Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

2202124  Introduction to Translation

Fiction (English-Thai) Discussion

จงแปลเรื่องแต่งต่อไปนี้เป็นภาษาไทย

Although it was only four-thirty in the afternoon, the sky was already a gunmetal gray, with silver streaks shooting across the north, and the winter rain that had just started was as cold as ice water. Next door, the windows of Opal’s beauty shop had already been decorated with blinking Christmas lights that reflected on the wet sidewalk. Inside, Opal’s shampoo girl was sweeping up and Christmas music was playing on the radio. Opal was finishing up her last customer. The bells on the door jangled as Grady and the men came in, and Grady put on his official voice.

"Opal, can we speak to you for a minute?"

Opal looked up, horrified, and rushed over to Grady with a comb in her hand. “You can’t come in here, Grady Kilgore, this here is a beauty shop! We don’t let men in here. What is the matter with you? Have you lost your mind? Now, get out! This very instant!”

The six-foot four-inch Grady and the two men stumbled all over each other trying to get out the door and wound up back on the sidewalk, with Opal glaring at them through the foggy window.

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Fried Green Tomatoes

Fannie Flagg

She's over at Momma's house, Momma's been real sick.

Grady said, "Yeah, that's what I heard. I'm real sorry to hear that. Well, see you tomorrow."

And they headed out the door.

Although it was only four-thirty in the afternoon, the sky was already a gunmetal gray, with silver streaks shooting across the north, and the winter rain that had just started was as thin and cold as ice water. Next door, the windows of Opal’s beauty shop had already been decorated with blinking Christmas lights that reflected on the wet sidewalk. Inside, Opal’s shampoo girl was sweeping up and Christmas music was playing on the radio. Opal was finishing up her last customer, Mrs. Vesta Adcock, who was going to an L & N banquet in Birmingham that night. The bells on the door jangled as Grady and the men came in, and Grady put on his official voice.

Vesta Adcock looked up horrified and clutched her flowered smock around her, screaming, "WHAT IN THE WORLD!"

Opal looked up, equally horrified, and rushed over to Grady with a green comb in her hand. “You cain’t come in here, Grady Kilgore, this here is a beauty shop! We don’t let men in here. What is the matter with you? Have you lost your mind? Now, go on, get out! The very idea!”

The six-foot four-inch Grady and the two men stumbled all over each other trying to get out the door and wound up back on the sidewalk, with Opal glaring at them through the foggy window.