时间:2019-02-19 作者:英语课 分类:听播客学英语


英语课

   Hello, everyone. It is very good to be making a new podcast. My internet connection is working again. Thank you very much for your patience, and a big thank you in particular to all those of you who sent me e-mails saying how sorry you were about my internet problems.


  It is a long time since we had any poetry on the podcast. From time to time, I look at a book of English poetry and wonder whether I can use any of the poems. But very few poems are written in simple English which is easy to understand. My friend, Margaret Scorey, however writes poems which use simple and direct English, and are therefore very good for English learners. Here is a poem she wrote about a month ago. She wrote it for a woman who had recently become a grandmother. But the woman’s family, and the new grandchild, were in America, so grandmother travelled to America to hold her new grandchild in her arms for the first time. Margaret has called the poem “To Hold you, to hold you”.
  My longing 1 is to hold you,
  to feel your soft cheeks against mine
  to look into your gentle eyes
  to touch your hair
  and feel the warmth of your breath.
  Soon I will.
  But know that when I return,
  the ache will be as great as it is now,
  softened 2 only by memories.
  But one thing, I will be able to say is,
  ‘I’ve done it, I’ve done it, I’ve held you’.
  Poem copyright 3 Margaret Scorey, 2007, used with permission.

n.(for)渴望
  • Hearing the tune again sent waves of longing through her.再次听到那首曲子使她胸中充满了渴望。
  • His heart burned with longing for revenge.他心中燃烧着急欲复仇的怒火。
(使)变软( soften的过去式和过去分词 ); 缓解打击; 缓和; 安慰
  • His smile softened slightly. 他的微笑稍柔和了些。
  • The ice cream softened and began to melt. 冰淇淋开始变软并开始融化。
n.版权,著作权
  • He retained the copyright of his book.他保留此书的著作权。
  • This company has a proprietorship of the copyright.这家公司拥有版权所有权。
学英语单词
a classic allusion
a.j.c
Acronicta
adrisa magna
allergic granulomatous angiitis of churg and strauss
allo-aggression
bag holding
bastida
Baykan
beechiest
bismuth hydroxynitrate
blade fan
boston lettuces
brant
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
chuo
condicio rei furtivae
crapulously
deformable insert connector
dialectica
Diphergan
dispurposed
engine wear
fedbacks
Frew R.
gas fuel
Gratevium
hand ejector
helio-myelitis
high test molasses
high-speed drum
holmium acetate
ice making
ichinskaya sopka
illegitimate child
iodyrite
Jhārda
ka'bah
Kala Lagaw Ya
key logger
kidneyshaped
Lachnolaimus maximus
lagging filter
lampshade hats
legitimate concern
lichen planus circumscriptus
localizer control
locksmithings
lower separator
luteocobaltic chloride
maake
mactra cuneata
marabu
Mayna
mechanical completion certificate
Methylergometrin
microaerphile
mks units
monitored instruction
Musophagidae
nailed truss
neoparlatoria maai
nonmetaphoric
not know where to put yourself
ordinate value
outside-staying prisoner
parand
petten
photoentrainment
plasmometry
postwave
preasse
presuming on
purifying reaction
radial-arms
reticulare magma
ruta graveolenss
separating medium
sex machine
shark nets
shoulder joint
silk scrooping agent
special stamping of combination units
Stachys xanthantha
temperature of plants and animals
traditional economy
tremblest
tstr
Tunesin
unilateral weighting
unroast
upward sawing
vasescus
ventral reticulospinal tract
vest in
VoWLAN
waterproof sandpaper
Wauja
whatever that means
wind-ups
worldwide production