大众英语大众英语下4

[00:05.00]Lesson twenty-five ; [00:09.51]Words and Expressions ; [00:14.27]aid/eid/n.援助,帮助 arrest/'rest/ vt.逮捕,拘留 ; [00:19.82]bar/ba:/ n.(铁,木等)条,杆,棒 bone/bun/n.骨 ; [00:25.91]cell/sel/n. 小房间,单人牢房 ; [00:28.55]champagne /'tm'pein/ n.香槟酒 ; [00:32.25]clothe/klu/ vt.为..提供衣服 commit/k'mit/ vt.犯(错误,罪行) ; [00:39.13]content/kn'tent/ adj.满足的,满意的 crime/kraim/ n.罪行,罪 ; [00:45.74]criminal/'kriminl/ n.罪犯,犯人 decent/'di:snt/ adj.体面的,像样的 ; [00:52.61]defend/di'fend/ vt.为...辩护 diner/'dain/ 吃饭的(客)人,就餐者 ; [00:59.22]donate/du'neit/ vt.捐赠,赠送 drift/drift/ vi.漂泊,游荡 ; [01:05.57]entree/'ntrei/ n.[英]两道正菜间 的小菜,[美]主菜 ; [01:09.01]feed/fi:d/ vt.喂(养) fed/fed/ (过去分词,过去式) ; [01:14.29]fried/fraid/ adj.油煎的,油炸的 grand/grnd/ adj.豪华的,华丽的 ; [01:20.64]hunger/'hg/ n.饥饿的 illegal/i'li:gl/ adj.不合法的,非法的 ; [01:27.78]island/'ailnd/ n.岛屿,岛 jail/deil/n.[美]监狱 [英] ; [01:34.65]gaol/deil/ lawyer/'l:j/ n.律师 ; [01:42.32]legal/'li:gl/ adj.法律(上)的;合法的 ; [01:45.23]lunchtime/'lnttaim/ n.午餐时间 maddening/'mdni/ n.使人发疯,使人恼火的 ; [01:52.37]midtown/'midtaun/ n.(使城市的)商业区与 住区之间的地区 ; [01:56.07]napkin/'npkin/ n.餐巾 offender/'fend/ n.冒犯着,罪犯 ; [02:02.68]order/':d/ n.秩序 vt.订购 petty/'peti/ adj.微小的,次要的 ; [02:08.23]plead/pli:d/ vt.辩护,申明 plead guilty服罪 ; [02:15.64]pocket/'pkit/ n.衣袋 pork/'p:k/n.猪肉 ; [02:21.98]prison/'prizn/ n.监狱 ; [02:25.68]prosecutor /'prsikju:t/ n.原告,起诉人 ; [02:28.86]punish/'pni/ 惩罚 ; [02:32.03]punishment /'pnimnt/ n.惩罚,刑罚 ; [02:35.20]quit/kwit/ vt.放弃 (思想,行动,职业)等 ; [02:38.11]reduce/ri'dju:s/ vt.缩减 refuge/'refju:d/ n.避难 ; [02:44.99]repeat/ri'pi:t/ n.重复 screen/skri:n/ n.隔板;(粗野)筛子 ; [02:51.60]seat/si:t/ vt.使就座, 帮助找到座位 ; [02:54.50]seldom/'seldm/ adv.很少,不常,难得 sentence/'sentns/ n.判决,判刑 ; [03:01.38]serial/'siril/ adj.连续的 slip/slip/vi.滑动 slip on匆忙地穿上 ; [03:11.69]society/s'saiti/ n.社会 steal/sti:l/ vt.偷,窃取 ; [03:18.04]stole/stul/(过去式) stolen/'stuln/ (过去分词) ; [03:20.04]tasty/'teisti/ adj.美味的,可口的 ; [03:28.61]taxpayer /'tkspei/n.纳税人 tooth/tu:/n.牙齿 teeth/ti:/n. ; [03:38.13]thief/i:f/ thieves/i:vz/ n.小偷 ; [03:44.21]unfold/n'fuld/vt.. 摊开,打开 urge/:d/ vt.催促,怂恿 ; [03:53.20]Proper Nouns Bragg/brg/(姓) Christina /krist'ti:n/(女人名) ; [04:04.05]Gangaram /'ggrm/(男人名) Mahes/'meihis/姓 ; [04:11.71]Manhattan /mn'htn/(地名) 曼哈顿 Rick/rik/(男人名) ; [04:19.38]Rikers Island /'raikz'ailnd/ 地名 Swarns/sw:nz/(姓) ; [04:30.22]TEXT ; [04:32.87]The Simple Life: A Fine Dinner, a Drink and Jail (after Rick Bragg) ; [04:45.82]Every now and then, ; [04:48.20]Gangaram Mahes slips on his best donated clothes and lives the high life. ; [04:56.40]He walks to a nice restaurant, has a glass of champagne, ; [05:01.69]eats a $ 50 meal and finishes with hot black coffee. ; [05:09.35]The waiters call him "sir", ; [05:12.79]but Mahes could not find a dollar from his pocket for even a bus ride. ; [05:20.99]He is a thief who never runs, ; [05:24.69]a criminal who picks his teeth as the police close in. ; [05:30.24]To be arrested,to go home to a cell at ; [05:35.27]Rikers Island-that's his plan when he unfolds his napkin. ; [05:43.20]Homeless off and on for several years, he steals dinner from the restaurants ; [05:50.07]because he wants the courts to return him to a place in New York ; [05:55.89]where he is guaranteed three meals a day and a clean bed. ; [06:03.29]In a prison system filled with repeat offenders, ; [06:08.32]the 36-year-old Mahes is a serial diner. ; [06:14.14]He has committed the same crime at least 31 times, ; [06:20.48]always pleads guilty and never urges his lawyer to ask for a reduced sentence. ; [06:29.21]"It's tough on the outside,"said Mahes, ; [06:33.44]who is serving 90 days for stealing a steak from a midtown Manhattan restaurant. ; [06:41.37]Prosecutors say it isn't their job to consider whether ; [06:46.39]locking up some criminals actually gives them what they ; [06:50.62]want refuge from poverty