时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[00:00.63]8.No Matter What Happens, I’ll Always Be There For You!


[00:06.62]In 1989 an 8.2 earthquake almost flattened 1 America, killing 2 over 30,000 people in less than four minutes.


[00:17.74]In the midst of utter devastation 3 and chaos 4, a father left his wife safely at home and rushed to the school where his son was supposed to be,


[00:26.77]only to discover that the building was as flat as a pancake.


[00:32.21]After the initial shock, he remembered the promise he had made to his son,


[00:37.77]“No matter what happens, I’ll always be there for you!”


[00:41.91]And tears began to fill his eyes.


[00:44.73]As he looked at the pile of ruins that once was the school, it looked hopeless,


[00:50.62]but he kept remembering his commitment to his son.


[00:53.67]He began to direct his attention towards where he walked his son to class at school each morning.


[00:59.87]Remembering his son’s classroom would be in the back right corner of the building,


[01:05.10]he rushed there and started digging through the ruins.


[01:08.91]As he was digging, other helpless parents arrived, clutching their hearts, saying, “My son!” “My daughter!”


[01:16.97]Other well-meaning parents tried to pull him off what was left of the school, saying, “It’s too late!


[01:22.85]They’re all dead! You can’t help! Go home! Come on, face reality!”


[01:29.05]To each parent he responded with one line, “Are you going to help me now?”


[01:34.51]And then he continued to dig for his son, stone by stone.


[01:39.29]The fire chief showed up and tried to pull him off the school’s ruins saying,


[01:43.65]“Fires are breaking out, explosions are happening everywhere.


[01:47.14]You’re in danger. We’ll take care of it. Go home.”


[01:49.96]To which this loving, caring American father asked, “Are you going to help me now?”


[01:56.39]The police came and said, “You’re endangering others. Go home. We’ll handle it!”


[02:01.39]To which he replied, “Are you going to help me now?” No one helped.


[02:08.37]He dug for eight hours...12 hours...24 hours...36 hours...then, at the 38th hour,


[02:18.17]he pulled back a large stone and heard his son’s voice.


[02:21.87]He screamed his son’s name, “ARMAND!” He heard back, “Dad!?! It’s me, Dad! I told the other kids not to worry.


[02:31.34]I told them that if you were alive, you’d save me and when you saved me, they’d be saved.


[02:38.12]You promised, ‘No matter what happens, I’ll always be there for you!’ You did it, Dad!”


[02:44.68]“Come out, boy!”


[02:47.42]“No, Dad! Let the other kids out first, cause I know you’ll get me!


[02:52.89]No matter what happens, I know you’ll always be there for me!”




1 flattened
[医](水)平扁的,弄平的
  • She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇紧贴着窗户。
  • I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身体紧靠着墙让他们通过。
2 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
3 devastation
n.毁坏;荒废;极度震惊或悲伤
  • The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
  • There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 chaos
n.混乱,无秩序
  • After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后,城市一片混乱。
  • The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
学英语单词
aberrant mongolian spot
abstractional
acid snow
aerial insulator
ambry
American Registry for Internet Numbers
aminals
Andrographis Wall.
array name argument
arteriae nutriciae humeri
basis brasses
bask in the glory
beach landing site
binruit
bring disgrace upon
bukk-
bullies
bumders
capacity resistence time constant
chaetodon baronessa
cherbonnier
chlamys inaequivalvis
chorio-epithelioma
cleanlily
coldrife
complement prospecting report
corregidors
cross-jack yards
curve-billed thrashers
Cyperus compressus
d-me
daily extreme
de-mystification
design-of-experiments
diversity of polarization
early learning program
earth hunger
ecological genetics
emeraldite (smaragdite)
ensignship
environmental wind
error-detecting capability
euthymol
fridolin
good-temperedness
Gothic windsor chair
hydraulic coupling
in pairs
interest in suspense
intraparotid plexus
Kaziyurt
Kinkadian
liquefied petroleum gas igniting equipment
locky
lubetkin
lunisolar precession
made a name for myself
mammography
manumission
mechanical pile hammer
metophlebitis
mineralocerticoid
mistold
mythologisations
N-Vinylpyrrolidone
okthalmomicroscop
operation regulation
palki
peloponeses
priming circuit
pyopericarditis
razzies
reaction matrix
rebindings
recorder player
repeater overload expectation value
rhododendron chrysocalyx leveille et vaniot
riera
semi eggshell ware
sepulchres
shallow-draft ship
short circuit admittance
slow-scan television
snarlings
special constables
spirit of wine
standardizings
stereoscopic view
sulfating roasting
superconducting magnetic fusion
theorem-proving system
time action
TLR
trans-line bus
transmediations
turkification
unequal to
unmethodological
unpunched
Wallacean
your-excellency
zhiguli