英汉双语：婚姻维系时间最长久的一对总统夫妇，长达73年
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今日与大家分享：英汉双语：婚姻维系时间最长久的一对总统夫妇，长达73年。他们就是老布什夫妇。
They met at a Christmas dance. She was 16. He was 17.Three years later they were married. The couple stayed together for 73 years, becoming the longest-married couple in presidential history.他们在圣诞舞会上相遇。她16岁。他17岁。三年后他们结婚了。这对夫妇在一起生活了73年，成为美国总统历史上结婚时间最长的夫妇。
Bush has died at age 94. Family spokesman Jim McGrath says Bush died shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, about eight months after the death of his wife, Barbara Bush. 1布什去世，享年94岁。布什家族发言人吉姆·麦格拉思表示，布什于2018年11月30日(星期五)晚上10点后不久去世，大约是他的妻子芭芭拉·布什去世8个月后。
"George Bush knows how I feel," Barbara Bush had said. "He is the hero ... He is my hero."“乔治·布什知道我的感受，”芭芭拉·布什说。“他是英雄……他是我的英雄。”
George H.W. Bush was at his wife's side when she died on April 12 at age 92 and had been holding her hand all day. Her death was followed by his own on Friday, about eight months later. He was 94. 妻子于4月12日去世，享年92岁，老布什陪伴在她身边，一整天都握着她的手。大约八个月后的周五，她去世后，他也去世了。他已经94岁了。
The couple's relationship was a true love story, which granddaughter Jenna Bush Hager has described as "remarkable." 这对夫妇的关系是一个真实的爱情故事，孙女詹娜·布什·哈格形容这段感情是“非凡卓越举世瞩目的一段姻缘”。
They had six children, including Hager's father, former President George W. Bush, making Barbara Bush one of only two first ladies to also be a presidential mother. The other was Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, the nation's second president, and mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president. 他们有六个孩子，其中包括孙子哈格的父亲、前总统乔治·w·布什，这使得芭芭拉·布什成为总统的第一夫人，又是后任总统的母亲，这个双重身份集与一人的在美国历史上只有两个女性，她是其中之一。另一位是美国第二任总统约翰·亚当斯(John Adams)的妻子阿比盖尔·亚当斯(Abigail Adams)，也是美国第六任总统约翰·昆西·亚当斯的母亲。
George H.W. Bush had described the mother of their six children as "the mainstay, of course, the parent who was always there to help solve the daily problems and emergencies of teen and preteen life." 乔治·h·w·布什(George H.W. Bush)曾这样描述他们六个孩子的母亲:“当然，她是家庭的中流砥柱，总是在那里帮助解决青少年和青春期前的日常问题和紧急情况。”
In this June 6, 1964, file photo George H.W. Bush, candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, gets returns by phone at his headquarters in Houston, as his wife Barbara, smiles at the news. 1964年6月6日，美国参议院共和党总统候选人乔治·h·w·布什(George H.W. Bush)在他位于休斯顿的总部通过电话收到了竞选结果，他的妻子芭芭拉(Barbara)听到这一消息后笑了。
In her 1994 memoir, Barbara Bush described her and her husband as "the two luckiest people in the world, and when all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family and friends. We have been inordinately blessed, and we know that."在1994年的回忆录中，芭芭拉·布什(Barbara Bush)将她和丈夫描述为“世界上最幸运的两个人，当尘埃落定，人群散去，重要的是信仰、家人和朋友。”
Their first meeting left an indelible impression on young George Bush."I'm not much at recalling what people wear, but that particular occasion stands out in my memory," he said in his autobiography.他们第一次见面给年轻的乔治·布什留下了不可磨灭的印象。“我不太擅长回忆人们穿什么，但那个特别的时刻在我的记忆中很突出，”他在自传中说。
The band was playing Glenn Miller tunes and he asked a friend from Rye, New York, if he knew the girl across the room in the green and red holiday dress. The friend introduced him to Barbara Pierce, a publisher's daughter from Rye who was going to school in South Carolina.乐队正在演奏格伦·米勒(Glenn Miller)的曲子，他问一位来自纽约拉伊(Rye)的朋友，是否认识房间对面穿红绿节日礼服的女孩。这位朋友把他介绍给芭芭拉皮尔斯(Barbara Pierce)，她是一位出版商的女儿，来自拉伊(Rye)，即将在南卡罗来纳州上学。
