Jessica’s Class Reunion1

杰西卡的班级聚会

Jessica is 35 years old.杰西卡35岁

She graduated from middle school 20 years ago.她20年前中学毕业年的同学会。

This year her middle school class had its 20-year class reunion.今年，她所在的中学班级举行了20年的同学会。

All of her classmates and teachers were invited to attend.她所有的同学和老师都被邀请参加。

It was going to be at a hotel near where their school used to be.那将是在他们学校以前住的地方附近的一家旅馆里。

Like many other buildings, the school had been torn down.和许多其他建筑物一样，这所学校也被拆毁了。。

It had been replaced by some apartment buildings.它被一些公寓楼所取代。

How many years ago did she graduate? 20 years ago她几年前毕业的?20年前

Where was the reunion going to be held? at a hotel聚会将在哪里举行?在一家旅馆

What happened to the school? it was torn down学校怎么了?它被拆掉了

At first she wasn't sure if she could go to the reunion.起初她不确定是否能去参加聚会。

One reason was that there wasn't anyone in particular that she wanted to see.其中一个原因是，她并没有特别想要见的人。

Another reason was that she was very busy.另一个原因是她很忙。

She was a working mother, with a boy 8 years old and a husband who was rarely at home.她是一位职业母亲，有一个8岁的男孩和一个很少在家的丈夫。

Going to the reunion meant that she would have to arrangefor someone to take care of things while she was away.去参加聚会意味着她必须安排一个人在她不在的时候处理事情。

That wouldn't be easy.这并不容易。

She didn't want to take her boy with her, and her husband wouldn't take time off from work.她不想带她的儿子一起去，她的丈夫也不愿请假。

It wasn't going to be easy to find someoneto take care of things while she was away.她不在的时候，要找个人来照料事情可不容易。

Who did she want to see at the reunion?There wasn't anyone.她想在聚会上见到谁?没有任何人。

Thenshe got a message from Sharon, one of her old classmates.然后她从她的一个老同学莎伦那里得到了一个消息。

Sharon was contacting people from their class and urging everyone to come.莎伦正在联系他们班的同学，催促大家都来。

In their school days, Sharon was class monitor, and now she was helping to organize the reunion.在他们上学的时候，莎伦是班长，现在她帮助组织同学聚会。

Sharon was urgingeveryone to come to the reunion.莎伦鼓励大家都来参加聚会。

They exchanged messages, and Jessica said she couldn't make it.他们交换了信息，杰西卡说她去不了了。

Then Sharon gave her a call and they talked for almost an hour.然后沙伦给她打了一个电话，他们谈了将近一个小时。

Sharon really wanted her to come, and so did a couple of Jessica's old friends.莎伦真想让她来，杰西卡的几个老朋友也想让她来。

They were all wondering how she was doing.他们都想知道她过得怎么样。

None of them had seen or heard from her since graduation.自从毕业以来，他们谁也没有见过她，也没有收到过她的信。

They were especially curious since she hadn't gone to their first reunion 10 years before.他们特别好奇，因为她10年前没有参加他们的第一次聚会。

Why would people curious about Jessica?Nobody had heard from her.为什么人们会对杰西卡好奇呢?没有人收到她的信。

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Jessica decided to arrange things so that she could go.杰西卡决定把事情安排妥当，这样她就能去了

Her husband finally agreed to take care of things while she was away.她丈夫终于同意在她不在时照顾她。

He agreed to do it because her mother had offered to come and stay for a while so Jessica could attend the reunion.他同意做这件事，因为她母亲提出要来住一段时间，这样杰西卡就可以参加聚会了。

Since he and her mother didn't get along, he decided to change his schedule and work from home for a few days.由于他和她母亲相处不好，他决定改变他的时间表，在家工作几天。

He really didn't want her mother to come, though he didn't say so.他真的不想让她妈妈来，尽管他没有这么说。

Her husband didn't want her mother to come becausethey don't get along.她丈夫不想让她母亲来，因为他们相处不好。

Once she got to the reunion, she was shocked.一到聚会现场，她就惊呆了。

Everyone had aged so much, and many were out of shape.每个人都变老了，很多人都走样了。

Some who used to be good-looking had lost their looks completely and others looked much better than before.一些曾经很好看的人已经完全失去了他们的容貌，其他人看起来比以前好多了。

It wasstrangehow timehadchanged people insuchdifferentways.奇怪的是，时间以如此不同的方式改变了人们。

Anyway, she decided that since she was there, she would try to enjoy it.无论如何，她决定既然她在那里，她会尽量享受它。

Why would she shocked when she got to the reunion? everyone had aged so much当她去参加聚会时，为什么会感到震惊呢?每个人都变老了