时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:白领英语晨读


英语课
One of the most basic moral values for Americans is honesty. The well-known legend about George Washington and the cherry tree teaches this value clearly. Little George cut down his father’s favorite cherry tree while trying out his new hatchet 1. When his father asked him about it, George said, “I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my hatchet.” Instead of punishment, George received praise for telling the truth. Sometimes American honesty–being open and direct–can offend people. But Americans still believe that “honesty is the best policy.”

Another virtue 2 Americans respect is perseverance 3. Remember Aesop's fable 4 about the turtle and the rabbit that had a race? The rabbit thought he could win easily, so he took a nap. But the turtle finally won because he did not give up. Another story tells of a little train that had to climb a steep hill. The hill was so steep that the little train had a hard time trying to get over it. But the train just kept pulling, all the while saying, “I think I can, I think I can.” At last, the train was over the top of the hill. “I thought I could, I thought I could,” chugged the happy little train.

Compassion 5 may be the queen of American virtues 6. The story of “The Good Samaritan” from the Bible describes a man who showed compassion. On his way to a certain city, a Samaritan man found a poor traveler lying on the road. The traveler had been beaten and robbed. The kind Samaritan, instead of just passing by, stopped to help this person in need.

Compassion can even turn into a positive cycle. In fall 1992, people in Iowa sent truckloads of water to help Floridians hit by a hurricane. The next summer, during the Midwest flooding, Florida returned the favor. In less dramatic ways, millions of Americans are quietly passing along the kindnesses shown to them.

n.短柄小斧;v.扼杀
  • I shall have to take a hatchet to that stump.我得用一把短柄斧来劈这树桩。
  • Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.别用斧头拍打朋友额头上的苍蝇。
n.德行,美德;贞操;优点;功效,效力
  • He was considered to be a paragon of virtue.他被认为是品德尽善尽美的典范。
  • You need to decorate your mind with virtue.你应该用德行美化心灵。
n.坚持不懈,不屈不挠
  • It may take some perseverance to find the right people.要找到合适的人也许需要有点锲而不舍的精神。
  • Perseverance leads to success.有恒心就能胜利。
n.寓言;童话;神话
  • The fable is given on the next page. 这篇寓言登在下一页上。
  • He had some motive in telling this fable. 他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
n.同情,怜悯
  • He could not help having compassion for the poor creature.他情不自禁地怜悯起那个可怜的人来。
  • Her heart was filled with compassion for the motherless children.她对于没有母亲的孩子们充满了怜悯心。
美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处
  • Doctors often extol the virtues of eating less fat. 医生常常宣扬少吃脂肪的好处。
  • She delivered a homily on the virtues of family life. 她进行了一场家庭生活美德方面的说教。
学英语单词
.cod
airplane generator
all-white
alternating shift
armepavine
aryldihalogenoborine
basifugus
battery excited generator
Bemarsal
block exit and return
bonded zone
boolean-to-bits symbol
C.I.F. landed terms
chain adjuster
corneoscleral part
cross linking agent
crowded in on
deschampsias
dinitrophenyl protein
Dolinsk
draft capacity
duct of his
ectropothecium leptotapes
electrospark wire electrode cutting
endostea
endoxylina mori
enteric pathogenic bacteria
equal employment opportunity act
ethodryl
existing carrying capacity
extented aeration process
Fenindrone
fundamental system of neighbo(u)rhood
Gobiesox
goumbati mt.
green tip
Hadιm
half nut cam
haphazardously
hertztod
high speed packet switched data
houseworkers
hydrogen-ion indicator
invite trouble
keying wave
labiater
leaf-like
leiodid
lien (on goods)
marline spike hitch
mastonia restis
mean square error of side length
mitral valve dilator
mterclavicle
multiply doubleword
multipunctatuss
Myrtiflorae
nail pressing needle inserting
nfg
nickel carbon alloy
noncomplaining
nyctometer
Ocean Gate
overriding interest
pad of paper
pannel
Parisianness
peak-demand
Picrothomsonite
polerovirus beet western yellows virus
polygamo-monoecious
Qafar
radio chromatography
Razin effect
red-heeled
refractory coating
rental collections
reproductive bud
restrictor check valve
rod end yoke
rudistids
saint-mihiels
school of natural law
shortened spinning process
SIPTH
sonund wave
ST_travel_railway-workers
state agency
steering gear efficiency
stokes paradox
suspending number
ten-shillings
tergopore
time-sharing keyboard printer
tonsile
torsion-spasm
undershining
Vladimir Horowitz
wheelwrights
withdrawal method
wu p'i hsueh
Yuat