时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语专业晨读美文


英语课

[00:01.08]Today I Begin a New Life

[00:03.82]Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long,

[00:09.39]suffered the bruises 1 of failure and the wounds of mediocrity.

[00:12.89]Today I am born anew and my birthplace

[00:16.50] is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

[00:19.56]Today I will pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest

[00:23.45] and fullest vines in the vineyard,

[00:25.53]for these were planted by the wisest of my profession who have come before me,

[00:30.67]generation upon generation.

[00:33.30]Today I will savor 2 the taste of grapes from these vines and verily

[00:38.22] I will swallow the seed of success buried in each

[00:41.64]and new life will sprout 3 within me.

[00:44.37]The career I have chosen is laden 4 with opportunity

[00:48.09] yet it is fraught 5 with heartbreak and despair and the bodies of those

[00:52.58]who have failed, were they piled one atop another,

[00:55.42]would cast a shadow down upon all the pyramids of the earth.

[00:59.25]Yet I will not fail, as the others,

[01:01.87] for in my hands I now hold the charts

[01:04.93]which will guide through perilous 6 waters to shores

[01:07.67]which only yesterday seemed but a dream.

[01:10.95]As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits,

[01:16.64]as are all grown men. I will form good habits and become their slave.

[01:22.10]And how will I accomplish this difficult feat 7? Through these scrolls 9,

[01:26.70]it will be done, for each scroll 8 contains a principle

[01:30.09]which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one

[01:34.68]which will bring me closer to success.

[01:36.87]And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard 10 my new life's growth.

[01:43.11] I will lose not a day from these readings

[01:46.39]for that day cannot be retrieved 11 nor can I substitute another for it.

[01:51.53] I must not, I will not, break this habit of daily reading from these scrolls and,

[01:57.22] in truth, the few moments spent each day on this new habit

[02:01.48]are but a small price to pay for the happiness and success that will be mine.

[02:06.84]Today my old skin has become as dust.

[02:10.55] I will walk tall among men and they will know me not,

[02:14.17]for today I am a new man, with a new life.



1 bruises
n.瘀伤,伤痕,擦伤( bruise的名词复数 )
  • He was covered with bruises after falling off his bicycle. 他从自行车上摔了下来,摔得浑身伤痕。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The pear had bruises of dark spots. 这个梨子有碰伤的黑斑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 savor
vt.品尝,欣赏;n.味道,风味;情趣,趣味
  • The soup has a savor of onion.这汤有洋葱味。
  • His humorous remarks added a savor to our conversation.他幽默的话语给谈话增添了风趣。
3 sprout
n.芽,萌芽;vt.使发芽,摘去芽;vi.长芽,抽条
  • When do deer first sprout horns?鹿在多大的时候开始长出角?
  • It takes about a week for the seeds to sprout.这些种子大约要一周后才会发芽。
4 laden
adj.装满了的;充满了的;负了重担的;苦恼的
  • He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
  • Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。
5 fraught
adj.充满…的,伴有(危险等)的;忧虑的
  • The coming months will be fraught with fateful decisions.未来数月将充满重大的决定。
  • There's no need to look so fraught!用不着那么愁眉苦脸的!
6 perilous
adj.危险的,冒险的
  • The journey through the jungle was perilous.穿过丛林的旅行充满了危险。
  • We have been carried in safety through a perilous crisis.历经一连串危机,我们如今已安然无恙。
7 feat
n.功绩;武艺,技艺;adj.灵巧的,漂亮的,合适的
  • Man's first landing on the moon was a feat of great daring.人类首次登月是一个勇敢的壮举。
  • He received a medal for his heroic feat.他因其英雄业绩而获得一枚勋章。
8 scroll
n.卷轴,纸卷;(石刻上的)漩涡
  • As I opened the scroll,a panorama of the Yellow River unfolded.我打开卷轴时,黄河的景象展现在眼前。
  • He was presented with a scroll commemorating his achievements.他被授予一幅卷轴,以表彰其所做出的成就。
9 scrolls
n.(常用于录写正式文件的)纸卷( scroll的名词复数 );卷轴;涡卷形(装饰);卷形花纹v.(电脑屏幕上)从上到下移动(资料等),卷页( scroll的第三人称单数 );(似卷轴般)卷起;(像展开卷轴般地)将文字显示于屏幕
  • Either turn it off or only pick up selected stuff like wands, rings and scrolls. 把他关掉然后只捡你需要的物品,像是魔杖(wand),戒指(rings)和滚动条(scrolls)。 来自互联网
  • Ancient scrolls were found in caves by the Dead Sea. 死海旁边的山洞里发现了古代的卷轴。 来自辞典例句
10 retard
n.阻止,延迟;vt.妨碍,延迟,使减速
  • Lack of sunlight will retard the growth of most plants.缺乏阳光会妨碍大多数植物的生长。
  • Continuing violence will retard negotiations over the country's future.持续不断的暴力活动会阻碍关系到国家未来的谈判的进行。
11 retrieved
v.取回( retrieve的过去式和过去分词 );恢复;寻回;检索(储存的信息)
  • Yesterday I retrieved the bag I left in the train. 昨天我取回了遗留在火车上的包。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He reached over and retrieved his jacket from the back seat. 他伸手从后座上取回了自己的夹克。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
aeration candle
Africanises
architectural composition
Astorp
azan
b.p.r.d
bendiest
blast trauma
borica (hungary)
bottom drift
bring ... to justice
bubblejets
burn of oral cavity
capability-based addressing
cardiac branch (or cardiac nerve)
catbird seat
cavern filling
cinchonology
clandestin
concurrently
cynddylans
derailment due to climbing of wheel-flange on rail
Dicomano
diminuse
diringer
dirty realism
dissociator
do son
doing-dong fight
dottur
drupel
east schelde (oosterschelde)
electromechanical analog computer
extension line for dimension
fimbristylis subbispicata nees et mey.
for screw stays
frigid belt
go in for
Goeferdinge
guide bend test
gumboti
hollow font
horizontal pressure foot
horswertianolin
hyperepinephrinemia
intermetallic phase particle
Kummell's point
kundu
lacrimal probe
landleapers
launch velocity
licea biforis
lump-sum measure expense
maneuvering trials
marchand de vin sauce
Mborla-Dioulasso
minister to
mwhs
Niutou Bandao
nmdar
non-trivial functional dependence
notice of personal assessment
nuclear detector
orthodox straddle
out-of-order signal
outlitigated
pad supported jack-ups
passenger wharf
portable rivet forge
potassium cyanoaurite
precast artistic terrazzo flooring
promotion and transferring
quasi-stationary spectrum
radar distance meter
railway gauge
reclaimant
restless sleep
rice box
run-up
seated gas generator
selenates
self-judgment
shutoff block
silo cell
silverspears
single stage diffusion unit
singular stiffness matrix
snorkel divings
Solarians
swell scale
swing gear
tracing observation
transmission-countershaft reverse gear
trimolter
tuberostemonine
tyrement
undoed
unearthed
vaccinating
visual tuning
voltage generator
winter flowering