时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读


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[00:01.08]He Made Me An Angel 1 他让我成为天使


[00:08.84]When I was in seventh grade, 


[00:10.88]I was a candy striper at a local hospital in my town.


[00:15.30]I volunteered about thirty to forty hours a week during the summer.


[00:19.79]Most of the time I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie.


[00:23.84]He never had any visitors, 


[00:26.35]and nobody seemed to care about his condition.


[00:29.09]I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, 


[00:33.79]helping with anything that needed to be done.


[00:35.98]He became a close friend of mine, 


[00:38.92]even though he responded 2 with only an occasional 3 squeeze 4 of my hand.


[00:42.76]Mr. Gillespie was in a coma 5.


[00:45.82]I left for a week to vacation with my parents, 


[00:50.15]and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was gone.


[00:52.83]I didn’t have the nerve 6 to ask any of the nurses where he was, 


[00:58.01]for fear they might tell me he had died.


[01:00.59]So with many questions unanswered, 


[01:04.57]I continued to volunteer there through my eighth-grade year.


[01:08.15]Several years later, when I was a junior in high school, 


[01:12.32]I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face.


[01:15.47]When I realized who it was, my eyes filled with tears.


[01:19.74]He was alive! 


[01:21.51]I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie,


[01:24.99]and if he had been in a coma about five years ago.


[01:27.84]With an uncertain look on his face, he replied yes.


[01:32.21]I explained how I knew him, 


[01:35.04]and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital.


[01:38.56]His eyes welled up with tears, 


[01:41.55]and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever received.


[01:44.14]He began to tell me how, as he lay there comatose 7,


[01:48.74]he could hear me talking to him 


[01:50.78]and could feel me holding his hand the whole time.


[01:53.44]He thought it was an angel, not a person, who was there with him.


[01:57.70]Mr. Gillespie firmly believed 


[02:00.40]that it was my voice and touch that had kept him alive.


[02:03.28]Then he told me about his life 


[02:06.31]and what happened to him to put him in the coma.


[02:08.31]We both cried for a while and exchanged a hug, 


[02:12.10]said our good-byes and went our separate 8 ways.


[02:15.10]Although I haven't seen him since, he fills my heart with joy every day.


[02:20.35]I know that I made a difference between his life and his death.


[02:24.40]More important, he has made a tremendous 9 difference in my life.


[02:28.23]I will never forget him and what he did for me: he made me an angel.




1 angel
n.天使,守护神,可爱的人
  • The angel of death's in the house!死神在屋里呢!
  • I can say without exaggeration that she is an angel.我可以毫不夸张地说她是个天使。
2 responded
回答,回报,响应( respond的过去式和过去分词 ); 有反应; 有效果; 有影响
  • Most of the staff who responded to the questionnaire were supportive. 回答了问卷的职员大多数表示支持。
  • She responded to the news by bursting into tears. 她听到那个消息后眼泪夺眶而出。
3 occasional
adj.偶尔的;偶然的;不经常的
  • That sort of thing is quite occasional and not regular.那种事十分偶然,没有规律。
  • We must figure in occasional expenses in the budget.我们必须在预算中把临时费用算计在内。
4 squeeze
vt.硬塞,硬挤;挤压;n.榨;经济困难;拮据
  • This machine helps you to squeeze more juice out.这台机器能挤出更多的果汁。
  • It was a tight squeeze in the crowded bus.公共汽车上载客太多,挤得很。
5 coma
n.昏迷,昏迷状态
  • The patient rallied from the coma.病人从昏迷中苏醒过来。
  • She went into a coma after swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills.她吃了一整瓶安眠药后就昏迷过去了。
6 nerve
n.神经;勇气,胆量,沉着,果断
  • Did he have the nerve to say that?他竟有脸说这话吗?
  • He never got up enough nerve to meet me.他从没有足够的胆量来见我。
7 comatose
adj.昏睡的,昏迷不醒的
  • Those in extreme fear can be put into a comatose type state.那些极端恐惧的人可能会被安放进一种昏迷状态。
  • The doctors revived the comatose man.这个医生使这个昏睡的苏醒了。
8 separate
n.分开,抽印本;adj.分开的,各自的,单独的;v.分开,隔开,分居
  • Are they joined together or separate?它们是合在一起还是分开的?
  • Separate the white clothes from the dark clothes before laundering.洗衣前应当把浅色衣服和深色衣服分开。
9 tremendous
adj.巨大的,极大的;很好的,非常好的
  • This book was the outcome of a tremendous amount of scientific work.这本书是大量科学研究工作的成果。
  • There is a tremendous difference between them.他们之间有着极大的差别。
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