时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[00:00.63]7.The Silent Love of a Father


[00:05.09]After Mom died, I began visiting Dad every morning before I went to work.


[00:11.19]He was frail 1 and moved slowly, but he always had a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice for me.


[00:18.38]Such a gesture, I knew, was as far as Dad had ever been able to go in expressing his love.


[00:24.58]In fact, I remember, as a kid I had questioned Mom”Why doesn’t Dad love me?”


[00:30.79]Mom frowned,”Who said he doesn’t love you?”


[00:34.28]“Well, he never tells me,” I complained.


[00:37.44]“He never tells me either,” she said, smiling,”


[00:41.03]But look how hard he works to take care of us, to buy us food and clothes, and to pay for this house.


[00:48.21]That’s how your father tells us he loves us.”


[00:51.48]Every time after drinking the juice my father had squeezed for me, I would walk over, hug him and say, “I love you, Dad.”


[01:00.84]My father never told me how he felt about my hugs, and there was never any expression on his face when I gave them.


[01:07.93]Then one morning, pressed for time, I drank my juice and made for the door.


[01:13.16]Dad stepped in front of me and asked,”Well?”


[01:16.97]“Well what?” I asked, knowing exactly what.


[01:20.45]“Well?” he repeated, looking everywhere but at me.


[01:24.48]I hugged him extra hard.


[01:27.20]Now was the right time to say what I’d always wanted to.


[01:30.80]“I’m fifty years old, Dad, and you’ve never told me you love me.”


[01:35.04]My father stepped away from me. He picked up the empty juice glass, washed it and put it away.


[01:41.36]“You’ve told other people you love me,” I said, “but I’ve never heard it from you.”


[01:47.34]Dad looked very uncomfortable.


[01:50.18]I moved closer to him,”Dad, I want you to tell me you love me.”


[01:54.20]Dad took a step back, his lips pressed together.


[01:58.02]He seemed about to speak, and then shook his head. “Tell me,” I shouted.”


[02:03.46]All right, I love you.” Dad finally blurted 2, his eyes glistened 3, then overflowed 4.


[02:09.36]I stood before him, stunned 5 and silent.


[02:12.53]My father loved me so much that just saying so made him weep.


[02:17.24]Mom had been right.


[02:19.21]Every day of my life Dad had told me how much he loved me by what he did and what he gave.


[02:25.33]“I know, Dad,”I said,”I know.”And now at last I did.




1 frail
adj.身体虚弱的;易损坏的
  • Mrs. Warner is already 96 and too frail to live by herself.华纳太太已经九十六岁了,身体虚弱,不便独居。
  • She lay in bed looking particularly frail.她躺在床上,看上去特别虚弱。
2 blurted
v.突然说出,脱口而出( blurt的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She blurted it out before I could stop her. 我还没来得及制止,她已脱口而出。
  • He blurted out the truth, that he committed the crime. 他不慎说出了真相,说是他犯了那个罪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 glistened
v.湿物闪耀,闪亮( glisten的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Pearls of dew glistened on the grass. 草地上珠露晶莹。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Her eyes glistened with tears. 她的眼里闪着泪花。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
4 overflowed
溢出的
  • Plates overflowed with party food. 聚会上的食物碟满盘盈。
  • A great throng packed out the theater and overflowed into the corridors. 一大群人坐满剧院并且还有人涌到了走廊上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
ahang
alloy steel pipe
arsenical keratosis
bent head
birefringent coating
bladder polyp
Bream Tail
Caltojar
cementless insulator
chia j?n chien mu tan tui wu
co-executrix
Colorado four o'clock
communication line terminator
crassest
desiccated milk
diaphragm-pump
dieron
discharge period
discovery value method
dongguan
double-density format
educationary
El Prado
exogenetic deposit
fairway
fast timing
fully developed turbulent flow
Galenicals
gelfoam
health monitoring of equipment
Helpmann, Sir Robert
hernia of the bladder
horrible
Hwangdae
implosion wave
India shawls
intraoral radiograph
ionospheric anisotropy
irrigated farming
jolled
Kedrovyy
kovacevic
lakish
last period forecast
level luffing motion
lvp
lymantriid
maltlong
manhelper
matteos
maximum mixing depth
mean absolute static pressure
medium sausage
mirror-image twins
moving magnet instrument
Musculus scalenus anterior
nitroaromatic
noise shaping network
non-mealy
nonesuch clover
nonhistorical
nose-bleed
obducts
One-man picture
pardaxins
pathogenesis of heart disease
peaceablest
Pediococcus urinae-equi
pelham
peptone solution
plain linoleum
propagation of heat
quartz schist
quietim
r-oxyphenbutazone
radar net
Rami nucleorum hypothalamicorum
ratkiller
recommendation system
red-making
reposed on
ribes stenocarpum maxim.
rotary-disk contactor
scutellar bridge
short cesium beam standard
sinoacutinol
soil particlesize analysis
standard time-sharing system error message
surpriser
tetramerises
thermal couple
time-distance
Toygers
trusteed pension plan
tuberculosis mortality rate
turbo-filter
unimpeachable
vanadium tetraoxide
vibrating
went as course
with the cooperation of
xanthoxin