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Saving Garbage “保存”垃圾
How much trash does one person produce in a week? How about in a year? Brennan Bird, 23, decided to find out. In 2010, as a student at the University of California, Davis, he saved all of his non-biodegradablegarbage for an entire year—in his room.
Watching more than 200 pounds of bottles, cans, and other trash pile up led him to make some big lifestyle changes. "It really made me face the impact of my daily decisions," Brennan says.
一个人一周会产生多少垃圾？一年又是多少呢？23岁的布伦南·伯德决心找出答案。2010年，在加利福尼亚大学戴维斯分校上学的布伦南把自己一整年里产生的所有不能生物降解的垃圾全部保存了下来——放在自己的房间里。
看着两百多磅的瓶瓶罐罐和其他垃圾日渐堆积起来，这让布伦南在生活方式上做出了一些重大改变。他说：“这件事确实使我开始正视自己的日常决定所带来的影响。”
He now carries a reusable cup everywhere for drinks and cloth bags for buying fruits and vegetables. He buys foods like cereal and rice in bulkat a food co-op, filling his own containers.
"If we change the way we live, it can have a profound effect on the world," Brennan says.
Brennan also experiments with other ways to reuse trash—such as building a bench using "bricks" made of discardedplastic bottles.
"I'll never look at trash the same way again," Brennan says.
他现在走到哪里都带着可重复使用的水杯来喝水，买水果和蔬菜时也随身带着布制的购物袋。他在食品合作社购买散装的大米、谷类等食品，并用自带的容器盛装。“如果我们改变自己的生活方式，就会为世界带来意义深远的影响。”布伦南说。
布伦南还试着通过其他方式使垃圾得到再利用，比如用丢弃的塑料瓶做成的“砖块”做一张长椅。“我不会再用老眼光看待垃圾了。”布伦南说。
Green Machines 绿色校车
There are almost half a million school buses on U.S. roads. Can the air pollution they emit be cut?
Jonny Cohen is working on it. A sophomore from Highland Park High School in Highland Park, Illinois, he is the inventor of Green-Shields. One of these thin, clear plexiglassshields, placed over the front of a bus, makes the vehicle more aerodynamic, Jonny says. This means the bus will burn less fuel and emit fewer gas fumes into the air—up to 20 percent less, Jonny found in a recent test.
美国的公路上行驶着近五十万辆校车。我们能不能减少这些校车造成的空气污染呢？
乔尼·科恩正在为此而努力。乔尼来自伊利诺伊州海兰帕克，是海兰帕克中学的一名高二学生。他发明了一种叫做“绿盾”的装置。乔尼说，在校车前方安装一片这种薄而透明的普列克斯玻璃挡板，可以提升校车的空气动力学性能(编者注：即减少空气阻力)。这就意味着校车的油耗将会降低，尾气排放也会减少。乔尼在最近的一次实验中发现，这种装置可使上述两项指标减少20%之多。
So far, Jonny, 15, has received, in total, $26,000 in grants from Youth Ventureand the Pepsi Refresh Projectto help him develop his idea. He was a finalist for the 2011 Prudential Spirit of Community Awardas well.
With the help of a team of volunteers, Jonny hopes to finish the prototype of his shield this summer. He is working with the Illinois Department of Transportation to get GreenShields approved for use on school buses.
To other young people with ideas he says, "You really have to stand up and be the change. You can't wait for it to happen."
迄今为止，15岁的乔尼已经收到了来自“青少年创业基金”和“百事焕新项目”共计2.6万美元的资助，帮助他推进自己的设想。他同时还是2011年“保德信青少年志工菁英奖”的最终候选人。
在一队志愿者的帮助下，乔尼希望能在今年(编者注：指2011年)夏天完成绿盾样品的制作。他正在和伊利诺伊州的交通部门合作，争取获得许可，将绿盾应用于校车上。(编者注：本文写于2011年4月，乔尼与其团队于2012年1月制成了绿盾样品。)
对于其他有想法的年轻人，乔尼说：“你必须挺身而出，做出改变，不能坐等变化自己发生。”
A City Garden 城市园圃
In 2007, gardens were hard to come by on the East Side of San Antonio, Texas. So were places to get fresh, organic fruits and vegetables.
