2019年高考英语浙江卷 - 阅读理解A

Zachariah Fike has an unusual hobby. He finds old military medals for sale in antique stores and on the Internet. But unlike most collectors, Zac tracks down the medals’ rightful owners, and returns them.
撒迦利亚·菲克有一个不同寻常的爱好，他在古董店和互联网上寻找旧的军事勋章。但与大多数收藏家不同，扎克寻访勋章的合法主人，并归还给他们。

His effort to reunite families with lost medals began with a Christmas gift from his mother, a Purple Heart with the name Corrado A. G. Piccoli, found in an antique shop. Zac knows the meaning of a Purple Heart - he earned one himself in a war as a soldier. So when his mother gave him the medal, he knew right away what he had to do.
他寻找丢失的勋章与家人团聚的努力始于母亲的圣诞礼物，一枚在一家古董店发现，写有名字为科拉多·皮科利的紫心勋章。扎克知道紫心勋章的含义——他自己在一场战争中作为一名士兵赢得过紫心勋章。所以当母亲给他勋章时，他立刻知道他必须做些什么。

Through the Internet, Zac tracked down Corrado’s sister Adeline Rockko. But when he finally reached her, the woman flooded him with questions: “Who are you? What antique shop?” However, when she hung up, she regretted the way she had handled the call. So she called Zac back and apologized. Soon she drove to meet Zac in Watertown, N.Y. “At that point, I knew she meant business,” Zac says. “To drive eight hours to come to see me.”
通过互联网，扎克找到了科拉多的妹妹阿德琳·罗克科。但当他终于找到她时，那个女人问了他很多问题：“你是谁？什么古董店？”然而，当她挂断电话时，她后悔自己处理电话的方式，所以她打电话给扎克并道歉。不久，她开车去纽约沃特敦与扎克见面。扎克说：“那时，我知道她是认真的，开车八个小时来看我。”

The Piccolis grew up the children of Italian immigrants in Watertown. Corrado, a translator for the Army during WWII, was killed in action in Europe.
皮科利一家在沃特敦长大，是意大利移民的孩子。科拉多是二战期间军队的翻译，在欧洲战场上阵亡。

Before hearing from Zac, Adeline hadn’t realized the medal was missing. Like many military medals, the one Zac’s mother had found was a family treasure. “This medal was very precious to my parents. Only on special occasions would they take it out and let us hold it in our hands,” Adeline says.
在接到扎克的电话之前，阿德琳没有意识到勋章不见了。像许多军事勋章一样，扎克的母亲发现的勋章是一笔家庭财富。“这枚勋章对我父母来说非常珍贵，只有特殊场合他们才会拿出来，让我们拿在手里”，阿德琳说。

As a child, Adeline couldn’t understand why the medal was so significant. “But as I grew older,” Adeline says, “and missed my brother more and more, I realized that was the only thing we had left.” Corrado Piccoli’s Purple Heart medal now hangs at the Italian American Civic Association in Watertown.
作为一个孩子，阿德琳无法理解为什么勋章如此重要。“但随着年龄的增长，”阿德琳说，“我越来越想念我的哥哥，我意识到这是我们唯一剩下的东西。”科拉多·皮科利的紫心勋章现在悬挂在沃特敦的意大利美国公民协会。

Zac recently returned another lost medal to a family in Alabama. Since he first reunited Corrado’s medal, Zac says his record is now 5 for 5.
扎克最近把另一枚丢失的勋章还给了阿拉巴马州的一个家庭。扎克说，自从他第一次重新归还科拉多的勋章以来，他现在的纪录是为5枚勋章找到了主人。