时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[00:00.83]10.The Remembrance of Lilacs


[00:05.63]The family had just moved to Rhode Island, and the young woman was feeling a little melancholy 1 on that Sunday in May.


[00:12.38]After all, it was Mother’s Day — and 800 miles separated her from her parents in Ohio.


[00:18.37]She had called her mother that morning to wish her a happy Mother’s Day,


[00:22.50]and her mother had mentioned the colorful yard filled with purple lilacs.


[00:26.97]Later, when she mentioned to her husband how she missed those lilacs, he popped up from his chair.


[00:33.06]“I know where we can find you all you want,” he said, “Get the kids and come on.”


[00:37.87]So off they went. Before they got halfway 2 up the hill, the fragrance 3 of the lilacs drifted down to them,


[00:45.05]and the kids started running. Soon, the mother began running, too, until she reached the top.


[00:51.58]There were the towering lilac bushes, so laden 4 with the huge flower clusters. 


[00:57.56]Carefully, the young woman chose a sprig here, another one there.


[01:02.13]Finally, they returned to their car for the trip home.


[01:05.51]When they were within three miles of home, she suddenly shouted to her husband, “Stop the car. Stop right here!”


[01:12.91]The man slammed on the brakes.


[01:15.09]The woman went out of the car and hurried up a nearby grassy 5 slope with the lilacs still in her arms.


[01:21.63]At the top of the hill was a nursing home and the patients were outdoors strolling with relatives or sitting on the porch.


[01:28.48]The young woman went to the end of the porch, where an elderly patient was sitting in her wheelchair, alone, head bowed.


[01:36.33]Across the porch railing went the flowers, into the lap of the old woman.


[01:41.66]She lifted her head, and smiled.


[01:44.28]For a few moments, the two women chatted, both aglow 6 with happiness, and then the young woman turned and ran back to her family.


[01:52.99]“Mom,” the kids asked, “who was that?Why did you give her our flowers?”


[01:58.54]The mother said she didn’t know the old woman.


[02:01.70]But it was Mother’s Day and she seemed so alone.


[02:05.07]“Besides,” she added, “I have all of you, and I still have my mother, even if she is far away.


[02:12.81]That woman needed those flowers more than I did.”


[02:16.09]The next day the husband purchased half a dozen young lilac bushes and planted them around their yard.


[02:22.43]I was that man. The young mother was, and is, my wife.


[02:27.02]Now, every Mother’s Day our kids gather purple bouquets 7.


[02:31.62]And every year I remember that smile on a lonely old woman’s face, and the kindness that put the smile there.




1 melancholy
n.忧郁,愁思;adj.令人感伤(沮丧)的,忧郁的
  • All at once he fell into a state of profound melancholy.他立即陷入无尽的忧思之中。
  • He felt melancholy after he failed the exam.这次考试没通过,他感到很郁闷。
2 halfway
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
3 fragrance
n.芬芳,香味,香气
  • The apple blossoms filled the air with their fragrance.苹果花使空气充满香味。
  • The fragrance of lavender filled the room.房间里充满了薰衣草的香味。
4 laden
adj.装满了的;充满了的;负了重担的;苦恼的
  • He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
  • Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。
5 grassy
adj.盖满草的;长满草的
  • They sat and had their lunch on a grassy hillside.他们坐在长满草的山坡上吃午饭。
  • Cattle move freely across the grassy plain.牛群自由自在地走过草原。
6 aglow
adj.发亮的;发红的;adv.发亮地
  • The garden is aglow with many flowers.园中百花盛开。
  • The sky was aglow with the setting sun.天空因夕阳映照而发红光。
7 bouquets
n.花束( bouquet的名词复数 );(酒的)芳香
  • The welcoming crowd waved their bouquets. 欢迎的群众摇动着花束。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • As the hero stepped off the platform, he was surrounded by several children with bouquets. 当英雄走下讲台时,已被几名手持花束的儿童围住了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
(solid) products of weathering
account department
acronine
ancillaries to trade
androphore
anemadus taiwanus
angsten
antimalarially
apostated
arguments from silence
bandwidths
Board-chute
brachybasia
break a bill
brine density
career-limiting
cedc
cesium-oxygen cell
chromium soap
Ciano
cigga-weed
citrus sinensis osbeck kikunenbo
classification image
Cloud Security Alliance
constant-current generator
constant-temperature heat transfer
crayer
creatone
cylindrical equal-area projection
cytoplasmic streaming
data assessment
descent flight profile
dirt filtrating screen
display panel
double-drum boiler
Druzbice
duct of his
earth's crust geochemistry
economic dimensions
electricresistivity
EMU-V
ensueth
episodic movement
external fin
fastunine
fatty ester
Find Fast
foe worthy of someone's steel
Fra Filippo Lippi
gemistocytic
gerontin
going ballistic
Haase's rule
hammadi
high courts statistics
home-office
horizontal centering potentiometer
index of number employed
jet flying belt
laban centre for movement and dance
lateral forced-air cooling
lil old
linear rectifier
longitude zones
longrun
low-head mixed-flow water-turbine pump
magnetograpy
massacr'd
Matanzas, B.de
me-generations
mean lower low water spring
medicalising
mince(d) pie
Muftīpur
nicotine replacement therapy
nonhomeostatic
nonrandom index
organic electron transport material
out of earshot
pattern-maker's hammer
polyvinyl acetate adhesive
pupilise
queu(e)ing description
root mass ratio
Rosamit
shetland finish
soft sulfur
spittal
steamboat history
strongly mixing condition
suspension population
Szödliget
tabulating card
TDZ
thesauric
turnaround cycle
untopical
uzzle
variable density system
vector servomechanism
Venae metacarpales palmares
within call