标题: Writer Bill Harby Moves to Switzerland and Lives There [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 6-22-2017 15:43 标题: Writer Bill Harby Moves to Switzerland and Lives There 本帖最后由 choi 于 6-22-2017 15:45 编辑
Bill Harby, Is This the Most Perfect Love Story? An American hitchhiker meets a Swiss miss in her hometown. They spend three lovely days together, then part forever — or so they thought. BBC, May 23, 2017. www.bbc.com/travel/story/2017051 ... -perfect-love-story
Note:
(a) "By the medieval Old Town of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, I sat in the sun, sipping a beer on a cafe’s terrace. * * * The time was June 1975, and I was hitchhiking around Switzerland and France the summer [~22 years old] before grad school in Chicago."
(b) "Maïf, short for Marie-France, was 19 * * * She’d just finished a day of Baccalaureate exams to graduate from high school."
(i) French orthography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_orthography
("Diaeresis or tréma (ë, ï, ü, ÿ): over e, i, u or y, indicates that a vowel is to be pronounced separately from the preceding one: naïve, Noël")
(ii) International Baccalaureate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Baccalaureate#Europe
(is a not-for-profit educational foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and founded in 1968; students aged 3-19)
(c) "at a low-key club where she gave me a coin for the jukebox and asked me to punch in G5 for her favourite song by George Benson"
putt -putt (vi; imitative): "the chugging sounds made by the engine of a motorboat, motorbike, etc" www.yourdictionary.com/putt-putt
(e) "Her boyfriend had gotten otherwise involved."
Her boyfriend was involved with another woman, not her.
(f) "In real life, I’d been living in Akron, Ohio, when Maïf and I met in 1975."