简介
你还记得你上次写信是什么时候的事情了吗？我指用信纸写的那种，不是e-mail.现在写信问候朋友和亲人的人越来越少了，大多数人是选择打个电话，发条短信或者发个邮件...但是精美的信封和信纸自有其吸引力，所以绝对不会被人所遗忘。



文本
I get a lot of letters. I like that. I don’t answer many of them, but I like that. I like most of them anyway. I get a lot of letters from people who are mad at me.

Gabriela Quintana says she was "honestly offended" when I said I wouldn't pay $1.50 for a cup of coffee in the CBS cafeteria. She didn't believe me.

"Do you fill up your tank or does your driver?" she wants to know.

I'll tell you what Gabriela, if you find I have a driver I'll buy you a thousand dollars worth of gas. The day I have to have a driver I'll quit driving. I'll just get in and say "Take me to Gabriela's house."

Lisa Glenn writes me a nice letter. I like the nice ones best. Lisa says I looked good last week because my eyebrows were trimmed.

Well, I hate to disillusion you Lisa after you were so nice to me, but I have never fooled around with my eyebrows. Susie fools around with my hair sometimes. Maybe that's what did it. To get ready to tape this piece for television, I comb my hair. But, if I do anything more, I look like someone else.

Lori Yates says I ought to quit. "I regret," she says about last week's remarks "that Mr. Rooney once again brought a message that was sadly and negatively off the mark."

"Sadly and negatively". Wow. I must have really missed the mark. I've thought of quitting but I decided against it. I was wondering what Lori does for a living. Maybe I could get her job.

Ginny Hardy writes a mostly nice letter complaining about my remarks about The Salvation Army. I admit I don't know much about The Salvation Army. It's a dumb name but I guess they do good work.

Steven Wishnoff says "I have nothing but the utmost respect for Mr. Rooney." You have to be careful with letters that start like that. Mr. Wishnoff continues "Mr. Rooney should measure his words more carefully."

He goes on to say that no matter what I think, real work is very hard to find. And I think he's probably right considering all the letters I got saying that. Maybe I didn't know what I was talking about. That's what I do for a living.

词汇讲解
Fill up: 装满
He has filled up the tank with gas.
他已给油箱装满了汽油。

Trim: 修剪;修整;整理
He trimmed his hair carefully.
他仔细修剪头发。

Disillusion: 使醒悟;使不再抱幻想;使...的理想破灭
They had thought that the vacation would be restful, but they were soon disillusioned.
他们原以为假期里能好好休息,但过不多久便明白根本不是那回事。

Comb: 用梳子梳理
The mother combed the child's hair.
母亲梳理了孩子的头发。

off the mark: not correct (猜测，陈述等)不准确，相距甚远，离题
No, you are way off the mark.
不行，你根本没说到重点。

Miss the mark: to fail in achieving or guessing sth 没有达到目的；猜测错误