时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语灵异故事


英语课
[00:25.66]Photo of the dead
[00:30.90]死亡照片
[00:37.60]As I rode home in the gathering 1 darkness,
[00:41.21]I thought about all the faces I had seen in the curled
[00:44.35]and yellowed photographs of the people buried
[00:46.81]in the lonely, abandoned cemetery 2,
[00:49.94]about the dreams they might have had,
[00:52.50]and where they were now.
[00:54.70]I had found the solitude 3 I was seeking,
[00:57.43]but it was tainted 4 with sadness,
[01:00.13]particularly because of the young couple.
[01:03.05]There was peace in the old cemetery
[01:05.29]but it was a dark peace
[01:07.00]and I was eager to get back to the resort,
[01:10.09]and to living.
[01:12.48]I left Greece a few days later
[01:14.87]and traveled elsewhere for several more months.
[01:19.35]I didn't develop the film
[01:20.99]until after I returned to California.
[01:24.11]I took three to four hundred photographs on that trip,
[01:27.69]and only about ten at that cemetery.
[01:30.59]But of all the photos I took,
[01:33.03]only one has an abnormality
[01:37.22]- the one I took
[01:38.19]while standing 5 on the tomb of the young couple.
[01:41.81]A white mist swirls 6 upward from the bottom
[01:44.74]right to the upper left corners.
[01:47.36]The mist has defined edges in several areas,
[01:51.16]which eliminates the possibility of a lens flare
[01:55.07]or light refraction.
[01:57.36]It appears to be something,
[01:59.15]or someone, rushing upward very quickly.
[02:03.68]I guess, by standing on the lid of their tomb,
[02:06.67]I had apparently 7 awoken their spirits.
[02:10.28]Perhaps they had died so young
[02:12.75]and with so much life left to live,
[02:16.33]they had not yet accepted death
[02:18.58]and were eager to rejoin the living.
[02:21.96]That might also be the reason
[02:24.05]that the only flowers in the entire cemetery
[02:27.43]were growing by their grave.
[02:31.10]Whether they were happy to have company
[02:33.61]or disturbed by the intrusion,
[02:36.02]I will never know.
[02:46.40]讲解
[05:05.99]As I rode home in the gathering darkness,
[05:09.06]I thought about all the faces I had seen in the curled
[05:12.15]and yellowed photographs of the people buried
[05:14.57]in the lonely, abandoned cemetery,
[05:29.60]about the dreams they might have had,
[05:31.80]and where they were now.
[05:37.53]I had found the solitude I was seeking,
[05:39.97]but it was tainted with sadness,
[05:42.21]particularly because of the young couple.
[05:54.71]There was peace in the old cemetery
[05:56.71]but it was a dark peace
[05:58.21]and I was eager to get back to the resort,
[06:01.29]and to living.
[06:11.65]I left Greece a few days later
[06:13.80]and traveled elsewhere for several more months.
[06:22.82]I didn't develop the film
[06:24.32]until after I returned to California.
[06:30.78]I took three to four hundred photographs on that trip,
[06:34.11]and only about ten at that cemetery.
[06:44.23]But of all the photos I took,
[06:46.28]only one has an abnormality
[06:53.44]- the one I took
[06:54.41]while standing on the tomb of the young couple.
[07:01.03]A white mist swirls upward from the bottom
[07:03.77]right to the upper left corners.
[07:14.44]The mist has defined edges in several areas,
[07:17.75]which eliminates the possibility of a lens flare
[07:21.22]or light refraction.
[07:30.39]It appears to be something,
[07:31.93]or someone, rushing upward very quickly.
[07:41.37]I guess, by standing on the lid of their tomb,
[07:44.22]I had apparently awoken their spirits.
[07:52.88]Perhaps they had died so young
[07:55.34]and with so much life left to live,
[07:58.43]they had not yet accepted death
[08:00.46]and were eager to rejoin the living.
[08:14.86]That might also be the reason
[08:16.36]that the only flowers in the entire cemetery
[08:19.75]were growing by their grave.
