Girls of summer 夏日女孩_美文_双语阅读-查字典英语网

Girls of summer 夏日女孩

We shaped our days the way we chose, far from theprying（爱打听的，窥探的）eyes of adults. We found our dad's Playboys and charged the neighborhood boys money to look at them. We madecrank（易怒的）calls around the county, telling people they had won a new car. "What kind?" they'd ask. "Red," we'd always say. We put on our mom's oldprom（舞会）dresses, complete with gloves and hats, and sang backup to the C.W. McCall song convoy, " which we'd found on our dad's turntable.

We went on hikes into the woods behind our house, crawling under barbed wire fences and through tangled undergrowth. Heat andhumidity（湿度，湿气）found their way throught he leaves to our flushed faces. We waded in streams that we were always surprised to come across. We walked past cars and auto parts that had beenabandoned（抛弃）in the woods, far from any road. We'd reach the tree line and come out unexpectedly into a cowpasture（牧场，牧草）. We'd perch on the gate or stretch out on the large flatlimes（边界，界限）tone outcrop that marked the end of the Woods Behind Our House.

One day a thunderstorm blew up along the Tennessee River. It was one of those storms that make the day go dark and the humidity disappear. First it was still and quiet. There was electricity in the air and then the sharpcrispness（易碎，酥脆）of a summer day being blown wide open as the winds rushed in. We threw open all the doors and windows. We found the classical radio station from two towns away and turned up the bass andcranked up（把声音调大，启动）the speakers. We let the wind blow in andchurn（搅动，搅拌）our summer day around. We let the music we were onlyvaguely（暧昧地，含糊地）familiar withroar（吼叫，咆哮）through the house. And wetwirled（转动，旋转）. We twirled in the living room in the wind and in the music. We twirled and we imagined that we were poets and dancers and scientists and spring brides.