A Touching Farewell

一个感人的告别

Two old friends were out golfing.

两个老朋友出外打高尔夫球。

As they were preparing to tee off near a road,

当他们在一处路旁准备开球时，

a funeral cortege drove by and one of the two friendstook off his hat and held it over his heart until the line of cars had passed.

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，直到车队通过后才戴上帽子。

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

“你这样做实在很有礼貌，”他的同伴说道。

"Oh, it was the least I could do.

“喔，那只不过是我最起码所能做的事了。

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

毕竟，到下星期二我们结婚就满三十年了。