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
allori
apartment buildng
automatic excitation regulator
back diode
bank a fire
biennial survey
bisalkoxides
bordel
bright-field imagery
buffer distance
C-clip
carabiniere
chop the clock
cinchophen,phe-nylcinchoninic acid
composite wave filter
condenser bracket
creek-bed
cycle of pollutants
dbpp
dislocation distribution
dunkerques
El Cedral
electric dehydrator
eslarge
external pterygoid
fall victim
fanboard
farrance
flat LEM
fulfilleth
granulation tissues
half-sister chromatid
hamstrings
handling and securing after upending procedure
hygroscopy
iron portland cement
jointers
Laue equations
Le Seur cell
littoral sea
Llobregales
lovey-doveys
low fidelity
low-fertility
lubetkin
malodorant
manganese stearate
mean fictitious clock
media server
memory farts
microindustries
monthling
no bake binder
northern examinations and assessment board (neab)
obstain
optional provision
Ordnung
osseous tissues
otherworldy
Oyapock, B.d'
parabolic law
parallel brake lever
petrodollars
pityriasis amiantacea
pneunatic tyre
potato-stem borer
premye
Prosen, Glen
query control station (qcs)
raddled
ray(s)
remelting furnace
robot problem solver
rytomonorm
shipping port
shochet
smeed
sole legal
special presumption
St. Lawrence River
stacking fault sequence
strain measuring device
strongly convergent
substreams
subula
sulfamezanthine
supply subroutine
tetrahexahedral
thin market
thread mandrel1
thymic cortex
time-event
tyus
up-regulated
vermi-
wave cut notch
way-side inductor
Wyangala Reservoir
yourdon methodology
Zhou Zuoren
zombie companies