Diana Lopez and other community members decided to change that. They started by converting an abandoned lot filled with trash into a vibrantorganic garden full of produce.
2007年，得克萨斯州圣安东尼奥的东部地区几乎没有什么果蔬园，那里也很少有地方能买到新鲜的有机蔬菜和水果。
戴安娜·洛佩斯和社区里的其他居民决心改变这一状况。他们开始动手将一片满是垃圾的荒地改造成一处生机盎然、农产丰富的有机园圃。
"It took a lot of research on my part," says Diana, 22, who is employed by the Southwest Workers Union, an organization of low-income workers and families in San Antonio.
She had to learn how to tillsoil and choose the plants and foods that would grow best in the garden.“我为此做了很多研究工作。”现年22岁的戴安娜说。她是圣安东尼奥市西南工会的工作人员，该工会是一个由低收入工人及家庭形成的组织。
她必须学习如何耕地以及如何挑选出最适合在这个园圃生长的作物。
Today the project has expanded to cover four lots, growing a host of fruits and vegetables. It also teaches young people about gardening and nature. "It's important to get your clothes and your hands dirty," Diana says. "It's all for good, to revitalize our Mother Earth."
如今，这个项目的规模已经扩大到了四块地，种植有许多水果和蔬菜。这个项目还教会年轻人许多关于园艺和大自然的知识。“亲身参与实践活动非常重要，”戴安娜说，“这是件好事，是为了让我们的地球母亲重新充满活力。”
Reducing E-Waste 减少电子垃圾
One day, Sachin Rudraraju, 16, noticed two old computers left out beside a trash can in his Powell, Ohio, neighborhood.
"That's where I saw the problem," says the junior at Olentangy Liberty High School—the problem of how to dispose ofold electronics.
一天，俄亥俄州鲍威尔的一名16岁少年萨钦·鲁德拉拉朱发现，有两台旧电脑被扔在自家附近的一个垃圾桶旁边。“正是那一幕让我意识到了这个问题。”这名来自奥伦坦吉自由中学的高三学生表示。他指的是如何处理废旧电器的问题。
Americans got rid of about 2.3 million tons of computers and other electronics in 2007, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Only 18 percent of it was recycled. Most of the rest went to landfills, where toxinssuch as mercuryand lead can leak out into the water and air.
据美国国家环境保护局统计，美国人在2007年淘汰了约230万吨的电脑和其他电器，其中仅有18%被回收利用。其余的绝大多数都被送往垃圾填埋场，而这些垃圾中所含的汞和铅等毒素会渗入水和空气当中。
In 2008, Sachin founded the Community Recycling Campaign. He and other volunteers have gone door-to-door educating people about recycling electronics. The group has also collected hundreds of computers and computer products—refurbishingwhat they can and properly recycling the rest.
"I think the campaign inspired people," says Sachin, who was also a Prudential Spirit of Community Award finalist. "People understand that it's an important cause."
2008年，萨钦发起了社区回收运动。他和其他的志愿者挨家挨户上门普及回收处理电器的知识。他们还收集了数百台电脑和电脑配件，把其中自己可以修好的修整一新，并将其余的做了适当的回收处理。“我认为这场运动把大家都发动起来了，”萨钦说，“人们认识到这是一项重要的使命。”萨钦同样是“保德信青少年志工菁英奖”的最终候选人。
Lobbyingfor Change 游说政府做出改变
In Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, where Freya Chay lives, renewable energy like wind and solar power is an important topic.
"In Alaska, we have a really big oil and natural gas industry," says the 16-year-old sophomore at Kenai Central High School. But oil and gas pollute the air and water, and there is a limited amount of both, Freya notes. "For me, alternative energy is a way we can get energy without hurting the environment."
