时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


英语课

 



[00:01.17]5.Did The Earth Move For You?


[00:04.65]Eleven-year-old Angela was stricken with a debilitating 1 disease involving her nervous system. 


[00:10.54]She was unable to walk and her movement was restricted in other ways as well. 


[00:15.98]The doctors did not hold out much hope of her ever recovering from this illness.


[00:21.21]They predicted she’d spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. 


[00:25.57]They said that few, if any, were able to come back to normal after contracting this disease. 


[00:31.88]The little girl was undaunted. 


[00:34.28]There, lying in her hospital bed, she would vow 2 to anyone who’d listen that she was definitely going to be walking again someday.


[00:43.20]She was transferred to a specialized 3 rehabilitation 4 hospital in the San Francisco Bay area. 


[00:50.72]Whatever therapies could be applied 5 to her case were used. 


[00:54.42]The therapists were charmed by her undefeatable spirit. 


[00:58.02]They taught her about imaging — about seeing herself walking. 


[01:02.92]If it would do nothing else, it would at least give her hope and something positive to do in the long waking hours in bed. 


[01:11.73]Angela would work as hard as possible in physical therapy, in whirlpools and in exercise sessions. 


[01:18.92]But she worked just as hard lying there faithfully doing her imaging, visualizing 6 herself moving, moving, moving!


[01:28.18]One day, as she was using all her might to imagine her legs moving again, it seemed as though one miracle had happened: 


[01:35.69]The bed moved! She screamed out, “Look what I’m doing! Look! Look! I can do it! I moved, I moved!”


[01:43.53]Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was screaming, too, and running for cover. 


[01:50.82]People were screaming, equipment was falling and glass was breaking. 


[01:54.66]You see, it was the recent San Francisco earthquake. 


[01:59.03]But don’t tell that to Angela. 


[02:01.44]She’s convinced that she did it. 


[02:04.28]And now only a few years later, she’s back in school. 


[02:08.22]You see, anyone who can shake the earth between San Francisco and Oakland can conquer a piddling little disease, can’t they?




1 debilitating
a.使衰弱的
  • The debilitating disease made him too weak to work. 这个令他衰弱的病,使他弱到没有办法工作。
  • You may soon leave one debilitating condition or relationship forever. 你即将永远地和这段霉运说拜拜了。
2 vow
n.誓(言),誓约;v.起誓,立誓
  • My parents are under a vow to go to church every Sunday.我父母许愿,每星期日都去做礼拜。
  • I am under a vow to drink no wine.我已立誓戒酒。
3 specialized
adj.专门的,专业化的
  • There are many specialized agencies in the United Nations.联合国有许多专门机构。
  • These tools are very specialized.这些是专用工具。
4 rehabilitation
n.康复,悔过自新,修复,复兴,复职,复位
  • He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
  • No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
5 applied
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
6 visualizing
肉眼观察
  • Nevertheless, the Bohr model is still useful for visualizing the structure of an atom. 然而,玻尔模型仍有利于使原子结构形象化。
  • Try to strengthen this energy field by visualizing the ball growing stronger. 通过想象能量球变得更强壮设法加强这能量场。
学英语单词
absolute prohibition
accuracy of operation
advincula
agnes gonxha bojaxhius
Ajar metal
Armillariella mellea
at a tremendous speed
barambah creek
Basle Payments Committee
Berekboszormeny
chalk dust
Chikungunya fever
Chirinkotan, Vulkan
chokebore
clutch facing
coating fracture strain
coaxial-stub filter
Democratic Action
di-gel
disgraceful
dislocation solubility
dry prefabricated frame assembly method
Dvin
engine cleaning agent
equality system
Extensible Rights Markup Language
fayssal
floor stock code
fums
general-purpose freight car
globous
glow discharge manometer
Gm.
gridiron structure
hafs
hide selection
higher tar acid
hitch your wagon to a star
howler monkeys
impact swaging
indenumerable
intermediate survey
ion implantation
kempenfelt
kinetic energy of wave
lesser prairie chickens
limaspermine
loanmonger
location of label
massor
mechanical disintegration
medium high-frequency wave
methyl acetic acid
milk agitator
monumentally
movable-frame hive
multicasing turbine
Napier's logarithm
news blackout
non-sulfur purple bacteria
off-resonant frequency
one's fate is sealed
oxotomycin
pellucidas
pfaffs
phage type
prediction estimation
primary lymphedema
printer speed
psychological function
put something over on
put the fear of death in sb
Qotur(Kutur)
reconstituted tobacco
remeasured
Ribagorza
Roger Bacon
runner-up finish
saber-tooth
saltless
science fiction film
severance type break
silence cloth
stovepipe
stunts
super juice extractor
supranet
suramen
toulons
transparent polycrystalline alumina ceramics
trapezoidal tooth log-periodic antenna
tuber root
un-fired combined cycle unit
universal specialization
valve reseater
Visual FoxPro
volochysk (volochisk)
volume of world trade
wake-up calls
wash down
wefty
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