翻译实践 一位母亲的危机处理

成绩：****大学外文学院2011级翻译实践姓名学号专业班级指导教师2013年 12月How a Mother Deals with the CrisisIt happened in a Landscape People community in Hangzhou, on Saturday, January 24, 2010. All private cars were parking on both sides of the road in this peaceful area. Nobody could assume that those cars should be scratched up by some edged tools, with scars and breads together in a second time. Dozens of cars on the road were all involved, and no one survived. On a rough estimate, the repair charge for those cars’ scars would cost about fourteen or fifteen thousand yuan. Someone called the police, and the annoyed owners swore to pick out the person who maliciously scratched cars.From the surveillance video, people could see that it was two kids, an elder one and a younger one, who did that. The elder one seemed to be a pupil with scooter, and the other one might be a kindergarten’s kid. They were scratching those cars while they were walking. Who were they? How dare they? So bold! But it could not be figured out their identities from the video, and even none knew them.The police began to investigate the truth.On the following day, the news was reported in newspaper as well as on Internet.The afternoon of the second day, a woman called the police and said the kids who scratched cars were hers.The woman also lived in that community. It was on the second day that she noticed the Internet post which recorded the matter in the community. The two kids were much like her children, yet the younger one was the kid of her classmate. At that time, two kids were playing in the street. The time, the occasion and the features were consistent with that. She hurried to the property management company to check the surveillance video, only confirming that that was true.The mother realized the seriousness of the problem. When calming down, she began to handle the crisis as follows.Without hesitation, she called the police to tell them that her kid scratched cars. And she with her kid would take all the responsibilities for the matter.When her son came home after school in the evening, the mother asked him,“D id you do that? ” Her son lowered his head soundlessly. She told him, “You are a man. If you did it, you should bare to undertake it.” At last, the son admitted the fact. The mother continued, “If your folded bike was scratched, would you feel sorrowful?” “Yes.” The son answered. “You can afford only several hundred yuan to buy it, however, the cars of owners would cost ten or twenty thousand even more over hundreds of thousand yuan. Don’t you think that those owners will feel sorrowful?” The son bowed to his mother and said, “ I am sorry, mom.”The mother printed a letter of apology to apologize to all owners and she promised that she would take all the responsibilities and the cost of repair. Dozens of letters of apology were copied, and they were posted on the entrance and exit as well as on stairway exit.She also contacted a vehicle repair plant with with a good reputation, which was in charge of repairing all the scratched cars.The following two days, she with her son made the rounds to apologize to the owners when her son finished homework. She required that her son should ring the doorbell by himself, which was to let the son in the face of a false step. In spare time, the son folded many pape r boats with big “SORRY” on them. He would presented these boats to the owners. When he reached every owner’ s house, he would apologized, “ I am sorry. I do not know what a serious consequence it is, and I am sincerely begging for your forgiveness.” Therefore, all the owners claimed that they would forgive him.The mother warned son, “ aunts and uncles are so tolerant that they have forgiven you. But you should remember not to take others’ tolerance as the reason for your mistakes. You are supposed to have the courage to take responsibility, have the sense of responsibility, and learn to be grateful.A crisis was settled down by the mother successfully. The anger from the annoyed people died away, whose cold gloomy faces revealed the smile. However, as the mother of the child, she neither took no responsibility all the time, nor did she lose her temper. The problem was solved successfully, which made all the owners satisfied.But more than that, the child realized what he had done was wrong, learned that he should take responsibility and gained the forgiveness. I believed that the son would never forget the experience and lesson he received, and he would not have any shadow in his heart.One involved owner said that he was full of admiration of the mother who could do like that. To be honest, not every mother could handle it so promptly, decisively and responsibly. She was a great mother.As a spectator, I was always paying full attention to this problem on media, which happened around me. From the mother, I deeply felt that if we hope that our children can learn how to undertake their responsibility, primarily our parents should be brave to be the models with responsibilities. For this, can you manage it?一位母亲的危机处理2010年1月24日，星期天，杭州一个名叫山水人家的小区。