PART II 02 The Day of The Dead. Nov.2d

万灵节。妈妈嘱咐，千万不要忘记为了孩子们的幸福而献身的人们——牢记英雄。

Part II November，02. THE DAY OF THE DEAD.(All-Souls-Day.)November 2d.
This day is consecrated to the commemoration of the dead. Do you know, Enrico, that all you boys should, on this day, devote a thought to those who are dead? To those who have died for you,--for boys and little children. How many have died, and how many are dying continually! Have you ever reflected how many fathers have worn out their lives in toil? how many mothers have descended to the grave before their time, exhausted by the privations to which they have condemned themselves for the sake of sustaining their children? Do you know how many men have planted a knife in their hearts in despair at beholding their children in misery? how many women have drowned themselves or have died of sorrow, or have gone mad, through having lost a child? Think of all these dead on this day, Enrico. Think of how many schoolmistresses have died young, have pined away through the fatigues of the school, through love of the children, from whom they had not the heart to tear themselves away; think of the doctors who have perished of contagious diseases, having courageously sacrificed themselves to cure the children; think of all those who in shipwrecks, in conflagrations, in famines, in moments of supreme danger, have yielded to infancy the last morsel of bread, the last place of safety, the last rope of escape from the flames, to expire content with their sacrifice, since they preserved the life of a little innocent. Such dead as these are innumerable, Enrico; every graveyard contains hundreds of these sainted beings, who, if they could rise for a moment from their graves, would cry the name of a child to whom they sacrificed the pleasures of youth, the peace of old age, their affections, their intelligence, their life: wives of twenty, men in the flower of their strength, octogenarians, youths,--heroic and obscure martyrs of infancy,--so grand and so noble, that the earth does not produce as many flowers as should strew their graves. To such a degree are ye loved, O children! Think to-day on those dead with gratitude, and you will be kinder and more affectionate to all those who love you, and who toil for you, my dear, fortunate son, who, on the day of the dead, have, as yet, no one to grieve for.
Thy mother
词汇：1.consecrate 视为神圣，2.commemoration纪念（物）3.toil辛苦，苦工 4.descend出身于，突然拜访5.privation贫困 6.condemn责难 7.sustain支持、维持 8.pine away消瘦，憔悴 9.fatigue劳务，杂役；疲劳 10.perish消失 11.contagious传染性的 12.sacrifice牺牲 13.shipwreck海难 14.conflagration火灾 15.famine饥荒 16.yield 屈服，弯下去17.infancy婴儿期 18.morsel一口，一片 19.expire结束，终止 20.sainted上天堂的，德高的 21.octogenarian 80-89岁（的）22.obscure无名的 23.martyrs烈士；殉道者 24.strew 散播；撒满