时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[00:00.20]7.Watching Me Go


[00:03.68]My son Brendan cried his first day of school. 


[00:08.14]Even Mrs. Phillips, a kind, soft-spoken master of the six-year-old mind, could not coax 1 him to a seat. 


[00:15.65]His eyes streamed, his nose ran and he clung to me like a snail 2 on a strawberry. 


[00:22.41]I plucked him off and escaped.


[00:24.80]It wasn’t that Brendan didn’t like school. 


[00:28.51]He just didn’t like being apart from me. 


[00:31.45]We’d had some good times, he and I, in those preschool years. 


[00:35.91]We played at the pool. 


[00:37.54]We skated on quiet morning ice. 


[00:39.94]We sampled half the treat tray at weekly neighborhood coffee parties. 


[00:44.08]Now in Grade 1, Brendan was faced with five hours of wondering what I was doing with my day.


[00:51.05]Brendan always came home for lunch, the only one of his class not to eat at his desk. 


[00:56.60]But once home, fed and hugged, a far-away look of longing 3 would crease 4 his gentle brow 


[01:04.66]— he wanted to go back to school to play! 


[01:07.49]So I walked him back, waited with him until he spotted 5 someone he knew, then left. 


[01:13.04]He told me once that he watched me until he couldn’t see me anymore, so I always walked fast and never looked back.


[01:20.56]One day when I took Brendan back after lunch, he spied a friend, kissed me goodbye, and scampered 6 right off. 


[01:28.29]I went, feeling pleased for him, celebrating his new independence, his entry into the first-grade social loop. 


[01:36.67]Then — I didn’t know why — I glanced back. 


[01:40.59]And there he was. 


[01:42.45]The playground buzzed all around him, kids everywhere, 


[01:45.82]and he stood, his chin tucked close, his body held small, his face intent but not sad, blowing me kisses. 


[01:55.73]So brave, so unashamed, so completely loving, Brendan was watching me go.


[02:02.91]No book on mothering could have prepared me for that quick, raw glimpse into my child’s soul. 


[02:09.13]My mind leaped 15 years ahead to him packing boxes and his dog grown old and him saying, 


[02:16.10]“Dry up, Mom. It’s not like I’m leaving the country.” 


[02:19.36]In my mind I tore up the card every mother signs saying she’ll let her child go when he’s ready. 


[02:25.49]I looked at my Brendan, his shirt tucked in, every button done up, his toes just turned in a bit, and I thought, 


[02:33.59]“OK, you’re six for me forever.” 


[02:37.96]With a smile I had to really dig for, I blew him a kiss, turned and walked away.




1 coax
v.哄诱,劝诱,用诱哄得到,诱取
  • I had to coax the information out of him.我得用好话套出他掌握的情况。
  • He tried to coax the secret from me.他试图哄骗我说出秘方。
2 snail
n.蜗牛
  • Snail is a small plant-eating creature with a soft body.蜗牛是一种软体草食动物。
  • Time moved at a snail's pace before the holidays.放假前的时间过得很慢。
3 longing
n.(for)渴望
  • Hearing the tune again sent waves of longing through her.再次听到那首曲子使她胸中充满了渴望。
  • His heart burned with longing for revenge.他心中燃烧着急欲复仇的怒火。
4 crease
n.折缝,褶痕,皱褶;v.(使)起皱
  • Does artificial silk crease more easily than natural silk?人造丝比天然丝更易起皱吗?
  • Please don't crease the blouse when you pack it.包装时请不要将衬衫弄皱了。
5 spotted
adj.有斑点的,斑纹的,弄污了的
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
6 scampered
v.蹦蹦跳跳地跑,惊惶奔跑( scamper的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The cat scampered away. 猫刺棱一下跑了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The rabbIt'scampered off. 兔子迅速跑掉了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
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a brass farthing
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Aegean Islands
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calibration liquid
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containment cooling system
contract transportation
convolution operation
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CPRO
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diarylmaleimide
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energy-sapping
enforcement notice
entropy balance equation
Erb paralysis
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fabry perot cavity
ferrimagnetisms
fishery processing ship
foreign capital in flow
furnace foundation
furnculosis
gauze sponge
godelier
grafite
grasps the nettle
hold in pledge
huntington-heberleim sink and float
hydraulic machine
hylion
infusoriform embryo
iodobromite
ketonic ester
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magnetic card filing cabinet
manufacturer's wire
masais
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memory time
migratory thrombophlebitis
misstating
nail smith chisel
noise pollution
NOT AND
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order Salientia
p.c.b.s
parabolic flight
permitio
perpendicular electric constant
persuadability
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pstis
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Red Cross and Red Crescent
rheology of elastomers
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screw driver for cruciate slot
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theory of genasthenia
time-to-pulse height converter
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unryu-gata
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waist packs
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Zitazonium