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
actinocardiogram
agro(-)industrialist
Alyth
ANICs
anomodont
arguns
artificial ecological system
As Sījūmī
ask for instruction
blacktailed
bute i.
catarrhal fevers
Chievres
cleanup spot
closed container
codie
conestat alfa
consistent definition
contiguous chain
Cowper's
D Phil
derived limit
didgeridooer
direct secondary distress alerting network
docilely
Dolby HDR
dollar break-even point
draft animal
Duong Huy
ejection angle/angle of ejection
erectings
falls ill
finite configuration
flagrance
food poisoning
food scientist
Galactia formosana
Gangākher
generator drive axle
genus tanacetums
Graf Spee
hard boil
heyfield
histotrophic nutrition
horizontal labo(u)r mobility
iep
in a spin
insectual
intermediation effect
international unlawful act
iodopropylene
irisflorentin
kebleh
kiln bracing
knee swing dismount
liebhaber
Lopping-axe
magnesium metaborate
milk it
millionaire's defence
minato ohashi bridges
minimum point on a curve
mossadeq
multi-operation distribution
mutual circuit
non-classical ions
overall magnitude ratio
oxyazo-
Piagetian
poteau
printing of mezzotints
quality assessment
radiostrontiums
Red Hill
rigid grid
rotating drum feeder
sal anglicum
second kind of error
socio-emotional
status quo ante bellum
stream derangement
stupidish
Sytomino
tangential zero from below
taps out
tentative wounds
trichomo
Tsala Apopka L.
two-deck drier
unauthoritative
unconfined detonation velocity
unicolorous
veggie
vitall
voltage selection relay
well-mettled
when worst comes to worst
with the privity of
wool batiste
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