时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读


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[00:00.46]Love Can Last Forever 爱无止境


[00:06.47]I can honestly say it was the best of times and the worst of times.


[00:12.06]I was joyfully 1 expecting my first child at the same time


[00:16.71]that my once energetic mother was losing her battle with a brain tumor 2.


[00:22.01]As Mother grew closer and closer to death, 


[00:25.76]my baby grew closer and closer to life inside me.


[00:30.11]My biggest fear was that their lives would never connect.


[00:34.15]I grieved not only for the upcoming loss of my mother,


[00:38.43]but also that she and my baby would never know each other.


[00:42.79]A few weeks before my due date, Mother lapsed 3 into a deep coma 4.


[00:48.60]Her doctors told us she would never awaken 5.


[00:53.19]We brought mother home.


[00:55.51]As often as I could, 


[00:57.51]I sat beside her and talked to her about the baby inside me.


[01:01.75]I hoped that somehow deep inside, she knew.


[01:05.14]On February 3, 1989, at about the same time my labor 6 started, 


[01:11.78]mother opened her eyes.


[01:13.34]When they told me this at the hospital,


[01:15.95]I called home and asked for the phone to be put to mom’s ear.


[01:21.66]“Mom—Mom—listen. The baby is coming!


[01:26.67]You’re going to have a new grandchild. Do you understand?”


[01:31.40]“Yes!”


[01:33.03]What a wonderful word! The first clear word she’d spoken in months!


[01:39.27]When I called again an hour later, they told me the impossible:


[01:44.31]mom was sitting up, her oxygen tubes removed. She was smiling.


[01:49.77]“Mom, it’s a boy! You have a new grandson!”


[01:54.37]“Yes! Yes! I know!”


[01:57.33]By the time I brought Jacob home, 


[02:00.12]Mom was sitting in her chair, dressed and ready to welcome him.


[02:04.22]Tears of joy blocked my vision 


[02:07.22]as I laid my son in her arms and she clucked at him.


[02:11.09]They stared at each other. They knew.


[02:14.37]For two more weeks, Mother clucked and held Jacob.


[02:18.86]For two weeks she spoke 7 to my father, 


[02:21.85]her children and grandchildren in complete sentences.


[02:25.53]For two miracle weeks, she gave us joy.


[02:29.36]Then she quietly slipped back into a coma and, 


[02:33.89]after visits from all her children,


[02:35.93]was finally free of the pain and confines of a body.


[02:40.43]Memories of my son’s birth will always be bittersweet for me,


[02:45.12]but it was at this time that I learned an important truth about living.


[02:49.72]For while both joy and sorrow are fleeting 8,


[02:53.48]and often intertwined, love has the power to overcome both.


[02:58.25]And love can last forever.




1 joyfully
adv. 喜悦地, 高兴地
  • She tripped along joyfully as if treading on air. 她高兴地走着,脚底下轻飘飘的。
  • During these first weeks she slaved joyfully. 在最初的几周里,她干得很高兴。
2 tumor
n.(肿)瘤,肿块(英)tumour
  • He was died of a malignant tumor.他死于恶性肿瘤。
  • The surgeons irradiated the tumor.外科医生用X射线照射那个肿瘤。
3 lapsed
adj.流失的,堕落的v.退步( lapse的过去式和过去分词 );陷入;倒退;丧失
  • He had lapsed into unconsciousness. 他陷入了昏迷状态。
  • He soon lapsed into his previous bad habits. 他很快陷入以前的恶习中去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 coma
n.昏迷,昏迷状态
  • The patient rallied from the coma.病人从昏迷中苏醒过来。
  • She went into a coma after swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills.她吃了一整瓶安眠药后就昏迷过去了。
5 awaken
vi.醒,觉醒;vt.唤醒,使觉醒,唤起,激起
  • Old people awaken early in the morning.老年人早晨醒得早。
  • Please awaken me at six.请于六点叫醒我。
6 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
7 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
8 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。
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