时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


英语课
Hour in the Sun 
 by John H. Bradley
 
“…I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.”
                                                                                          ------HenryDavid Thoreau
 WhenThoreau wrote that line, he was thinking of the Walden. Pond he knew as a boy.
 Woodchoppersand the Iron Horse had not yet greatly damaged the beauty of its setting. A boycould go to the pond and lie on his back against the seat of a boat, lazilydrifting from shore to shore while the loons dived and the swallows dipped around him. Thoreau loved to recall such sunny hours and summer days “when idlenesswas the most attractive and productive business.” 
Itoo was once a boy in love with a pond, rich in sunny hours and summer days.Sun and summer are still what they always were, but the boy and the pondchanged. The boy, who is now a man, no longer finds much time for idledrifting. The pond has been annexed 1 by a great city. The swamps where heronsonce hunted are now drained and filled with houses. The bay where water liliesquietly floated is now a harbor for motor boats. In short, everything that theboy loved no longer exists – except in the man’s memory of it.
 Somepeople insist that only today and tomorrow matter. But how much poorer we wouldbe if we really lived by that rule! So much of what we do today is frivolousand futile 2 and soon forgotten. So much of what we hope to do tomorrow neverhappens.
 Thepast is the bank in which we store our most valuable possession; the memoriesthat give meaning and depth to our lives.
 Thosewho truly treasure the past will not bemoan 3 the passing of the good old days,because days enshrined in memory are never lost. Death itself is powerless tostill a remembered voice or erase 4 a remembered smile. And for one boy who isnow a man, there is a pond which neither time nor tide can change, where he canstill spend a quiet hour in the sun. 

1 annexed
[法] 附加的,附属的
  • Germany annexed Austria in 1938. 1938年德国吞并了奥地利。
  • The outlying villages were formally annexed by the town last year. 那些偏远的村庄于去年正式被并入该镇。
2 futile
adj.无效的,无用的,无希望的
  • They were killed,to the last man,in a futile attack.因为进攻失败,他们全部被杀,无一幸免。
  • Their efforts to revive him were futile.他们对他抢救无效。
3 bemoan
v.悲叹,哀泣,痛哭;惋惜,不满于
  • Purists bemoan the corruption of the language.主张语文纯正的人哀叹语言趋于不纯。
  • Don't bemoan anything or anyone that you need to leave behind.不要再去抱怨那些你本该忘记的人或事。
4 erase
v.擦掉;消除某事物的痕迹
  • He tried to erase the idea from his mind.他试图从头脑中抹掉这个想法。
  • Please erase my name from the list.请把我的名字从名单上擦去。
学英语单词
abdominal part
absolutely stable
absorbing state
adrenochromes
aluminium foils
asymmetric transformation
banded stilts
basivertebral vein
battologized
be let in on the ground floor
body feed
Buridan's ass
cash invoice
Chorzelów
chronographer
clip off
combined vibrating roller
compensating feedback loop
conus planorbis
cost objective
cotton production
cylinder by-pass valve
D-frame
data over voice
days of rest
deglamorization
derestrict
dextrotorsion
dispersion-equalization
ditching attitude
Dohans
electrical characteristics
externally-braced monoplane
fall-out of synchronism
forecaddies
golden eagle
Goldstein-Scheerer tests
graduated string
half-hunter
Haplopappus spinulosus
have analogy to
heating system
heliotridylamine
hildebrand
hotlines
hyuck
indirect type central air-conditioning unit
Internet suffix
Izena-jima
Kurdistani
lampyridaes
leukoplania
liquid waste receiver tank
local acceptance
lsi-cml circuit technology
magnetoresistance magnetometer
merions
metal surface plasmon and second harmonic generator
minimum graph
mohs scales
natural environment management
nervi ampullaris lateralis
neverless
occasional light
once and a way
ordinary life assurance
oscillator padding
Osipa
photocell matrix
piston curl
pivot hinge
pontes
prequalified tenderer
puffest
queueing system structure
reflux column
repair of side ditch
Revere, Paul
sample-reset loop filter
Scirpus rosthornii
scornliche
separation of spinal cord and arachnoid adhesions
silicon diode array
sope
speed through the water
stellite-faced valve
Subprime Meltdown
tee-times
toll free number
toroidal discharge
transitive law
trichomonal urethro-cystitis
under constraint
undistributed score
virus diarrhea
waltz through
white cypresses
wide anode
win ... over
Yak-141
yellow-necked mice
zygomorphic pea flower