时间:2018-11-29 作者:英语课 分类:四级晨读英语美文


英语课

A Brother Like That                             


  A friend of mine named Paul received an automobile 1


from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve


when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin 2 was


walking around the shiny new car, admiring it.


  "Is this your car, Mister?" he said.


  Paul nodded. "My brother gave it to me for Christmas."


The boy was astounded 3. "You mean your brother gave it


to you and it didnt cost you nothing? Boy, I wish . . ."


He hesitated.


  Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. He


was going to wish he had a brother like that. But what the


lad said jarred Paul all the way down to his heels.


   "I wish," the boy went on, "That I could be a brother


like that."


  Paul looked at the boy in astonishment 4, then


impulsively 5 he added, "Would you like to take a ride in my


car?"


   "Oh yes, Id love that."


  After a short ride, the boy turned with his eyes aglow 6


, said, "Mister, would you mind driving in front of my


house?"


  Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew what the lad


wanted. He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride


home in a big automobile. But Paul was wrong again. "Will


you stop where those two steps are?" the boy asked.


  He ran up the steps. Then in a little while Paul heard


him coming back, but he was not coming fast. He was


carrying his little crippled brother. He sat him down


on the bottom step, then sort of squeezed up against him


and pointed 7 to the car.


  "There she is, Buddy 8, just like I told you


upstairs. His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it


didnt cost him a cent. And some day Im gonna give you


one just like it . . . then you can see for yourself all


the pretty things in the Christmas windows that Ive been


trying to tell you about."


  Paul got out and lifted the lad to the front seat of


his car. The shining-eyed older brother climbed in beside


him and the three of them began a memorable 9 holiday ride.


 That Christmas Eve, Paul learned what Jesus meant when


he said: "It is more blessed to give . . . "



1 automobile
n.汽车,机动车
  • He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
  • The automobile slowed down to go around the curves in the road.汽车在路上转弯时放慢了速度。
2 urchin
n.顽童;海胆
  • You should sheer off the urchin.你应该躲避这顽童。
  • He is a most wicked urchin.他是个非常调皮的顽童。
3 astounded
v.使震惊(astound的过去式和过去分词);愕然;愕;惊讶
  • His arrogance astounded her. 他的傲慢使她震惊。
  • How can you say that? I'm absolutely astounded. 你怎么能说出那种话?我感到大为震惊。
4 astonishment
n.惊奇,惊异
  • They heard him give a loud shout of astonishment.他们听见他惊奇地大叫一声。
  • I was filled with astonishment at her strange action.我对她的奇怪举动不胜惊异。
5 impulsively
adv.冲动地
  • She leant forward and kissed him impulsively. 她倾身向前,感情冲动地吻了他。
  • Every good, true, vigorous feeling I had gathered came impulsively round him. 我的一切良好、真诚而又强烈的感情都紧紧围绕着他涌现出来。
6 aglow
adj.发亮的;发红的;adv.发亮地
  • The garden is aglow with many flowers.园中百花盛开。
  • The sky was aglow with the setting sun.天空因夕阳映照而发红光。
7 pointed
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
8 buddy
n.(美口)密友,伙伴
  • Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气,老兄。有什么麻烦吗?
  • Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了,你这家伙!
9 memorable
adj.值得回忆的,难忘的,特别的,显著的
  • This was indeed the most memorable day of my life.这的确是我一生中最值得怀念的日子。
  • The veteran soldier has fought many memorable battles.这个老兵参加过许多难忘的战斗。
学英语单词
113mIn-EDTMP
acetabularia gigas
acousto-optical receiver
ADHS (automatic digital handling system)
agropyron trachycaulums
alpha-ketoisocapric acid
answer in writing
aristobuluss
AxidNizatidinum
Bacterieae
badger fat
balafo
bilobed placenta
blackworms
bond equivalent yield
Bording
bravais space lattice
bucket-boom excavator
campylopus subulatus
cement-lined pipe
coleretico
countershaft bearing cap
cream-separator
cross someone's palm with silver
Dalitz plot
displacement of colon
Dresvyanka
drew rein
drift sounding
dry breather
dual screen
EABR
electrets
elementss
EMEC
empierce
evaporator column
fibre cargo net
fixed reorder quantity system
Fletcher Christian
galactograms
gastrocolic fistula
Glochidion khasicum
half sib
hinge ligament
histidyl
hot-mix plant
hydrillas
hyoidest
ichthyotoxicology
instant occlusion
integrating multi-ramp converter
interchangeable random variables
irrigation quota on each application
james deans
La Vernarède
Libyanizing
look as if one came out of a bandbox
lumbar bone
Marasse synthesis
mehte
mould form
NKK Corp.
non le day
office-park
oil flow in bearing
Omongo
on the shore
over my dead body
oxidation chamber
paduniella taiwana
pendant finish
poor as a rat
precentage deviation
professed
pronounced opinion
pseudocercospora lagerstroemiae-subcostatae
pulse base
Rasca, Pta.de la
ratfuck
re-offend
record hop
rectangular hole
reinforcingly
rewrapping
sail in the one boat
samuel wiesenthals
sappers
semyonovich
sister hooks
SSSV
standard form for letter of credit
strs
telerecording apparatus
teodorescu
torpedo head magazine
Turkey Days
upholstresses
Vejle Fd.
vital temperature
waste box
wood pigeons