时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[00:00.51]3.The Importance of Time


[00:06.28]There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack 1 had little time to think about the past and often no time to spend with his wife and son.


[00:15.10]He was working on his future and nothing could stop him.


[00:19.13]Over the phone his mother told him, “Mr. Belser died last night.


[00:24.15]The funeral is Wednesday.”


[00:25.99]Memories flashed through his mind like an old newsreel.


[00:29.48]“Jack, did you hear me?”


[00:31.87]“Oh sorry, Mom. Yes, I heard you. It’s been so long since I thought of him.” Jack said.


[00:38.41]“Well, he didn’t forget you.


[00:41.24]Every time I saw him he’d ask how you were doing.


[00:44.18]He’d reminisce about the many days you spent with him,” Mom told him.


[00:48.21]“He spent a lot of time teaching 2 me things he thought were important… Mom, I’ll be there for the funeral,” Jack said.


[00:56.48]Jack kept his word and attended Mr. Belser’s funeral.


[01:00.30]The night before he returned home Jack and his Mom went to see Mr. Belser’s old house one more time.


[01:07.05]Standing in the doorway 3 Jack paused for a moment.


[01:10.86]It was like crossing over into another dimension 4, a leap through space and time.


[01:15.54]Every step held memories. Every picture, every piece of furniture...Jack stopped suddenly.


[01:22.95]“What’s wrong, Jack?” his Mom asked.


[01:26.54]“The box is gone,” he said.


[01:29.26]“What box?” Mom asked.


[01:32.09]“There was a small gold box that he kept locked on top of his desk.


[01:37.10]I must have asked him a thousand times what was inside.


[01:40.59]All he’d ever tell me was, ‘The thing I value most.’


[01:44.29]Now I’ll never know what was so valuable to him,” Jack said.


[01:48.21]It had been about two weeks since Mr. Belser died.


[01:51.91]One day Jack discovered a parcel list in his mailbox.


[01:56.26]Early the next day Jack retrieved 5 the package.


[01:59.86]The handwriting was difficult to read, but the return address caught his attention.


[02:04.54]“Mr. Harold Belser,” it read.


[02:07.59]Jack tore it open. There inside was the gold box and an envelope.


[02:12.93]Jack’s hands shook as he read the note inside.


[02:15.76]“Upon my death please forward this box to Jack Bennett.


[02:20.99]It’s the thing I value most in my life.”


[02:23.70]His heart raced as tears filled his eyes.


[02:27.73]Jack carefully unlocked 6 the box. There inside he found a beautiful gold pocket watch.


[02:33.95]He opened the cover. Inside he found these words engraved 7: “Jack, Thanks for your time! — Harold Belser.”


[02:42.82]“The thing he valued most...was...my time.”


[02:48.28]Jack held the watch for a few minutes, then called his office and cleared his appointments for the next two days


[02:54.84]…he needed some time to spend with his wife and son.




1 jack
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
2 teaching
n.教学,执教,任教,讲授;(复数)教诲
  • We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
  • He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。
3 doorway
n.门口,(喻)入门;门路,途径
  • They huddled in the shop doorway to shelter from the rain.他们挤在商店门口躲雨。
  • Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.玛丽突然出现在门口。
4 dimension
n.尺寸,长(或宽、深、厚)度;大小,程度
  • A third dimension has been recently added,that of service.最近又提出了第三方面的需求,即服务的需要。
  • Length is one dimension,and breadth is another.长是一种度量,宽又是另一种度量。
5 retrieved
v.取回( retrieve的过去式和过去分词 );恢复;寻回;检索(储存的信息)
  • Yesterday I retrieved the bag I left in the train. 昨天我取回了遗留在火车上的包。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He reached over and retrieved his jacket from the back seat. 他伸手从后座上取回了自己的夹克。 来自辞典例句
6 unlocked
v.开锁( unlock的过去式和过去分词 );开启;揭开;开着,解开
  • Don't leave your desk unlocked. 请不要忘记锁好办公桌。
  • On no account should you leave the door unlocked. 你无论如何也不应该不锁门。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 engraved
v.在(硬物)上雕刻(字,画等)( engrave的过去式和过去分词 );将某事物深深印在(记忆或头脑中)
  • The silver cup was engraved with his name. 银杯上刻有他的名字。
  • It was prettily engraved with flowers on the back. 此件雕刻精美,背面有花饰图案。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
-oholic
-olatry
actuator arm
apopen
Bankers' Automated Clearing System
bottom cable
casing miller
cleansest
cliquetis
compound joint (or composite joint)
compressor speed
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
cyclomunine
dakir
deep tooth gear
defarm
desaulniers
desolater
dim sim
distributed computer architecture
dizziness due to yang deficiency
drying cupboard
fallal
financial period
forasmuch as
fresh semen characteristics
frugiperdas
get-away-from-it-all
gift token
gridding method
have a shot at it
heimbach
histology of wood
imperfect packing
ingled
Intrapyramidal
iron copper catalyst
jobstears seed
kalavansa
Kauai Island
Kopsia
Kyocristine
left-hand twine
Light Interrupted
lighting aperture
limiting dimension
lipscomb
marketing-oriented company
masonic
megaphyll
Migyaung
mining tunnel
missing release
model driven
non-return policy recovery action
nonmatched data
nordhavn
nutrient wort
officine
onboard memory
one way shear
oxy-carbonitride
phlegma
piciform
pink-and-white everlastings
pirate radio station
polyoxyethylene sorbitan carboxylic ester
prediagnoses
processor console clock
puniness
pygophilia
ramosissima
ratio geometric concentration
ratio of net sales to receivables
rescheduling loans
revenue raising
rthom
sages
Schoonoord
scuttles
sector arm
seroprotective
Shirane-san
Sinojackia sarcocarpa
start acknowledge
stelios
stereum ochraceoflavum
stuffed animal
support pad
swamp post-oak
synentropy
terminatively
thank u
thrust bearing alignment
tour-goers
tulipa turkestanica regel
two level microprogram control
two-phase titration method
Yagala
zebra roof
Zeiss projector
zone law of Weiss