The Piano的中文翻译是《钢琴之恋》，我一看书名以为是一个爱情故事，但是本文似乎与爱情无关。The young man  in the story is not good at school .He is not good at learning words or numbers . He likes to sing with the other boys and girls, but he's not good at singing. He does not get the first job that he tries to get . He is a nice boy , but he is not good at anything special.

And then he find the piano. He also finds that he can play the piano . So perhaps we can say  that he does not find music, but that music finds him.

我一直很好奇，Tony是如何在找到伍德先生当作垃圾要处理掉的钢琴后，自然而然就会弹钢琴的呢？

He  found an old broken chair and sat down at the piano. His fingers touched  the keys. He closed his eyes. Half forgotten music danced through his mind. His fingers began to move. They moved up and down the keys. He began to play an old song. He was suddenly very happy.

" I can play the piano," he thought ."Nobody taught me, but my mind tells my fingers what to do,  and I can make music."

或许是他在学校里那段欢乐的记忆，Mrs Lark 在灰暗的学校生活中就像一束光，点燃了他。书中使用了对比描写的方法。

The teacher’s name was Mr. Grey. He was grey like his name. He was old and grey and tired. Everything about him was grey: grey suit, grey shirt, grey hair and a long ,thin, grey face. When he smiled the Children saw his long ,grey teeth. But he did not often smile.  Mr. Grey did not enjoy his job .He did not like children.

But Tony was not a clever boy. He was big and slow and silent. He did not enjoy his lessons. Usually he just sat at his desk and waited quietly for four o'clock to come, when he could go home.

But Tuesday morning were different, because Tuesday was music day. Every Tuesday morning , an old lady called Mrs. Lark came to the school. Mrs. Lark played the piano and the children sang .She was not a very good pianist, but she liked children and she enjoyed her work . She knew a lot of songs, too. Every Tuesday her fat little fingers flew like birds up and down the keys of the piano. The Children sang like birds, too.

这是Tony这个农村孩子最早的钢琴启蒙，我觉得一定是Mrs. Lark，这位像百灵鸟一样的教师在Tony 心中种下了一粒种子。这颗种子在Tony遇到Mr. Wood 让他当作垃圾一样扔掉的那架钢琴时，这份记忆被唤醒，这颗种子开始萌芽。这是一颗热爱的种子。love means to like something very much .所以，在Tony决定和小伙伴把这个钢琴搬到一所小学校，每晚做完农场的活以后，他都会借上Linda的自行车去学校弹琴。

That summer was a happy time for Tony. Every evening after supper he borrowed Linda's  bicycle.  He cycled to the school and he played the piano . When it was dark , he cycled  back to the farm again. He was afraid to turn on a light in the school. He did not want everybody to see him.

另外，当利用暑假学校放假在空教室弹钢琴的学生在被Mr. Gordon发现以后，他决定亲自教Tony弹钢琴，但是为了生计，Tony还要继续在Mr. Wood 先生的农场干活。所以，他学琴和练琴的时间，就更加紧张。那么，Tony是怎么做的呢？

He worked and worked. He got up at six every morning . He worked on the farm until four o'clock in the afternoon. But every minute of the day, music filled his mind.

At four o'clock he cycled to his piano lesson with Mr. Gordon. He practiced until seven o'clock , then he cycled  back to the farm for supper .After supper he read Mr. Gordon's music books . Often he fell asleep at the kitchen table.

  At night, while he left, his mind was still full of music. Small black notes danced in front of his eyes .When he woke up the music was still there. Tony lived in a world of music.

The leaves fell from the tree. Winter came. It was dark when Tony got up in the mornings. It  was dark when he cycled to his piano lesson, and it was dark when he cycled back to the farm again. Sometimes it snowed. Then he had to walk to and from the school. But he never missed a lesson .

这是明线。从这些明线可以看出Tony对钢琴真的是热爱。但是翻译时为什么要翻译成《钢琴之恋》呢？我认为Tony和Linda之间的爱情，是这个小说的暗线。

Tony在Linda家的农场上干活，Linda的父母没有儿子，一直把Tony当作自己的儿子一样看待，而且在Mr Gordon 提出让Tony参加钢琴比赛时，也是Linda的父母给Tony准备的服装和鞋子，而且还找人顶替他的工作，让他安心练琴。而Linda在Tony迷恋上钢琴这件事上，给了Tony最好的支持，她不仅帮助Tony撒谎，让Tony借到了父亲的Lorry，利用送她去朋友那里参加派对为借口，让Tony 能够利用这个小货车把钢琴成功送到学校，而且在Tony弹钢琴时鼓励他，并把她在学校学到的钢琴知识悉数教给Tony，可以说，Linda也是Tony乐理知识的老师。

And one summer， when I was twenty， I asked Miss Linda  a very important question 。“I can't give you much， Linda。” I told her，“ but one day ,I shall be rich and famous.Then I'll come back again and I'll ask you to marry me." She gave me a long loving look, then she laughed" Oh, Tony，" she said。” don't wait until you are rich and famous.Ask me now !" so I did-- and here we are!

他们结婚六十年了，仍然非常恩爱。这就是钢琴之恋吧！