时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读


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[00:00.65]Moved By The Moon 为月亮而感动


[00:06.67]Driving to a friend’s house on a recent evening,


[00:10.39]I was awe-struck by the sight of the full moon rising just above Manila rooftops,


[00:17.06]huge and swollen 1, yellow through the dust and smoke of the city.


[00:21.99]I stopped to watch it for a few moments, 


[00:24.89]reflecting on what a pity it was that most city dwellers 2?


[00:29.54]Myself included? Usually miss sights like this 


[00:33.06]because we spend most of our lives indoors 3.


[00:36.96]My friend had also seen it.


[00:39.79]He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then.


[00:45.93]It had touched many aspects of his life, 


[00:48.76]including those concerning 4 his ordinary daily life.


[00:52.82]For example, when he had to make sure that


[00:55.77]he had his torch with him when he was outside in the evening,


[00:59.17]or when the moon was due to rise late or was at its newest,


[01:03.76]a bright, distant sliver 5 of white like a chink of light below a door in the sky.


[01:09.79]I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter


[01:14.96]to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends.


[01:18.86]We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water.


[01:24.56]Our group had campfires outside every night, 


[01:28.29]and indoors when it was too cold outside.


[01:31.56]The moon grew to its fullest during our trip.


[01:35.06]At Binsar, 7 500 feet up in the Kumaon hills,


[01:40.53]I can remember going out at 10 p.m.


[01:43.29]and seeing the great Manda Devil 6 Mountain like a ghost on the horizon,


[01:48.62]gleaming white in the moonlight and flanked by Trishul,


[01:52.67]the mountain considered holy by Hindus.


[01:55.51]Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys.


[02:00.55]Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard.


[02:05.14]It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence.


[02:11.77]And above me was the full moon.


[02:14.62]Today our lives are defined 7 by glass, concrete, metal, plastic and fibre-glass.


[02:22.06]We eat and breathe things our bodies were not designed to process.


[02:26.66]We have televisions, Xerox 8 machines, cell phones, pagers, electricity,


[02:32.56]heaters and ovens 9 and air-conditioners, cars, computers and remote controls.


[02:38.26]Struggling through traffic that evening in Manila at the end of a tiring day,


[02:42.96]most of it spent indoors, I thought:


[02:45.91]before long, I would like to live in a small cottage in the Himalayas.


[02:51.16]There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains.


[02:56.09]And perhaps write, but not in anger.


[02:59.37]I may grow old there,


[03:01.20]and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons.


[03:06.70]But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.




1 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。
2 dwellers
n.居民,居住者( dweller的名词复数 )
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes. 城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They have transformed themselves into permanent city dwellers. 他们已成为永久的城市居民。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 indoors
adv.(在)室内,(在)户内
  • Because of the coldness of the weather we stayed indoors.我们因天气寒冷呆在家里。
  • It is very cold outside,you'd better come indoors across the board.外面很冷,你们所有人最好都进屋。
4 concerning
prep.关于,论及
  • What do you know concerning this?关于这事你知道些什么?
  • Some senior students wrote in asking for information concerning postgraduate studies.一些四年级学生写信询问有关研究生课程的信息。
5 sliver
n.裂片,细片,梳毛;v.纵切,切成长片,剖开
  • There was only one sliver of light in the darkness.黑暗中只有一点零星的光亮。
  • Then,one night,Monica saw a thin sliver of the moon reappear.之后的一天晚上,莫尼卡看到了一个月牙。
6 devil
n.魔鬼,恶魔
  • It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him.召鬼容易驱鬼难。
  • Susie,you're a determined little devil.苏茜,你真是个坚决的小家伙。
7 defined
adj 定义的; 清晰的
  • These categories are not well defined. 这些类别划分得不太明确。
  • The powers of a judge are defined by law. 法官的权限是由法律规定的。
8 xerox
n./v.施乐复印机,静电复印
  • Xerox and Lucent are two more high-tech companies run by women.施乐和朗讯是另外两家由女性经营的大科技公司。
  • You cannot take it home,but you can xerox it.你不能把它带回家,但可以复印。
9 ovens
n.烤箱,炉( oven的名词复数 )
  • Bakers bake in huge ovens. 面包师用大烤炉烤面包。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Cleaning ovens is a real fag. 清洗烤箱是一件累人的活。 来自辞典例句
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