时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:智慧背囊超越自我


英语课
[00:03.81]Too Dear for the Whistle得不偿失
[00:06.88]When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers 1.
[00:14.34]I went at once to a shop where they sold toys for children.
[00:18.69] Being charmed with the sound of a whistle that I had seen by the way,
[00:22.87]in the hands of another boy,
[00:24.93]I handed over all my money for one.
[00:27.55] I then came home, and went whistling all over the house,
[00:31.92] much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family.
[00:36.19] My brothers and sisters and cousins,
[00:39.00] when I told of the bargain I had made,
[00:41.66]said I had given four times as much as the whistle was worth.
[00:46.00] They put me in mind of what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money,
[00:51.28]and laughed at me so much for my folly 2 that I cried with vexation.
[00:55.88]Thinking about the matter gave me more chagrin 3 than the whistle gave me pleasure.
[01:01.34]This, however, was afterwards of use to me,
[01:04.86]for the impression continued on my mind,
[01:07.80]so that often, when I was tempted 4 to buy something I did not need,
[01:12.07]I said to myself, “Don’t give too much for the whistle,” and I saved my money.
[01:17.86] As I grew up, came into the world,
[01:20.70]and observed the actions of men,
[01:22.78]I thought I met with many, very many, who “gave too much for the whistle”.
[01:28.25]If I knew a miser 5 who gave up every kind of comfortable living,
[01:33.00]all the pleasure of doing good to others,
[01:35.91]all the esteem 6 of his fellow citizens and the joys of friendship,
[01:40.50]for the sake of gathering 7 and keeping wealth—“Poor man,” said I,
[01:45.30]“you pay too dear for your whistle.”
[01:48.16] When I met a man of pleasure,
[01:50.13]who did not try to improve his mind or his fortune but merely devoted 8 himself to having a good time,
[01:56.58] perhaps neglecting his health,
[01:58.47]“Mistaken man,” said I,
[02:00.52]“you are providing pain for yourself,
[02:02.92]instead of pleasure;
[02:04.35]you are paying too dear for your whistle.”
[02:06.86]If I saw someone fond of appearance
[02:09.81]who had fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine earrings 9, all above his fortune,
[02:16.82]and for which he had run into debt,
[02:19.44]“Alas,” said I, “he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.”
[02:24.25] In short the miseries 10 of mankind are largely due to their putting a false value on things
[02:31.61]—to giving “too much for their whistles”.

铜( copper的名词复数 ); 铜币
  • I only paid a few coppers for it. 我只花了几个铜板买下这东西。
  • He had only a few coppers in his pocket. 他兜里仅有几个铜板。
n.愚笨,愚蠢,蠢事,蠢行,傻话
  • Learn wisdom by the folly of others.从别人的愚蠢行动中学到智慧。
  • Events proved the folly of such calculations.事情的进展证明了这种估计是愚蠢的。
n.懊恼;气愤;委屈
  • His increasingly visible chagrin sets up a vicious circle.他的明显的不满引起了一种恶性循环。
  • Much to his chagrin,he did not win the race.使他大为懊恼的是他赛跑没获胜。
v.怂恿(某人)干不正当的事;冒…的险(tempt的过去分词)
  • I was sorely tempted to complain, but I didn't. 我极想发牢骚,但还是没开口。
  • I was tempted by the dessert menu. 甜食菜单馋得我垂涎欲滴。
n.守财奴,吝啬鬼 (adj.miserly)
  • The miser doesn't like to part with his money.守财奴舍不得花他的钱。
  • The demon of greed ruined the miser's happiness.贪得无厌的恶习毁掉了那个守财奴的幸福。
n.尊敬,尊重;vt.尊重,敬重;把…看作
  • I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
  • The veteran worker ranks high in public love and esteem.那位老工人深受大伙的爱戴。
n.集会,聚会,聚集
  • He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
  • He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
adj.忠诚的,忠实的,热心的,献身于...的
  • He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
  • We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
n.耳环( earring的名词复数 );耳坠子
  • a pair of earrings 一对耳环
  • These earrings snap on with special fastener. 这付耳环是用特制的按扣扣上去的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.痛苦( misery的名词复数 );痛苦的事;穷困;常发牢骚的人
  • They forgot all their fears and all their miseries in an instant. 他们马上忘记了一切恐惧和痛苦。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • I'm suffering the miseries of unemployment. 我正为失业而痛苦。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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?-subunit
Acanthephippium sinense
amilorides
analytical geometry of space
Association of Oil Pipe Lines
at the furthest
automobilists
balanced incomplete type
Bartica
beautiness
bocion
bockwurst sausage
brownell
build up to
calorimotor
carrottop
caveator
continuity coefficient
core cavitation
correction and compensation device
counterextortion
cultural diffusions
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
Dazoxibin
DBMS drivers
dead water zone
dialling tones
dietary antigen
diguanidinobutanase
eclipsing star
Elliont type knuckle
equilibrium, temperature
erythrocythaemic
fdp management science
fruitshop
gear in train
grey-back
high quartz solid solution
hooking pass
Hungarian grass
incendiary leaf
incumbent upon
India lawn
iridium sulfite
j-invariant of elliptic curve
kulm
laid siege
lift distribution
low-order
major first face
meadow ferns
mid-latitudes
midget
multicolor emission
multident
multiviscosity oil
Ngoc My
non-independent accounting unit
nonweekly
objective force level
Okawville
P-T region
Pedicularis dolichoglossa
photoactive reaction
pipe valve tray
pointwise ergodic theorem
prolific writer
quinonyl
quotation board
rapid scanning spectrometer
rational form
reinforcement bending shed
remines
repressibility
riveros
Sena, R.
send back system
send sb into bankrupt
side toppling
startscummers
stiede
Stiegel, Henry William
stove drying
stress in beam
suirs
swab man
sweat over sth
swept
tabards
Take someone to the woodshed
Terezinha
theory of matrices
thiofuradene
tropical automatic weather station
tropicalist
tulie
ultrasonic cell disintegration
unirrigated soil
unlight
vieulence alteration
wage drift
wave length-ship length ratio