时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:智慧背囊超越自我


英语课
[00:03.19]Sweet-Pea Summers 甜豌豆的夏天
[00:06.74]Each summer in the late 1960s,
[00:09.78] my two sisters and I would ride the Greyhound bus
[00:13.12]from Arizona to Arkansas to stay with our father.
[00:16.46]  A World War II veteran,
[00:18.53]Dad had many medical problems,
[00:20.62]any one of which could cause many people to lose more than their sense of humor,
[00:25.45] but not him.
[00:26.85]  I have vivid memories of Dad waking us up in the morning.
[00:30.57]Before he’d put on his legs for the day
[00:33.41](he had lost his legs after his discharge),
[00:36.15] his wheelchair was his mobility 1.
[00:38.55]Holding his cane 2,
[00:40.41] which was his extended arm,
[00:42.71] he would roll through the house yelling,
[00:44.90] "Up, up, up! Get up and face the day!
[00:47.90]It’s a beautiful day! Rise and Shine!"
[00:51.41] If we didn’t get up right away,
[00:53.81]he would repeat his song in rhythm with his cane hitting the end of our beds.
[00:58.73] This was no performance put on for our benefit;
[01:02.56]every day was truly a beautiful day to him.
[01:06.16]  Back in the sixties,
[01:08.36]there was no handicapped parking or wheelchair-accessible ramps 3 like there are now,
[01:13.49]so even a trip to the grocery store was a difficult task.
[01:17.54]Dad wanted no assistance from anyone.
[01:20.93]He would climb stairs slowly but surely,
[01:23.99] whistling all the way.
[01:26.05] As a teenager,
[01:27.56]I found this embarrassing,
[01:29.29]but if Dad noticed,
[01:30.94]he didn’t let me help.
[01:32.47]  Those summers always ended too soon.
[01:35.75] He would drive us back to Arizona every year,
[01:39.24] stopping at the checkpoint for fruit and vegetables at the New Mexico-Arizona border.
[01:44.94] When asked if he had any fruits or vegetables,
[01:48.21]he would reply, "Just three sweet peas."
[01:51.28]  Our father has been gone for a long time now,
[01:54.99] but not the lesson that he taught us:
[01:57.29]You are only as handicapped as you let yourself be.

n.可动性,变动性,情感不定
  • The difference in regional house prices acts as an obstacle to mobility of labour.不同地区房价的差异阻碍了劳动力的流动。
  • Mobility is very important in guerrilla warfare.机动性在游击战中至关重要。
n.手杖,细长的茎,藤条;v.以杖击,以藤编制的
  • This sugar cane is quite a sweet and juicy.这甘蔗既甜又多汁。
  • English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment.英国小学老师过去常用教鞭打男学生作为惩罚。
resources allocation and multiproject scheduling 资源分配和多项目的行程安排
  • Ramps should be provided for wheelchair users. 应该给轮椅使用者提供坡道。
  • He has the upper floor and ramps are fitted everywhere for his convenience. 他住在上面一层,为了他的方便着想,到处设有坡道。
学英语单词
absitively posolutely
Add All
admiredly
aggregate deviation
airraid alarm
alternative optimum
anaerobic tank
antifever
antilubricant
aperture ring
arbitrary vertical section
azura
baogang
Basse Terre
be serious
bletherskates
BORR
call a strike
calyculis
cat and dog
cement-aggregate ratio
cerebro-macular
clay deposit
coris aygula
cure system
cutaneous mycosis
edge feature
elastic clause
electro-convulsive
elorine
episkey
evaluation trial
expected mean
face contact
fastmoving
feeling of shame
file.extension
financing structure
forward area warning station
frictionless-flow
frippak
fruit branch
gamabufagin
glass embossing
go over the limit
half round reamer
holography camera
ill-behaved
internal conversion electron
law of mean
longitudinal response
Malaszewicze
marial rocks
Massu'a
mastigophoran
metal beryllium powder
mitchard
monoborohydride
ncced
nemuro str.
neurotic anxiety
Niarane(Niagane)
niveotectura pallida
nuclear power plant site
Old World vulture
patchwise
peak-power out put
phosphoglceride
photoisolators
Previntix
processing losses
psoatic
quantity surveyor
quick-delivery
quino
radiochrometer
ratio of gear
repeated transmission
right-angle system
sarcasm
scheduled service
scriple
sea monkey
separate filling lines from deck
settlement zone
shoulder poles
smooth ground surface
sorting inspection
spider element
Suezmax
superconducting transition
taka diastase
talipot (palm)
thomas-fermi differential equation
thoracoabdominal combined war injury
top gating system
Unije, Otok
was all over
wastewater influent
windkanter
X-ray necrosis
zeroni