英语翻译Rites of Passage Suddenly there come times when everythi

英语翻译
Rites of Passage
Suddenly there come times when everything is different—you 're somehow another person
Several years ago my parents,my wife,my son,and I ate at one of those restaurants where the menu is written on a blackboard.After a wonderful dinner,the waiter set the bill in the middle of the table.That's when it happened:my father did not reach for the bill.
Conversation continued.Finally it dawned on me.I was supposed to pick up the bill!After hundreds of restaurant meals with my parents,after a lifetime of thinking of my father as the one who had the money,it had all changed.I reached for the check,and my view of myself was suddenly altered.I was an adult.
Some people mark off their lives in years?I measure mine in small events—in rites of passage.I did not become a young man at a particular age,like 13,but rather when a kid walked into the store where I worked and called me "mister".He repeated it several times,looking straight at me.The realization hit like a punch:Me!I was suddenly a mister.
There have been other milestones.The cops of my youth always seemed big,even huge,and of course they were older than I was.Then one day they were suddenly neither.In fact,some were kids—short kids at that.The day came when I suddenly realized that all the football players in the game I was watching were younger than I was.They were just big kids.With that milestone went the dream that someday,maybe,I too could be a football player.Without ever having reached the hill,I was over it.
I never thought that I would fall asleep in front of the television set as my father did.Now it's what I do best.I never thought that I would go to the beach and not swim.Yet I spent all of August at the seaside and never once went into the ocean,I never thought that I would like opera,but now the sadness and combination of voice and orchestra appeal to me.I never thought that I would prefer to stay home evenings,but now I find myself passing up parties.I used to think that people who watched birds were strange,but this summer I found myself watching lose.
One day I bought a house.One day—what a day!— I became a father,and not too long after that I picked up the bill for my own father.I thought then it was a rite of passage for me.But one day,when I was a little older,I realized it was one for him too.Another milestone.

突然间一切都变了,好像变成了另一个人,几年前,我的父母,我的妻子,我的儿子和我在一家餐馆就餐,那里的菜谱是写在黑板上的,餐后,服务员把账单放在餐桌上,而我的父亲却不去动那个账单,继续聊天,我终于明白了,我应该买单,和我父母吃了无数次饭,一直以来都认为我父亲有钱（该付钱）,现在不同了,我明白,我已经长大了,有些人用年龄来标志自己的成熟程度,而我是在小事上体现了自己的成熟,我13岁时,我还不是青年人,但我当时在一家商店工作,一个小孩进来称我先生,他直直的看着我,他重复了几次,突然间像被针刺了一下,我居然成了先生了,还有几件标志性事件,在我年轻时的警察,他们显得高大,成熟,当然,他们比我年龄大,后来有一天我突然明白了,根本不是那么回事,其实,他们当中有些人就是小孩子,我看的足球比赛中的球员有的比我还年轻,他们只是大孩子,开始梦想自己有一天也能成为足球运动员,但梦想没有实现,
我从来没有想到过我会像我的父亲那样看着电视睡觉,但现在这是我的强项,我从来没想过去海滩游泳,但是整个八月我都是在海边度过的,没往深水处去,我从没想过我会喜欢歌剧,但我现在却喜欢上了悲剧和管弦乐,我从没想过晚上我会喜欢呆在家里,而不去赴约会,我以前总认为喜欢鸟的人有点古怪,但今年夏天我观赏鸟到了痴迷地步,总有一天.我要买房子,做父亲,替我父亲买单,我想那我就真正长大了,但等我老了,我就有他那种体会了,那是又一个里程碑,