时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


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"Happy birthday! This is your dad calling," Dad said. Dad always identified himself, as if after 60 years Joel didn't recognize his own dad's voice. "Well, you're getting pretty old, aren't you?" Dad asked.


"I sure am," Joel said. "In fact, I'm the same age you were 20 years ago!"


"Yes, who'd ever think that they wished they were 60 again," said his dad. "This aging process is certainly no fun."


"You can say that again," Joel said. But as they say, it's a lot better than the alternative 1. As long as you're reasonably healthy in mind and body. They both agreed.


His dad and mom were still quite active. They lived together in their house. They both drove 2. They both played golf regularly 3 and were active volunteers in the community.


But, such independence would not last forever. Both of them would eventually need part-time or full-time 4 nursing 5 assistance 6 at home, or maybe even have to be moved into a nursing home.


What a quiet end that will be, Joel thought, to such fun, productive 7, and eventful lives. Lying in a bed in a nursing home, waiting for relatives and friends to come visit. Waiting for the nurse’s aide to bring medication, dinner, or an extra blanket. Waiting for help to use the bathroom.


Much of that time spent waiting would also be spent in thought. What do people think about when they know their time is almost up, Joel wondered.


 



n.两者挑一的,可供选择的;adj.选择性的,二中择一的
  • There was no alternative for them to vote in favor.他们别无选择,只有投票赞成。
  • She had no alternative but to ask for a few days'leave.实在不得已,她只好请几天假。
vbl.驾驶,drive的过去式;n.畜群
  • He drove at a speed of sixty miles per hour.他以每小时60英里的速度开车。
  • They drove foreign goods out of the market.他们把外国货驱逐出市场。
adv.有规则地,一丝不苟地,正式地
  • Check the engine oil level regularly.要时常检查机油量。
  • We meet regularly to discuss business.我们定期会面讨论事务。
adj.满工作日的或工作周的,全时间的
  • A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
  • I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作,我不知道她是如何对付的。
n.看护,养育,授乳
  • She takes up nursing as a career.她以看护为职业。
  • They trained her for nursing.他们培训她做护理工作。
n.援助,帮助
  • She called and called but no one came to her assistance.她叫了又叫,但没有人来帮。
  • He will get the great possible assistance.他将获得尽可能大的帮助。
adj.能生产的,有生产价值的,多产的
  • We had a productive meeting that solved some problems.我们开了一个富有成效的会议,解决了一些问题。
  • Science and technology are part of the productive forces.科学技术是生产力。
学英语单词
achmores
acpuired
additional expenses-strikes
agonothetes
ajmalin
amperometric method
andriatry
anesthesia paralysis
antall
application in the planting hole
ardilas
Attert
Balladonia
be on relief
belandre
bluff bit
change password
chase ports
chemically precipitate metal powder
Claudius cells
cocks of the walk
code bases
combine dimensions
continuous casting steel machine
Dealer's Deposits Fund
delete lines command
dermatofibroma
dinitro-fluoroaniline
don bacteria
Dowell
dunker
Eurya metcalfiana
family naticidaes
fatti
feudal-absolutist state
field-weakening region
flow lines
forest assistant
gas and steam combined cycle
go snacks
Google Docs
Haripād
hasten to sb's assistance
hearth number
hull girder vibration
HVDC coupling station
incomparabilities
interrupt analysis
isopathic immunization
Kanasing
kayal
Kyōto-shi
liberty spike
lift scheme
light pole
lightninglike
lunkhead
macoradical
market-maker, marketmaker
morali
Mughayrā'
mutineer
mycosphaerella imperatae
nelan
nil ductility transition
niobian
noncentrosymmetric structure
nonpresence
o?litic limestion
off-colo(u)r product
overall approximation
partial deck
patheticly
pectography
phago-
pico-katals
Placido's disk
polarchy
polyundecylamide fibre
possessioning
projective operator
puzzle ... head
reprivatise
resonance structures
saprobic animal
scalariform marking
simple oxygen system
skin pathology
stator ring
stereocartograf
stick at itiveness
surrenderee
sways
the coming of
trampoosing
type of decay
underground facility arrangement
upward dislocation
vasomotor rhinitis
warty tuberculosis
western
yiz