时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语灵异故事


英语课
[00:25.62]Photo of the dead
[00:30.94]死亡照片
[00:36.97]A white marble cross that marked their graves
[00:39.64]had been broken off at the base,
[00:42.25]perhaps by vandals or a lightning bolt,
[00:45.83]and had fallen on the ground at the head of the tomb.
[00:49.16]Small, orange wildflowers were growing up around it.
[00:53.69]This might not have been so unusual
[00:56.04]except for the fact
[00:57.37]that they were the only flowers growing anywhere
[00:59.90]in the cemetery 1.
[01:01.87]The contrast of these symbols of life and springtime
[01:05.02]next to a symbol of death was so striking,
[01:08.73]I decided 2 to take a photograph of it.
[01:11.25]I took my camera out of my backpack
[01:13.70]and started looking for a good angle
[01:16.07]for the photograph but couldn't find one.
[01:19.52]I decided that the best angle
[01:21.32]would be from the top of the tomb
[01:23.44]looking straight down at the cross,
[01:25.95]but I felt that standing 3 on it would be disrespectful
[01:29.88]so I took a few shots from other angles.
[01:32.93]Unsatisfied, I said to the young couple buried there,
[01:36.63]"Excuse me. I don't mean any disrespect
[01:39.92]but I'd just like to stand on your tomb for a second
[01:42.71]to take a picture of your flowers.
[01:44.97]I hope you don't mind."
[01:47.34]Hoping I had won their approval,
[01:50.06]I stood on the lid
[01:51.30]and took the photo from the angle I wanted.
[01:54.24]I can't recall feeling any cold sensations
[01:57.78]or chills other than the ones I was already riddled
[02:01.24]with due to my overactive imagination.
[02:05.16]I stepped down from the tomb and said thank you.
[02:08.66]Before I left,
[02:09.56]I picked up their cross
[02:10.87]and put it back in place on their tomb.
[02:14.61]The break was clean so it fit like a puzzle piece.
[02:18.61]The sun was setting quickly
[02:20.48]and I was worried about finding my way back in the dark,
[02:25.02]so I decided to head home.
[02:27.31]I walked through the creaky, old gate again
[02:30.29]and kick-started the motorcycle.
[02:32.99]After being immersed in such profound silence
[02:36.31]for so long,
[02:37.82]the noise of the engine seemed louder than ever.
[02:50.31]讲解
[05:05.96]A white marble cross that marked their graves
[05:08.70]had been broken off at the base,
[05:15.09]perhaps by vandals or a lightning bolt,
[05:18.38]and had fallen on the ground at the head of the tomb.
[05:27.10]Small, orange wildflowers were growing up around it.
[05:33.57]This might not have been so unusual
[05:36.03]except for the fact
[05:37.28]that they were the only flowers growing anywhere
[05:39.78]in the cemetery.
[05:51.58]The contrast of these symbols of life and springtime
[05:54.60]next to a symbol of death was so striking,
[06:04.61]I decided to take a photograph of it.
[06:10.69]I took my camera out of my backpack
[06:12.87]and started looking for a good angle
[06:15.33]for the photograph but couldn't find one.
[06:24.36]I decided that the best angle
[06:26.18]would be from the top of the tomb
[06:28.28]looking straight down at the cross,
[06:36.25]but I felt that standing on it would be disrespectful
[06:39.71]so I took a few shots from other angles.
[06:48.63]Unsatisfied, I said to the young couple buried there,
[06:52.03]"Excuse me. I don't mean any disrespect
[06:55.43]but I'd just like to stand on your tomb for a second
[06:58.10]to take a picture of your flowers.
[07:00.22]I hope you don't mind."
[07:16.66]Hoping I had won their approval,
[07:19.09]I stood on the lid and took the photo
[07:21.62]from the angle I wanted.
[07:28.92]I can't recall feeling any cold sensations
[07:31.92]or chills other than the ones I was already riddled
[07:35.31]with due to my overactive imagination.
[07:51.47]I stepped down from the tomb and said thank you.
[07:57.75]Before I left,
[07:58.74]I picked up their cross
[07:59.97]and put it back in place on their tomb.
[08:07.81]The break was clean so it fit like a puzzle piece.
[08:16.30]The sun was setting quickly
[08:18.10]and I was worried about finding my way back in the dark,
[08:21.81]so I decided to head home.
[08:31.83]I walked through the creaky, old gate again
[08:34.21]and kick-started the motorcycle.
[08:41.68]After being immersed in such profound silence
[08:44.63]for so long,
[08:46.04]the noise of the engine seemed louder than ever.
[09:06.63]语言点
[09:11.12]cross  十字架
[09:14.18]a lightning bolt  晴天霹雳
[09:27.44]at the head of  在...的最前面
[09:32.32]take a photograph
[09:37.40]take
[09:39.44]win their approval
[09:42.92]win
[09:44.72]overactive  过于活跃的
[09:57.30]over  过于...
[10:00.11]kick-start the motorcycle
[10:03.04]start the motorcycle
[10:23.31]谢谢收听

1 cemetery
n.坟墓,墓地,坟场
  • He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
  • His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。
2 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
3 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。
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abhorring
acquired cleftpalate
advertence
aggrege
approximate true elongation percentage
aural detector
auto cutter
Berilo
bootlegs
bresnahan
capitalised value
chromises
clobedolum
cold atmospheric leaching
conjugata
conservativeness
container freight station to door
contextual protection
contract for carriage
copperas
cost-per-action
Crocethia
cryptanthus zonatus
cylindrical auger
Cymothoidae
deglutition centre
dilute phase roasting
disapprovest
discors
divergence
duking
echo-signal
electric resistance thermometer
endotransglycosylases
flash-over relay
garment container
hawksworth
hierarchical interrupt
hill-and-dale
Horheim
host unreachable
Indochinese, Indo-Chinese
inertially balanced stabilized platform
interchange circuits
kot
kuessel
Le Massegros
letter bundling machine
memory attribute list
micrometeoritic
MO-MLV
moroccoes
Mututu
naphthalic aicd
national grid compang
numbered unit
pain phosphorus
pallidotomies
parental rights and duties
partes subcutanea
payload deployment and retrieval system
petunia
platanthera chloranthas
platypelloid
porfiry
propagules
quenching crack
remi inferior ossis ischii
repair truck
Rhododendron aganniphum
rickson
scandium oxalate
sense of worth
servo surface encoding
set priorities
sidles
specification of quality
state guarantee
stony iron-meteorite
sulfuric acid monohydrate
sweet meat
tar-pot
ternity
transmitter distortion
trust fund bureau
two sample t-test
U Thant
unassailableness
undefined length record
under water concrete
valeriane
ventresca
vernier theodolite
Von Hippel-Lindau disease
way to go
weaponizing
weigelias
weightiest
wrast
yanagisawa
yowlings
zero check