munich, I found a tiny four-leaf clover in a traf-fic circle and tucked it into my pass-port.
两个夏天以前，在慕尼黑等机场班车的时候，我在一个交叉路口里发现了一株小小的四叶三叶草，把它塞进了我的护照里。
On the way home, my husband and I were upgraded to business class. Friends attributed our good luck to the clover.
在回家的时候，我和丈夫升级到了商务舱。朋友们都把我们的好运气归功于三叶草。
I think it's more likely that we were upgraded because a flight can-cellation
我认为更可能的原因是，在那之后的几个晚上，由于航班延误，
left us stranded in two cities on as many continents on subsequent nights and a kind customer service rep took pity on us.
我们被困在了两个大洲的两个城市里，一位好心的客服代表对我们表示了同情。
People disagree about whether the luck lies in the finding or in the pos-session of a clover.
运气在于寻找还是为三叶草所有，人们在这个问题上存在分歧。
Some believe that the luck is lost if the four-leaf clover is even shown to somebody else, while others think the luck doubles if it is given away.
有些人认为，如果展示四叶三叶草给他人看的话，运气就会消失。而其他人认为如果把它赠送给别人的话，运气会加倍。
I believe that positiv-ity is compounded by sharing. I feel lucky to find the clovers so often,
我认为分享的话，积极会增多。我感觉很幸运能经常发现四叶三叶草，
but I don't think they influence my life any more than it does to share anything a little special—that momentary close-ness
但是，我觉得它们不会影响我的生活，就像是当我和朋友或陌生人进行一次特别的分享时一样，
between you and a friend or a stranger, as you all lean in to wonder at a rare find.
我们都靠近去看一个特别的发现，由此产生一种瞬时的亲密，这也不会影响我的生活。
What is luck, anyway? Does it mean you can't take credit for the things that happen to you?
不过，运气到底是什么？这是否意味着你不能把发生在你身上的事情归功于自己？
Should I have kept all the clovers I found instead of giving them away? I believe that there is casual magic in everyday acts.
与其赠送给别人，我应该把我发现的所有的三叶草都保留起来吗？我认为在我们日常的行径中都存在着偶然的魔法。
It's lucky simply to know what it is to seek out and love a genetically deformed clover—to know how to treasure difference.
仅仅需要知道，寻找并且爱上一个基因转变的三叶草的目的是要让人珍视差异，这就是幸运。
Every time I see a patch of clover, I feel a compul-sion to search that cannot be satisfied until I hold a four-leaf clover in my hands. It's a sort of mania.
每当我看到一片生长有三叶草的土地时，我就有一种寻找四叶三叶草的冲动，在发现之前，我是不会满足的。我对这件事有一种狂热。
重点讲解
1.gather up 收集；概括
Gather up all the stuffed animals you can and turn a room into a zoo.
尽你所能地收集所有动物标本，将你的卧室开发成动物园。
2.in search of 寻找；搜寻
We started off at once in search of the missing child.
我们马上出发寻找那个失踪的孩子。
3.start with从…开始
You can start with one of them and add the others as you have time.
你现在就可以开始只用其中之一，如果你有时间的话，还可以加上其它的。
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