生命中的一年 第20期：带罗琳回到出发点

And it's amazing how people can't and don't care enough to try and redress¹ some of those issues².

惊异的是人们如此地不管不顾，也不试着去弥补那些问题。

Those things make me very angry.

那些事情让我非常生气。

Jo Rowling has given away millions of pounds.

乔·罗琳已经捐赠了数百万英镑。

She's never forgotten what it was like to have very little money.

她从来不会忘记口袋空空是怎么样的感觉。

Amidst all the fame³ and the trappings of success it's probably quite easy to lose sight of who she was when she started out.

身处名誉和成功的樊笼之中，她很可能会忽略那个刚刚出发的自己。

So I wanted to take her back to her old flat in Leith where she finished the very first Harry⁴ Potter book and find out what her life had been like then.

所以我想把她带到利斯的旧居。在那里她完成了第一本《哈利·波特》小说，并寻找她那时的生活是怎样的。

It's only a few miles from her main house in Edinburgh but this is the first time she's been back.

那里离她的爱丁堡住所仅仅数里之遥，但这是她第一次回去。

1 redress   

n.赔偿，救济，矫正；v.纠正，匡正，革除

参考例句：

• He did all that he possibly could to redress the wrongs.他尽了一切努力革除弊端。
• Any man deserves redress if he has been injured unfairly.任何人若蒙受不公平的损害都应获得赔偿。

2 issues   

（水等的）流出( issue的名词复数 )； 出口； 放出； （特别重要或大众关注的）问题

参考例句：

• Let's start with the more easily addressable issues. 我们先从较容易处理的问题着手。
• Employment and taxation are the bread-and-butter issues of politics. 就业和征税是很重要的政治问题。

3 fame   

n.名声，名望，著名，闻名

参考例句：

• Many people hunt after fame in their lives but never find it.很多人一生追逐名利，但是总不能成功。
• She is a woman of ill fame.她是个名声不好的女人。

4 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。