时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[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
active components
affixers
afterrecording
Aird
antifermentive
applied anthropology
auxiliary material
boccardi
branchial outgrowth
building projects
carbonate acid
chincherinchees
clearing currency
copunctual
croqueta
cylindromas
dagons
decametric
descopes
diffuse bounding surface
draw-in bar
ELCIC
electric thermostatic drying oven
Elk Falls
emergency shutdown valve
epididymodeferential
ex-meridian altitude
extencisor
flour mill
fog eater
fort-mackenzie (fort mckenzie)
fossil subduction zone
fracture anisotropy
gear lock
get a move on
GO TO symbol
gyri fasciolaris
hamarchy
heat-spot
hemorrhagic white eye
hose reel assembly
hotelman
imaging path
interconversions
Jayshullah
K-Lease
Kayyerkan
kermits
Khinocyde
lackalnd
Landsteiner's method
materials order book
meltid
mioner
monomethyl-disulfanilamide
mother's salve
motivically
multiplex time division modulation
neutral fat
nished
nondestructive read character
normal form pushdown automaton
on-board diagnosis
overcope
penetration path
pipefishes
put all one's goods in the shopwindow
quality design
radiating boundary condition
radio command link
rider plate
schumannii
sedimentation force
serial monogamy
single driver
spunkier
straight-line pass
streptonigrin
structural low
subitization
sumner unit
surface behaviour
suzuki
Sérent
Sévérac-le-Château
targetability
telephonicprobe
thermoplastic memory system
three bearing pinion
Thurgau
time phase angle
trick out
Umm Begago
unity of seizin
universal robot
Varignon theorem
virtual machine concept
wave eliminater
without fraudulent intent
wolansky
yoketoed
zakro