亲历历史：希拉里回忆录：初识爱人克林顿

When I returned to Yale for my second year in the fall of 1970。

1970年秋，我返回耶鲁继续第二年的学业。

Bill Clinton was hard to miss in the autumn of 1970. He arrived at Yale Law School looking more like a Viking than a Rhodes Scholar returning from two years at Oxford. He was tall and handsome somewhere beneath that reddish brown beard and curly mane of hair. He also had a vitality that seemed to shoot out of his pores. When I first saw him in the law school's student lounge, he was holding forth before a rapt audience of fellow students. As I walked by, I heard him say: ". . . and not only that, we grow the biggest watermelons in the world!" I asked a friend, "Who is that?"

此时的比尔·克林顿很难令人忽视。那年他从牛津大学学成归来，刚进耶鲁法学院，可他的模样与其说有罗德学者般的气质，不如说更像维京大盗。他体型高大，长相在红棕色胡须与一头卷曲浓密的头发衬托下还算英俊，每个毛孔中都散发出活力。我第一次见到他是在法学院的学生休息室，当时他对着一群听得出神的同学滔滔不绝，当我经过时，听到他说：“不只那样，我们家乡种了全世界最大的西瓜!”我问朋友：“他是谁啊?”

"Oh, that's Bill Clinton," he said. "He's from Arkansas, and that's all he ever talks about."

“哦，他是比尔·克林顿。”朋友说，“从阿肯色州来，他只说过这些。”

We didn't talk to each other again until the last day of classes in the spring of 1971.We happened to walk out of Professor Thomas Emerson's Political and Civil Rights course at the same time. Bill asked me where I was going. I was on the way to the registrar's office to sign up for the next semester's classes. He told me he was heading there too. As we walked, he complimented my long flower-patterned skirt. When I told him that my mother had made it, he asked about my family and where I had grown up. We waited in line until we got to the registrar. She looked up and said, "Bill, what are you doing here? You've already registered." I laughed when he confessed that he just wanted to spend time with me, and we went for a long walk that turned into our first date.

直到1971年春季最后一天上课，我们才有机会再度交谈。上完托马斯·埃莫森的政治与民权课后，我们同时走出教室。比尔问我要去哪里，我说要到注册办公室确定下学期的课，他说他也正要去。两人同行时，他赞美我穿的花色长裙，我说这是我母亲亲手缝制的，他便问起我的家庭以及出生地。两人到了注册办公室，排了好久的队才轮到我们，注册员抬头看了一下，然后说：“比尔，你在这里干吗?你已经注册过了。”他坦言只是想跟我在一起，我笑了，接着便一块走了很久，就这样开始了第一次约会。