时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读


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[00:00.44]If Only I Had Known... 假如当初我知道就好了


[00:05.80]Thomas Carlyle lived from 1795 until 1881.


[00:12.69]He was a Scot essayist and historian 1.


[00:16.09]During his lifetime he became one of the world's greatest writers.


[00:20.90]But he was a human and humans make mistakes.


[00:24.94]On October 17, 1826, Carlyle married his secretary Jane Welsh.


[00:32.16]She was an intelligent, 


[00:34.16]attractive and somewhat 2 temperamental daughter of a well-to-do doctor.


[00:38.95]They had their quarrels and misunderstandings, 


[00:41.92]but still loved each other dearly.


[00:44.32]After their marriage, Jane continued to serve as his secretary.


[00:48.80]But, after several years of marriage, Jane became ill.


[00:52.73]Being a hard worker, Carlyle became so absorbed in his writings


[00:57.87]that he let Jane continue working for several weeks after she became ill.


[01:03.23]She had cancer, and though it was one of the slow growing kind,


[01:08.50]she finally became confined 3 to her bed.


[01:12.00]Although Carlyle loved her dearly, 


[01:14.52]he very seldom found time to stay with her long.


[01:17.78]He was busy with his work.


[01:20.19]When Jane died they carried her to the cemetery 4 for the service.


[01:24.89]The day was a miserable 5 day.


[01:27.08]It was raining hard and the mud was deep.


[01:30.03]Following the funeral Carlyle went back to his home.


[01:33.64]He was taking it pretty hard.


[01:35.83]He went up the stairs to Jane's room 


[01:38.68]and sat down in the chair next to her bed.


[01:41.62]He sat there thinking about how little time he had spent with her


[01:45.45]and wishing so much he had a chance to do it differently.


[01:49.28]Noticing her diary on a table beside the bed, 


[01:52.71]he picked it up and began to read it.


[01:55.29]Suddenly he seemed shocked. He saw it.


[01:59.45]There, on one page, she had written a single line.


[02:03.28]“Yesterday he spent an hour with me and it was like heaven; 


[02:08.05]I love him so.”


[02:09.62]Something dawned on him that he had not noticed before.


[02:13.89]He had been too busy to notice that he meant so much to her.


[02:18.48]He thought of all the times he had gone about his work 


[02:22.12]without thinking about and noticing her.


[02:24.49]Then Carlyle turned the page in the diary.


[02:27.78]There he noticed she had written some words that broke his heart.


[02:31.82]“I have listened all day to hear his steps in the hall,


[02:35.54]but now it is late and I guess he won't come today.”


[02:39.26]Carlyle read a little more in the book.


[02:42.44]Then he threw it down and ran out of the house.


[02:46.04]Some of his friends found him at the grave 6,


[02:49.43]his face buried in the mud. His eyes were red from weeping.


[02:54.02]Tears continued to roll down his cheeks.


[02:57.31]He kept repeating over and over again,


[03:00.37]“If I only had known, if only I had known.”


[03:04.37]But it was too late for Carlyle. She was dead.


[03:08.08]After Jane's death, Carlyle made little attempt to write again.


[03:13.00]The historian says he lived another 15 years, 


[03:17.15]“weary, bored and a partial 7 recluse 8.”


[03:20.11]I share the story with in the hope 


[03:22.95]that you will not make the same mistake.


[03:25.58]While our loved ones must have the money we make to live,


[03:29.73]it is the love we have that they really want. 


[03:33.26]Give it now before it is too late.




1 historian
n.历史学家,编史家
  • As a historian,he was most typical of the times in which he lived.作为历史学家,他是他所处时代最有代表性的人物。
  • He calls himself a historian,but his books are a mere journalism.他自称为历史学家,但是他的书都是些肤浅的通俗作品。
2 somewhat
pron.一些,某物;adv.多少,几分
  • The cake we made was somewhat of a failure.我们做的蛋糕不大成功。
  • The two office buildings are somewhat alike in appearance.这两座办公楼在外形上有点相似。
3 confined
adj. 被限制的,狭窄的,在分娩中的; 动词confine的过去式和过去分词
  • The work will not be confined to the Glasgow area. 此项工作不会局限于格拉斯哥地区。
  • It is cruel to keep animals in confined spaces. 把动物关在狭小的空间里是残酷的。
4 cemetery
n.坟墓,墓地,坟场
  • He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
  • His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。
5 miserable
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
  • It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他,这是可耻的。
  • Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
6 grave
n.墓穴,坟墓,雕刻工,抑音;adj.庄重的,严肃的,重大的,低沉的;vt.雕刻
  • Marriage is the grave of love.婚姻是爱情的坟墓。
  • This is a very grave matter indeed.这问题的确非常严重。
7 partial
adj.部分的;偏爱的;偏心的
  • I could give it only partial support.我只能给它部分的支持。
  • I'm partial to a drink at bedtime.我临睡前喜欢喝杯酒。
8 recluse
n.隐居者
  • The old recluse secluded himself from the outside world.这位老隐士与外面的世界隔绝了。
  • His widow became a virtual recluse for the remainder of her life.他的寡妻孤寂地度过了余生。
学英语单词
a graveyard cough
airshifters
Algol olive r
amnion vertebrate
annual trend increment
apicosan
array selection circuit
asian-americans
assault rifles
astrospectrometer
atomic nucleus fission
Bad is the best.
barraging
bavadra
benzoylpyruvic acid
Berger mixture
cat milk
co-dehydrogenase
competition type athlete
Coney dog
continuity postulate
cranienepgalometer
csongrad megye
curved armed pulley
cyclical swings in demand
deobfuscating
detruncated
display interface unit
do sport
drain wire
enregistration
enwheeling
exhaust gas recycling system
expected value of mean square error
fertilizer placement
fighter escort wing
flexible plastic surgical depressor
fluoride pollution
fringeorder
function keys
Galapagos ridge
glass fertilizer
godship
grazing entrance
herbaceous dicotyledon
high resolution atomic absorption spectrometry
I am English
INAH-PAS(pasiniazide)
intracorporate transfer of funds
isolated words
labor market with a hierarchical mobility
log book
long wave pass filter
LV (latent heat of vaporization)
Maconga
manah
metabolism trial
Metrolink
microscope stage
military-surplus
mobile player
monack
monochromatic light beam
mother metal
motion and time study
neuks
new-sprung
nixie readout
no string
Nuon R.
nyamaa
octogynous
order relation
pargeting
pedal-bins
pooping sea
post-game
producers' cooperative
provide ... for
radical correction of tetralogy of Fallot
Radio-oncologist
radioactive iodine tests
rear-suspension
recirculating air
return of shorts
round die block
Schulen
securities-veluation line
set of condinate
side-curtains
solitary carpel
tensue
terminal binding post
test of effect of sudden power change
testosterone phenylacetate
twin-lead
two-tongued
unmotivate
versilia
wardairs
water supply hygiene
Weichselbaum's diplococcus