or hunger. ; [06:54.59]But Legal Aid lawyers say they've seen a small but growing number of people ; [07:02.26]who commit petty crimes with the intention of going to prison. ; [07:09.66]Life in prison is sometimes violent, ; [07:13.36]but to Mahes it is better than drifting ; [07:17.86]from shelter to shelter or living in cardboard boxes. ; [07:23.41]"There is order in a prison,and you always eat on time," he said. ; [07:31.08]"I like to live decent," he said. "I like to be clean." Christina Swarns, ; [07:41.65]a Legal Aid lawyer defending a man who does not want her help, ; [07:46.68]faces Mahes through the wire screen and does not know whether to laugh or cry. ; [07:54.88]"It's funny at first- 'The Serial Eater'," she said. "But it's a very sad thing. ; [08:03.34]How bad is it, his life, that he would prefer prison?" ; [08:03.34]On one hand is a man who goes to jail at will without having hurt anyone, ; [08:17.01]who steals only expensive New York restaurant food. ; [08:22.93]Instead of throwing a rock through a window, he orders a T-bone steak. ; [08:30.62]On the other hand is a man who seems to ; [08:34.76]have given up hope of ever having anything better, ; [08:39.07]who prefers society's punishment to his place in the society. ; [08:46.25]In the past two years he has seldom been ; [08:50.64]free more than a few days before enjoying an illegal entree. ; [08:57.49]He chooses restaurants that are not too cheap, not too expensive. ; [09:04.16]If a restaurant is too grand, it might not seat him. If it is too cheap, ; [09:12.11]he might not be arrested for stealing its food. ; [09:17.85]"If they really wanted to punish him," said Swarns," ; [09:22.84]they would stand outside Rikers and say, 'You go away.Instead, ; [09:30.61]Mahes does 90 days for stealing fish. It costs taxpayers $ 162 a day to feed, ; [09:42.02]clothe and house him at Rikers Island. ; [09:46.38]His 90 day sentence will cost them $14,580, ; [09:55.79]to punish him for refusing to pay the $51.31 check. ; [10:02.78]In five years he has cost them more than $250,000. ; [10:13.88]Swarns said it was maddening to defend him. ; [10:18.64]Every time she gives him her card and tells him to call, ; [10:23.40]so she can help when he gets out, he throws it away. ; [10:29.48]She cannot compete with prison. The food at Rikers is tasty, ; [10:36.09]said Mahes.For supper, he had pork chops. ; [10:43.23]He said he was thinking of quitting this life someday. ; [10:47.73]But when the bus came to take him back to Rikers,he was content. ; [10:53.81]It was almost lunchtime. "Fried chicken," he said. ; [11:01.74]He does not have a family to miss him. ; [11:06.24]He does not have an old neighborhood where people know his name. ; [11:12.05]The bars at Rikers Island are there to hold him in and to hold onto. ; [11:23.16]Lesson twenty-six ; [11:26.07]Words and Expressions ; [11:28.97]ahead/'hed/ adv.在前,向前 axe/ks/n.斧子 ; [11:33.47]hark/ba:k/vi.狗叫 below/bi'lu/ adv.在下面 ; [11:38.23]bite/bait/vt.咬 bit/bit/(过去式) bitten/'bitn/ (过去分词) ; [11:45.05]chop/tp/n.砍 cleanly/k'li:nli/ adv.干净的,整洁的 ; [11:49.33]courage/'krid/ n.勇敢,勇气 ; [11:51.98]excitement /ik'saitmnt/ n.兴奋,激动 ; [11:54.36]fireplace/'faipleis/ n.壁炉 fog/fg/n.雾 ; [11:59.65]glove/glv/n.手套 honest/'nist/ adj.诚实的,正直的 ; [12:03.61]honesty/'nisti/ n.诚实,正直 interfere/,int'fi/ vi.防碍,打扰 ; [12:09.17]ma'am=madam夫人,太太 ; [12:13.28]mountain/'mauntin/ n.山,复数山脉 pant/pnt/ n.(通常用复数) ; [12:18.68]pile/pail/n.n.鞋 purple/'p:pl/ adj.紫色的 ; [12:23.44]repair/ri'pe/ vt.修理 settle/'setl/vt.& vi 使安静,安静 ; [12:27.94]shoulder/'uld/ n.肩膀 smoky/'smuki/ adj.多烟的,烟雾弥漫的 ; [12:32.70]steady/'stedi/ adj.平稳的,有规律的 surround/s'raud/ vt.包围,围绕 ; [12:36.66]tear/te/vt.撕开 tore/t:/(过去式) torn/t:n/(过去分词) ; [12:43.27]thin/in/adj.薄 thoughts/:t/ n.思想,想法 ; [12:48.03]troubled/'trbld/ adj.