Carpediem, why not post a reading of this piece?

 

No pressure, but this fits very well with our current theme of our 900 ju reading class. No Chinese input in this new computer yet. So bear with me:

The nice lady in her early fifties said warmly,-->The nice lady, in her early fifties, said warmly,

Your hu*****and used to be my patron.-->not sure about the use of "my patron". in the context, it seems ok. I would probably say: a patron to my restaurant. Or used to be a regular at my restaurant. 

I still remember those days when I ate dinners alone.

for eating alone brought me occasionally uncomfortable self-consciousness.-->I would say: for eating alone occasionally brought me discomfort and self-consciousness. (not sure if self-consciousness is good here).

skimmed (through) those self-congratulatory awards

those days are history-->ok, but I like saying: "those days are gone".

the ink stain on fingers are not healthy anyway-->is

所有跟帖： 

• 與我心有戚戚焉。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 08:27:26

• "與我心有戚戚焉。" 古文棒，很拽，不俗！ -carpediem- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 12:41:08

• 嗬嗬，俺就會拽這一句古文。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 22:44:02

• 隻要可以上網，就可以打漢語，用七把叉。 -cha-cha- ♀ (65 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 09:40:33

• haha, sounds funny. ;) -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 13:40:02

• Ah, here we go again! -carpediem- ♂ (321 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 12:30:45

• ok, convinced about the self-conciousness sentence now. -非文學青年- ♀ (452 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 13:39:09

• 往前翻了幾頁，文青你的party文寫的很棒，有一個詞 -lilac09- ♀ (34 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 14:39:54

• Cool word! thanks a lot, Lilac! -非文學青年- ♀ (91 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 21:57:02

• 也有道理~~ -lilac09- ♀ (178 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 06:22:08

• Good suggestion! -非文學青年- ♀ (101 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 08:57:37

• 怕mm誤會，跑到老電腦上用中文回一下，英文不給力。 -非文學青年- ♀ (119 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 10:24:54

• 哈哈~ MM想多了，沒有誤會的說 -lilac09- ♀ (647 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 14:11:24

• 文青沒想多，是俺想多了。好，期待好文。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 16:04:54

• CO:期待好文 -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 16:38:44

• Ms. Perfectionist, I've updated it as you suggested... again:) -carpediem- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 17:47:25