时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:晨读英语美文60篇


英语课

Attacked by a Butterfly


 Walking down a path through some woods in Georgia, I saw a water puddle 1 ahead. I angled my direction to go around it. As I reached the puddle, I was suddenly attacked! Yet I did nothing for the attack was so unpredictable and from a source so totally unexpected. I was startled as well as unhurt, despite having been struck four or five times already. I backed up a foot and my attacker stopped attacking me. Instead of attacking more, he hovered 2 in the air on graceful 3 butterfly wings in front of me. Had I been hurt I wouldn’t have found it amusing, but I was unhurt, and I was laughing. After all, I was being attacked by a butterfly!


 Having stopped laughing, I took a step forward. My attacker rushed me again. He rammed 4 me in the chest with his head and body, striking me over and over again with all his might, still to no avail.


 For a second time, I retreated a step while my attacker relented in his attack. Yet again, I tried moving forward. My attacker charged me again. I was rammed in the chest over and over again. I wasn’t sure what to do, other than to retreat a third time. After all, it’s just not everyday that one is attacked by a butterfly. This time, though, I stepped back several paces to look the situation over. My attacker moved back as well to land on the ground. That’s when I discovered why my attacker was charging me only moments earlier. He had a mate and she was dying. She was beside the puddle where he landed.Sitting close beside her, he opened and closed his wings as if to fan her.


 I could only admire the love and courage of that butterfly in his concern for his mate. He had taken it upon himself to attack me for his mate’s sake, even though she was clearly dying and I was so large. He did so just to give her those extra few precious moments of life, should I have been careless enough to step on her.


 Now I knew why and what he was fighting for. There was really only one option left for me. I carefully made my way around the puddle to the other side of the path, though it was only inches wide and extremely muddy. His courage in attacking something thousands of times larger and heavier than himself just for his mate’s safety justified 5 it. I couldn’t do anything other than reward him by walking on the more difficult side of the puddle. He had truly earned those moments to be with her, undisturbed. I left them in peace for those last few moments, cleaning the mud from my boots when I later reached my car. Since then, I’ve always tried to remember the courage of that butterfly whenever I see huge obstacles facing me.


 I use that butterfly’s courage as an inspiration and to remind myself that good things are worth fighting for.



n.(雨)水坑,泥潭
  • The boy hopped the mud puddle and ran down the walk.这个男孩跳过泥坑,沿着人行道跑了。
  • She tripped over and landed in a puddle.她绊了一下,跌在水坑里。
鸟( hover的过去式和过去分词 ); 靠近(某事物); (人)徘徊; 犹豫
  • A hawk hovered over the hill. 一只鹰在小山的上空翱翔。
  • A hawk hovered in the blue sky. 一只老鹰在蓝色的天空中翱翔。
adj.优美的,优雅的;得体的
  • His movements on the parallel bars were very graceful.他的双杠动作可帅了!
  • The ballet dancer is so graceful.芭蕾舞演员的姿态是如此的优美。
v.夯实(土等)( ram的过去式和过去分词 );猛撞;猛压;反复灌输
  • Two passengers were injured when their taxi was rammed from behind by a bus. 公共汽车从后面撞来,出租车上的两位乘客受了伤。
  • I rammed down the earth around the newly-planted tree. 我将新栽的树周围的土捣硬。 来自《简明英汉词典》
a.正当的,有理的
  • She felt fully justified in asking for her money back. 她认为有充分的理由要求退款。
  • The prisoner has certainly justified his claims by his actions. 那个囚犯确实已用自己的行动表明他的要求是正当的。
学英语单词
abranchiates
Acer tenellum
acid-consuming
Adinandra formosana
afkacs
Alta California
aramus guaraunas
averter
bitter fleabance
bozorgmehr
brezhnevite
cc(congestion ceased)
CEA (control element assembly)
checked into
concurrent application
deauthorised
dependency population
distance visions
endomorphism ring
eous
equidistant scale
Eucaulen
evacuation fan
exigendary
fantasy test
fart sucker
garniture of boiler
glaucescens
grease one's palm
hand horse clipper
have a choice
heave mode
helical fash lamp
horserider
hyperchromic group
impacting gear
import inflation
incidental work
inngendure
instant of failure
inundable
jack leg
Johnson slasher
jury array
key reference
knephopelagic
Lenhartz diet
lower crown height
manufacturing policy
marginal cost pricing in practice
Mavume
memory channel
metral leaflet
milling cutter shank
minmaxer
monolithic microwave integrated circuit amplifier
myriachit
nicads
no such
Omphalogramma minus
onthophagus (matashia) yubarinus
operating bypass
oven-fried
parupeneus pleurostigma
pelfrey
photoblepharons
piecrust promise
Piper forceps
place under guardianship
plot of residuals
portias
precision of calibration model
production model
progerias
propitiator
prose
quenching and age hardening
rabejacite
radiata pine
radioactive daughter element
rain making
recans
redmaidss
sajous
Severnyye Uvaly
sine wave response
slant range for antennal measurement
sperm cells
start at the bottom
station coordinate
sternocostal ligaments
swarthinesses
teno-
thortveitites
took a hike
trade-school
treeing
Trieste, Prov.di
trio sonatas
tsataensis
unerrable
wilkeite (var. apatite)