(过去分词) 不安,烦恼 ; [12:50.94]warn/w:n/vt.提醒,警告 washing/'w:i/ n.洗涤 ; [12:55.17]Proper Nouns Carolina 卡罗来纳州 ; [12:59.67]Jerry/'deri/(男人名) Kinnan/'kinn/(人名) Majorie/'meidri/ (女人名) ; [13:06.54]Pat/pt/n.狗名 Rawlings/'r:liz/ (姓) ; [13:11.83]Smoky Mountains /'smuki'mauntinz/ 斯莫基山脉(美) ; [13:15.27]Text ; [13:17.12]A Small Boy's Mother(1) ; [13:22.94]I was living in the Smoky Mountains in Carolina. ; [13:26.64]It was autumn. I needed quiet to be away from people. ; [13:34.04]My mind was troubled and the mountain air helped me write better. ; [13:40.39]I also wanted to see the red autumn leaves, ; [13:45.41]the pumpkins and to feel the excitement of living free and alone. ; [13:52.02]I found them all in a small house which belonged to the Children's Home. ; [14:00.22]The house is cut off from the village below and from the world by deep mountain snows. ; [14:08.41]The heavy fog that surrounds the Smoky ; [14:11.32]Mountains hides the house from the eyes of the people. ; [14:17.67]When I moved into the house,I asked the lady ; [14:21.90]at the Children's Home to send a boy to cut wood for the fireplace. ; [14:28.25]About a week later, 1 looked up from my writing, a little surprised. ; [14:35.59]There in front of me was a small boy. My dog, Pat, had not barked to warn me. ; [14:44.64]The boy wore old torn pants and a shirt worn thin from too many washings. ; [14:53.36]He wore no shoes on his feet. "I can cut some wood today," he said. ; [15:01.03]"But I have a boy coming from the Children's Home." I'm the boy. ; [15:08.96]"You? But you're so small." ; [15:14.25]"I can carry milk to the babies' house, ma'am. ; [15:18.48]Some days I carry it two times." "In this bitter wind?" ; [15:25.09]"Yes'm. Stiff fingers don't feel bad once you get used to them. ; [15:30.91]We get our faces bitten by the cold wind because ; [15:35.93]we can't put our hands over them. But I have gloves. ; [15:39.64]Some of the boys don't have any gloves." "But cutting wood is a man's job." ; [15:47.30]He smiled at me. "I know all kinds of wood ma'am. ; [15:51.80]I've been cutting wood at the Children's Home for a long time." ; [15:57.88]"Very well. There's the axe. Go ahead and try cutting and see what you can do." ; [16:06.61]1 began to work again. The first sounds of the axe cutting ; [16:12.42]through the wood interfered with my thoughts. ; [16:15.07]But soon the steady "chop, chop" stopped troubling me. ; [16:21.15]I settled down and wrote for the rest of the afternoon. ; [16:26.96]The sun was slowly dropping behind the cold purple mountains ; [16:32.25]when 1 heard the boy's footsteps coming toward my door. ; [16:36.75]"1 have to go eat now. I can come again tomorrow afternoon." ; [16:43.09]"I'll pay you for what you've done." ; [16:47.33]We went together to see his work. ; [16:49.70]Next to the house was a lot of cleanly-cut wood. ; [16:55.26]"But you've cut as much as a man. This is a wonderful pile of wood!" ; [17:01.60]I gave him some money. "You may come again tomorrow, ; [17:06.89]and thank you very much." ; [17:09.80]He looked at me and then at the money. He seemed as if he wanted to talk, ; [17:17.20]but he could not. He turned away but over his thin shoulder, ; [17:23.55]he shouted back to me. will cut some small pieces tomorrow. ; [17:28.57]You'II need some small thin pieces and some heavier ones." ; [17:35.18]He came again the next day and worked until it was time to leave. ; [17:41.00]His name was Jerry. He was 12 years old and had been at the ; [17:46.82]Children's Home since he was only four. ; [17:50.25]I thought of him as he must have looked when he was 4 years old. ; [17:56.07]The same strong grey eyes with a small ring of blue around them. ; [18:02.95]The same integrity and courage.Integrity is honesty, ; [18:09.29]but it is more than