时间:2019-01-01 作者:英语课 分类:语言的力量


英语课
[00:00.00]A Kind Word 友善的话语
[00:09.22]A successful businessman,
[00:12.42]addressing the commercial club of his city,
[00:15.98]told a story of an orphan 1 named Jim,
[00:17.95]who was the laughing stock of the whole town.
[00:20.74]Jim was 12,
[00:22.03]and he never remembered having a kind word spoken to him in his whole life.
[00:27.83]One day as Jim walked down the street,
[00:31.13]he saw a bundle slip from the overloaded 2 arms of a little lady just in front of him.
[00:37.14]As she stooped to pick it up,
[00:39.65]the others rolled down.
[00:41.30]Jim sprang to her assistance,
[00:43.80]gathering up the bundles and replacing them in her arms.
[00:47.62]“Thank you, dear;
[00:49.82]you are a nice little boy,”
[00:51.58]she said kindly,
[00:52.87]and went on her way after giving him a bright smile.
[00:56.50]Jim was amazed;
[00:58.24]a queer choky feeling passed over him.
[01:01.31]These were the first kind words
[01:04.25]he had ever heard in his whole twelve years of existence.
[01:08.30]He stood and stared after her.
[01:10.82]He knew that she was the busy little dressmaker
[01:13.98]who lived in a small cottage on the outskirts 3 of town.
[01:17.39]He watched her until she was out of sight,
[01:20.66]then he made straight for the woods and a stream that wound around the town.
[01:25.04]He sat down on the bank of the stream and did some thinking.
[01:29.63]“Thank you, dear; you are a nice little boy,”
[01:33.12]he pondered.
[01:34.55]Finally the boy pulled from his pockets
[01:37.30]a piece of broken mirror and looked at himself.
[01:40.13]He saw nothing but grime and dirt.
[01:43.51]He went down to the water’s edge and scrubbed it off carefully,
[01:47.69]almost painfully.
[01:49.31]Then he looked again.
[01:50.74]He scarcely recognized himself.
[01:53.38]He stood erect 4 and looked up instead of down for the first time since he could remember.
[02:00.15]He distinctly liked the sensation.
[02:03.22]A feeling of self-respect awoke within his being.
[02:07.70]Ambition sprang full-grown into life.
[02:10.97]At that moment the course of his life was changed;
[02:14.47]a determination to be worthy 5 of the kind words spoken to him by the little dress maker,
[02:21.25]and to pass them on, took possession of his soul.
[02:24.52]After telling this story of Jim,
[02:27.60]the speaker paused;
[02:29.58]and then he electrified 6 the audience by saying,
[02:32.00]“Gentlemen, I was that boy.
[02:35.27]That gentle woman implanted in my life the first seed of kindness.
[02:40.85]As a tribute to her memory I have told you this story.”
[02:44.56]Oh, if all of us would learn the lesson:
[02:48.19]“Say kind words to others.”
[02:50.80]What transforming power it has!


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。
a.超载的,超负荷的
  • He's overloaded with responsibilities. 他担负的责任过多。
  • She has overloaded her schedule with work, study, and family responsibilities. 她的日程表上排满了工作、学习、家务等,使自己负担过重。
n.郊外,郊区
  • Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
  • They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。
n./v.树立,建立,使竖立;adj.直立的,垂直的
  • She held her head erect and her back straight.她昂着头,把背挺得笔直。
  • Soldiers are trained to stand erect.士兵们训练站得笔直。
adj.(of)值得的,配得上的;有价值的
  • I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
  • There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。
v.使电气化( electrify的过去式和过去分词 );使兴奋
  • The railway line was electrified in the 1950s. 这条铁路线在20世纪50年代就实现了电气化。
  • The national railway system has nearly all been electrified. 全国的铁路系统几乎全部实现了电气化。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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abrupt deceleration vehicle
achromachia
apacked
Auricularia auricula
australian pitcher plants
Avast hauling!
bepuff
beslabbered
buffered filter paper
Bulgarevo
buoyancy curve
cadmium sulphide
Catalpa L.
chrysandiol
Congo floor maggot
DC electric propulsion plant
defilippis
ecomil
eelworms
egg-white protein
engineering geological classification of rock mass
engraftment
eusebia
Evangelista Torricelli
evasion error
exponential expansion
fallopiuss
field-sequential system
fight up to the last ditch
final-year
fotp
geard
get a cold reception
guide block
hangava
hansler
harbo(u)r operational zone
Hemitrichia
heteragraft
high velocity liquid jet machining
high-voltage glow tube
hormone culture-medium
hydnocarpus wightiana bl.
hytners
I fear
illtempered
Indosasa patens
information given in a questionnaire
information retrieval system evaluation
initial steam admission
insoluble solides
irrigated soil
Kinnitty
Kolomonyi
lactic-acid
Lithocarpus
LVTR
magnetohydrodynamic propulsion plant
manganese(iv) silicide
marmalade trees
mattings
mesengium
microvoltmeter
monetizability
nanocavity
Newry Canal
non-zero restriction
oil lubricating system
onishi
optic integrated circuit
pellet mouldings
PGS (program generation system)
plesiotrochus acutangulus
prepacked with grease
prevailing price
prunus mume sieb.et zucc.var.tonsa rehd.
prunus mume var.bungo mak.
purplestreak alstroemeria
rag out
residentiaries
reverse pinocytosis
rizzle
ruscombe
sample grid reference
Sandnessjφen
sandy mushrooms
secondary process
sent out
sound intensity decay
sprawlings
statistical weights
strapped multiresonator circuit
subfraction
Suttsu
the top of
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top-fired boiler
triangulation balloon
unconquering
unfamiliarity
uredo cryptogrammes
Voidable Civil Act