美文赏析:愿得一人心，白首不分离
英语课
One warm evening many years ago…
犹记得多年前，那个让人暖心的夜晚
After spending nearly every waking minute with Angel for eight straight days, I knew that I had to tell her just one thing. So late at night, just before she fell asleep, I whispered it in her ear. She smiled – the kind of smile that makes me smile back – and she said, “When I’m seventy-five and I think about my life and what it was like to be young, I hope that I can remember this very moment.
”整整8天除了睡着其余的时间我都陪着安吉尔，酝酿已久，我想我一定要告诉她一件事。于是这天夜里，就在她刚刚睡下，我便在她耳边轻声说起来，说完她就笑了，是那种希望得到我回应的笑，接着说道：“真希望我老到75岁的时候，开始回忆，这一刻须臾会变成永恒。”
A few seconds later she closed her eyes and fell asleep. The room was peaceful – almost silent. All I could hear was the soft purr of her breathing. I stayed awake thinking about the time we’d spent together and all the choices in our lives that made this moment possible. And at some point, I realized that it didn’t matter what we’d done or where we’d gone. Nor did the future hold any significance.
很快她就闭上眼睛睡着了，整个房间祥和安静，甚至有些寂静。耳畔起伏着安吉尔轻柔的呼吸声，我清醒的回忆我们共度的这些美好时光，是冥冥之中的选择成就了我们在一起的时刻。我们做过什么，去过哪里都不重要，甚至未来也不重要。
All that mattered was the serenity 1 of the moment.
眼下最重要的就是此刻的和谐安宁。
Just being with her and breathing with her.
只要能与她同呼吸共命运，便别无所求。
The moral 2: We must not allow the clock, the calendar, and external 3 pressures to rule our lives and blind us to the fact that each individual moment of our lives is a beautiful mystery and a miracle 4 – especially those moments we spend in the presence 5 of a loved one.
启示：时间、日常事务、以及其他的外部压力都不能左右和束缚我们的生活，因为每个人，尤其是与心爱之人一起度过的美好时光，才是我们生命中最让人心驰神往，美妙动人的追寻。
n.宁静，沉着，晴朗
- Her face,though sad,still evoked a feeling of serenity.她的脸色虽然悲伤，但仍使人感觉安详。
- She escaped to the comparative serenity of the kitchen.她逃到相对安静的厨房里。
adj.道德(上)的，有道德的；n.品行，寓意，道德
- Moral beauty ought to be ranked above all other beauty.品德之美应列于其他美之上。
- He deceived us into believing that he could give us moral support.他骗得我们相信他能给我们道义上的支持。
adj.外部的，外面的，外来的；与外国有关的
- External causes become operative through internal causes.外因通过内因而起作用。
- The external features of the building are very attractive.这座建筑物的外观是很吸引人的。
n.奇迹，令人惊奇的人或事
- 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。
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