时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


英语课

 



[00:00.20]12.An Act of Kindness for a Broken Heart


[00:05.53]“Hi, Mommy, what are you doing?” asked Susie.


[00:10.00]“I’m making a casserole for Mrs. Smith next door,” said her mother.


[00:14.57]“Why?” asked Susie, who was only six years old.


[00:18.27]“Because Mrs. Smith is very sad; she lost her daughter and she has a broken heart. 


[00:23.61]We need to take care of her for a little while.”


[00:26.01]“Why, Mommy?”


[00:27.64]“You see, Susie, when someone is very, very sad, they have trouble doing the little things like making dinner or other chores. 


[00:36.24]Because we’re part of a community and Mrs. Smith is our neighbor, we need to do some things to help her. 


[00:42.34]Mrs. Smith won’t ever be able to talk with her daughter or hug her or do all those wonderful things that mommies and daughters do together. 


[00:50.62]You are a very smart girl, Susie; maybe you’ll think of some way to help take care of Mrs. Smith.”


[00:56.93]Susie thought seriously about this challenge and how she could do her part in caring for Mrs. Smith. 


[01:03.04]A few minutes later, Susie knocked on her door. 


[01:06.08]After a few moments, Mrs. Smith answered the knock with a “Hi, Susie.”


[01:11.41]Susie noticed that Mrs. Smith didn’t have that familiar musical quality about her voice when she greeted someone.


[01:18.17]Mrs. Smith also looked as though she might have been crying because her eyes were watery 1 and swollen 2


[01:23.39]“What can I do for you, Susie?” asked Mrs. Smith.


[01:27.32]“My mommy says that you lost your daughter and you’re very, very sad with a broken heart.” 


[01:33.53]Susie held her hand out shyly. 


[01:36.57]In it was a Band-Aid. “This is for your broken heart.” 


[01:40.38]Mrs. Smith gasped 3, choking back her tears. 


[01:44.09]She knelt down and hugged Susie. 


[01:46.15]Through her tears she said, “Thank you, darling girl, this will help a lot.”


[01:51.49]Mrs. Smith accepted Susie’s act of kindness and took it one step further. 


[01:56.61]She purchased a small key ring with a plexiglass picture frame 


[02:00.77]— the ones designed to carry keys and proudly display a family portrait at the same time. 


[02:05.91]Mrs. Smith placed Susie’s Band-Aid in the frame to remind herself to heal a little every time she sees it. 


[02:12.80]She wisely knows that healing takes time and support. 


[02:16.52]It has become her symbol for healing, while not forgetting the joy and love she experienced with her daughter.




1 watery
adj.有水的,水汪汪的;湿的,湿润的
  • In his watery eyes there is an expression of distrust.他那含泪的眼睛流露出惊惶失措的神情。
  • Her eyes became watery because of the smoke.因为烟熏,她的双眼变得泪汪汪的。
2 swollen
adj.肿大的,水涨的;v.使变大,肿胀
  • Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着,她的双腿已经肿了。
  • A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她,她的手臂肿起来了。
3 gasped
v.喘气( gasp的过去式和过去分词 );喘息;倒抽气;很想要
  • She gasped at the wonderful view. 如此美景使她惊讶得屏住了呼吸。
  • People gasped with admiration at the superb skill of the gymnasts. 体操运动员的高超技艺令人赞叹。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
学英语单词
accompushments
amplitude ratio-phase difference instrument
anisamide
antigedades
backbar
bashing on
bearing indication
beauvallon
boiling-water
Brevibloc
camp sheeting
candle stick
card reeler
CEW
clearing of accounts
client priority
communistled
compeed
compression of light pulse
couseranite
data flow
Dexasine
disgraciously
disprisoning
Dixonian
eat right
ecbasis
entraining plume
equity share
facultative anaerobes
family therapeutics
febris rubra
floating channel
flotation column
flys
fucko
fund remittance and transfer
gangrenous stomatitis
germylidenes
gingival separator
high energy level pile
hour-hand
human skin
impulsive neurosis
indeprehensible
indifferent air mass
insurance-relateds
intragastrically
Inverness capes
jolliment
k homogeneous grammar
kawamoto
Khvosh Maqām
lagopodous
landing over obstacle
leveraged contract in foreign exchange
Machupicchu
make sail
marine seepage
mechanical friction
midflow
nephometer
Nitropotasse
non-scene
nonlinear deformation
not good enough to
nucleolform
oletimol
ottey
P-anisidine value
phlordzinize
Ponchon-Savarit diagram
Pontchartrain, L.
precisionists
radio sensor
real-value item
recessing-tool
reduction cell
reverting
rotating cylinder (pneumatic)
sandcloth
Sap-flow
sclerospora miscanthi
scorner
secondary focusing
sell for
semi-direct fired pulverizing system
SI batch file service
snipe fish
South Whittier
stealthie
stock base
subapical initial
thomisidae
tire-pressure gauge
towell
twisting(cleland 1949)
Upper Voltans
water-sop
winter moth
XRE
zappily