just being honest. For example, ; [18:15.37]the handle of the axe broke one day. Jerry said the ; [18:19.87]Children's Home would repair it. I handed him some money to pay for it. ; [18:24.89]He wouldn't take the money."I'll pay for it ma'am.I broke it. ; [18:31.24]I didn't hit the wood in the right place." ; [18:34.94]"But,Jerry, no one hits the wood in the right place all the time. ; [18:41.29]It was a weak handle. I'II speak to the man who sold it to me." ; [18:48.16]It was only then that he would take the money. ; [18:51.86]Lesson twenty seven ; [18:54.77]Words and Expressions ; [18:58.47]abandon/'bndn/ vt.遗弃 afraid/'freid/ adj.担心,害怕 ; [19:02.70]aloud/'laud/ adv.出声的,大声的 anger/'g/ n.愤怒 ; [19:08.26]birthday/'b:dei/ n.生日 climb/klaim/ vt.&vi.爬,攀登 ; [19:12.75]completely /km'pli:tli/ adv.完全地 ; [19:15.92]dare/de/aux.敢 dig/dig/vt.挖 ; [19:20.42]especially /is'peli/ adv.特别,尤其 ; [19:23.33]happiness/'hpinis/ n.幸福,快乐 helpful/'helpful/ adj.有用的.有益的 ; [19:29.41]lie/lai/vi.躺 lay/lei/(过去式) lain/lein/(过去分词) ; [19:35.75]loose/lu:s/ adj.松动,松 necessary/'nesisri/ adj.必要的,必需的 ; [19:41.04]pair/pe/n.双,对 place/pleis/vt.放置 quality/'kwliti/ n.品质,品性 ; [19:48.45]soft/sft/ adj.温柔地,和蔼的 sort/s:t/n.种类 ; [19:53.47]sound// vi.听起来 spirit/spirit/ n.精神,心灵 ; [19:58.49]stone/stun/ n.石头,石块 storm/st:m/ n.暴风雨,风暴 ; [20:03.78]strangely/'streindli/ adv.奇怪地 stupidity/stju':piditi/ n.愚蠢,愚笨 ; [20:09.07]sudden/'sdn/ adj.突然的 Proper Noun ; [20:14.62]Manville/mnvil/ n.(地名) ; [20:17.79]Text ; [20:19.12]A Small Boy's Mother(2) ; [20:23.61]after Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ; [20:24.67]Another thing about Jerry that was ; [20:25.99]special he would do those little helpful things that are not necessary, ; [20:32.87]but make life so much easier,things only the heart can do, ; [20:40.00]things that cannot be trained or taught for they are done quickly and without thought. ; [20:47.67]He found a hole near the fireplace that I had not seen. ; [20:53.23]"I'll place some wood in the hole,ma'am. Then when a sudden storm comes up, ; [20:59.31]you can stay warm. " Or the day he found a loose stone in the walking place outside. ; [21:07.77]"Let me place a bigger ; [21:09.62]stone there. I'II dig the hole deeper so it won't come loose again. " ; [21:17.29]The days passed, and Jerry and my dog Pat became close friends. ; [21:23.37]Perhaps it was because a boy and a dog have ; [21:27.34]a common spirit-a wisdom that is closer than a grown person and a dog. ; [21:34.47]One cold day Jerry sat close by me near the fire.The dog lay close to him. ; [21:44.26]We watched the fire burn. ; [21:47.17]Jerry suddenly talked of something he had never talked of before. ; [21:52.98]"You look like my mother,especially next to the fire." ; [21:58.54]"But you were only four,Jerry,when you came to live at the Children's Home. ; [22:03.29]Do you still remember your mother?" ; [22:07.79]He nodded his head," Yes.My mother lives near Manville." ; [22:14.14]Learning he had a mother surprised me. I also felt anger against her. ; [22:20.75]How could she abandon such a nice boy? Children's Home was nice, ; [22:27.36]people there were kind and the boys were healthy, ; [22:31.32]but what sort of person was his mother? ; [22:36.08]Jerry must have looked as nice then as he did now-his fine qualities have always been there. ; [22:44.01]Any person could see them.My heart filled with questions I dared not ask. ; [22:50.36]I was afraid I would cause him pain,so I talked to him carefully. ; [22:56.44]"Have you seen your mother lately?" "I see her every summer. ; [23:02.52]She sends for me. " I wanted to cry aloud, "Why are you here? ; [23:09.40]Why aren't you with her?How can she let you go away again?" But I said nothing. ; [23:18.39]Jerry talked with happiness in his heart. ; [23:22.88]"She