时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:白领英语晨读


英语课
When you were 21, she suggested certain careers for your future. You thanked her by saying, “I don’t want to be like you.”

  When you were 22, she hugged you at your college graduation. You thanked her by asking whether she could pay for a trip to Europe.

  When you were 23, she gave you furniture for your first apartment. You thanked her by telling your friends it was ugly.

  When you were 24, she met your fiancé and asked about your plans for the future. You thanked her by glaring 1 and growling 2, “Muuhh-ther, please!”

  When you were 25, she helped to pay for your wedding, and she cried and told you how deeply she loved you. You thanked her by moving halfway 3 across the country.

  When you were 30, she called with some advice on the baby. You thanked her by telling her, “Things are different now.”

  When you were 40, she called to remind you of an relative’s birthday. You thanked her by saying you were “really busy right now”.

  When you were 50, she fell ill and needed you to take care of her. You thanked her by reading about the burden parents become to their children.

  And then, one day, she quietly died.

年华渐增

你21岁时,她为你将来从事什么职业提出一些建议。而你对她的感恩回报,就是对她说:“我才不愿像你那样!”

你22岁时,她在你大学毕业典礼上紧紧拥抱你。而你对她的感恩回报,就是问她能否掏钱让你去欧洲旅行。

你23岁时,她为你的第一套公寓置办家具。而你对她的感恩回报,就是告诉朋友说这些家具非常难看。

你24岁时,她见到了你的未婚夫,问你们将来有什么打算。而你对她的感恩回报,就是对她怒目而视,大声吼叫:“妈……,求求你别烦了!”

你25岁时,她花钱帮你筹办婚礼,对你哭诉着说她是多么地深爱着你。而你对她的感恩回报,就是把家安得离她远远的。

你30岁时,她打来电话为宝宝抚养提出忠告。而你对她的感恩回报,就是告诉她:“现在情况和以前不同了!”

你40岁时,她打电话提醒你别忘了一个亲戚的生日。而你对她的感恩回报,就是说你“现在忙得不可开交”。

你50岁时,她生病了需要你照顾。而你对她的感恩回报,就是念叨着父母成为了子女的负担。

后来,有一天,她静悄悄地去了。

a.耀眼的,极度光亮的;显眼的,显著的
  • At the examination he made several glaring blunders,and that did for him. 他在考试中出了几个大错,这下就完了。
  • The report contained some glaring errors. 报告中有些大错误。
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
学英语单词
abnormal pressure
al batrun
arbakai
armorgroup
assembly point
assignment register
asymptotic upper bound
attack against
average number of defects
balming
blue reflecting mirror
cantleyi
capital transfer
Celeron D
chelating action
cnw
composing machine matrix
concertlike
creep relaxation
debugging mode
deep ocean environment
degenerative recrystallization
Department of Labor
depressurizing
digital system bandwidth
Dusuns
dynamic fracture size
East Mariana Basin
either
expenders
foot-rests
fuliginosuss
galectins
general-purpose automatic test system
generation of waves
Gondolella
Grant Creek
harvard business review
heteropical deposit
Hvalnes
hydraulic setting mortar
identificar
individual excitation system
installation loss
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
internationalistic
laboratory porcelain
Laphroaigs
loan secured by mortage
lobe-finned
mass-mobilisation
meatal
metaphrenia
modifying treatment
moire patterns
multipack packaging
no lond current
oil servomotor
overneutralization
parakeratosis pustulosa
past due load
placental site
position of vessel
postgastrectomy
pressurized-water distributor
preyer
prime-sign
psammoma bodies
pulse-series generator
pyrophore
quarter-blokes
quarterland
Rayleigh scattering
rectal epidermoid carcinoma
red-chile
rhodalline
run cost
scanner
scattering diagram
sea water lubricated stern tube bearing
sheep-lice
shehab
sludge pit
sludge test
spit on one's own sleeve
stenhouse
strengthening business management
Styichrome
surface asperities
tanay
tepidnesses
testators
tetronate
thysen
triaryl-arsino dihydroxide
triphenylethylene
unicity theorem
verbum
vestibulometer
virgultorum
vrata
water jet jeector