在弗雷亚·蔡伊的家乡阿拉斯加州的基奈半岛，风能和太阳能等可再生能源是当地人的一个重要话题。“阿拉斯加有规模巨大的石油和天然气工业。”这名基奈中心中学16岁的高二学生说。但是，弗雷亚认识到石油和天然气会污染水和空气，而且二者的储量也都有限。“在我看来，替代能源既可以使我们获得能源，又不会危害环境。”
Starting with her hometown and working her way to the state capital of Juneau, Freya lobbied officials to pass a state law that encourages the use of alternative energy systems in homes. The law exemptssome homeowners who install such systems from higher property taxes. This accomplishment won her a 2010 Brower Youth Award for environmental activism.
弗雷亚从她的家乡一路游说到州首府朱诺，希望政府官员们通过一项州法令，鼓励各家各户使用替代能源装置。根据这项法令，一些已安装替代能源装置的家庭可免除较高的房地产税。这一成就使弗雷亚在2010年获得了为环保积极分子设立的“布劳尔青年奖”。
But Freya is still at work, convincing municipalitiesto enact the law. "It's still a process," she says. "But I feel like [the outcome] is pretty promising."
但是弗雷亚仍在继续努力说服市政当局颁行这项法令。“事情还在进行中，”她说，“不过我觉得(结果)很令人期待。”Teenage Inventors That Changed the World改变世界的少年发明家◎ By Robert Evans & Mohammed Shariff 译 / 辛献云
小小少年，创意无限：他们无心的涂鸦可以变成家喻户晓的动画形象；他们随意的刮擦可以变成风靡全球的hip-hop打碟音乐；他们为了精进功课，可以设计出美国国旗上的最新图案；他们为了克服自身障碍，可以发明出方便盲人阅读的盲人点字法。他们，就是改变世界的少年发明家。
Superman Was Invented by High School Kids
中学生发明超人
Every elementary school kid has doodleda superhero on the back of a notebook at some point. But we're guessing your sloppydepiction of "Butt Man" didn't make you a millionaire and change pop culture forever. That is, however, what happened when a young Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel first conceivedthe Man of Steel in high school.
每个小学生都曾有过在某个时刻在笔记本背面涂画一个超级英雄的经历。但是，我们猜你随手涂画出的“肌肉男”并没有让你成为百万富翁，也没有永远改变流行文化。但这种事却实实在在地发生在了年轻的乔·舒斯特和杰里·西格尔身上——他们在中学时就构想出了“钢铁超人”的形象。
Their design would wind upbeing the templatefor pretty much every superhero that would come later. As teenagers, Siegel and Shuster self-published their crude comic in a fanzine. The first fictional superman was a creepy, sort-of evil mentalist who probably menacedrenamed replicas of local bullies. After the Nazis went and soured the world on the whole concept of a "superman", Siegel and Shuster reinvented him as the captain of truth and justice.
Finding it difficult to track down anyone who had a serious interest in the character and style, it took an almost unbelievable three more years for the granddaddy of all superheroes to find an independent publisher.
他们的设计可以说成为后来几乎每一位超级英雄的模板。还是少年时，西格尔和舒斯特就在一份爱好者杂志上自费出版了他们青涩的漫画作品。首位虚构的超人是一位有点邪恶、令人望而生畏的人，具有心灵感应能力，对手大概是改名换姓的地方恶霸一类的人。在纳粹分子出现将世人心目中对于“超人”的整体概念搞臭以后，(身为犹太人的)西格尔和舒斯特又重新创作了超人的形象，使其成为真理和正义的化身。
然而，他们却发现很难找到一个对这一人物和绘画风格真正感兴趣的人。说起来有点令人难以置信，这些超级英雄的缔造者花了几乎三年多时间才找到一个独立出版商。
By the way, there is an almost Batman-esque element to Jerry Siegel's story. Siegel was a hugely unpopular proto-nerd, and his only solacecame from seeking the elusive approval of his successful father. His father was mysteriously murdered while Jerry was still a kid, thus motivating him to dedicate his life to fighting crime. Since he didn't have billions of dollars or serious mental problems, he used comics instead of batarangs.
