温馨夜读 PART3 11 Love Can Last Forever 爱无止境
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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.
- 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。
- 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。
- 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》
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。