时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[00:00.21]14.Christmas Is for Love


[00:05.65]Christmas is for joy, for giving and sharing, for laughter, for reuniting with family and friends, for brightly decorated packages.


[00:16.43]But mostly, Christmas is for love. I had not believed this until a small elf-like student gave me a wonderful gift on Christmas.


[00:27.43]Mark was an 11 year old orphan 1. He was a sweet and gentle child.


[00:32.55]I had not noticed Mark particularly until he began staying after class each day to help me straighten up the room.


[00:40.82]We did this quietly, not speaking much.


[00:43.98]When we did talk, Mark spoke 2 mostly of his mother.


[00:48.01]Though he was quite small when she died, he remembered a kind, gentle, loving woman.


[00:53.89]As Christmas drew near however, Mark failed to stay after school each day.


[00:59.23]I looked forward to his coming, and when the days passed and he continued to scamper 3 hurriedly from the room after class,


[01:06.09]I stopped him one afternoon and asked why he no longer helped me in the room.


[01:10.77]I told him how much I had missed him, and his large gray eyes lit up eagerly as he replied, “Did you really miss me?”


[01:18.61]“I was making you a surprise,” he whispered confidentially 4, “It’s for Christmas.”


[01:25.03]With that, he became embarrassed and dashed from the room.


[01:28.85]He didn’t stay after school any more after that.


[01:32.33]Finally came the last school day before Christmas.


[01:36.25]Mark crept slowly into the room that afternoon with his hands concealing 5 something behind his back.


[01:42.34]“I have your present,” he said timidly 6, “I hope you like it.”


[01:47.57]He held out his hands, and there lying in his small palms was a tiny wooden box.


[01:53.34]“It’s beautiful, Mark. Is there something in it?”


[01:56.50]I asked opening the top to look inside.


[01:59.01]“Oh, you can’t see what’s in it,”


[02:01.08]He replied, “and you can’t touch it, or taste it or feel it,


[02:04.89]but mother always said it makes you feel good all the time, warm on cold nights, and safe when you’re all alone.”


[02:12.73]I gazed into the empty box.


[02:15.67]“What is it Mark,” I asked gently, “that will make me feel so good?”


[02:20.59]“It’s love,” he whispered softly, “and mother always said it’s best when you give it away.”


[02:27.59]And he turned and quietly left the room.


[02:30.32]So now I keep a small box crudely made of wood on the piano in my living room.


[02:36.34]Yes, Christmas is for gaiety and song, for good and wonderful gifts.


[02:42.02]But mostly, Christmas is for love.




1 orphan
n.孤儿;adj.无父母的
  • He brought up the orphan and passed onto him his knowledge of medicine.他把一个孤儿养大,并且把自己的医术传给了他。
  • The orphan had been reared in a convent by some good sisters.这个孤儿在一所修道院里被几个好心的修女带大。
2 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
3 scamper
v.奔跑,快跑
  • She loves to scamper through the woods of the forest.她喜欢在森林里的树林中穿梭嬉戏。
  • The flash sent the foxes scampering away.闪光惊得狐狸四处逃窜。
4 confidentially
ad.秘密地,悄悄地
  • She was leaning confidentially across the table. 她神神秘秘地从桌子上靠过来。
  • Kao Sung-nien and Wang Ch'u-hou talked confidentially in low tones. 高松年汪处厚两人低声密谈。
5 concealing
v.隐藏,隐瞒,遮住( conceal的现在分词 )
  • Despite his outward display of friendliness, I sensed he was concealing something. 尽管他表现得友善,我还是感觉到他有所隐瞒。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • SHE WAS BREAKING THE COMPACT, AND CONCEALING IT FROM HIM. 她违反了他们之间的约定,还把他蒙在鼓里。 来自英汉文学 - 三万元遗产
6 timidly
adv.胆小地,羞怯地
  • She knocked timidly on the study door and entered. 她小心翼翼地敲了敲书房门然后进去了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The child glanced at his angry father timidly. 孩子怯生生地瞟了一眼怒气冲冲的父亲。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
accelerated soundness test
aechmea
aerophotogrammetrical survey
allaborate
amalgamation barrel
Ambient Temperature Sensor
anador
aneroid sensor
B.Mus
Barrier's vacuoles
be a licence to print money
bell-shaped valve
bits about bits
caeca
canal cover plate
Capitoulate
carpospores
cavitation damage test
chalk-talk
characterizability
code oscillator
coumaric
decorative veneer
deleteries
Dhollera cotton
diagnostic modeling
disclinated
doubled over
earth turrets
entry into service
error extention
ferrite stabilizer
fish-belly sill
flexicurity
GaAlAs laser
Gallup poll
gatsbyesque
genus ceibas
gustafs
Gymnospermophyta
hosny
ignited soil
image area test
imperil
indissociably
infobot
instrument direction
interdomain routing protocol
iso-aconitine
liqueur glasses
lischer
luo-magnesite
mambo dzhambo (w. sudan)
microtransformation
motorbiked
myxoxanthine
natural wonders
non-degradable
nonconstructive
Ostericum grosseserratum
Oudega
out connector
oxycarburetted
palatal sound
patricentric
patronym
petak
project construction manager
provings
pueriles
pulse-height discriminator
querulants
random-access programming
sarumen
scintillation analysis
second intermediate rolls
secondary word
service list
sex-education
shrinkage losses
sonantic
Strategic Air Command photograph network
stress evasion
styrenedivinylbenzene
subbas
sulphur-dioxides
supersaturation of magma
table vice for wood working
taxonomic frequency rate
tickler files
tilted blade
topology of homogeneous space
total heat input
tragomaschalia
transacetylases
transfer point
Vaccinium subfalcatum
waterfront
Whangaparaoa Pen.
York gum
zest
zivonik