顺便说一下，杰里·西格尔的故事包含了一种和蝙蝠侠类似的元素。西格尔是一个特别不受欢迎的头号书呆子，他唯一的安慰来自于从成功的父亲那里得到隐晦的赞赏。在西格尔还是个孩子的时候，他父亲就被神秘地谋杀了，这件事促使他决定毕生都要打击犯罪。然而，他既没有万贯家财，也没有严重的精神疾病，因此他选择了用漫画而不是蝙蝠侠飞镖来战斗。
A 15-Year-Old Invented Braille
15岁的盲文发明家
At the age of 3, little Louis Braille cut his eye screwing around with daddy's tools and ended up blind from a horrible infection. Since this was the 1800s, his options for treatment included "sucking it up" and "dying of syphilislike everyone else". Fortunately, Louis was born in France, host to the only school for blind kids on earth. He earned a scholarship at age 10, but there was only so much he could learn by listening to lectures. If little Louis wanted to read Charles Dickens books one day, he'd have to invent his own system of writing.
3岁时，小路易·布拉耶在摆弄父亲的工具时割伤了眼睛，最终因感染严重而失明。因为那时还处于19世纪，他可选择的治疗方案包括“默默忍受”以及“像其他人一样染上梅毒死去”。幸运的是，路易生在法国，那里有世上唯一一所盲人学校。10岁时，他获得了一笔奖学金，但靠“听”课来学习，所学十分有限。如果小路易有一天想要阅读查尔斯·狄更斯的作品，他就必须发明一种自己的书写方法才行。
No biggie.
Louis was inspired by a French army captain, one Charles Barbier de la Serre. He'd developed an eyes-free system of writing for French soldiers to use during times of utmost sneakiness. His system, Sonography, didn't work very well, but it inspired preteen Louis to dedicate three years toward making it look like a bitch. By age 15 he'd invented modern Braille—an entire alphabetthat you can read by running your finger across it.
这没什么大不了。
路易受到了一位法国陆军上尉的启发，那位上尉名叫查尔斯·巴尔比耶·德拉塞尔，他为法国士兵发明了一种不用眼睛阅读的书写方法，可以在极端隐秘的情况下使用。这种“超声识别法”并不十分好用，但却给年幼的路易带来了启发，他花了三年时间来改进这一方法。15岁时，他已发明了现代布拉耶盲文——一整套可用指尖阅读的字母表。
The Inventors of Hip-Hop Were Age 17 and 12
17岁和12岁的嘻哈舞发明者
Obviously no one person sat down and just invented hip-hop out of the blue. It evolved over time and has many fathers. But two of the most prominentfathers were a couple of kids.
It was the early 1970s. A 17-year-old named Clive Campbell had just emigrated from Jamaica, and boy did he love music and partying. He became known as DJ Kool Herc and proceeded to put on some of the first block parties.
当然，嘻哈舞并不是什么人往那儿一坐就突然发明的，它是长期发展演变的结果。可称为“嘻哈舞之父”的人很多，但最为突出的两位是两个孩子。
20世纪70年代初，一位名叫克莱夫·坎贝尔的17岁少年刚从牙买加移民到美国，这孩子对音乐和派对特别着迷。后来他闯出了名气，被称作“DJ酷海格”(译者注：Herc指希腊神话中的大力神Hercules)，进而开始举办一些最早的街区派对。
Herc noticed how anxious the people at the parties got waiting for the beat to start so that they could start dancing. So he decided to play with their impatient asses by playing the beat from a song, and then fading in a beat from another song, and then fading to another beat, creating an on-the-fly mix of nothing but beats. He also had a unique vocal style of calling out in his microphone to the attendees in rhymes such as "B-boys, B-girls, are you ready? Keep on rock steady," and "This is the joint! Herc beat on the point," inadvertentlylaying the basis for what would become rap.
