时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[00:01.17]5.Did The Earth Move For You?


[00:04.65]Eleven-year-old Angela was stricken with a debilitating 1 disease involving her nervous system. 


[00:10.54]She was unable to walk and her movement was restricted in other ways as well. 


[00:15.98]The doctors did not hold out much hope of her ever recovering from this illness.


[00:21.21]They predicted she’d spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. 


[00:25.57]They said that few, if any, were able to come back to normal after contracting this disease. 


[00:31.88]The little girl was undaunted. 


[00:34.28]There, lying in her hospital bed, she would vow 2 to anyone who’d listen that she was definitely going to be walking again someday.


[00:43.20]She was transferred to a specialized 3 rehabilitation 4 hospital in the San Francisco Bay area. 


[00:50.72]Whatever therapies could be applied 5 to her case were used. 


[00:54.42]The therapists were charmed by her undefeatable spirit. 


[00:58.02]They taught her about imaging — about seeing herself walking. 


[01:02.92]If it would do nothing else, it would at least give her hope and something positive to do in the long waking hours in bed. 


[01:11.73]Angela would work as hard as possible in physical therapy, in whirlpools and in exercise sessions. 


[01:18.92]But she worked just as hard lying there faithfully doing her imaging, visualizing 6 herself moving, moving, moving!


[01:28.18]One day, as she was using all her might to imagine her legs moving again, it seemed as though one miracle had happened: 


[01:35.69]The bed moved! She screamed out, “Look what I’m doing! Look! Look! I can do it! I moved, I moved!”


[01:43.53]Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was screaming, too, and running for cover. 


[01:50.82]People were screaming, equipment was falling and glass was breaking. 


[01:54.66]You see, it was the recent San Francisco earthquake. 


[01:59.03]But don’t tell that to Angela. 


[02:01.44]She’s convinced that she did it. 


[02:04.28]And now only a few years later, she’s back in school. 


[02:08.22]You see, anyone who can shake the earth between San Francisco and Oakland can conquer a piddling little disease, can’t they?




1 debilitating
a.使衰弱的
  • The debilitating disease made him too weak to work. 这个令他衰弱的病,使他弱到没有办法工作。
  • You may soon leave one debilitating condition or relationship forever. 你即将永远地和这段霉运说拜拜了。
2 vow
n.誓(言),誓约;v.起誓,立誓
  • My parents are under a vow to go to church every Sunday.我父母许愿,每星期日都去做礼拜。
  • I am under a vow to drink no wine.我已立誓戒酒。
3 specialized
adj.专门的,专业化的
  • There are many specialized agencies in the United Nations.联合国有许多专门机构。
  • These tools are very specialized.这些是专用工具。
4 rehabilitation
n.康复,悔过自新,修复,复兴,复职,复位
  • He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
  • No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
5 applied
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
6 visualizing
肉眼观察
  • Nevertheless, the Bohr model is still useful for visualizing the structure of an atom. 然而,玻尔模型仍有利于使原子结构形象化。
  • Try to strengthen this energy field by visualizing the ball growing stronger. 通过想象能量球变得更强壮设法加强这能量场。
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5-deoxysorbitol
account
account books
added products of inertia
administrative system
antizoning
arkanite (arcanite)
average correction for grouping
basis virtutum constantia
bastilla fulvotaenia
bond issuing expense
calculating apparatus
calico asters
Capreolus capreolus
cement of high index
checks-and-balances
choanoderms
clutch disk pressure
co pilot
Comoé, Prov.
concrete waterproofing
cousiness
cross country skiing
cube capital
cumulative normal curve
day player
diothane
dissuader
distortional stress tensor
double braided rope
dropfiles
durville
embo
end-flange-mounted fuel injection pump
famesque
Fddi.
Fourier transform spectrometer
Garhwal
Gentiana melandriifolia
gnathodynia
Hamiltonian paths
has my back
hastite
Hedemora
helical screw spreader
hpc
HTML link
hypothalamospinal fiber
inceremonious
interdisciplinary science
intertabulum
jointly run enterprise
Joy loader
kitty-cats
latent crimp
letterspaces
light dependent resistance (ldr)
like stink
metallic zinc granule
mooring line catenary
musicologies
myelomere
Neisseria wechselbaumi
northern beech ferns
operational response monitor
pertly
phenyl hydroxylamine
place on a pedestal
pneumatic tachometer
Porifera
preworkout
prolonged breath sound
prompt shutdown coefficient
pseudo-tudor
pseudopolymorphism
pulse tension
pulsed ultraviolet laser rangefinder
pupil trained in the herbal garden
random distortion
receiving cone
reduce section
Romillé
San Ramon
schober
semicubical
separate confinement
sharptongued
slurriable combination
social institution
spelters
spider mica
teeings
teleports
the dolphin
Thistle, The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the
Turonian series
unaddle
underassistants
vehicle wear-out
venae cordis
voting result
working capital turnover time