时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[00:00.53]4.Dance with Me


[00:04.67]When we’re young and we dream of love and fulfillment, 


[00:08.92]we think perhaps of moon-drenched Parisian nights or walks along the beach at sunset. 


[00:15.56]No one tells us that the greatest moments of a lifetime are fleeting 1, unplanned and nearly always catch us off guard.


[00:24.71]Not long ago, as I was reading a bedtime story to my seven-year-old daughter, Annie, I became aware of her focused gaze. 


[00:33.63]She was starring at me with a faraway, trancelike expression.


[00:39.73]Apparently, completing The Tale of Samuel Whiskers was not as important as we first thought.


[00:47.47]I asked what she was thinking about.


[00:50.84]“Mommy,” she whispered, “I just can’t stop looking at your pretty face.”


[00:58.46]I almost dissolved on the spot.


[01:02.71]Little did she know how many trying moments the glow of her sincerely loving statement would carry me through over the following years.


[01:13.49]Not long after, I took my four-year-old son to an elegant department store, 


[01:19.04]where the melodic 2 notes of a classic love song drew us toward a tuxedoed 3 musician playing a grand piano. 


[01:26.45]Sam and I sat down on a marble bench nearby, and he seemed as transfixed by the lilting theme as I was.


[01:34.40]I didn’t realize that Sam had stood up next to me until he turned, took my face in his little hands and said, 


[01:42.02]“Dance with me.”


[01:44.31]If only those women strolling under the Paris moon knew the joy of such an invitation made by a round-cheeked boy with baby teeth. 


[01:54.38]Although shoppers openly chuckled 4, grinned and pointed 5 at us as we glided 6 and whirled around the open atrium, 


[02:02.91]I would not have traded a dance with such a charming young gentleman if I’d been offered the universe.




1 fleeting
adj.短暂的,飞逝的
  • The girls caught only a fleeting glimpse of the driver.女孩们只匆匆瞥了一眼司机。
  • Knowing the life fleeting,she set herself to enjoy if as best as she could.她知道这种日子转瞬即逝,于是让自已尽情地享受。
2 melodic
adj.有旋律的,调子美妙的
  • His voice had a rich melodic quality.他的音色浑厚而优美。
  • He spoke with a soft husky voice in a melodic accent.他微微沙哑的声音带着一种悠扬的口音。
3 tuxedoed
adj.穿无尾礼服的,穿(夜)小礼服的
4 chuckled
轻声地笑( chuckle的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She chuckled at the memory. 想起这件事她就暗自发笑。
  • She chuckled softly to herself as she remembered his astonished look. 想起他那惊讶的表情,她就轻轻地暗自发笑。
5 pointed
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
6 glided
v.滑动( glide的过去式和过去分词 );掠过;(鸟或飞机 ) 滑翔
  • The President's motorcade glided by. 总统的车队一溜烟开了过去。
  • They glided along the wall until they were out of sight. 他们沿着墙壁溜得无影无踪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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aesthetic feeling
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atiku
ballaban
batch type annealing furnace
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berbacitrin
billboarded
binary trigger
boom topping lift
borderless
Breckhom
buildings-revaluation increments
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capsule staining
cell battery
centrifugal drier
Chromador
commonwealthsman
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curb tenotomy
data array
delayed decision coding (ddc)
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direct-current telegraphy
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diurnal age
Dungunab
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ethylenic link
flow spinning
forpierce
full scale structure dynamic test
galero
gemignani
ground control station
head bag
higg
if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
illuminance transducer
incandescent light bulbs
initial actuation time
intrafacies
jack nicholson
joyland
lift the curtain on sth
lyctids
marine wiring
megaspore haustorium
Mottingham
Muscalam-D
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paraphrasia
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phalariss
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power-seekers
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rami mammarii mediales
readen
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rigid-designators
Rodewisch
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spirits of turpentine
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straight selection sort
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tremblin'
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