comes for me from Manville whenever she can. ; [23:27.11]She isn't working right now. ; [23:29.49]She wanted to give me a dog, ; [23:31.61]but they say a boy can't have a dog at the home. ; [23:35.57]She sent me a Sunday suit and last Christmas she sent me a bicycle. ; [23:41.92]I let the other boys play with the bicycle when they promise to be careful with it." ; [23:48.53]My mind was busy trying to understand his mother. ; [23:52.50]She had not completely forgotten him, ; [23:55.40]but why? What was the reason other than being poor then? ; [24:01.75]Jerry still sounding happy talked in a very soft voice. ; [24:07.30]"I'm going to take the dollar you gave me and buy her a pair of gloves. ; [24:13.12]White gloves. She likes white gloves." ; [24:16.82]I could say nothing except, "That will be nice,"for I hated her. ; [24:23.70]There was other food than bread, food for the soul and for the ; [24:28.46]heart that only a mother can give. He was going to buy gloves for his mother, ; [24:35.33]while she lived in Manville away from him. ; [24:38.33]I decided I would not leave the mountains ; [24:44.32]until I talked with her to learn why she had placed him in a children's home. ; [24:50.67]But the human mind finds many things to think about. Every wind seems to blow new ; [24:57.81]and different thoughts into it. ; [25:00.45]I finished my work,but it did not please me.My thoughts turned to travel. ; [25:08.38]I decided to go to Mexico and then perhaps on to other places. ; [25:13.93]I did not take the time to see Jerry's mother. ; [25:17.37]I was busy preparing to leave, and after that night by the fire, ; [25:23.98]we did not speak about her again. The fact that he had a mother, ; [25:30.06]and sort of a mother, made me feel better about him. ; [25:35.35]When I was ready to leave, I said to him, "Jerry, you've been my good friend. ; [25:42.23]I still think of you often and miss you very much. ; [25:45.93]Pat will miss you too after we leave tomor-row. ; [25:49.63]He did not answer. I watched him climb the hill in silence. ; [25:54.65]I expected him to come the next day, but he did not come. ; [26:01.79]I placed all my things in the car, closed the house, then ; [26:06.82]drove to the Children's Home to see him. ; [26:10.25]I told the lady there that I was leaving and asked her to call Jerry ; [26:15.81]so I could say good-bye. She was troubled. ; [26:20.83]"I do not know where he is. I'm afraid he might be sick. ; [26:27.44]He didn't eat his dinner and one of the ; [26:30.61]boys said he had gone for a walk in the woods." ; [26:35.11]My heart felt better. I hate good-byes, and I knew I would never see him again. ; [26:43.57]It was better for both of us this way. "Here's some money," I said. ; [26:51.77]"Will you use it to buy him things for his birthday and for Christmas? ; [26:56.79]I might buy him the same things his mother buys. ; [27:01.28]This way he'II get different things and well, ; [27:04.46]not two bicycles for example. " She looked at me strangely and said, ; [27:12.13]"There isn't much place to ride a bicycle in the mountains." ; [27:17.94]Her stupidity began to bother me. "What I mean is, ; [27:24.29]I don't want to buy him things his mother might buy him. ; [27:29.05]I might have bought him a bicycle if I hadn't learned she had bought him one." ; [27:35.13]She still looked at me. Then she finally said, "I don't understand. ; [27:42.80]He has no mother. He has no bicycle." ; [27:51.26]Lesson twenty-eight ; [27:54.43]Words and Expressions ; [27:59.45]brain/brein/ n.(通常用复数) 头脑,脑子 ; [28:01.57]clearly/'klili/ adv.清楚地 color/'kl/n.颜色 ; [28:06.07][英]colour county/'kaunti/ n.县 ; [28:11.88]cover/'kv/ n.床罩 crowd/kraud/ vt.拥挤 ; [28:16.91]declare/di'kle/ vt.宣布,宣告 design/di'zain/ n.设计;图案 ; [28:22.46]dream/dri:m/ vt.