时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[00:00.29]14.The All-Leather, NFL Regulation, 1963 Chicago Bears-Inscribed Football


[00:09.34]The year was 1964. The place was Chicago. 


[00:13.58]A man I worked with had acquired a couple of all-leather, NFL regulation, 


[00:18.81]1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed footballs and was selling them at a real good price. 


[00:25.23]My first son was on the way. 


[00:27.95]I bought the football, as my son’s “coming home from the hospital” gift, and it was truly special.


[00:34.05]Several years later, young Tom was rummaging 1 around in the garage when he came across the all-leather, 


[00:40.48]NFL regulation, 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed football. 


[00:45.16]He asked if he could play with it. 


[00:47.51]With as much logic 2 as I felt he could understand, 


[00:50.34]I explained to him that he was still a bit too young to play carefully with such a special ball. 


[00:55.79]We had the same conversation several more times in the next few months, and soon the requests faded away.


[01:02.11]The next fall, after watching a football game on television, 


[01:06.13]Tom asked, “Dad, remember that football you have in the garage? 


[01:10.48]Can I use it to play with the guys now?”


[01:13.00]Eyes rolling up in my head, I replied, “Tom, you don’t understand. 


[01:17.78]You don’t just go out and casually 3 throw around an all-leather, NFL regulation, 1963 Chicago bears-inscribed football. 


[01:27.04]I told you before; it’s special.”


[01:29.11]Eventually Tom stopped asking altogether. 


[01:33.14]But he did remember, and a few years later he told his younger brother, Dave, 


[01:37.82]about that special football kept somewhere in the garage. 


[01:41.08]Dave came to me one day and asked if he could take that special football and throw it around for a while. 


[01:46.86]It seemed like I’d been through this before, but I patiently explained, once again, 


[01:52.96]that you just don’t go out and throw around an all-leather, NFL regulation, 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed football.


[02:02.54]But it wasn’t special anymore.


[02:05.37]I stood alone in the garage. 


[02:07.65]The boys had long since moved away from home, and suddenly I realized that the football had never been so special at all. 


[02:15.06]Children playing with it when it was their time to play is what would have made it special. 


[02:20.83]I had blown those precious, present moments that can never be reclaimed 4, and I had saved a football. For what?


[02:28.90]I took the football across the street and gave it to a family with young kids. 


[02:33.61]A couple of hours later I looked out the window. 


[02:37.11]They were throwing, catching 5, kicking and letting skid 6 across the cement 7 my all-leather, 


[02:44.87]NFL regulation, 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed football.


[02:49.47]Now it was special!




1 rummaging
翻找,搜寻( rummage的现在分词 ); 海关检查
  • She was rummaging around in her bag for her keys. 她在自己的包里翻来翻去找钥匙。
  • Who's been rummaging through my papers? 谁乱翻我的文件来着?
2 logic
n.逻辑(学);逻辑性
  • What sort of logic is that?这是什么逻辑?
  • I don't follow the logic of your argument.我不明白你的论点逻辑性何在。
3 casually
adv.漠不关心地,无动于衷地,不负责任地
  • She remarked casually that she was changing her job.她当时漫不经心地说要换工作。
  • I casually mentioned that I might be interested in working abroad.我不经意地提到我可能会对出国工作感兴趣。
4 reclaimed
adj.再生的;翻造的;收复的;回收的v.开拓( reclaim的过去式和过去分词 );要求收回;从废料中回收(有用的材料);挽救
  • Many sufferers have been reclaimed from a dependence on alcohol. 许多嗜酒成癖的受害者已经被挽救过来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They reclaimed him from his evil ways. 他们把他从邪恶中挽救出来。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
5 catching
adj.易传染的,有魅力的,迷人的,接住
  • There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
  • Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。
6 skid
v.打滑 n.滑向一侧;滑道 ,滑轨
  • He braked suddenly,causing the front wheels to skid.他突然剎车,使得前轮打了滑。
  • The police examined the skid marks to see how fast the car had been travelling.警察检查了车轮滑行痕迹,以判断汽车当时开得有多快。
7 cement
n.水泥;胶结材料;vt.粘结;巩固
  • We need 100 tons of cement at most for this project.这项工程满打满算有一百吨水泥就足够了。
  • Let's cement the parts together.咱们来把这些部件粘接在一起吧。
学英语单词
-works
abstraction number
accomodation ladder
acknowledgement of right to production
algorithm for space analysis
all-hallows
antivibration pad
appleman
area functional
attached green space
Austinella
beauclerks
blade geometry
boletinus spectabilis
boxing in
brainhood
British France Commercial Treaty
buoyance
cable head end
capitals of ghana
carangoides ferdau
catalytic decomposition effect
Chiampo
condemn sb to exile
contour line map
copper(ii) acetate
copy girl
cutoff relay
Dampierre-sur-Salon
deh ali
deripen
deshieldings
deynous
diphenidol
double trace
drachmas
dry separation by specific gravity
fecaluria
footstep-bearing
fuk you
g72 (d-amino acid oxidase activator)
Great Blasket I.
Grigor'yevskaya
Hawaiian Islands
heavy-duty disk harrow
heptameria obesa
high output heart failure
holas
house decorators
hypnotic state
infinite sequence
infinitude
instrument luster
Jah'veh,Jahweh
just perceptible noise
keel batten
keratonosis
key protection
letter for auditor
Lochnerize
lordi
mahanthappa
mesocortical pathway
metaphire puyuma
mitopodozide
Namoya
natural force
pallet cock screw
parametric assumption
patientpopulation
Pennfield
periosteal fibroma
physiological parameters
plain rib fabric
ponticuli
porbeagles
public relations process
pure live seed
ropewinder
Routh-Hourwitz criterion
shaza
sheath of Schwann
signed commercial invoice
social forces
sommerville
Soxomid
steam-bottom still
Sub-aquatic
suborder Lemuroidea
sympathectomizing
telecommunication line
tellurian
theory of consciousness
transfinite proposition
unaugmentable
vernomenin
voluntary chain
Wells-next-the-Sea
west australian ballet
wirelength
yari odori (japan)
yone