时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读


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[00:01.08]He Made Me An Angel 1 他让我成为天使


[00:08.84]When I was in seventh grade, 


[00:10.88]I was a candy striper at a local hospital in my town.


[00:15.30]I volunteered about thirty to forty hours a week during the summer.


[00:19.79]Most of the time I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie.


[00:23.84]He never had any visitors, 


[00:26.35]and nobody seemed to care about his condition.


[00:29.09]I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, 


[00:33.79]helping with anything that needed to be done.


[00:35.98]He became a close friend of mine, 


[00:38.92]even though he responded 2 with only an occasional 3 squeeze 4 of my hand.


[00:42.76]Mr. Gillespie was in a coma 5.


[00:45.82]I left for a week to vacation with my parents, 


[00:50.15]and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was gone.


[00:52.83]I didn’t have the nerve 6 to ask any of the nurses where he was, 


[00:58.01]for fear they might tell me he had died.


[01:00.59]So with many questions unanswered, 


[01:04.57]I continued to volunteer there through my eighth-grade year.


[01:08.15]Several years later, when I was a junior in high school, 


[01:12.32]I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face.


[01:15.47]When I realized who it was, my eyes filled with tears.


[01:19.74]He was alive! 


[01:21.51]I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie,


[01:24.99]and if he had been in a coma about five years ago.


[01:27.84]With an uncertain look on his face, he replied yes.


[01:32.21]I explained how I knew him, 


[01:35.04]and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital.


[01:38.56]His eyes welled up with tears, 


[01:41.55]and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever received.


[01:44.14]He began to tell me how, as he lay there comatose 7,


[01:48.74]he could hear me talking to him 


[01:50.78]and could feel me holding his hand the whole time.


[01:53.44]He thought it was an angel, not a person, who was there with him.


[01:57.70]Mr. Gillespie firmly believed 


[02:00.40]that it was my voice and touch that had kept him alive.


[02:03.28]Then he told me about his life 


[02:06.31]and what happened to him to put him in the coma.


[02:08.31]We both cried for a while and exchanged a hug, 


[02:12.10]said our good-byes and went our separate 8 ways.


[02:15.10]Although I haven't seen him since, he fills my heart with joy every day.


[02:20.35]I know that I made a difference between his life and his death.


[02:24.40]More important, he has made a tremendous 9 difference in my life.


[02:28.23]I will never forget him and what he did for me: he made me an angel.




1 angel
n.天使,守护神,可爱的人
  • The angel of death's in the house!死神在屋里呢!
  • I can say without exaggeration that she is an angel.我可以毫不夸张地说她是个天使。
2 responded
回答,回报,响应( respond的过去式和过去分词 ); 有反应; 有效果; 有影响
  • Most of the staff who responded to the questionnaire were supportive. 回答了问卷的职员大多数表示支持。
  • She responded to the news by bursting into tears. 她听到那个消息后眼泪夺眶而出。
3 occasional
adj.偶尔的;偶然的;不经常的
  • That sort of thing is quite occasional and not regular.那种事十分偶然,没有规律。
  • We must figure in occasional expenses in the budget.我们必须在预算中把临时费用算计在内。
4 squeeze
vt.硬塞,硬挤;挤压;n.榨;经济困难;拮据
  • This machine helps you to squeeze more juice out.这台机器能挤出更多的果汁。
  • It was a tight squeeze in the crowded bus.公共汽车上载客太多,挤得很。
5 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。
6 nerve
n.神经;勇气,胆量,沉着,果断
  • Did he have the nerve to say that?他竟有脸说这话吗?
  • He never got up enough nerve to meet me.他从没有足够的胆量来见我。
7 comatose
adj.昏睡的,昏迷不醒的
  • Those in extreme fear can be put into a comatose type state.那些极端恐惧的人可能会被安放进一种昏迷状态。
  • The doctors revived the comatose man.这个医生使这个昏睡的苏醒了。
8 separate
n.分开,抽印本;adj.分开的,各自的,单独的;v.分开,隔开,分居
  • Are they joined together or separate?它们是合在一起还是分开的?
  • Separate the white clothes from the dark clothes before laundering.洗衣前应当把浅色衣服和深色衣服分开。
9 tremendous
adj.巨大的,极大的;很好的,非常好的
  • This book was the outcome of a tremendous amount of scientific work.这本书是大量科学研究工作的成果。
  • There is a tremendous difference between them.他们之间有着极大的差别。
学英语单词
acetate-activating enzyme
ampersands
bellowss
berth rate
best bower
boiler ignition oil tank
box cementing
Cateco Cangola
cave-diving
complimenters
consistency carries over
constant gene segment
continuous picking
counter-weighted
current risks
cystorectostomy
delay combustion
denervating
destructive lesion
dottings
Dulcie
dummy screen
entomological morphology
episarkin
eucyclotoma fusiformis
Eugeissona
fabular
faure type plate
finite closed aquifer
flood area
fluid savings
friction clutch with double cone
fundamental frequency
hang it easy
hard zoning
helm port a little
helpfiles
hen-harrier
hornady
Hortvet cryoscope
ignition injection
intergradations
isochromatic fringe
juvenile granite
Kalohi Channel
Kindelya
Lawyer Acting as Agent
Lernevit
letter gadget
low emission
Lowndes
magslip resolver
microcanonical
Missongo
mocking is catching
much fatter than I am
needle gauge
nidaton
nigecose
non-heating region
nonmarkets
one hundred eighty
pin - up girl
Pinetops
playscripts
positiveness
print to PDF
Protosteliomycetes
pulmonary system (or lung system)
pursuant
radio-labeled compound
resistance grounded neutral sys-tem
rhododendron weyrichii maxim.
saw machine
segment margin
shuttle box motion
solid short-circuit
Southern blot analysis
steyaert
surface stability
surveyeth
take revenge on someone
telecommunication satellite space station
terminal charges
terrain effect
tertibrach palmaria
toroid helicoids worm
trigonometric leveling network
typhoprotein
umbillical blood
unregurgitated
vena sacraliss
vila vicosa
wall chase
washing bear
washing compartment
wow flutter meter
X-alloy
Xaafuun, Raas
Yenisey
yweved
zahoor