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
-agogue,-agog
abatjour
antidromic cortical response
Apodidae
Automatisme
Awakino
be mounted with gems
Beaver respirator
bipolar micro controller
blown her stack
Borang, Tg.
burnish(ing)
callans
Capitol Peak
cargo derrick guy pendant
Cercosporalla vexans
chain-oiled bearing
civil serpent
clear felling
cloquintocet
Company Bond
convention on the High Sea
corn spurrey
deductive value
deoppilative
diffluence
disharmony
distribution fuse board
disuses
dognapper, dognaper
Dyothelite
elastic design (allowable stress design)
electrical refrigerator
end-means chain
ethic datives
expellant bag
flexible driven gear
flyby
Foucault's pendulum
Gauss measure
glider train
go through something
halepensis
handstuff
harshliest
high yield potential
hypocoracoi
Kabumbulu
krauenaki
literary executrix
M.A.S.
Mandiant
monocoque
multiple thread screw
mutings
negative resistance oscillator
neoterist
noise-cancellation
Nova Lusitânia
open-closed principle
osteoepiphysis
Oulunsalo
overhead
ovoviviparous female
pan and scan
pantses
parvoviruss
pass on something
peat ball
pendulous pick up
picknicking
pomatum
proportion of ingredients
quantum chromody namics
reconcilement
rising intonation
rubenzer
salvo signal
scattered data point
sellz
simaoensis
Skunk River
snaping
snub
swift as an as the wind
systems software
teleologism
teleworks
The Corporation of Lloyd's
thiacetic
thrum
train control whistle
train kilometer
transfer of cause
undistorted wave
unsanctifications
unsteady current
vermiform-larra
vuzine
well-wroughts
windin
with a vacant stare