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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accepted meaning
adeheroscope
air space control
alulet
ammonium aluminum chloride
Atlantic Coast Conference
automatic variable
average size of family
bag hose fume
Ban Huai Sai
between row distance
blepharofacial
border below
coefficient of sensitivity of price
connected graphs
cooling-jacket
courtemanche
cuticularize
dental arch relation
Dirichlet, Peter Gustav Lejeune
disk work space
double roasting
erythraline
Euler polyhedron formula
final extension
fine ridge
Frankel appliance
general consciousness
get sth for free
gingivolabial
gragger
grave fault
Habanero
hasegawa
heterogeneous azeotrope
hireling
homodianthrone
humming-birds
incohering
inlet end
inside callipers micrometer
instant
instruments eligible for repo
islandias
isothymetric line
Kaohsiung County
langmuir monolayer
laryngoceles
layered graph
learning laboratory
ligg. vaginalia digitorum manus
limestone concretions
loudspeaker enclosure
lubricating felt wick
mantovanis
Marianity
mechanical reversibility
metaclassifier
metagummic
metaprogram state
multi-spindle bar automatic machine
multiobjective
multiple station in-line transfer machine
murn
naptumomab estafenatox
nickelous selenate
North Queensland
official classification
offsuit
Ophiomyxidae
oxygen 16
parameteria philippinarum
pays the bills
polystichum piceopaleaceum
polystyrene-plywood laminate
priority classification
pteris creticas
pump-room
roc's egg
Sabeism
semen sanctum
settled upon
shrinkage testing machine for textiles
Steller's jays
stopped out
sub-officers
temporary short rail
thallium rhodanide
theretra suffusa
to have a word with someone
unbalanced end thrust
unhilling
Van Slyke ninhydrin method
Vrasene
wagon truck
Watson-Crick base pairing
we-uns
Wilful Intention
wing fic
wood beetle
Yurovskoye
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