海格发现参加派对的人都特别期待歌曲中高潮节奏的出现，以随之狂舞。于是他决定要让这些急性子的家伙过过瘾，先播放一首歌曲中的高潮节奏，然后再接上另一首歌曲中的高潮节奏，然后再接上另一首的，这样将一首首歌曲中的高潮部分拼接起来，达到一种连环不断的效果。他还运用一种独特的语音风格，通过话筒有节奏地向参加派对的人狂呼诸如“喜欢街舞的帅哥、美女们，你们准备好了吗？尽情地嗨吧”或“这里是夜总会，跟着海格的节奏”之类的话，无意之中就为后来的说唱音乐奠定了基础。
Soon, the DJ had his own pupils known as the first MCs, who spread hip-hop throughout the Northeast. One of these pupils, Grand Wizard Theodore, claims that once when he was in his basement messing around with his turntable, his mom came down and started yelling at him. Trying to stop the record by pushing it down, Theodore accidentally abruptly slowed the disc and so heard the first scratch.
很快，DJ酷海格就有了他自己的学生，即我们所知的最早的娱乐主持，他们将嘻哈音乐传遍了整个美国东北部。这些学生中有一位名叫“大巫师西奥多”。他说有一次他正在地下室捣鼓唱机转盘，突然他的妈妈走了进来，大声呵斥他。西奥多赶忙把唱片往下压，想让它停下来，却意外地令唱片的转速骤然减慢了，于是他第一次听到了那种刮擦的声音。
Promptly ignoring his mother, he did it over and over, trying to perfect the sound. And that was that—record scratching became a thing, and later would appear on the first really successful hip-hop track ever, Herbie Hancock's "Rockit". Oh, and if Grand Wizard Theodore sounds like a ridiculous name for a cutting-edge musician, he has an excuse: He was 12 years old at the time.
他马上不再搭理他妈妈，而是一遍又一遍地重复刚才的那个动作，想要把那种刮擦声变得完美。事情的经过就是这样。唱片刮擦的声音成了时尚，后来还出现在第一张真正成功的嘻哈唱片——赫比·汉考克的《摇滚风暴》中。噢，如果说大巫师西奥多这个名字对于一位前沿音乐家来说有点古怪，那么他则有起怪名字的理由：他当时只有12岁。
A 17-Year-Old Designed the 50-Star American Flag
17岁少年设计了带50颗星的美国国旗
Most Americans have grown up hearing that the first American flag was designed and sewn by America's Grandma, Betsy Ross. But now, even that much is being debated, and as the nation's most bored historians argue over who sewed the first flag, they're ignoring who made the most recent one.
After all, it's not like we're still using that design anyway. Each little hunk of land America seized or bought eventually got declared a state, and each time, the flag had to change, because frankly, at that point putting stars on a flag was the only way to keep track of all the new states.
在大多数美国人的成长过程中，都会听到美国老奶奶贝齐·罗斯设计并缝制第一面美国国旗的故事。但现在，即使这样一个广为人知的故事也饱受争议，而且，当美国最无聊的历史学家们就谁缝制了第一面美国国旗这个问题争论不休时，他们却根本不管谁制作了最新版的美国国旗。
毕竟，美国现如今已经不再使用最早的那款国旗了。美国占领或者购买的每一块土地最终都会变成一个州，而每增加一个州，美国国旗就得变一次，因为，坦白地说，那时记录所有新州加入的唯一方式就是往国旗上加星星。
In 1959, the United States added Alaska and Hawaii as its newest states, and when that happened Congress turned designing the next flag into a nationwide cut-throatcontest. Fifty stars had to be crammed onto that flag somehow, in a manner that didn't look completely stupid.
在俄亥俄州的兰开斯特市，17岁的罗伯特·赫夫特用了好几个小时做成了一面新的美国国旗，作为历史作业交了上去，结果却只得到了B-的成绩。对我们大多数人来说，这个成绩应该还算过得去。但赫夫特觉得他理应得到更高的分数，因为他用妈妈的缝纫机缝制这面国旗累得简直要吐血了。他找到老师，老师却问他敢不敢把它交给美国国会，还说要是这面旗子能被选为新国旗，他就能得A。
In Lancaster, Ohio, 17-year-old Robert Heft had put hours of effort into a new U.S. flag for his history project, only to receive a B-. To most of us, that's pretty decent. But Heft had just worked his ass off toiling on his mother's sewing machine, and thought he deserved more. He approached his teacher, who dared him to submit it to Congress, and said if it were selected as the new flag he would get his A.