做梦 ; [28:25.37]dreamt/dri:m/或 dreamed (过去式,过去分词) ; [28:29.60]exact/ig'zkt/ adj.准确的 extra/'ekstr/ adj.额外的 ; [28:35.15]fever/'fi:v/ n.发热,发烧 finish/'fini/vt.完成 ; [28:40.70]fit/fit/vt.& vi.使适合 housework/'hausw:k/ n.家务劳动 ; [28:47.05]minute/'minit/ n.分钟 nervous/'n:vs/ adj.紧张 ; [28:53.66]paint/peint/ n.绘画作品 pretty/'priti/ adj.美丽,漂亮的 ; [28:59.48]pride/praid/ n.自豪,骄傲 queen/kwi:n/ n.女王,皇后 ; [29:05.03]quilt/kwilt/ n.被子 sew/su/vt.& vi.缝制 ; [29:10.85]sister-in-law (哥哥或弟弟的妻子) 弟妹,嫂子 ; [29:12.90]slow/slu/adj.慢,迟缓 spread/spred/vt.铺开 spread (过去分词,过去式) ; [29:20.10]surprise/s'praiz/ vt.使...惊奇 tear/ti/n.泪水 ; [29:27.24]usual/'ju:ul/ adj.通常的,平常的 warmth/w:m/ n.温暖 ; [29:34.11]Proper Nouns Canfield/'knfi:ld/ (人名) ; [29:38.87]Dorothy/'dri/ (女人名) Fisher/'fi/(姓) ; [29:44.16]Mahatabel /,ma:h't/(人名) Sophia/s'fai/ (女人名) ; [29:55.53]Text ; [29:58.18]The Bed Quilt (1) after Dorothy Canfield Fisher ; [30:06.90]Aunt Mahatabel was an old woman.She had never married and ; [30:14.30]had never been important to anyone. But she worked hard in a farm house doing the ; [30:23.56]jobs nobody else wanted.She lived with her brother's busy family. ; [30:31.76]Her brother's wife, Sophia,a big healthy farm woman was queen of the house. ; [30:40.48]She was sorry for Mahatabel and often let the old woman do what she loved best, ; [30:48.15]sewing little pieces of cloth into quilts. These made pretty covers for the beds. ; [30:57.67]Mahatabel made them in a special way so that each quilt looked like a paint. ; [31:06.66]Sometimes other farm women would ask Mahatabel to help them plan their quilts. ; [31:14.85]One day Mahatabel suddenly got a new and wonderful idea for a quilt. ; [31:23.58]She did not understand how the idea came to her. ; [31:29.13]Sometimes she thought she dreamed it. ; [31:33.36]Sometimes she wondered if God had sent it to her. ; [31:38.65]She was too old and slow to think of it without any help. ; [31:45.94]It was too different, too beautiful to have come from her simple brain. ; [31:52.93]Even when she wrote the design on paper, she could not believe ; [31:59.01]that it was really hers.But the longer she worked with it, ; [32:05.88]the more she wanted to see it come to life in a quilt. ; [32:11.70]Mahatabel went to her sister-in-law for permission to start such a difficult job. ; [32:19.90]"Why,yes,Mahatabel," Sophia said."Why yes, start another quilt if you like. ; [32:28.36]I've some cloth you can use,too." ; [32:33.65]Mahatabel tried to tell Sophia that this was a special quilt. ; [32:39.20]She did not know how to say it.So she stood there, ; [32:44.75]looking at the floor, trying to think of the right words. At last ; [32:51.36]Sophia said,"Never mind.Do not try to tell me about it. ; [32:57.97]Use whatever design you like."Mahatabel ; [33:02.47]rushed happily up the steps to her room and started the work at once. ; [33:09.61]It would be the one important thing in her life. ; [33:15.43]She knew it would be the most beautiful quilt she would ever make. ; [33:22.04]Excited, nervous, she spread pieces of cloth across the bed.Then she carefully ; [33:31.03]chose the exact colors for her design.She cut the pieces so that ; [33:39.22]they would fit together perfectly. ; [33:42.40]Mahatabel decided to ; [33:45.04]sew just one part of the design first to see what it would look like. ; [33:51.65]She had little time or energy for this new job.Her housework got most of the day, ; [34:00.90]but she used every extra minute to sew her quilt. As the design grew, ; [34:09.89]Mahatabel was in a fever to finish it. Every day she did her housework faster ; [34:17.56]so that she could escape early to her little room and sewed. ; [34:24.70]Finally she could wait no longer to show it to the family. ; [34:30.78]That evening she brought her sewing down beside