时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读


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[00:00.54]The Carpenter And The Fence 木匠和栅栏


[00:06.12]There were once two brothers 


[00:08.21]who lived on adjoining farms and fell into conflict.


[00:11.80]It was the first serious rift 1 in 40 years of farming side-by-side,


[00:17.28]sharing machinery 2 and trading labor 3 and goods as needed.


[00:21.65]It began with a small misunderstanding 


[00:25.02]and it grew into a major difference and finally,


[00:28.33]it exploded into an exchange of bitter words followed by weeks of silence.


[00:33.03]One morning there was a knock on John’s door.


[00:36.42]He opened it to find a man with a carpenter's toolbox.


[00:40.25]“I’m looking for a few days’work,”he said.


[00:43.97]“Perhaps you would have some small jobs here and there I could help with?”


[00:48.56]“Yes, I do.”said the older brother.“Look across the creek 4 at that farm.


[00:54.37]That’s my younger brother’s place. Last week there was a meadow between us.


[00:59.61]He recently took his bulldozer to the river levee 


[01:03.31]and now there is a creek between us.


[01:05.31]Well, he may have done this to spite me, but I’ll do him one better.


[01:10.23]I want you to build me an 8-foot fence 


[01:13.38]so I won’t have to see his place or his face anymore.”


[01:16.58]The carpenter said,“I think I understand the situation.


[01:21.28]Show me the nails and the post-hole digger 


[01:24.81]and I’ll be able to do a job that pleases you.”


[01:27.29]The older brother had to go to town, 


[01:30.39]so he helped the carpenter get the materials ready and then he was off for the day.


[01:34.74]About sunset when the farmer returned, the carpenter had just finished his job.


[01:39.99]The farmer's eyes opened wide.


[01:42.94]There was no fence there at all. Instead there was a bridge.


[01:47.10]A bridge that stretched from one side of the creek to the other!


[01:50.93]And his younger brother was coming toward them, his hand outstretched.


[01:56.29]“You are quite a fellow to build this bridge after all I've said and done.”


[02:01.33]For a moment, the two brothers stood at each end of the bridge, 


[02:06.20]and then they met in the middle, taking each other's hand.


[02:10.18]They turned to see the carpenter put his toolbox onto his shoulder.


[02:14.67]“No, wait! Stay a few days. 


[02:18.12]I have a lot of other projects for you,”said the older brother.


[02:21.34]“I’d love to stay on,”the carpenter said, 


[02:25.33]“but I have many more bridges to build.”


[02:27.47]The story is intended to tell us: Don’t pay back evil with evil.


[02:33.05]Don’t pay back unkind words with unkind words.


[02:37.32]Instead, pay them back with forgiveness.




1 rift
n.裂口,隙缝,切口;v.裂开,割开,渗入
  • He was anxious to mend the rift between the two men.他急于弥合这两个人之间的裂痕。
  • The sun appeared through a rift in the clouds.太阳从云层间隙中冒出来。
2 machinery
n.(总称)机械,机器;机构
  • Has the machinery been put up ready for the broadcast?广播器材安装完毕了吗?
  • Machinery ought to be well maintained all the time.机器应该随时注意维护。
3 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
4 creek
n.小溪,小河,小湾
  • He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
  • People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
学英语单词
a ball of strings
a rub on one's way
accessible address space
asclepias
assistant stoker
autophosphorylate
axial angle apparatus
bag weighing machine
base-line measurement
basket huck aback
be at its lowest ebb
benguets
Berezovik
billy goat
blacksmith welded joint
bodrug
bondur alloys
booking list
bowheads
Breitungen
cable boat
cap plug
cheta
communional
deceleration limit
degree days
diachronic public relations
do sth up brown
double base
draintube
dry chamber
elbon
enchance
Erigeron altaicus
event tree
explicit faith,explicit belief
express authority
fault detection algorithm
fenetradil
fishtown
fundamental driving force
fursultiamine
get wind of
green bass
guanidino-
halogenated hydrocarbon system
harp-player
hb
Hedera sinensisivy
here's looking at you
hizzolla
HLVS
HS (hollow spindle)
incubator house
invasor
jekyll-and-hyde
km(kilo-meter(s))
laminar flow dye laser
latent surplus population
legal lease
liquid column gage
Lobac
mast lift truck
maximum axle laden mass
method of column analogy
Mlicrococcus ureae
modified accrual basis
modiolus philippinarum
Mosquito Lagoon
mysteriums
not know any better
omnisciences
operation form
OPWL
outmanage
packing cargo transport unit
parallel determination
parenchymatous syphilis
phlebenterate
phosphoribosyl-5-aminoimidazole
plumbous fluoride
pogromed
quasi-shear wave
recording program
regulating rheostat
rehoist
rhabdo
SABTS
seven kinds of prescriptions
smale
spring rail anchor
squalidine
strategic atomic weapon
strawier
sublobe
subtidal facies
swear an oath, take an oath
take-up hub
thoracic local eminence
unfarewelled
wide band filter
yathrib