时间:2019-01-01 作者:英语课 分类:语言的力量


英语课
[00:00.00]Most Beautiful People 最美的人们
[00:10.66]The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat,
[00:15.46]suffering, struggle, loss,
[00:17.22]and have found their way out of the depths.
[00:19.73]These persons have an appreciation,
[00:22.26]a sensitivity and an understanding of life
[00:25.64]that fills them with compassion 1, gentleness,
[00:28.72]and a deep loving concern.
[00:30.34]A Boy Named Sparky 一个叫斯帕基的男孩
[00:37.02]For Sparky, school was all but impossible.
[00:41.28]He failed every subject in the eighth grade.
[00:44.14]He flunked 2 physics in high school,
[00:45.98]getting a grade of zero.
[00:47.52]Sparky also flunked Latin, algebra 3, and English.
[00:50.90]He didn’t do much better in sports.
[00:52.99]Although he did manage to make the school’s golf team,
[00:56.04]he promptly 4 lost the only important match of the season.
[00:59.34]There was consolation 5 match;
[01:01.51]he lost that too.
[01:02.72]Throughout his youth Sparky was awkward socially.
[01:06.10]He was not actually disliked by the other students;
[01:08.74]no one cared that much.
[01:10.26]He was astonished if a classmate ever said hello
[01:13.22]to him outside of school hours.
[01:14.98]There’s no way to tell how he might have done at dating.
[01:18.03]Sparky never once asked a girl to go out in high school.
[01:21.52]He was too afraid of being turned down.
[01:23.72]Sparky was a loser.
[01:25.68]He, his classmates…everyone knew it.
[01:28.53]So he rolled with it.
[01:30.18]Sparky had made up his mind early in life that
[01:32.90]if things were meant to work out,
[01:34.44]they would.
[01:35.43]Otherwise he would content himself
[01:37.16]with what appeared to be his inevitable 6 mediocrity.
[01:39.58]However, one thing was important to Sparky—drawing.
[01:43.73]He was proud of his artwork.
[01:45.60]Of course,no one else appreciated it.
[01:47.78]In his senior year of high school,
[01:50.08]he submitted some cartoons to the editors of the yearbook.
[01:53.25]The cartoons were turned down.
[01:55.12]Despite this particular rejection,
[01:57.51]Sparky was so convinced of his ability
[02:00.04]that he decided 7 to become a professional artist.
[02:02.98]After completing high school,
[02:05.73]he wrote a letter to Walt Disney Studios.
[02:08.01]He was told to send some samples of his artwork,
[02:10.76]and the subject for a cartoon was suggested.
[02:13.48]Sparky drew the proposed cartoon.
[02:16.12]He spent a great deal of time on it
[02:18.76]and on all the other drawings he submitted.
[02:21.15]Finally, the reply came from Disney Studios.
[02:24.13]He had been rejected once again.
[02:26.63]Another loss for the loser.
[02:28.49]So Sparky decided to write his own autobiography 8 in cartoons.
[02:32.76]He described his childhood self—
[02:35.39]a little boy loser and chronic 9 underachiever.
[02:38.56]The cartoon character would soon become famous worldwide.
[02:42.05]For Sparky, the boy who had such lack of success in school and whose work
[02:47.09]was rejected again and again was Charles Schulz.
[02:50.79]He created the Peanuts comic strip and the little cartoon character
[02:54.64]whose kite would never fly
[02:56.48]and who never succeeded in kicking a football—Charlie Brown.


n.同情,怜悯
  • He could not help having compassion for the poor creature.他情不自禁地怜悯起那个可怜的人来。
  • Her heart was filled with compassion for the motherless children.她对于没有母亲的孩子们充满了怜悯心。
v.( flunk的过去式和过去分词 );(使)(考试、某学科的成绩等)不及格;评定(某人)不及格;(因不及格而) 退学
  • I flunked math in second grade. 我二年级时数学不及格。
  • He flunked out (of college) last year. 他去年(从大学)退学了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.代数学
  • He was not good at algebra in middle school.他中学时不擅长代数。
  • The boy can't figure out the algebra problems.这个男孩做不出这道代数题。
adv.及时地,敏捷地
  • He paid the money back promptly.他立即还了钱。
  • She promptly seized the opportunity his absence gave her.她立即抓住了因他不在场给她创造的机会。
n.安慰,慰问
  • The children were a great consolation to me at that time.那时孩子们成了我的莫大安慰。
  • This news was of little consolation to us.这个消息对我们来说没有什么安慰。
adj.不可避免的,必然发生的
  • Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
  • The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
n.自传
  • He published his autobiography last autumn.他去年秋天出版了自己的自传。
  • His life story is recounted in two fascinating volumes of autobiography.这两卷引人入胜的自传小说详述了他的生平。
adj.(疾病)长期未愈的,慢性的;极坏的
  • Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
  • Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition.慢性中毒也可能由虚弱导致死亡。
学英语单词
acting as a principal
air-blast thawer
alternate character set handling scheme
amedoes
aminoester
analogue back-up
arabian gum
asiasarum
Bangkong, Sungai
boiler evaporative test
bruggink
caesiation
caloristat
carapax
cateries
central injection
central partition plate
chestnutwood
common depreciation
comparator device
confuscates
crack sb up
crater index
critical compressive force
deboshment
deflavour
differential equation with retarded argument
differential transformer extensometer
dimuriate
drawing no
drostanolone
E.S.C.
early seasonal strain
EBRD
epicurising
european projection
eye visible crack
false reflectoin
federation of african film makers
ferchat
foodseller
friction snap latch
Gadstrup
Gen-saki
glylco-
grilled Cheesus
hard film rust preventive oil
Hlawga
horizontal path
hypothesised
income and expenditure statement
inga
jumpest
KHR
laser current transformer
limiting control action
lion-huntings
lsit of drivers
mallea
maximum historical flood
methylacetone
muddle-pated
navigation in heavy weather
nerville
net rated capacity
nicuesa
Novamat
output stage
pallor
paternal aunts
perpent
phase of echo
pigmentum iodi compositum
pineal organ
pleuronectiforms
primary gill rakers
prism turntable
pro-sentences
quasi-federalist
radius of affine curvature
rebuyers
rufol
scoashes
self-tightening seal
separation elements
solemniser
special parliamentary procedure
starter motor cover
statistical validity
steam-mixer
symbolic learning
Terrabacter
tournament sort
Tragulus kanchil
tricks
v.32bis
vena metacarpus
warp bridge
wasms
welcomest
whereround
yoho