时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语专业晨读美文


英语课

[00:01.08]Today I Begin a New Life

[00:03.82]Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long,

[00:09.39]suffered the bruises 1 of failure and the wounds of mediocrity.

[00:12.89]Today I am born anew and my birthplace

[00:16.50] is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

[00:19.56]Today I will pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest

[00:23.45] and fullest vines in the vineyard,

[00:25.53]for these were planted by the wisest of my profession who have come before me,

[00:30.67]generation upon generation.

[00:33.30]Today I will savor 2 the taste of grapes from these vines and verily

[00:38.22] I will swallow the seed of success buried in each

[00:41.64]and new life will sprout 3 within me.

[00:44.37]The career I have chosen is laden 4 with opportunity

[00:48.09] yet it is fraught 5 with heartbreak and despair and the bodies of those

[00:52.58]who have failed, were they piled one atop another,

[00:55.42]would cast a shadow down upon all the pyramids of the earth.

[00:59.25]Yet I will not fail, as the others,

[01:01.87] for in my hands I now hold the charts

[01:04.93]which will guide through perilous 6 waters to shores

[01:07.67]which only yesterday seemed but a dream.

[01:10.95]As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits,

[01:16.64]as are all grown men. I will form good habits and become their slave.

[01:22.10]And how will I accomplish this difficult feat 7? Through these scrolls 9,

[01:26.70]it will be done, for each scroll 8 contains a principle

[01:30.09]which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one

[01:34.68]which will bring me closer to success.

[01:36.87]And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard 10 my new life's growth.

[01:43.11] I will lose not a day from these readings

[01:46.39]for that day cannot be retrieved 11 nor can I substitute another for it.

[01:51.53] I must not, I will not, break this habit of daily reading from these scrolls and,

[01:57.22] in truth, the few moments spent each day on this new habit

[02:01.48]are but a small price to pay for the happiness and success that will be mine.

[02:06.84]Today my old skin has become as dust.

[02:10.55] I will walk tall among men and they will know me not,

[02:14.17]for today I am a new man, with a new life.



1 bruises
n.瘀伤,伤痕,擦伤( bruise的名词复数 )
  • He was covered with bruises after falling off his bicycle. 他从自行车上摔了下来,摔得浑身伤痕。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The pear had bruises of dark spots. 这个梨子有碰伤的黑斑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 savor
vt.品尝,欣赏;n.味道,风味;情趣,趣味
  • The soup has a savor of onion.这汤有洋葱味。
  • His humorous remarks added a savor to our conversation.他幽默的话语给谈话增添了风趣。
3 sprout
n.芽,萌芽;vt.使发芽,摘去芽;vi.长芽,抽条
  • When do deer first sprout horns?鹿在多大的时候开始长出角?
  • It takes about a week for the seeds to sprout.这些种子大约要一周后才会发芽。
4 laden
adj.装满了的;充满了的;负了重担的;苦恼的
  • He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
  • Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。
5 fraught
adj.充满…的,伴有(危险等)的;忧虑的
  • The coming months will be fraught with fateful decisions.未来数月将充满重大的决定。
  • There's no need to look so fraught!用不着那么愁眉苦脸的!
6 perilous
adj.危险的,冒险的
  • The journey through the jungle was perilous.穿过丛林的旅行充满了危险。
  • We have been carried in safety through a perilous crisis.历经一连串危机,我们如今已安然无恙。
7 feat
n.功绩;武艺,技艺;adj.灵巧的,漂亮的,合适的
  • Man's first landing on the moon was a feat of great daring.人类首次登月是一个勇敢的壮举。
  • He received a medal for his heroic feat.他因其英雄业绩而获得一枚勋章。
8 scroll
n.卷轴,纸卷;(石刻上的)漩涡
  • As I opened the scroll,a panorama of the Yellow River unfolded.我打开卷轴时,黄河的景象展现在眼前。
  • He was presented with a scroll commemorating his achievements.他被授予一幅卷轴,以表彰其所做出的成就。
9 scrolls
n.(常用于录写正式文件的)纸卷( scroll的名词复数 );卷轴;涡卷形(装饰);卷形花纹v.(电脑屏幕上)从上到下移动(资料等),卷页( scroll的第三人称单数 );(似卷轴般)卷起;(像展开卷轴般地)将文字显示于屏幕
  • Either turn it off or only pick up selected stuff like wands, rings and scrolls. 把他关掉然后只捡你需要的物品,像是魔杖(wand),戒指(rings)和滚动条(scrolls)。 来自互联网
  • Ancient scrolls were found in caves by the Dead Sea. 死海旁边的山洞里发现了古代的卷轴。 来自辞典例句
10 retard
n.阻止,延迟;vt.妨碍,延迟,使减速
  • Lack of sunlight will retard the growth of most plants.缺乏阳光会妨碍大多数植物的生长。
  • Continuing violence will retard negotiations over the country's future.持续不断的暴力活动会阻碍关系到国家未来的谈判的进行。
11 retrieved
v.取回( retrieve的过去式和过去分词 );恢复;寻回;检索(储存的信息)
  • Yesterday I retrieved the bag I left in the train. 昨天我取回了遗留在火车上的包。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He reached over and retrieved his jacket from the back seat. 他伸手从后座上取回了自己的夹克。 来自辞典例句
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-centred
Aaland islands
absinthate
account information
addershag
adjustment of itself
ahed
ante-alar sinus
Apple App Store
aversity
Ayabaca
Banbridge
blowdown tap
bolk
brancheau
c grade
captations
chianophile
chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases
concrete cover meter
conductor conflict
consistent statistic
control structure module
cooling oil
die sticking
disconnect rod
echo audio phone
electric braxing
eruptive rock
estoiles
euthermal belt
Evohaler
extraction fractionation
fasciculi longitudinalis medialis
fish-tailed end
folicaulicole
fomenko
galvanizing
galvannealed sheet
given up
goofy-foot, goofy-foots
Grande Elobey, I.de
gyroautomorphisms
herpes phlyctaenodes
hyposulfites
imperible
jaw-jaws
John of Austria
Kendall, C.
keratitis bullosa
kingswoods
knife file
left-right-left
lowies
lumber boat
lurvely
modular application customizing system
monobutyl
monologism
nephrcystosis
Nidiazepon
nonvoiced
overall chart
pactum de non petendo
Pakuria
palaeanthropic man stage
passenger average haul distance
Pharhitin
plateau escarpment
progressive lateral sclerosis
pursuals
reconvence
relative roughness
rootstalks
rossmann
sheathe
sidenhand
signalese
solicitation of business
Sphaerioidaceae
starions
struma maligna
subsurface flaw
subzero oil
surger
swage set
Tembeling, Tg.
ticket broker
travel-agent
turbulent fluidized bed
underlayers
universal knee and column miller
unmistrustful
vehicle-registration
vertuously
very-low-frequency wave
voltage amplification
voluptuize
weicker
zaynab
zeitgeisty