The next song was a waltz. "Since I didn't waltz, we sat the dance out. And several more after that, talking and getting to know each other," George Bush said. "It was a storybook meeting." 下一首乐曲是华尔兹。 “因为我没有跳华尔兹，所以我们没有跳。在那之后，又有几次会谈，相互了解。“这是一个故事书会议。”
Within eight months, they'd met each other's families, were engaged in August 1943 and married Jan. 6, 1945, four months after Bush was shot down over the Pacific. He'd been the Navy's youngest aviator when he got his wings and carried the name "Barbara" on his Grumman Avenger torpedo bomber.在八个月的时间里，他们认识了彼此的家人，1943年8月订婚，1945年1月6日结婚，此时距布什总统在太平洋上空被击落已经过去了四个月。他是美国海军最年轻的飞行员，当他长出翅膀时，他的格鲁曼复仇者(Grumman Avenger)鱼雷轰炸机上还带着“芭芭拉”(Barbara)这个名字。
After the war, he attended Yale and they moved to Texas. Her husband made his mark in the oil business as the couple grew their family and turned to politics, a journey that would take them around the world and into the White House. 战后，他上了耶鲁大学，他们搬到了德克萨斯州。随着这对夫妇的家庭不断壮大，并转向政治，她的丈夫在石油行业崭露头角，这段旅程将带他们环游世界，最终入主白宫。
（1974年，50岁的老布什作为第二任美国驻北京联络处主任到达北京。他来到北京之后的一系列行为也显示出他在试图努力了解这个国家。在北京生活的15个月期间，他和夫人芭芭拉骑上自行车在北京的大大小小的胡同里穿行，从日常生活的一点一滴中了解中国。）
"You have given me joy that few men know," George Bush wrote to her, according to a collection of letters published in 1999. "I have climbed perhaps the highest mountain in the world, but even that cannot hold a candle to being Barbara's husband," he also said.据一本1999年出版的信件集子记载，乔治布什曾给她写过这样一封信:“你给了我很少有人知道的快乐。”他还说:“我可能爬过世界上最高的山，但那也比不上芭芭拉的丈夫。”
Photos taken of the couple by The Associated Press over the decades have captured moments of care, such as when Barbara Bush applied sunscreen to the 41st president's nose at a 2015 baseball game between the Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners; and candor, notably after Bush stepped on his wife's toe in 1989 while boarding Air Force One.美联社(Associated Press)几十年来拍摄的这对夫妇的照片捕捉到了他们的关爱时刻，比如在2015年休斯顿太空人队(Houston Astros)和西雅图水手队(Seattle Mariners)的一场棒球比赛中，尤其是1989年布什在登上空军一号时踩了妻子的脚。
Their marriage also endured more serious trials.A daughter, Robin, died in 1953 of leukemia a few weeks before her 4th birthday.Barbara Bush spoke publicly about a bout with depression in the mid-1970s."Night after night, George held me weeping in his arms while I tried to explain my feelings," she said. "I almost wonder why he didn't leave me." 他们的婚姻也经受了更严峻的考验。1953年，罗宾的女儿在她4岁生日前几周死于白血病。芭芭拉·布什在20世纪70年代中期曾公开谈论过一次与抑郁症的较量。“一晚又一晚，乔治把我抱在怀里哭泣，而我试图解释我的感受，”她说。“我几乎想知道他为什么不离开我。”
Also last year, they both wound up in the same Houston hospital — the former president with pneumonia, his wife with bronchitis. In 2013, she told C-SPAN in an interview that they pray aloud each night "and sometimes we fight over whose turn it is." 同样是在去年，他们最终都住进了休斯顿的同一家医院——前总统患有肺炎，他的妻子患有支气管炎。2013年，她在接受C-SPAN电视台采访时表示，他们每天晚上都会大声祈祷，“有时我们会为该轮到谁而争吵。”
In the same conversation, she said she didn't fear death for herself or "my precious George." "I know there is a great God, and I'm not worried," she said. 在同一段对话中，她说她不为自己或“我亲爱的乔治”而害怕死亡。“我知道有一位伟大的上帝，我并不担心，”她说。
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原文出处：George and Barbara Bush, a 'storybook' 73-year marriage AP Published: 2018-12-03 10:31:38
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