我很喜欢看这些通 信，从这里可以了解各色市民的生活和思想情况。
I am fond of reading them because they mirror the life and thought of people of all descriptions.
外国报纸也有这种通信，有些报纸还特辟专栏，由专人负责答 复。
The same is true of foreign newspapers.
美国有一位署名安澜德(Ann Landers)的女记者，为八百多种报 刊答复读者来信，就称为"安澜德专栏"。
Some of them have set up special columns with special columnists in charge of answering questions.
这个专栏极受读者欢迎， 每天至少有三千万人拿到报纸就看这个专栏。
An American woman journalist named Ann Landers was once put in charge of such correspondence for over 800 newspapers respectively.
安澜德通信已出了好几个单行本，都畅销一时。
Known as "Ann Landers' Column'". it became extremely popular with readers.
前几年，老友 钱歌川从美国寄给我两本《人间信箱》，这是他选译的安澜德通信，供 中国人学习英语用的。
Every day, the first thing that attracted the attention of readers, totalling at least 30 million, would be this special column.
因为这些通信所用的英语，都是流行的成语俗 字，有许多字还没有编入字典，可以说是最新最活的英语。
Landers' letters, later appearing in several collections, have been selling like hot cakes.
两本《人间信箱》，选译了二百封来信和答复。
Several years ago, my old friend Qian Gechuan sent me from the US two collections of Landers' letters that he had selected and translated for the benefit of Chinese learners of English.
几乎有百分之八 十是青年男女写给安澜德的信，要求她解答各种婚姻问题、恋爱问题 或处世问题。
The letters were originally written in present-day English with up-to-date idioms and colloquialisms, many of which have not yet been compiled into dictionaries.
他们的问题，跟中国青年的问题完全不同，有许多是我 们想象不到的。
There were in the two collections altogether 200 letters to and from Landers, of which about 80% were sent by American young men and women asking for her advice on problems of marriage, love, ways of society, etc. The problems confronting them were entirely different from those of Chinese young people.
现在举两件突出的事例给读者，以广见闻，以资谈 助，或者还可以资警惕。
Many were quite unimaginable to us.
一个三十岁的女人，在二十岁的时候，看见女朋友都结婚了，她 怕做老小姐，急急忙忙嫁了一个认识才两个月的男人。
Now let me cite two striking examples for the information and chit-chat of my readers.
十一个月之 后，他们有了孩子，于是开始了吵架。
Meanwhile, they may also serve to put our youth on the alert.
丈夫建议和另外一对夫妇交 换行乐，她同意了。
Here is the story of a 30-year-old American woman.
于是两夫妻加人了一个俱乐部，和别的几对夫妇 交换睡觉。
At the age of 20, seeing all her girl friends already married, she worried about herself some day becoming an old maid and therefore quickly married a man whom she a had known for barely two months.
最后，丈夫建议要她和另一个男人的妻子对调，可是她不 喜欢那个男子，于是写信给安澜德，问她该,怎么办。
Eleven months later, they had baby and began to lead a cat-and-dog life.
一个女人，和一个没有钱的男子结婚，她做工赚钱来供给丈夫读 大学口。
And when the husband suggested swapping wives with another man for pleasure, she agreed.
现在，结婚已十八年，有了三个孩子。
And they joined a club where male members could have sex with each other's wife.
丈夫有钱了，她为了 主持家务，不出去工作了。
Then it happened that she refused to g0 to bed with a man chosen by her husband because he was not to her liking.
可是她出去理发一次，丈夫就三天不和她 说话，理由是：她没有工作，所以没有任何权利。
She then wrote to Landers for advice.
她写信给安澜德， 问："作为一个没有工作的妻子和母亲，我有什么权利呢？" 以上是摘录了两件关于男女关系的读者来信，安澜德都作了答 复，指导他们应如何处理。
An American girl married a poor man and managed to see him through college with money she earned by manual work.
不过有时安澜德无法从正面回答，只好说 几句俏皮话、幽默话，却又引起读者更多的来信。
After 18 years of married life, they had three kids.
美国青年对于恋爱与结婚的态度，极不严肃d。
Now the husband has become better off and she, instead of going out to work, stays home to keep house.
有一封读者来信 报道的一个信息：有一个五年级的小学生，作语文练习，老师命题的 要求是解释什么叫"单调"。
Every time, however, when she goes out to 2 have her hair done at a hairdresser's, the man will be glum and silent for three days.