A Touching Farewell

两个老朋友出外打高尔夫球，

Two old friends were out golfing.

当他们在一处路旁准备开球时，

As they were'preparing to tee off near a road,

一列出殡送葬车队恰巧经过那里，其中一位朋友脱去帽子放在胸前，

a funeral cortege drove by and one of the two friends took off his hat and

直到车队通过后才戴上帽子。

held it over his heart until the line of cars had passed.

“你这样做实在很有礼貌，”他的同伴说道。

"Well, that was good manners on your part," said his partner.

“喔，那只不过是我最起码所能做的事了。

"Oh, it was the least I could do.

毕竟，到下星期二我们结婚就满三十年了。

After all we would have been married thirty years next Tuesday. "