高二英語作文：The Remembrance of Lilacs
the family had just moved to rhode island, and the young woman was feeling a little melancholy on that sunday in may. after all, it was mothers day -- and 800 miles separated her from her parents in ohio.
一家人剛移居羅德島。5月的那個星期天， 年輕女人感到有點兒憂傷。畢竟， 這一天是母親節─而她卻與俄亥俄州的父母親遙距800英里。
she had called her mother that morning to wish her a happy mothers day, and her mother had mentioned how colorful the yard was now that spring had arrived. as they talked, the younger woman could almost smell the tantalizing aroma of purple lilacs hanging on the big bush outside her parentsback door.
她那天早上給母親打去電話， 祝母親節日愉快。隨後， 她的母親向她提起， 因為春天已經來臨， 所以院子裡的'色彩是多麼絢麗。在她們通話的當兒， 年輕女人幾乎可以聞到懸垂在父母親後門外大灌木叢上的紫丁香醉人的芬芳。
later, when she mentioned to her husband how she missed those lilacs, he popped up from his chair. i know where we can find you all you want, he said. get the kids and cmon.
so off they went, driving the country roads of northern rhode island on the kind of day only mid-may can produce：sparkling sunshine, unclouded azure skies and vibrant newness of the green growing all around. they went past small villages and burgeoning housing developments, past abandoned apple orchards, back to where trees and brush have devoured old homesteads.
