内容简介

  《文月华的中国日记》一书主要讲述了玛丽与她丈夫吉姆在中国生活的种种经历。玛丽 奥斯汀 恩迪科特是加拿大籍作者。在日记中，玛丽曾回忆道：我们能在一起，真是命中注定。因为两人价值观、人生观的一致，他们在一次偶然的相见后一见钟情。尽管他们的爱情历尽风雨，但两人最终步入婚姻的殿堂。因吉姆从小在中国长大，在他的脑海中，中国有着渊远流长的文化。他希望能够追随父亲的脚步，与玛丽一块回到中国。令人高兴的是，玛丽同意了吉姆的要求。在玛丽心里，与吉姆同去中国对自己是一种挑战，为了爱，她愿意奋力一搏。1925年，玛丽来到了上海。在长江上历经千辛万苦，又从上海来到了重庆，从此两人便在重庆住下。他们在中国居住了近40年，在这40年里，玛丽对自己，对丈夫，对孩子以及对家庭都有了深深的理解。

本次选取了该书中的九、十、十一和十二四个章节进行翻译。第九章，主要讲述玛丽在短暂的回国后，又重返重庆。这对于她来说无疑是一场灾难。与在加拿大的稳定生活相比，1928年的中国仍处于动乱的年代。当时中国的封建思想占中国主流社会思想，这使得玛丽对中国望而却步，甚至连中文也不想学了。但是令她欣慰的是，在中国，还有一个值得她思念牵挂的人，那就是她的丈夫吉姆。在才返回中国的这四个月里，家庭的居住环境，孩子的成长问题一直困扰着玛丽。为了家人的健康生活，她拼尽全力，寻找舒适的居住环境。终于功夫不负有心人，她找到了。那就是她口中的金色山谷。

第十章，主要讲述玛丽一家在金色山谷的生活点滴。在这里，玛丽一家迎来了两位新的成员——雪莉和菲利普。六口之家在金色山谷里其乐融融的生活着。在平凡生活的外衣下，玛丽也是有苦恼的。比如说对丈夫吉姆经常不在家不能照顾自己和孩子的苦恼。生活就像是盒子里巧克力的糖，总是掺杂着忧与乐。玛丽与吉姆一块工作的时光总是令她欢喜。

第十一章，主要讲述了玛丽一家在长江上与死神的搏斗。1963年，玛丽与丈夫吉姆准备回加拿大开始为期一年的休假。但是在回国的途中，他们乘坐的船只在长江是遇到了船难。在狭窄的河道中，棕色的波浪就像是一只发狂的猛兽。面对即将到来的危险，玛丽一家心怀坚定的信念，不畏危险。最终，他们成功了。

第十二章，主要讲述了玛丽回到加拿大后的生活。在加拿大经济萧条时期，玛丽回家了。尽管联合教会的资金补助被削减了一半，但是他们提供音乐学院的免费课程。玛丽由此抓住了丰富自己精神世界的机会。1934年的复活节，玛丽参加了牛津组织运动。由此她对自己信奉的上帝又有了一个深刻的认识。在某种程度上，玛丽对神的反思与理解反而提高了她的生活。

INTRODUCTION

China Diary---The Life of Mary Austin Endicott, which focuses on Mary and her husband’s living experience in China. Mary Austin Endicott was a writer who came from Canada. In the dairy, Mary recalled it was the destiny that brought them together. Due to the same values and the same view of life, they fell in love at their first glance. Although their love were stormy at times, they got married eventually. Because Jim was raised by his father in China, he had a special emotion toward China. In his childhood dream, China was a nation with a long history. Moreover, in order to follow his father’s footstep, Jim hope Mary could come to China with him. Delightedly, Mary accepted Jim’s requirement. In her mind, living with Jim in China was a challenge to herself. However, she was willing to face the challenge for their love. In 1925, Mary came to Shanghai, China. And then, she overcame the difficulties in Yangtze Rive to get to Chungking. Later on, she and Jim settled down in Chungking. They lived in Chungking nearly 40 years. In the past40 years, Mary had a deep understanding of herself, her husband, and her children .

This practice chooses four chapters to translate. In chapter 9, Mary came back to Chungking. However, it was a disaster for her back to Chungking. Compared with the peaceful life in Canada, China was still in a chaotic state in 1928. At that time, the mainstream thought of China was the feudalistic ideas. Mary was rather dreadful at some of the restrictions of life in China. Moreover, she even wanted to give up learning Chinese. In China, there was a person who cares about her. It was Jim. Upon Mary’s back to Chungking, the living environment and the growth of children had been haunting her for a long time. For the sake of family health, she tried her best to find the comfortable living environment. Finally, she made it.

The tenth chapter mainly talked about the life of Mary’s family in Golden Valley. There were two new members joining in their family, Shirley and Philip. The six members of family lived happily here. However, under the cloak of ordinary life, Mary was still worried by some annoyances that occurred in life. For example, Mary always felt upset for Jim could not take care of children with her at home. Life is like a box of chocolates, always mixed with sorrow and joy. When Mary worked with Jim, she always felt happy. 

In chapter eleven, the writer mainly talked about the story of their struggling with death on the Yangtze River. In 1963, Mary and Jim prepared to go back to Canada and planned to have a vacation there. But on the way home, their ship ran into a shipwreck. In the narrow channel, the brown waves were swinging violently as a crazy beast. Faced with the imminent danger, they believed they could defeat it. In the end, they succeeded. 

The twelfth chapter mainly told us the life of Mary in Canada. During the recession of world, Mary arrived home. Although some allowance of the United Church missionaries had been cut half, they provided free lessons at Conservatory of Music for them. Mary could catch this opportunity to enrich her inner world. In fact, she indeed got some useful reflections about her life. At Easter 1934, she took part in a movement called Oxford Group. In this group, she had a deep understanding to the God she believed. To an extent, the reflection and understanding of the God in Mary’s mind did improve her life.