时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[00:00.30]13.A Tragedy or a Blessing 1?


[00:04.23]Years ago in Scotland, the Clark family had a dream. 


[00:08.36]Clark and his wife worked and saved, making plans for their nine children and themselves to travel to the United States. 


[00:17.07]It had taken years, but they had finally saved enough money 


[00:20.89]and had gotten passports and reservations for the whole family on a new liner to the United States.


[00:27.96]The entire family was filled with anticipation 2 and excitement about life in America. 


[00:34.39]However, seven days before their departure, the youngest son was bitten by a dog. 


[00:42.45]The doctor sewed up the boy but hung a yellow sheet on the Clarks’ front door. 


[00:47.13]Because of the possibility of rabies, they were being quarantined for fourteen days.


[00:53.34]The family’s dreams were dashed. 


[00:56.44]They would not be able to make the trip to America as they had planned. 


[01:00.47]The father, filled with disappointment and anger, stomped 3 to the dock to watch the ship leave — without the Clark family. 


[01:08.85]The father shed tears of disappointment and cursed both his son and God for their misfortune.


[01:15.49]Five days later, the tragic 4 news spread throughout Scotland - the mighty 5 Titanic 6 had sunk. 


[01:24.64]The unsinkable ship had sunk, taking hundreds of lives with it. 


[01:30.09]The Clark family was to have been on that ship, 


[01:33.36]but because the son had been bitten by a dog, they were left behind in Scotland.


[01:37.96]When Mr. Clark heard the news, he hugged his son and thanked him for saving the family. 


[01:45.28]He thanked God for saving their lives and turning what he felt was a tragedy into a blessing.


[01:52.28]Although we may not always understand, all things happen for a reason.




1 blessing
n.祈神赐福;祷告;祝福,祝愿
  • The blessing was said in Hebrew.祷告用了希伯来语。
  • A double blessing has descended upon the house.双喜临门。
2 anticipation
n.预期,预料,期望
  • We waited at the station in anticipation of her arrival.我们在车站等着,期待她的到来。
  • The animals grew restless as if in anticipation of an earthquake.各种动物都变得焦躁不安,像是感到了地震即将发生。
3 stomped
v.跺脚,践踏,重踏( stomp的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She stomped angrily out of the office. 她怒气冲冲,重步走出办公室。
  • She slammed the door and stomped (off) out of the house. 她砰的一声关上了门,暮暮地走出了屋了。 来自辞典例句
4 tragic
adj.悲剧的,悲剧性的,悲惨的
  • The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
  • Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。
5 mighty
adj.强有力的;巨大的
  • A mighty force was about to break loose.一股巨大的力量即将迸发而出。
  • The mighty iceberg came into view.巨大的冰山出现在眼前。
6 titanic
adj.巨人的,庞大的,强大的
  • We have been making titanic effort to achieve our purpose.我们一直在作极大的努力,以达到我们的目的。
  • The island was created by titanic powers and they are still at work today.台湾岛是由一个至今仍然在运作的巨大力量塑造出来的。
学英语单词
acombs
adipoceriform
aerological propeller vessel
aesthetic appreciation
Albatarrech
andre gides
antagonistical
antiopbidica
arum palaestinums
As the saying goes
astronomical determination
bar sight
base of posterior horn
be happy in
beginning of transition curve
bituminous substances
boundary sets
Bulbophyllum quadrangulum
buzane
by motorcycle
call by passing
Champigny-sur-Marne
changjon (kosong)
chloromethyl ethyl ether
cleave to sth
construction of double eyelid
core sucker
crepidomanes radicans naseanum
cryptodromia tuberculata
cullage
De Laval noz
disensanity
DS (desuperheater)
electronic sinusoid generator
enkerly
fci
financial information
forced oscillations
foreclosers
Fossa tonsillaris
garraty
get someone's blood up
have a part in
Hercynian
himids
hinesburg
houseworker
infra-red spectrophotometer
integrity rule
invester
isophotometry
kerosene, kerosine
Kocheriv
kursh
Labour-friendly
lacunar status
malcontent
meson yield
mildren
natrides
nosebridge
nurse a fire
on the basis of
optical transmissometer
output attenuatoin
panorpa pectinata
patent drawing
picramide
plea of the crown
Plouguernével
potential holding of funds
pressure distillation
presupposable
printmake
programmable communications interfact
Proto-Dravidian
rackingly
red polls
resistance-type flowmeter
semiinfidel
single-name paper
skeed
software package definition
Soignes, Forêt de
st james's park
stream feeder
sumpter-pony
tela vasculosa
the public gallery
Timashevka
tubular motor
turbulent resistivity
underground cavern
unilateral conduction
Viskafors
vrej
wealth-generating
well-shape
wheedle sth out of
woodchoppers
working index
wrecked