时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:2006年星火30篇考研词汇


英语课
Unit 02 Timeless Photographs……………………………19
价值永存的老照片
生活中有很多小事经常为人们忽略,但有时其中蕴含的亲情却会令人回味许久。父亲留下的老照片告诉我,人们并没有什么不同,所有人都想充分享受人生乐趣,体味家的温馨。全家团聚的时刻是珍贵的……
I love to look at old photographs in the album. My father had a big box of pictures in the cabinet and some of the pictures go way back to the 1890's. The women dressed with such dignity and had style back then. My Dad would linger around his precious box of photographs and tell me stories about each photo and very one. It was one of those moments that you could not really appreciate when you were young. It is only after he was long gone that I can look back and say thanks for taking the time to show me a tiny window into the world of people who really did know how to live.
I found a few of my aunts in their fashionable outfits 1 by an old Cadillac(卡迪拉克,汽车名) pretending to drink whisky. Many of the photographs were taken in Coney Island(科尼岛) and Cape 2 Cod 3(科德角). I especially love the photographs of the bathing beauties and their swimsuits. The suits are quite modest by today's standards but the young women didn't seem to care. They were staying at such places as Newport Beach and Cape Cod having the time of their lives running in and out of the tide. One photograph had a vendor(小贩)selling dogs(热狗)by a coaster(轮船)at Coney Island—a younger picture of my mother with here brown hair and blue eyes eager to go on board with my Dad. He looked a bit frightened in the picture as I could see he was holding on tightly to the bar to the coaster, his black hair flying in the breeze. I smile when I look at that picture because it is hard to imagine anyone's Dad ever being a kid. He looked like he was having a great time probably because he was with my mother. She is smiling in the picture and wearing a white blouse, blue shorts and tennis shoes. She is quite a looker(美女),I can see why my Dad liked her so much.
I dig down to the bottom of the box and see two large photographs. One is dated 1900 and the other one is dated 1997—a recent picture that looks similar to the older one. The older picture looks familiar because it is taken in the same place—the summer home.
I will describe the older photograph as very interesting in the style of dress and exactly(确切地,精确地) where the people are sitting. They are posed outside the cottage by a small tree that is still there today. A woman is sitting in a rocking chair, with here black hair pulled up in a bun(脑后的发髻).She is not smiling but looking away from the camera and wearing a long black dress. Another woman is wearing a white blouse with a necktie(领结)and a long black skirt. Her hair is also long and blonder(金黄色的)but pulled back in a bun. There are two men on either side of a wooden table. Both men appear older and are dressed in hats and suits and ties, trousers and Sunday shoes. Neither is smiling. (I have the distinct feeling that the women are their wives and it is Sunday.) They probably are hungry for their roast beef and potatoes, but that is just my guess. There is a young boy, probably about 13 in the photograph. He is wearing a white blouse, black shorts, long black socks and tan sports shoes. He is petting a black dog that is sitting on top of the round wooden table. The boy is bending down and he isn't smiling either. It must have been hot outside and he probably wants to go for a swim with the dog. The water is just below them and he is probably wondering why he has to take this stupid picture all dressed up on a Sunday.
I notice that the color of my cabin was quite different in 1900 and it was much smaller. The color was green, with white railings(栏杆)around the porch and steps leading down to the patio(院子). That is where the picture of this Smart Family was taken. The family appears rather stiff in the photo but I am sure that they had a good laugh after the Sunday dinner was served.
The second larger photograph is of my own family about 1997. It is also in black and white. We didn't wear any older clothes but used our own clothes. The tree in the background has grown to enormous heights and is still standing 4. The steps leading down to Mousam Lake have cracked and are in awful need of repair. Believe it or not, we still own the old wooden table and all of the rocking chairs owned by the Smart Family. I did a search of the Smart Family and they were originally from Portsmouth(朴茨茅斯). At least five other families owned my cottage before my father bought it in 1950 for three thousand dollars. The cottage comes with thirteen acres of land that I still own along with my seven brothers and sisters. It was passed on to me when my mother died. We have formed the Camp Fund to pay the taxes and preserve our legacy 5. It is a beautiful cabin on a prime spot on Mousam Lake. I was not here when this photo was taken and it hangs in the living room of the cabin. Many visitors comment on it and think it is quite amazing to have a house for so long.
