时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2009年


英语课

Ian Thiermann ran a tree preservation 1 and pest-control business before retiring 25 years ago. The 90-year-old still enjoys doing yard work with his wife Terry.


 


"One soggy mud pie. " "Yeah."


 


but he'd never thought he would be forced to go back to work to make ends meet.


 


They've put this job out for me, and so I am gonna do it the best I can.




Thiermann took a job at a local grocery store after losing his entire life savings 2, more than 700,000 dollars to disgraced Wall Street financier Bernie Madoff. He says he will never forget the day he got the call from his investment advisor 3.




When he called me in December, he was in a state of total shock. I've never heard of him. I mean, this is an attorney. He said, "My father, my mother, right with my aunts, uncles, we have lost everything, I have lost everything, and you have lost everything."




He still has home payments to make and his wife's medical bills to pay. The grocery store owner created the greeter position for the long time customer after hearing about his ordeal 4 and calls Thiermann an inspiration to others going through tough financial times.




His will to succeed after losing everything. People are saying to me, " You know what, I can, I am gonna step up to the plate(1), I am not gonna, I am just not gonna sit here and take, I am gonna step up and make something happen." And, yeah, he's just such a type of person.




If you haven 5't tried the soups, they're outstanding.




Thiermann says he has little time to dwell on(2) the man responsible for his crisis, but his wife does have feelings about Madoff.


 


"I feel sorry for him, because he has to live with the consequences of what he did."


 


Thiermann says he will continue to work, 30 hours a week for ten bucks 6 an hour, but he says he will spend no time feeling sorry for himself.


 


"Got a job to do."


 


Haven Daley, the Associated Press, Ben Lomond, California.


 



1 preservation
n.保护,维护,保存,保留,保持
  • The police are responsible for the preservation of law and order.警察负责维持法律与秩序。
  • The picture is in an excellent state of preservation.这幅画保存得极为完好。
2 savings
n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
3 advisor
n.顾问,指导老师,劝告者
  • They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
4 ordeal
n.苦难经历,(尤指对品格、耐力的)严峻考验
  • She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。
  • Being lost in the wilderness for a week was an ordeal for me.在荒野里迷路一星期对我来说真是一场磨难。
5 haven
n.安全的地方,避难所,庇护所
  • It's a real haven at the end of a busy working day.忙碌了一整天后,这真是一个安乐窝。
  • The school library is a little haven of peace and quiet.学校的图书馆是一个和平且安静的小避风港。
6 bucks
n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 );钱;(英国十九世纪初的)花花公子;(用于某些表达方式)责任v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃
  • They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
  • They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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active immunity
ajaccios
Almyropotamos
Ameca
amedo
angon
average daily calling rate
ball and inner ring assembly
barge to barge transfer
bills drawn under letter of credit
binary to decimal conversion
binnein mor
blowing spray
bomb calorimeters
branches at home and abroad
brick laid with mortar
capricorn beetle
carib woods
chimbley
complete set of eigenstates
contact flange
core and winding assembly
darrayne
disprovide
diverting dam
draw ... up
drift epoch
droseras
electron paramagnetic resonance
europium acetate
exchange volume
field investment
flairing
gemmifications
general call signal
Gentiloni
genus pedilanthuss
global liquidity
gone over
Hai Phong
heat-producing reaction
hflo
independent fault
inlaces
internal fuel
ionic speaker
irreversible circulation
ks-standard loading
latex examination gloves
LAVINIA
lipophilic compound
literatize
Loboc
macrocyclic compounds
metal-semiconductor-metal diode
monosuits
nonpsychological
notched furnace
oil sump tank
pallidofugal
Parafasciolopsis
pass-over offset
pentaradiate
pickup points
Pillsbury, Lake
plaque-infested port
plasma lipids
playdohs
public lawyer
Puccinia epimedii
put one's best foot first
radicicol
ratten-
readmitance
reclaiming by centrifuge
red-shank
relational instruction
resource productivity
sampling length
scare someone out of his wits
seasonal group profile code
settleability test
small wiring
soft corruption
spoliation
steam and gas
stereochemical formula
sun-bathing
suppression hangover time
tax reimbursement for export
thermofocal
tracepoint
tunnel in rock
twofold degeneracy
uncorrugated
unfavorable variance
union colourimeter
wetting of cloth
whidder
Wycakon-G
yudha