时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语语境识词


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  Unit 39

How Love Endures

It's a year I could never have imagined happening, let alone  getting through. A year since I lost the love of my life, the man I  expected to be with forever, the man whose face I still long to see  when I wake up in the morning. My husband, Rick, was the commander of  the space shuttle Columbia. Last February 1 he was supposed to come  home to our two kids and me, but instead he went to his eternal 1 home  in heaven when the shuttle broke apart in midair over east Texas.

I had admired Rick since high school. He was a year older,  popular and good-looking. For some couples, it's love at first sight.  For Rick and me, it was love at first date. This guy was special. The  evening proved it. There was none of the first-date awkwardness 2 -- not  even when he knocked over is water at dinner. I don't remember a think  about the movie we went to except for how right it felt to have his  arm around me. Neither of except for how right it felt to have his arm  around me. Neither of us wanted the night to end. We parked by the  lake and talked.

That's when Rick told me about his dream of being an  astronaut. He had written to NASA for a list of the requirements: a  master's degree in science, math or engineering, a good number of  hours as a pilot -- which was why he was going to the Air Force after  graduation. I was beyond impressed. We dated all through college and  got married on February 27, 1982.

Rick was chosen for US-British test pilot exchange program in  1992. We moved to the English countryside, where our marriage grew to  a deeper level with no barriers standing 3 between us. Later Rick  applied 4 a fourth time for the space program and got the call from  NASA.

In Huston, no matter how tired Rick was after a long day of  NASA training, he was 100 percent involved in family at home. There  was no sweeter music to me than the sound of our kids laughing with  their Dad.

I was anxious at Rick's first shuttle mission, as pilot of the  Discovery in 1999. The memory of the Challenger explosion was still  clear. The Discovery mission was a success so I was much at ease abut  Rick's next trip, as commander of the Columbia, even though the launch  date got put off several times. I peacefully watched the shuttle lift  off last January 16. Then tow 5 weeks later as the Columbia entered the  earth's atmosphere it broke apart. It was like watching my whole life  break into pieces and fall from the sky.

This February 27 would have been our 21 wedding anniversary.  This last year has seemed very, very ling. Grief 6 seems to bring time  to a halt. Yet love never stands still. Love is always going on. There  was a voice deep inside me that assured me I would be OK, the same  voice that had brought me comfort during the other hard times in my  life. I knew I would have the strength to go on, and where that  strength would come from. It was love that would save me now.



adj.永久的,无休止的,永恒的,永不改变的
  • Stop this eternal chatter!不要唠叨个不停!
  • Rome has been called the Eternal City.罗马一向被称为不朽之城。
n.笨拙;粗劣;难为情;尴尬
  • His awkwardness made him fumble with the key. 由于尴尬不安,他拿钥匙开锁时显得笨手笨脚。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I tried to smooth over the awkwardness of this first meeting. 我试图掩饰初次会面时的不自然。 来自辞典例句
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
n.拖,拉,牵引
  • The broken-down car was taken in tow by a lorry.那辆坏了的车由一辆货车拖着。
  • Mrs Hayes went to the supermarket with her four little children in tow.海斯太太带着她的4个小孩到超市去了。
n.悲伤,悲痛,悲伤的事,悲痛的缘由
  • Don't allow yourself to sink into grief,it can do no good.不要使自己陷入悲哀之中,这样一点好处也没有。
  • After her mother died,she abandoned herself to grief.母亲死后,她沉浸于悲痛之中。
学英语单词
aesthetic surgeries
amaryllis family
aphakic detachment of retina
application clustering
approportionate
ataxic paraplegia
bandwidth
Bangsalsepuluh
barrister -at -law
bear inquiry
biphenoxides
bird walk
bouncy castles
buege
can not do it for very shame
Chavagnes-en-Paillers
coefficient of diminution
colleterium
comparative need
cytolyse
Dalbergia peishaensis
directcold piston
du jour
empathic understanding
endolarynx
Enforcement Division
facility criteria
fairy-wren
gentrifies
glyed
hadleigh
hamzeh
haulage cross-cut
heat recovery surface
hydrodiuresis
icebreaker bow
immigration
immunologic deficiency disease
international direct investment
isolineolin
isotope-velocity method
junonia almana
Kungsbacka
Listera mucronata
location clerk
locations tolerance
logical IF
long-range objective
mazarr
mechanism of dimple
Medyn
megalobe
Myzostomidae
network control program
non-concentric
oleum coriandri
phluometry
pitie
pomier
Pongwo
poppers
postinvasion
potassium orthothioarsenate
press endorsement
projecting brick
pseudocubebin
quiescen current
rabies felina
ram jet diffuser
red skin disease
rheinlaenders
secondary spectroscopic standard
sensible idea
Skudeneshavn
smell flowers
Soviet Union
straight-run tops
strip mark
striping cross-section
sulfoacetic acid
sunday-thursday
suppeth
Tahora
talbottype
technical metrics
temptablest
Thetis Bank
thomas j. hankss
Tienzhuia
tpe
tympanic sinus
Téapleu
uk cocoa
vacuum plasma spraying
VADE (versatile automatic data exchange)
Viskin
waste one's words
webbed foot
wire regulating apparatus
women's room
x-ray dermatitis
zero Bessel function