the fire where the others sat. ; [34:37.92]She hoped someone would ask to see her design. ; [34:43.68]But as usual they did not even know she was there. When she stood up to go to bed, ; [34:54.58]the cloth fell out of her old hands. Mahatabel moved to pick it up. ; [35:04.63]Sophia stopped her. "Is that part of the new quilt you are making?" ; [35:11.50]she asked. "Let me see it." ; [35:16.00]As Sophia held it near a light she clearly saw the beauty of the design. ; [35:23.66]"Where did you get the idea for it,"she cried, eyes wide with surprise. ; [35:31.07]"It is mine, "Mahatabel said, with quiet pride. ; [35:37.94]"No,"said Sophia. ; [35:41.64]She studied the way Mahatabel had joined the small pieces of cloth. ; [35:47.72]"Why,I never saw such a wonderful design and such good sewing in my life." ; [35:57.51]The family crowded around the two women. Mr.Smith himself came over to see ; [36:05.71]what they were making so much noise about. ; [36:09.94]"Well,I declare," he said,looking at Mahatabel with more warmth than she could ; [36:17.34]ever remember."That design will win a prize of any county fair." ; [36:24.48]Mahatabel's face got red and tears of happiness wet her eyes. ; [36:32.94]That night she was too proud and excited to sleep. ; [36:39.55]By the end of summer, ; [36:41.93]Sophia had fixed a special place in the living room for Mahatabel to sew. ; [36:48.01]The light was hotter here than in her small dark room. ; [36:54.00]Such kindness surprised Mahatabel ; [36:58.50]and she worked twice as hard in the house for her sister-in-law. ; [37:06.70]Lesson twenty-nine ; [37:10.93]Words and Expressions ; [37:15.95]arm/a:m/n.臂 breath/bre/n.呼吸 buggy/'bgi/n.轻便马车 ; [37:25.73]cattle/'ktl/ n.牛(总称) ceiling/'si:li/ n.天花板 ; [37:31.81]examine/ig'zmin/ vt.仔细看 glove/glv/n.手套 ; [37:39.48]gold/guld/ n.金的,金色的 golly/'gli/ int.天哪,啊(表惊奇) ; [37:46.09]honor/'hn/n.[美]荣誉 [英]honour joke/duk/n.玩笑 ; [37:57.46]kilometer/ki'lmi:t/ /'kil,mi:t/ n.[美]公里,千米 [英]kilometre ; [38:04.87]loneliness/'launlinis/ n.寂寞,孤独 moon/mu:n/n.月亮 pale/peil/adj.苍白的 ; [38:17.03]shoulder/'uld/ n.肩膀 struggle/'strgl/ vi.努力 ; [38:23.64]trip/trip/n.旅行 wave/weiv/vt.招手 yell/jel/vi.叫喊,叫嚷 ; [38:35.01]proper noun smith/smi/(姓) ; [38:41.62]TEXT ; [38:43.47]The Bed Quilt(2) ; [38:48.23]after Dorothy Canfield Fisher Her life had changed in many ways. ; [38:55.90]There was always the quilt to think about. Day and night the ; [39:02.04]picture of the design was bright in her thoughts. ; [39:07.27]And the family stopped asking her to do extra jobs in the house. ; [39:14.88]"Leave Aunt Mahatabel alone,"Sophia would say. ; [39:19.70]"Don't you see she is sewing on her quilt?" ; [39:25.25]News about Mahatabel's quilt quickly spread around the area. ; [39:32.65]People came from all parts of the country to see the design. ; [39:39.79]The Smiths bought new clothes for Mahatabel ; [39:44.29]and one of the girls made a little hat to cover her thin white hair. ; [39:51.69]They wanted their famous Aunt Mahatabel to look good for the visitors. ; [40:00.15]A year went by and a fourth of the quilt was finished. ; [40:07.02]A second year passed and a half was done. The third year, ; [40:14.96]Mahatabel became sick and was afraid she ; [40:18.92]might die before her work of art was completed. But she got better, ; [40:26.59]and her hands were busy again. In September of the fifth year, ; [40:34.26]with the family watching,Mahatabel sewed the last piece on her quilt. ; [40:42.87]Nobody spoke. The moment they had all waited for had finally arrived. ; [40:49.86]The girls held the quilt up and the Smiths looked at it in silence. Then Mr. ; [40:57.26]Smith hit his leg with one large hand and shouted, ; [41:02.81]"My Golly, that quilt is going to the county fair." ; [41:10.48]Mahatabel felt that