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
abdn
addition diet
air-launched
angle of
animal ferment
antimoniferous arsenic
arm waiter
articulationes tarsometatarseus I
b-roll
be in irons
blecua
buzuluk r.
by instinct and reflex
capitals of alabama
Castagnaro
categorising
chromyl chloride rubber
clampit
clear the decks for
compressed air pipe
credit information
cushitics
damage function method
dichloroindophenols
distillation chaser
dragonhide
Dynamycin
dysconnectivity
epipelagic community
ex-residents
film network
filtering cicatrix
fishing expeditions
flies solo
fnar
Ganzi
gnawed at
groundwater table rise
hackle pin
have an addition
hesitate in
high density propellant
high-taper
housing add
ibsenian
inclined bed
interest-bearing loan
jenghiz khans
kannon
kicking someone's ass
left engine
Letamendia
light decay characteristic
limnometric
Loss of Broken Space
malignant hemangioepithelioma
mortise locks
Muarabenangin
nem.dis.
Neu Meklenburg
nibco
normal form of a straight line
numerical value
Omulew, Jezioro
plastic macro-composite
police action
prehyoid glands
pressure velocity compounded
product trial
profundities
psycho-bitch
Qal'at Bīshah
quintuple harmonics
received payment
rectron
reservoir geometry factor
RG-nn
rhabdovirus
rubidium peroxotantalate
Rupākot
seamer
secular inflation
sediment drift
Sefophe
sequence chart
simulated seafood
speckled perch
stripeless
sugihara
suprahistorical
TEAE-CELLULOSE
telepathizes
troughed belt converter
unmemorized
vandendriesschreite
volume level
wing loading
worm rack type driving device
Y-coordinate
yakkity