新概念英语第三册逐句精讲语言点 第57课 重返故里 (4)

　　His roots and mine badbecome too firmly embedded in the new land. But he wanted to see the old folk againand to visit my mother's grave. He became mortally ill a few months before we hadplanned to go and, when he knew that he was dying, he made me promise to go onmy own.

　　10.His roots and mine bad become too firmly embedded in the new land.

　　因为他与我一样已经把根深深地扎在异国的土地上。

　　11.But he wanted to see the old folk again and to visit my mother's grave.

　　但是，他想看一看家乡父老乡亲，为我的母亲扫墓。

　　语言点:visit one's grave的意思是“为某人扫墓，祭奠某人。”

　　12.He became mortally ill a few months before we had planned to go and, when heknew that he was dying, he made me promise to go on my own.

　　就在他计划回国的前几个月，他突然身患绝症。他知道自己已奄奄一息，于是他要我答应一定单独回故乡一趟。

　　语言点1:by dying不可译作“正在死亡”，正确的译法是“即将/不久将过世。”

　　语言点2:make sb.promise to do sth.的意思是“让某人承诺做某事。”