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
a pimp stick
abductor
abjurer
acute organic brain syndrome
ADRENOSEN
alannah
anemia of lead poisoning
art classes
Bialminal
binge eater
bricalin
capsuloganglionic
charter by demis
colletotrichum camelliae
compluvium
conscripts
contents of inventory
contingent annuity
coramjudice
corona radiate of ovum
cosmoid-scale
counter-hegemony
counter-question
cover-slip
de-caffs
Deer Lodge County
diaperhood
disability leave
distality
doubly-inked list
downpressor
duplication of ureter
ectosymbionts
employment stop date
entomesoderm
generator motor (generator/motor)
get out of the road
grammates
green-eyed
guide vane apparatus
haemato-
high-epithermal neutron range
historical development of attest function
icehouse
in the inverse ratio of
itea chinensis hook.et arn
Kalmucks
kohner
landries
law-men
marasmic acid
mixer with propeller
molybdous chloride
monoblastic
nager
Ndoba
neo-orthodox
net dependable capacity
nomada longicornis
non-excitation operation
not seldom
nuclear powered military vessel
o.d
on company service
p-cyclohexyl-anisole
painting gun
Paradas
particulate composite material
picot trim
pitiablenesses
Porjus
programma
Racah
Raubwirtschaft
red-blind
remenber
ribbon bobbin
RTCI
Sarare, R.
selfpossession
shinohara odori (japan)
Sibelius, Jean
skinwalkers
smokin
smolts
stakeknife
suborder blattodeas
sulfur (s) dioxide
tack inhibitor
talionic
tetract
tetramethylbenzidine
the privilege of clergy
thecodonts
thickened lubricant
two bit wide slice
Uhana
water service installation
waxpods
wurm (glacial age)
Wycliffism
xeriscapes