导读

这一封辞职信与其他的辞职信不同，作者不是辞去工作，而是辞去作为成年人的“责任”，回到童年，接受八岁孩童的责任。本文以孩子的口吻，从孩子的视角，描述了一个天真无邪，无忧无虑，纯真的世界，作者信仰并崇尚人间真善美。

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My resignation

I am hereby officially tendering my resignationas an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old.

I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four-star restaurant.

I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks.

I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them.

I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day.

I want to return to a time when life was simple, when all you knew were colors, multiplicationtables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care.

All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.

I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good.

I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.

I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, longing for more days in the month, and worrying about the money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones...

I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.

So, here's my checkbook and my car keys, my credit cards and my 401K statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood.

词汇加油站

resignation [rezig'neiʃən] n.辞职, 辞呈

oak [əuk] n.栎树，橡树；栎木，橡木

lemonade [leməneid] n.柠檬水；汽水

multiplication [mʌltipli'keiʃən] n. 增加, 繁殖, 乘法运算

nursery rhymes 儿歌

blissfully ['blisfuli] adv. 幸福地

complexity [kəmpleksiti] n.复杂，复杂性

be unaware of 不知道, 没有察觉到, 没有意识到

consist of 由…组成

long for 渴望

believe in 信仰;相信;信任，信赖

中文欣赏

我的辞职信

在此，我正式递交我的辞职书，辞去我作为成年人的“职务”。我已经决定我要接受一名八岁孩童的责任。

我要去麦当劳，我认为那是四星级餐馆。

我要在一个刚注满水的泥坑里漂流木棍，用岩石建造一条人行道。

我认为M&M巧克力豆比金钱好，因为你能吃它们。

我要在一个烈日炎炎的夏天躺在一棵大橡树下，和我的朋友们摆一个汽水摊。

我要返回简单生活的时光，那时你只知道各种颜色、乘法口诀表和童谣，但没什么，因为不知道就是不知道，你并不在意。

你所知道的就是要快快乐乐的，因为很幸运你没有意识到所有那些会让你焦虑或心烦的事情。

我愿相信世界是公平的，每个人都是诚实善良的。

我愿相信一切都是可能的。我要忘却生活中一切的复杂，再次对微小事情感到无比兴奋。

我愿再次简简单单地生活。我不要我的每一天充斥的是电脑死机、堆积如山的文书和令人沮丧的新闻，也不想总是渴望每个月多出来几天，或总去想银行里的存款、医生的账单、流言蜚语、疾病缠身、亲朋好友的逝去……

我愿相信微笑、拥抱、亲切的话语、真理、公正、和平、梦想、想象、人类、在雪中造天使，这一切的神奇力量。

所以，这是我的支票簿、车钥匙、信用卡和401K账户卡。我正式辞去成年人的“职务”。

长句分析

原句：I want to return to a time when life was simple, when all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care.

分析：本句是一个主从复合句，两个when都引导定语从句，先行词都是a time。第二个when引导的从句中，you knew也是一个定语从句，先行词为all。because引导的原因状语从句，从句本身也是一个主从复合句，what引导宾语从句。

译文：我要返回简单生活的时光，那时你只知道各种颜色、乘法口诀表和童谣，但没什么，因为不知道就是不知道，你并不在意。

原句：All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.

分析：本句是一个主从复合句，because引导原因状语从句。主句中，you knew是一个定语从句，all为先行词。because从句中，that引导定语从句，先行词为things。

译文：你所知道的就是要快快乐乐的，因为很幸运你没有意识到所有那些会让你焦虑或心烦的事情。