高中英语人教版必修第三册12

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[00:10.84]ESCAPE FROM DOUBTING CASTLE

[00:14.21]Once, in a dream, a boy called Chris Ever Everyman took the advice of a wise man to go on a journey.

[00:23.46]The wise man pointed 1 his finger across the land and told him to go through the gate at the end of the fields to enter the City of Happiness.

[00:35.00]Chris said he could not see the gate,

[00:38.48]to which the other replied that the gate was where the bright sunshine shone in a golden mist 2.

[00:45.14]So Chris set out on this journey.

[00:48.48]He had not traveled far from home when he came to a pond filled with mud and dirt,

[00:55.30]and as he was not careful, he fell in.

[00:58.64]The name of this pond was Depression.

[01:02.30]He moved around in it for a time,

[01:04.73]and became covered with dirt.

[01:07.00]Though he was able to move towards the bank,

[01:10.66]he was unable to climb out.

[01:12.88]Luckily a man came by whose name was Help.

[01:17.04]He gave him his hand and pulled him out.

[01:20.56]Chris thanked him and went to on his way.

[01:23.30]He had not gone far when he entered a very narrow passage between two mountains.

[01:29.97]He stopped and was afraid to go on, as on each side,

[01:34.72]he saw two lions.

[01:36.81]A shepherd 3 told Chris not to fear the lions and to keep to the middle of the path.

[01:43.08]When Chris saw that the lions were tied to the rocks with chains,

[01:48.04]he realized that this was to test his courage.

[01:51.49]Though trembling with fear, he walked on.

[01:55.41]The lions roared 4 and pulled on their chains,

[01:59.48]but they were so short that the lions could not attack and harm Chris.

[02:04.34]In the evening, Chris made himself a small shelter and fell asleep.

[02:10.27]Now, not far from the place where he lay there was a castle,

[02:14.97]called Doubting Castle.

[02:16.62]The King of the castle was Giant Despair 5.

[02:20.28]When he saw Chris,

[02:22.63]he shook him and asked what he was doing.

[02:25.55]Chris said that he had lost the way,

[02:28.09]Chris said that he had lost the way,

[02:29.16]but Giant despair did not listen.

[02:31.61]He drove Chris to the castle and put him in a very dark prison,

[02:37.68]together with a man called Hope.

[02:40.24]For four days they were kept in this prison, without ford 6 or water.

[02:45.80]The next day Giant Despair beat them without mercy.

[02:50.84]He told them that the only end to their hardship would be to choose their own death.

[02:57.40]To this Hope answered that although their situation was terrible,

[03:02.86]no man should murder, nor take his own life.

[03:06.41]The whole night Chris and Hope talked of escape.

[03:11.06]Hope reminded Chris of the courage he had shown in the first part of his journey,

[03:16.62]and the hardship he had gone through.

[03:19.08]They sat together and prayed.

[03:21.72]A little before dawn Chris suddenly,

[03:21.83]as if talking to himself,

[03:23.76]said what a fool he was to lie in that smelly prison while holding the key to freedom in his heart.

[03:22.76]Hope asked him what he was talking about,

[03:26.00]to which Chris answered that the key in his heart,

[03:30.15]called Promise, could open any lock in Doubting Castle.

[03:34.67]Hope said that that was good news and told him to take it out and try.

[03:40.21]In less than tem minutes Chris opened the great prison door and the heavy iron gate,

[03:48.15]although that was not easy

[03:50.47]When they saw that Giant Despair was not following them, they were happy and snag this song:

[03:57.61]Out of the way we went and found

[04:01.08]What it was to walk on forbidden ground

[04:04.42]Let him who comes after us remember this thing:

[04:08.55]To stay away from that Giant King

[04:11.82]Whose name is Despair, and whose castle’s called Doubting