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
acute poisoning
agia
alirios
allan poe
ampholytic detergent
anti-politicss
articulation of shoulder
at closing time
Axis Power
bangana r.
barrenhood
black bombers
blerim
boom stick
boring spindle diameter
bull berry
cabelluda
character load routine
chemophobic
consumer aid
curcumbitate
current feed
danhasch
date time
death-wish
Demecastigmine
dihydroetrophine
direct mounting
dorsal trachea
drifting off
duty free-zone
e.r.
electric plating film disk
electro-beam floating zone melting
electromagnetic theory
enchondral ossification
FADU
flat cells
freezing interval
full legal tender
gas x-ray tube
haugan
hydro-vacuum brake
hypoxemic
incomplete tetanus
indelicato
indirect-fired furnace
influents
inside bank
instrument with electrostatic screening
ketatosis pharyngea
kibibyte
krasnozem
lap welded pipe
life saving ship
lip ring
liquid load
liquid phase epitaxial method
LP (local processor)
lysatin
MC'd
mean horizontal candles
motor caravan
muffle coat
Musculus bulbospongiosus
neuronography
nonsentience
off the board
oil man
open-web joist
organizational demography
orto
output matrix
oxacillin
passenger acceptance and load control
periscope television
Phichai
photocoagulating
pickup clutch
political interference
preeclampsias
quadratic form
quick-change gear
retarder solvent
roseners
shoulder carrying mower
sliderules
stannates
straetlingite (str?tlingite)
submodularity
Taan
thrust available
to slay
toy cap
unisokinetic sampling
upperbound
V.I.P.
Velimlje
VFIB/CA
western whiptail
whirrrr
xanthic ferralsols