The history of the house is interesting to view from photographs. Around the table are my brother Bob just wearing a casual shirt and shorts(smiling), Annie wearing a T-Shirt and shorts. Mike wearing a white shirt and long nylon trousers not smiling, Mary, whom I couldn't tell what she was wearing, my Mom, her white hair and her beautiful blue eyes and smile, was wearing a peach blouse and slacks, my Dad wasn't alive for this photo, he died in 1986. Lastly in the picture is my brother John, wearing a white vest, trousers and suspenders. He slicked(使光滑、顺滑)back his black hair for the photo to appear in the period style. He wasn't smiling either. The only difference is that my cottage is painted brown with a larger porch and some additional buildings. My father loved to build things and he was constantly improving the cabin. He built a deck downstairs, and also a dock for his many boats. He also designed a gliding 6 swing and a picnic table.
All of these photographs remind me that people are not so very different. We all want to enjoy living and be together as a family. The time that families spend together is very valuable. The children will always remember the little things that their parents do for them. For me it was my Dad that showed me these pictures and took the time to tell me the stories behind each of them. I thank him dearly for that.
注释:
photograph→★photograph /photo
cabinet→★escape
dignity→★dignity
style
linger
appreciate
fashionable
outfit→★fit
whisky
modest
standard→★standard
tide
breeze
kid
probably
similar
exactly
pose
appear→★appear
trousers
distinct
roast
tan
stupid
cabin
porch
lead→★lead
stiff
background→★ground
enormous→★normal
crack
awful
originally
acre
pay→★pay
tax
preserve→★serve
legacy
prime
spot
living-room
comment
amaze
view
casual
nylon
peach
slack
vest
suspender
paint→★paint
constantly
deck
dock
glide
swing
enjoy→★enjoy/price

1 outfits
n.全套装备( outfit的名词复数 );一套服装;集体;组织v.装备,配置设备,供给服装( outfit的第三人称单数 )
  • He jobbed out the contract to a number of small outfits. 他把承包工程分包给许多小单位。 来自辞典例句
  • Some cyclists carry repair outfits because they may have a puncture. 有些骑自行车的人带修理工具,因为他们车胎可能小孔。 来自辞典例句
2 cape
n.海角,岬;披肩,短披风
  • I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
  • She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。
3 cod
n.鳕鱼;v.愚弄;哄骗
  • They salt down cod for winter use.他们腌鳕鱼留着冬天吃。
  • Cod are found in the North Atlantic and the North Sea.北大西洋和北海有鳕鱼。
4 standing
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
5 legacy
n.遗产,遗赠;先人(或过去)留下的东西
  • They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
  • He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。
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all-overish
aluminum gallium nitride
analogue amplifier
anorethisterone
back steam chest head
begilded
benzoylglucuronic acid
Berytidae
biophysics of cardiac muscle
birthweights
Bosanski Petrovac
buffer species
bull-leaping
C- section
car load freight unloaded at two or more stations
channel electron multiplier
cheeseparer
Chromobacterium indicum
Conline Bill
continuous adjustment
corkscrewy
cost-reduction
cut them out
cybertechnologies
cypselurus unicolor
dementie
derecognizing
doulateral winding
Edane
effective cross section
Emin He (Emel')
endowment mortage
engineering advice
failure rate average function
faying face
frederick church
Galician-Asturian
gene arrangement
Genoa, Gulf of
Goniatidae
goods insurance
grimboes
hard magnetic ferrite
high-angle shot
hinged bearing
human factors engineering (hfe)
Humboldt penguins
intercalation coordination compound
its feet
kobielak
labefactation
laser homing equipment
lasithi
legal cause
life-expectancy
made short work of
make up deficit
massed trials
mons veneriss
moon's age
multistory sand body
nestantalite
non-perfect fluid
nuclear generator
number of blows
ordering of events
oxygenation
Pentadecanone-2
phyllocarpic movement
pompelmouses
postfrontal fog
preferred estimator
presplits
prevailing mode
protecting rack
quaid-i-azam
ramalina hossei
random access number out-of-range
residual shim
ringbang
royale
rubellite
sagittifolium
shear slide
Shekhina
shell landings
social welfare expenditure
Soumoulou
speedometer needle
subscriber telephone set
swanees
sweep before one's own door
tangent length
tetrahydrofurfuryl benzoate
time of mixing
toggle link
treelings
uk pharmaceuticals
unmanned sensing satellite system
verticalizing
vichyites
viewing room