及时获得最新的夜读节目，请关注微信公众号【良声英语】A letter to our daughter一封给我们女儿的信Dear August,亲爱的八月： Welcome to the world! Your mom and I are so excited to see who you will become.欢迎来到这个世界！我和你妈妈迫不及待地想要知道你会成长为一个怎样的人。 When your sister was born, we wrote a letter about the world we hoped she and now you will grow up in — a world with better education, fewer diseases, stronger communities, and greater equality.你姐姐出生的时候，我们给她写了一封信，告诉她我们希望她在怎样的一个世界里成长。现在，你也将要在这个我们希冀中的世界里成长。在这个世界里，教育更完善，疾病更少，社会更团结，也更公平。 We wrote that with all the advances in science and technology, your generation should live dramatically better lives than ours, and we have a responsibility to do our part to make that happen.我们写道，因为科学和技术的进步，你们这一代人的生活应当远远好于我们，我们有责任将这个愿景实现。 Even though headlines often focus on what’s wrong, we still believe these positive trends will win out. We’re optimists about your generation and the future.虽然人们经常关注负面消息，但我们仍相信进步的趋势会占上风。我们对你们这一代人、对未来都十分乐观。 But rather than write about growing up, we want to talk about childhood. The world can be a serious place. That’s why it’s important to make time to go outside and play.不过，相较于成长的话题，我们还是更想跟你说说童年。世界终究是个严肃的地方，所以抓紧时间出去玩耍很重要。 You will be busy when you’re older, so I hope you take time to smell all the flowers and put all the leaves you want in your bucket now.一旦长大，你就会变得很忙。所以我希望你能尽情地去嗅嗅所有的花朵，把你喜欢的叶子都放进小桶里。 I hope you read your favorite Dr. Seuss books so many times you start inventing your own stories about the Vipper of Vipp.我希望你能翻来覆去读你最爱的苏斯博士的书，直到你灵感涌动，开始创造自己关于Vipper of Vipp的故事。 ? 注：苏斯博士（Dr. Seuss），二十世纪卓越的儿童文学家、教育学家，一生创作了许多在西方家喻户晓的早教作品。Vipper of Vipp，是苏斯博士写的Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!一书中的角色。 I hope you ride the carousel with Max until you’ve tamed every color horse.我希望你跟Max（扎克伯格的大女儿，2015年11月出生）一起骑旋转木马，直到你们驯服每一匹彩色马为止。 I hope you run as many laps around our living room and yard as you want.我希望你可以在我们的客厅和后院里自由奔跑，想跑多少圈就跑多少圈。 And then I hope you take a lot of naps. I hope you’re a great sleeper.我还希望你能好好睡觉，我希望你是一个能睡的小姑娘。 And I hope even in your dreams you can feel how much we love you.我希望即使在梦里，你依然能感受到爸爸妈妈是多么爱你。 Childhood is magical. You only get to be a child once, so don’t spend it worrying too much about the future.童年时光充满魔力。你只有一次童年，别把它都花在担心未来上。 You’ve got us for that, and we’ll do everything we possibly can to make sure the world is a better place for you and all children in your generation.那些事情，留给爸爸妈妈，我们会竭尽所能地让这个世界变得更好，为了你，也为你们这一代的所有小朋友。 August, we love you so much and we’re so excited to go on this adventure with you. We wish you a life of joy, love and the same hope you give us.宝贝，爸爸妈妈非常爱你，我们满心激动地和你踏上这段探险旅程。祝愿你这一生欢喜、有爱，充满希望，如同你带给我们的一样。 Love,Mom and Dad爱你的，妈妈爸爸

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