温馨夜读 PART1 08 A Simple Gesture 举手之劳
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[00:00.88]A Simple Gesture 举手之劳
[00:08.64]Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed that
[00:13.35]the boy ahead of him had tripped and dropped all of the books he was carrying,
[00:18.16]along with two sweaters, a baseball bat, a glove and a small tape recorder.
[00:23.20]Mark knelt 1 down and helped the boy pick up the scattered 2 articles.
[00:27.35]Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry part of the burden 3.
[00:31.62]As they walked Mark discovered that the boy’s name was Bill,
[00:35.36]that he loved video games, baseball and history,
[00:38.73]that he was having a lot of trouble with his other subjects
[00:42.24]and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend.
[00:44.97]They arrived at Bill’s home first
[00:47.60]and Mark was invited in for a Coke and to watch some television.
[00:51.42]The afternoon passed pleasantly with a few laughs
[00:55.26]and some shared small talk, then Mark went home.
[00:58.53]They continued to see each other around school,
[01:01.71]had lunch together once or twice,
[01:04.03]then both graduated from junior high school.
[01:06.98]They ended up in the same high school
[01:09.30]where they had brief contacts over the years.
[01:12.67]Finally the long awaited 4 senior 5 year came, and three weeks before graduation,
[01:17.49]Bill asked Mark if they could talk.
[01:19.67]Bill reminded him of the day years ago when they had first met.
[01:24.16]“Do you ever wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day?”asked Bill.
[01:29.08]“You see, I cleaned out my locker
[01:31.95]because I didn’t want to leave a mess for anyone else.
[01:34.77]I had stored away some of my mother’s sleeping pills
[01:38.18]and I was going home to commit 6 suicide 7.
[01:40.25]But after we spent some time together talking and laughing,
[01:44.40]I realized that if I had killed myself,
[01:46.77]I would have missed that time and so many others that might follow.
[01:50.52]So you see, Mark, when you picked up my books that day,
[01:54.31]you did a lot more. You saved my life.”
[01:57.53]Every little hello, every little smile,
[02:01.30] every helping 8 hand saves a hurting heart.
[02:04.43]There’s a miracle 9 called Friendship that dwells 10 in the heart.
[02:08.14]Friends are a very rare 11 jewel, indeed.
[02:11.53]They make you smile and encourage you to succeed.
[02:15.03]They lend an ear, they share a word of praise,
[02:18.90]and they always want to open their heart to us.
[02:21.49]Show your friends how much you care...
- They knelt down and prayed. 他们跪下来祷告。
- She knelt in supplication. 她跪地祷求。
- Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。
- The burden fell on the eldest son.担子落在了长子身上。
- Too much praise is a burden.太多的赞扬是一种负担。
- A stack of files awaited me on my desk. 我桌上有一堆文件正待我去处理。
- her long-awaited new novel 她的令人期待已久的一部新小说
- My brother is senior to me by two years.我哥哥比我年长两岁。
- They are senior students.他们是高年级学生。
- He couldn't commit himself on any issue.他不愿在任何问题上表态。
- A thinking person must commit himself to working for peace.一个有头脑的人必须致力于为和平而工作。
- The number of suicide has increased.自杀案件的数量增加了。
- The death was adjudged a suicide by sleeping pills.该死亡事件被判定为服用安眠药自杀。
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- The doctors said that his recovery was a miracle. 医生们说他的复原是件奇事。
- It is simply a miracle that rice should grow in such a place.稻子竟能在这样的地方生长，这实在是个奇迹。