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》
学英语单词
a streaker
a.m.
adenanthrea microsperma l.
AGA,A.G.A.
air cleaner
annual ring density
Bayerbach bei Ergoldsbach
Bence-Jones protein
blacklers
cagewashes
cartographic design
cerebral irritation
chief executives
ciprofibrate
clutter rejection
coherent brittle stage
commutator-controlled weld
cryogenic technology
digital to image conversion
discipleships
double faced hammer
dress
drewe
Dunnet
eeps
efficiency factor
enthalpy of swelling
equatorial system
exterior varnish
exult over
farigue
Fat Analysis Committee colour
flat billet
get his
Gojra
graynet
Guaranteed Death Benefit
half-binding
hexaquarks
high-sulphur fuel
improvement by lessee
injector feed
interaction volume
intoxilyzer
IP fragmentation IP
key variable
korahl
leakage spectrum
lenslets
linolenate
logolepsy
long - term care
loop termination
lql
lutnick
malgwyn
material for test
Medveditskiy
Metroval
mintels
miscellaneous asbestos product
Neolitsea pinninervis
newbattles
non-dividend payee
operational technical manual
penetration of grease
pole setting
pretell
primary mother-tree selection
production strategies
psauoscopy
Qarshi
random noise level
reference oscillator muting
reservoir sensitivity evaluation
reversible code
roller-ball
runners
salty milk
scarifie
see sth with half an eye
sentenceable
shilt
Shimabara-hantō
simple radical
special transfer paper
steinhausers
sulphur cement mortar anchor
superefficiency
temperature classification
thelephoid
theory of growth
thermal processes
thrash over
tooth abscess
USB stick
velascas
vermilions
voltaic irritability
wad hamid
with expedition
zygoplast