时间:2019-01-01 作者:英语课 分类:语言的力量


英语课
[00:03.33]Dr. Gibbs吉布斯医生
[00:05.06]When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs.
[00:10.43]He was very nice, and never yelled at us for playing in his yard.
[00:14.36]When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees.
[00:19.17]His house sat on ten acres, and his life’s goal was to make it a forest.
[00:24.64]He never watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom.
[00:29.56]Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them,
[00:34.18]and that if you water them, each successive tree generation will grow weaker and weaker.
[00:39.07]So you have to make things rough for them and weed out the weenie trees early on.
[00:43.90]He talked about how watering trees made for shallow roots,
[00:48.39]and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of moisture.
[00:52.65]I took him to mean that deep roots were to be treasured.
[00:56.14]So he never watered his trees.
[00:58.67]He’d planted an oak and, instead of watering it every morning,
[01:01.72]he’d beat it with a rolled-up newspaper.
[01:03.81]Smack! Slap! Pow! I asked him why he did that,
[01:08.29]and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.
[01:10.68]Dr. Gibbs went to glory a couple of years after I left home.
[01:14.53]Every now and again, I walked by his house and looked at the trees
[01:18.35]that I’d watched him plant some twenty-five years ago.
[01:20.52]They’re granite 1 strong now. Big and robust 2.
[01:24.04]I planted a couple of trees a few years back.
[01:27.53]Carried water to them for a solid summer. Sprayed them. Prayed over them. The whole nine yards.
[01:32.79]Two years of coddling has resulted in trees that expect to be waited on hand and foot.
[01:38.14]Whenever a cold wind blows in, they tremble and chatter 3 their branches.
[01:42.74]Funny things about those trees of Dr. Gibbs’.
[01:45.92]Adversity and deprivation 4 seemed to benefit them in ways comfort and ease never could.
[01:51.15]Every night before I go to bed, I pray for my two sons.
[01:55.22]Mostly I pray that their lives will be easy.
[01:58.16]But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s time to change my prayer.
[02:01.54]So I’m changing my prayer. Because life is tough, whether we want it to be or not.
[02:06.68]Too many times we pray for ease, but that’s a prayer seldom met.
[02:11.61]What we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep into life,
[02:15.78]so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won’t be swept asunder 5.

adj.花岗岩,花岗石
  • They squared a block of granite.他们把一块花岗岩加工成四方形。
  • The granite overlies the older rocks.花岗岩躺在磨损的岩石上面。
adj.强壮的,强健的,粗野的,需要体力的,浓的
  • She is too tall and robust.她个子太高,身体太壮。
  • China wants to keep growth robust to reduce poverty and avoid job losses,AP commented.美联社评论道,中国希望保持经济强势增长,以减少贫困和失业状况。
vi./n.喋喋不休;短促尖叫;(牙齿)打战
  • Her continuous chatter vexes me.她的喋喋不休使我烦透了。
  • I've had enough of their continual chatter.我已厌烦了他们喋喋不休的闲谈。
n.匮乏;丧失;夺去,贫困
  • Many studies make it clear that sleep deprivation is dangerous.多实验都证实了睡眠被剥夺是危险的。
  • Missing the holiday was a great deprivation.错过假日是极大的损失。
adj.分离的,化为碎片
  • The curtains had been drawn asunder.窗帘被拉向两边。
  • Your conscience,conviction,integrity,and loyalties were torn asunder.你的良心、信念、正直和忠诚都被扯得粉碎了。
学英语单词
al-amarah
antilabour
Araka
asamblea
autosuggestive
bang head against
Belg
blade with stepped root
bottom inner casing
bronnert process
buttillaries
calsey
Christia obcordata
coincidence factor
cone-apex angle
control of nematode
crude-copper
crustal disturbance
cultivated grassland
curry muncher
cyberbanks
digitalia
discharage
dredging equipment
drying hopper
dzhou
earthing installation
eclipse end
ecocritical
electronic punch
Eugaimardia
film scribing
fornicate
frances elizabeth caroline willards
Fugo
Garnet-jade
gear-stocking cutter
grade compensation
guttae argenti nitratis
Honeywell file access system
Hubble Atlas
hyalitis punctata
improper installation
infrared-guided missile
inter specified index
islet cell transplantation
Jackson's candle turbidimeter
Jerichoite
kidney tubules
Kwania, L.
leached
low-ceilinged
machinery classification certificate
make perfect
mononuclear leukocyte
moving coordinate
mucoraceaes
oil-gas anticlinal deposit
oner
oriente
output register empty
parlier
parroket, parroquet
periodograms
perturbant
pig-run
plasma lemma(seifriz 1928)'plasma membrane
polar code
polyvinyl acetate resin adhesive
Primula epilithica
pseudoglaucoma
psoralea esculentas
pyrolytic gas chromatography
relman
Rhododendron pemakoense
rough-terrain truck
SAP97
Scaliger, Joseph Justus
schwedler
seeming
show ankle
sialis lutarias
Staroye Maksimkino
str/n mouse
submitting entity
subroutine analyzer
supporting block for location
swing link guide
thermal chemical vapor deposition
thermocople junction
three-point attitude
threw her weight around
transposition type
triophosphoramide
turbocompressors
utility tape processor
vestigital sideband
water proofing of basement
wavelength resolution
way-going crop
wheat consumption
yellow tail