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。
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Arthur Koestler
asthema
autodynamics
be qualified as
be up to putty
bicycle mail
block-chlorinated polyethylene
burnt siennas
caudal myotome
chyken
cleaning naphtha
clot culture
cognata
command file to terminal interplay
complementary subgroups
cypress swamp
data mile
data station console
do justice to a meal
Doliproderm
dough maker
duration of fading
dursun
eliminating evil
Elymus cylindricus
EMGN
end user language
Estate Freeze
exploratory biopsy
failure of product
filling trunk
flower gentle
fulminating anoxia
genkwadaphnin
genus arctotiss
Good Middling Yellow Stained
heaten
Herpen
Honolulan
hyperorthogonal group
impulse type voltage regulator
internal deck
Isobumeton
jack-of-all-trade
jugal points
Kabango
Kayoa, Pulau
light E bag
Lone Star State
Mahonia bracteolata
marmelize
meaning fulness
median palatine process
microfont
mill steaks
ncps
nonguided
Novyy Urengoy
oceanographic publication
out operater
output network
Oxytropis bella
palpebronasal fold
phyllorhize
poster paper
praguite
pressure contact thyristor
pressure sensitive element
Quambatook
reference noise
replacings
retardation theory
returns in real terms
Rosieres, C.des
russula japonica
Sboina Frumoasǎ
seq.
session awareness block
silver alloy brazing
silver nucleinate
South Waziristān
steady-state level
sting support
sunshine collector
sweelincks
tailcords
temporal-integration paradigm
title panel
transition of the first order
transparent blue
tube vice
Tupi-Guaranian
ultimate wilting point
unresolved pneumonia
vacuum freezing drying oven
variety resources
veers off
volume of blood
whale bacon
width
writing-off
zygomaticofrontal