Heft was going up against 1500 other designs by accomplished artists all over the country. And like the end of a lifetime movie, he actually won. President Eisenhower liked Heft's flag better than all the rest.
The experience led Heft to successes such as becoming the mayor of Napoleon, Ohio, and traveling around the world for decades as a motivational speaker.
1959年，美国增加了阿拉斯加和夏威夷两个新州，在这种情况下，美国国会就将设计新国旗的任务变成了一次全国性的激烈竞赛。大赛要求把50颗星星全都挤到一面旗子上，而又要看起来一点儿也不愚蠢。
赫夫特当时面对的是其他1500多件设计，它们出自全国各地成绩斐然的艺术家之手。正如名人传记电影常有的那种结局一样，赫夫特真的胜出了。艾森豪威尔总统认为在所有的设计中，赫夫特的国旗设计得最棒。
这一经历给赫夫特带来了一系列的成功，诸如当选俄亥俄州拿破仑市的市长，以及周游世界几十年，做励志演讲。☆女王亦凡人Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ：the Woman Behing the Role伊丽莎白二世：英国女王的多面人生◎ By Jennie Bond译 / 韩丽芳
她是15个英联邦国家的国家元首，她拥有至高无上的权力，她受人爱戴和敬仰，她就是现任英国女王——伊丽莎白二世。作为女王，她威严而又庄重，而卸下女王这个身份时，她又是怎样的呢？
This year Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Diamond Jubilee. The following reveals the woman behind the pomp and circumstance.
女王伊丽莎白二世在今年迎来了她即位60周年的钻石庆典。下文揭示了恢宏盛典背后女王的多面人生。
Daughter
作为女儿
There was always something rather charming about the way the Queen addressed her elderly mother. "Look, Mummy!" I remember her once saying as she and the Queen Mother walked towards me at a Buckingham Palace reception. I was standing with ITV'sroyal reporter at the time, Nick Owen. "Mummy!" the Queen repeated. "You know those two. They're always on television. Let's go and have a chat." There's no doubt that Elizabeth adored her mother—and indeed her father, whose sudden death saw her accedeto the throne, aged just 25. And they adored her, too. As a child, she'd enjoyed a happy family life with her parents, then the Duke and Duchess of York, and her sister, Margaret. There was no thought at that time, of Elizabeth becoming Queen. Her Uncle Edward was in line for the throne and no-one foresaw his abdication. Her destiny changed when she was just ten years old and she watched her parents take on roles they had never wanted, as King and Queen. As she grew up, she learned from them and even in her 70s, the Queen would call "Mummy" every day for a chat and, perhaps, a word of advice.
女王总是用一种很可爱的方式称呼她那上了年纪的母亲。我记得有一次在白金汉宫接待会上，她边叫着“看，妈咪！”，边和她的母后朝我走过来。当时我和英国独立电视台的皇家记者尼克·欧文站在一起。“妈咪！”女王又叫道，“您知道他们俩吧，他们经常上电视，我们去和他们聊聊天吧。”毫无疑问，伊丽莎白深爱着她的母亲，当然还有她的父亲，正是他的突然离世使她年仅25岁就继承了王位。而他们也喜欢这个女儿。孩提时，她和父亲母亲(当时的约克公爵和公爵夫人)还有妹妹玛格丽特过着幸福快乐的家庭生活。那时没有人会想到伊丽莎白会成为女王。她的伯父爱德华八世是当时的王位继承者，没有人预料到他会自动退位。就在伊丽莎白10岁那年，她看着父母成为国王和王后，接受他们从未想要的身份，她的命运也随之改变。在她成长的过程中，她向父母学习，即便到了70多岁，她还是会每天给“妈咪”打电话，和“妈咪”聊聊天或是向“妈咪”讨教问题。
Sister
作为姐姐
Elizabeth and Margaret were very different characters: Elizabeth was rather serious and almost crazily tidy; Margaret was extrovertand headstrong. But they remained close as sisters through thick and thin. As children, they depended on one another a great deal—thrown together in a royal world where school was not an option. Instead, they had lessons at home with their governess Marion Crawford. Even though Margaret was often naughty, Elizabeth was always protective.
