英语阅读/翻译之朝花夕拾（2）

1. I find him drinking from a coffee cup the size of a fire hydrant.

我发现他喝咖啡的杯子大如消防栓。

2. Forty slowly descends like a mid-November frost.

人生四十的降临，犹如11月中的寒霜。

3. His memory turned redheads into brunettes, French women into Spaniards. Awful women into saints.

他的记忆把红发女郎记成褐发女郎，把法国女郎当成西班牙女郎，把坏女人当成女圣人了。

4. You will be deeply loved for $250 an hour.

你每小时付费250元，就会被深深爱着的。

5. In the middle of the night, my dog awakens me with lavish licks to my shaved head like she's working away at a Tootsie Pop. What's even more unsettling is that the sensation is disturbingly tender and maternal.

半夜里，我的狗猛舔我刚剃光的脑门，好像是在舔一个棒棒糖，把我给舔醒了。更令人忐忑不安的是，那种感觉是那么带有母性的温柔，反让我心有戚戚焉。