英语杂碎之朝花夕拾（5）

Breakfasting on the last day of stored Melba toast over the waste basket in my office , I find myself hearkening back to a time when I thought that wherever I was was where “it was at .”As an adult , I've come to see that where I am is where it is not , will never be ,and perhaps , never was .

今天是商店里免费供应梅尔巴吐司的最后一天了。当我在办公室的废纸篓边把它当早餐吃的时候，我的思绪回到以前。那时候我以为我身在何处，就真的是“身在彼处。”长大成人以后，我从才意识到，我身在何处，正是身不在彼处，以后也不会在，而且可能从来都没有在过。

（关键词：breakfast 名词当动词用）

The glasses make me look so good I consider taking up jai alai as an excuse to wear them .

我戴上这副眼镜这么好看，我都想学打回力球，以便有老戴它的借口了。

（关键词： jai alai 回力球）

They say that at forty , a man has earned his face .

他

人们说，男人四十，挣回颜值。

At my age now , being precocious would mean lying down in a coffin and awaiting interment .

按我现在的年龄算，早熟意味着盖棺待葬。

I've been feeling a little heart-attacky lately .

近来，我老觉得随时会心脏病爆发。

（关键词： heart-attacky 。 名词后面加了个y ， 便带上几分戏谑的味道。）