[08:28.68]Whether they were happy to have company
[08:30.79]or disturbed by the intrusion,
[08:33.32]I will never know.
[08:55.57]语言点
[08:57.65]in the gathering darkness
[09:00.09]gathering
[09:04.15]gathering darkness
[09:11.56]seek  探索、寻找
[09:16.79]seek / find
[09:18.92]find  找到、发现
[09:21.90]seek
[09:25.56]I was seeking my bicycle but never find it.
[09:32.61]to living
[09:34.84]to doing
[09:36.52]living  生活、生存
[09:41.20]develop the film  冲底片、洗照片
[09:45.06]from the bottom right to the upper left corners
[09:49.34]from...to...  从...到...
[09:53.57]left  左边
[09:56.50]right
[09:58.36]lens flare  镜头眩光
[10:01.67]light refraction  反光
[10:17.63]谢谢收听

1 gathering
n.集会,聚会,聚集
  • He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
  • He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
2 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。
3 solitude
n. 孤独; 独居,荒僻之地,幽静的地方
  • People need a chance to reflect on spiritual matters in solitude. 人们需要独处的机会来反思精神上的事情。
  • They searched for a place where they could live in solitude. 他们寻找一个可以过隐居生活的地方。
4 tainted
adj.腐坏的;污染的;沾污的;感染的v.使变质( taint的过去式和过去分词 );使污染;败坏;被污染,腐坏,败坏
  • The administration was tainted with scandal. 丑闻使得政府声名狼藉。
  • He was considered tainted by association with the corrupt regime. 他因与腐败政府有牵连而名誉受损。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 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。
6 swirls
n.旋转( swirl的名词复数 );卷状物;漩涡;尘旋v.旋转,打旋( swirl的第三人称单数 )
  • Swirls of smoke rose through the trees. 树林中升起盘旋的青烟。 来自辞典例句
  • On reaching the southeast corner of Himalaya-Tibet, It'swirls cyclonically across the Yunnan Plateau. 在到达喜马拉雅--西藏高原东南角处,它作气旋性转向越过云南高原。 来自辞典例句
7 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
学英语单词
accumulated deficit
acentric occlusion
acidic radical
anchoring accessories
aphacial
authentic cadences
auxiliary feed check valve
beaneries
black-jack staple
blow-off muffler
boshi
bou yala
brine mixer
bulkheads
Buxus hebecarpa
catalog form
chrome diopside
chronic Lyme
cloaca urogenital
combustion tester
condeep
contan
cultural hybridization
curanderos
daughter bulb
detoxer
dies cedin
dry hole agreement
drying by sublimation
e-petitions
flexible flat drill steel
follow on from
frictional vibration
genus mollienesias
ghosted
ginkgo family
Girawa
goose neck vent
hand coded compiler
hemistola kezukai
hiteches
horned
idle hole
inland village
integrated eclectic model
isodynamogenic
keratosis palmoplantaris circum-scripta
Ligamentum sternoclaviculare anterius
Lillian Gish
Makian, Pulau
maturrity-onset diabetes
Mbatto
medical-records
misslift
mosaic rhyme
musikhochschules
nave
NIS (nickel steel)
nmols
normotriglyceridaemic
nucleophile-assisted unimolecular electrophilic substitution
open societies
opto-mechanical scanner
orthopan film
Panorpatae
parallel shaft speed reducer
passive attitude control system (pacs)
peak dispersion
postgavage
preincubating
propedes
pulse counting system
purpura annularis telangiectodes
Rahman
ram-baler
randomize scheme
receive line
removal of eschar
rhadopoda
rheumatic aortitis
rhizoma curcumae longae
riddlings
rotobaler for hay
samsons post
secondary radar
shattock
shot texture
soy(bean) meal
sryptogenic tetanus
stubblelike
take our breath away
Taro, Tarso
thugification
to bow down
training in rotation
unearned burden
Urenil
valve straightway
vertical silo
vuste
wiegner
YWHA