时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:轻松英文阅读


英语课

 In 2012, Andy Collett was flying in a hot air balloon over the countryside in southwestern England when he saw a perfectly 1 heart-shaped meadow 2 in the middle of an oak 3 forest. He had to take a photo. “I have my own balloon and am quite a regular flyer — but this was the most amazing sight I have ever seen from the sky,” he told a reporter from the Daily Telegraph.


 
The meadow is hidden behind oak trees and is not visible from the ground. Until Mr. Collet’s discovery, it was a secret only known to its maker 4 and his close family members.
 
heart-shaped meadow2
 
Winston Howes, a local farmer, is the man who made the meadow. 17 years ago, after the sudden death of his wife of 33 years, he wanted to do something to express his love for her. He started planting oak saplings in a field near his home. In all, he planted 6,000 trees. In the middle, he left a perfect heart shape. The bottom of the heart points in the direction of his wife’s childhood home.
 
The forest has matured now and the meadow has become a quiet oasis 5 where Winston likes to go to sit and reflect.
 
Winston’s grand romantic gesture can even be seen from satellites (Here is the link!) and I am sure from heaven as well.

1 perfectly
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
2 meadow
n.草地,牧草地
  • The children ran free across the meadow.孩子们在草地里自由地奔跑。
  • The meadow is peopled with wild flowers.草地长满了野花。
3 oak
n.栎树,橡树,栎木,橡木
  • The chair is of solid oak.这把椅子是纯橡木的。
  • The carpenter will floor this room with oak.木匠将用橡木铺设这个房间的地板。
4 maker
n.制造者,制造商
  • He is a trouble maker,You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼,你不要跟他在一起。
  • A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。
5 oasis
n.(沙漠中的)绿洲,宜人的地方
  • They stopped for the night at an oasis.他们在沙漠中的绿洲停下来过夜。
  • The town was an oasis of prosperity in a desert of poverty.该镇是贫穷荒漠中的一块繁荣的“绿洲”。
学英语单词
A-axis
abayoni
achronychous
all-or-nothing check
allowed direction
Almelund
American red squirrel
announcement effect
annumerated
at this present writing
attack politics
belted down
benevolent dictators
bgm
binderless birquetting
blade-section profile
boot topping (bt)
boxer
butt crack
cargo on deck
carrier (wave) telegraphy
christian dance
constant torque asynchronous motor
croton seed
debit voucher
delia
doublet pulse
draught-proofings
edwin
elastic weight
felin
fiftie
file manipulation architecture
give the push
gonadorelin 6-D-trp acetate
graded index lens
hanazumo
headreach
heavy duty roughing tool
helicopting
idiopathic myocarditis
isoosmotic pressure
j-shapeds
kept
kinskis
Kpedze
kucinich
low-producing
luminor
m-chlorobenzylamine
magnetisations
maholm
mountain unit
movable transcendental singularity
multi plate
naderi
negative-sum
Nekenstatut
nucleus of raphe
Oum Hadjer, Ouadi
pancreatrophic
passenger car tyres
paulopost
payroll per capita
peak-flow
philanthropism
pious fiction
play it low on
Polylite
Psittacidae
reaction, chain
receive send keyboard set
remote signalling plant
richa
sackungs
self noise
sole tile
spread velocity
staffable
steam-mixer
substantia gelatinosa of Rolando
Sulat, Gili
synchronization monitor
systematic description
tautogs
tele-politics
tilia tuan szyszyl
to ... credit
Topolobampo
tractus nervosi commissurales
tricholoma acerbum
Turner Corner
uniform and/or modulation doping
untruths
vaccinees
visual-light cloud picture
wall thickness after reinforcement
western wood pewees
witches' broom
without perjudice
wormseed oil
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