时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[00:00.51]3.The Importance of Time


[00:06.28]There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack 1 had little time to think about the past and often no time to spend with his wife and son.


[00:15.10]He was working on his future and nothing could stop him.


[00:19.13]Over the phone his mother told him, “Mr. Belser died last night.


[00:24.15]The funeral is Wednesday.”


[00:25.99]Memories flashed through his mind like an old newsreel.


[00:29.48]“Jack, did you hear me?”


[00:31.87]“Oh sorry, Mom. Yes, I heard you. It’s been so long since I thought of him.” Jack said.


[00:38.41]“Well, he didn’t forget you.


[00:41.24]Every time I saw him he’d ask how you were doing.


[00:44.18]He’d reminisce about the many days you spent with him,” Mom told him.


[00:48.21]“He spent a lot of time teaching 2 me things he thought were important… Mom, I’ll be there for the funeral,” Jack said.


[00:56.48]Jack kept his word and attended Mr. Belser’s funeral.


[01:00.30]The night before he returned home Jack and his Mom went to see Mr. Belser’s old house one more time.


[01:07.05]Standing in the doorway 3 Jack paused for a moment.


[01:10.86]It was like crossing over into another dimension 4, a leap through space and time.


[01:15.54]Every step held memories. Every picture, every piece of furniture...Jack stopped suddenly.


[01:22.95]“What’s wrong, Jack?” his Mom asked.


[01:26.54]“The box is gone,” he said.


[01:29.26]“What box?” Mom asked.


[01:32.09]“There was a small gold box that he kept locked on top of his desk.


[01:37.10]I must have asked him a thousand times what was inside.


[01:40.59]All he’d ever tell me was, ‘The thing I value most.’


[01:44.29]Now I’ll never know what was so valuable to him,” Jack said.


[01:48.21]It had been about two weeks since Mr. Belser died.


[01:51.91]One day Jack discovered a parcel list in his mailbox.


[01:56.26]Early the next day Jack retrieved 5 the package.


[01:59.86]The handwriting was difficult to read, but the return address caught his attention.


[02:04.54]“Mr. Harold Belser,” it read.


[02:07.59]Jack tore it open. There inside was the gold box and an envelope.


[02:12.93]Jack’s hands shook as he read the note inside.


[02:15.76]“Upon my death please forward this box to Jack Bennett.


[02:20.99]It’s the thing I value most in my life.”


[02:23.70]His heart raced as tears filled his eyes.


[02:27.73]Jack carefully unlocked 6 the box. There inside he found a beautiful gold pocket watch.


[02:33.95]He opened the cover. Inside he found these words engraved 7: “Jack, Thanks for your time! — Harold Belser.”


[02:42.82]“The thing he valued most...was...my time.”


[02:48.28]Jack held the watch for a few minutes, then called his office and cleared his appointments for the next two days


[02:54.84]…he needed some time to spend with his wife and son.




1 jack
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
2 teaching
n.教学,执教,任教,讲授;(复数)教诲
  • We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
  • He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。
3 doorway
n.门口,(喻)入门;门路,途径
  • They huddled in the shop doorway to shelter from the rain.他们挤在商店门口躲雨。
  • Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.玛丽突然出现在门口。
4 dimension
n.尺寸,长(或宽、深、厚)度;大小,程度
  • A third dimension has been recently added,that of service.最近又提出了第三方面的需求,即服务的需要。
  • Length is one dimension,and breadth is another.长是一种度量,宽又是另一种度量。
5 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
6 unlocked
v.开锁( unlock的过去式和过去分词 );开启;揭开;开着,解开
  • Don't leave your desk unlocked. 请不要忘记锁好办公桌。
  • On no account should you leave the door unlocked. 你无论如何也不应该不锁门。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 engraved
v.在(硬物)上雕刻(字,画等)( engrave的过去式和过去分词 );将某事物深深印在(记忆或头脑中)
  • The silver cup was engraved with his name. 银杯上刻有他的名字。
  • It was prettily engraved with flowers on the back. 此件雕刻精美,背面有花饰图案。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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-philous
ablewe
African grape
amylolytic ferment
anisotropic field
antenna pedestal
anti-Witness
artistate
assorted vegetable
back arc
backing bur
bashin
becoming
blastocladia globosa
bureacracy
celio
channa dal
colour fastness to daylight
Colônia, R.
constant level tank
conventional non-tripping current
conversion parity
corregidors
counter-file
damaged coin
data value
daucus carota sativas
deep thinker
definite clause
diphysicum fulvifolium mitt.
disposal of stolen goods
dry(weight) basis
dual amplification
elucidatorily
enquire into
equivatlent momory order
Escherich's bacillus
eucast
expelling charge
factor intensity
fight like Kilkenny cats
fissiparation
fissocantharis piluchiensis
florissants
flyperson
Fuhrberg
gaura
genus Melolontha
good humour
Hailey-Hailey disease
horizontal flyback transformer
hot under the collar
hydraulic damping device
indicator gun laying
ineducable
jacket passage
Katayga
knowledge audit
lay wait for
lewiss
lithic acid
low thermal expansion
macrolichen
March King
melander
Microsoft Dynamics
natural earthquake
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noninsured
oil-rigs
old neighborhood
omniformity
ovipositor
oxygen debts
page memory management unit
panic of a falling market
parallel resonance impedance
Pededze
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pin stripe
points in the paint
political events
polycanthagyna ornithocephala
polyenergetic radiation
proposition of law
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random network hypothesis
rudners
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sabre fencing
service library
sex-fair
sodium system
stability rule
superiorities
TC
tranship cargo (goods)
transition series
transverse muscle of tongue
type safety
water-soluble halogen