伊丽莎白和玛格丽特性格截然不同。伊丽莎白十分严肃且过于整洁，而玛格丽特性格外向又固执己见。但是她们仍旧保持着亲密的姐妹关系，祸福与共。孩提时，她们就十分依赖彼此——生在皇室，外出上学是绝不可能的。相反，她们跟着家庭教师玛丽昂·克劳福德在家上课。尽管玛格丽特常常调皮捣蛋，伊丽莎白却总是保护着她。
In adulthood, the Queen helped to guide her sister through the emotional minefieldof a romance with a divorced man, Peter Townsend. Later, she had to stand by and see Margaret's marriage to Anthony Armstrong-Jones disintegrateinto divorce. Margaret was one of the few people who would dare lose their temper with the Queen. Even as an adult, she'd occasionally shout at her. Once she's said to have thrown a dishcloth in her face during a picnic. But they never quarrel for long and it remains a sadness to the Queen that her sister never found lasting personal happiness.
成年后，玛格丽特曾与一位离婚男士彼得·汤森有过一段风流韵事，后来是伊丽莎白女王帮助并指引她走出这段感情雷区。而后，伊丽莎白不得不眼睁睁地看着玛格丽特与安东尼·阿姆斯特朗·琼斯的婚姻破裂瓦解，以离婚告终。很少有人敢对女王发脾气，但玛格丽特却是其中一人。即便成年后，玛格丽特偶尔还是会对姐姐大喊大叫。据说一次野炊时她还曾把一块洗碗布扔到了姐姐的脸上。然而不论如何，她们都绝不会争吵太久。而且，妹妹自始至终都未能找到自己一生的幸福，这件事到现在依然令女王感到遗憾。
Wife
作为妻子
Almost 65 years of married life! It's a long time. But there's still a spark of romance about the Queen and Prince Philip that's charming to witness. Watch them at many a public event and you'll see a special glance, a quick smile: an acknowledgement that they've shared a whole lifetime together and understand one another almost without the need to talk. It's tough for any man to play second fiddle tohis wife. And Philip is a proud man. But he has always said that his first and foremostduty is to support the Queen. To that end, he gave up the naval career he loved. It was a big sacrifice.
结婚将近65载！这确实是一段漫长的岁月。但是我们依然能够看到伊丽莎白女王和菲利普亲王之间那迷人的爱情火花。留意一下出现在许多公众活动中的女王夫妇，你会看到那特别的匆匆一瞥、那一闪而过的微笑，这些都见证了他们共度的一生和彼此之间几乎无需言语的那份默契。对任何一个男人来说，给自己的妻子充当副手都不是件易事，况且菲利普亲王还是一个自尊心很强的人，但是他却总是说他最重要的职责就是辅佐女王。为此，他放弃了他热爱的海军事业，这真的是一个很大的牺牲。
As one of her cousins once told me, the Queen uses her feminine tricks to placatePhilip. At home, she lets him wear the trousersin every sense: running the estates, making the big decisions and sometimes bossing her about. He is, after all, the only one who'd dare. They're not the sort of couple to show their emotions but, on their golden wedding anniversary, the Queen put her feelings on record. "Prince Philip," she said, "is someone who doesn't take easily to compliments but he has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years. And I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim, or we shall ever know."
正如女王的表兄弟们曾告诉我的那样，女王用她那女性特有的手段来抚慰菲利普亲王。在家里，她让丈夫当家做主，掌管方方面面：经营庄园等房产，作重大决定，有时还可以差遣她。毕竟，菲利普亲王是唯一一个敢这样对待女王的人。他们不是那种喜欢表露感情的夫
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