2006年高考英语全国卷1 - 阅读理解D

Since my retirement from teaching music in 2001, I have spent a good deal of time painting as an artist. I actually began drawing again in the summer of 1995 when my father died, so perhaps I was trying to recover from the loss of my father, or maybe it was just that it brought back memories of him. In any case, I drew pen and ink animals and landscapes much influenced by Krenkel and St. John for five years.
自从我2001年从音乐教学岗位退休后，我作为一名画家花了很多时间画画。实际上，我在1995年夏天我父亲去世时，我就再次开始画画，所以也许我是想从父亲的去世的悲伤中恢复，或者也许只是因为这让我想起了父亲。无论如何，我用钢笔画了五年的动物和风景画，深受克伦克尔和圣约翰的影响。

For some strange reason, I had been waiting until my retirement to start doing watercolors again, but as soon as I walked out of the school door for the last time I picked up my brushes and rediscovered Andrew Wyeth, who quickly became my favorite artist. I had looked through all the art books I had on my shelves and found his watercolors to be the closest to how I thought good watercolors should look. So I painted landscapes around Minnesota for three years and tried out many other types of painting. However, watercolors remained my first choice, and I think I did my best work there, showing my painting at a number of art exhibitions.
因为某些奇怪的理由，我一直等到退休后才开始重新画水彩画，但当我最后一次走出校门时，拿起画笔，我重新发现了安德鲁·怀斯，他很快成为我最喜欢的画家。我翻阅了书架上所有的绘画书籍，发现他的水彩画最接近我理想中好的水彩画。所以我在明尼苏达州画了三年风景画，并尝试了许多其他类型的绘画。然而，水彩画仍然是我的首选，我认为我画水彩画最好，在一些画展上展示了我的绘画作品。

Art is now together with my piano playing and reading. There is a time for everything in my world, and it is wonderful to have some time doing what I want to do. As Confucius once said, "At seventy I can follow my heart's desire."
现在绘画将我的钢琴演奏和阅读连接在一起。在我的世界里，每件事都有一个期限，能有时间做我想做的事是很美妙的。正如孔子所云：“七十而从心所欲”。