her life was complete. ; [41:16.56]But when the quilt was carried out of the house, her heart went with it. ; [41:24.23]The quilt had been almost like a child to her. ; [41:29.26]She did not know how she could live without it. ; [41:34.02]For years it had filled her life and now there was nothing. ; [41:41.15]Sophia told her the quilt was hanging in a place of honor where everyone could see it. ; [41:49.88]This did not mean anything to Mahatabel ; [41:53.58]who knew nothing about the world outside the farm. ; [41:58.34]The family saw the old woman's loneliness, and Sophia said, ; [42:04.95]"You feel lost in the empty with-out the quilt,don't you?" ; [42:11.30]"They took it away so quickly", Mahatabel said, tears shining in her eyes. ; [42:19.49]"I did not have time to enjoy it." ; [42:25.05]Later in the day, Mr.Smith put an arm around her thin shoulders. ; [42:31.92]"1 must go to a farm on the other side of the fair tomorrow. ; [42:37.21]If you can get up early in the morning, I will take you with me. ; [42:42.50]You can stay at the fair all day and come back with me at night." ; [42:50.16]Mahatabel looked at him with her mouth open. ; [42:54.93]It was as if he had promised her a ride in a gold buggy to the moon. ; [43:02.06]"Why,why,you must be joking,"she cried, her face white with emotion. ; [43:09.73]Her brother laughed. "No, it is not a joke,"he said gently. ; [43:16.87]"Now you get your things ready. We start early tomorrow." ; [43:25.01]All that night an excited old woman lay and looked up at the bedroom ceiling. ; [43:33.00]She,who had never been away from home in her life, ; [43:37.97]was going more than forty kilometers to the county fair. ; [43:43.84]It was like a trip around the world. The next morning, ; [43:50.19]the family told her what to look at in the fair. ; [43:54.15]Sophia told her to see the prize food and dresses. ; [44:00.50]Her brother said she must examine the best cattle. ; [44:04.73]They all stood and waved good-bye as ; [44:10.28]Mr.Smith drove the horse and buggy down the road. ; [44:16.10]When Mahatabel returned home that night, ; [44:20.06]she was very pale and too tired to move. ; [44:26.15]Her brother carefully carried her into the house. ; [44:31.43]The others crowded around to hear news of the fair. ; [44:37.99]"Now Mahatabel," Sophia said." Tell us all about it." ; [44:44.92]Mahatabel took a deep breath. "It was just perfect," she said. ; [44:55.50]"Better than I thought it would be." "Did you see the prize cattle," ; [45:02.64]asked Mr.Smith. "And the dresses," added the girls. ; [45:10.77]"I did not see anything except the quilt," ; [45:15.85]said Mahatabel slowly." ; [45:19.03]I went straight to the room where it was and then I did not want to leave. ; [45:27.22]People began coming in and I got so interested in hearing ; [45:33.31]what they said I just stayed.I am glad I did. Oh,do you know ; [45:42.56]what happened?" She stopped and looked at the others with pride in her eyes." ; [45:50.23]A man came in and put a sign that said First Prize on my quilt." ; [46:00.54]The girls yelled and jumped around the room. This was more than ; [46:05.56]they had hoped for. When the room became quiet again, Sophia asked, ; [46:12.70]"Didn't you see anything else?" "Why,no,"Mahatabel said softly. ; [46:21.43]"I just saw my quilt. Why should I look at anything else?" ; [46:29.36]She struggled to tell them how wonderful it was, ; [46:34.38]but the words would not come. ; [46:36.77]There was no way she could explain how she felt inside. ; [46:42.32]So she just looked around at their faces with a strange smile. ; [46:50.51]The smile of an artist had made her dream come along. ; [46:59.77]Lesson thirty ; [47:02.15]Words and Expressions ; [47:06.11]accident/'ksidnt/ n.事故 allowance/'launs/ n.津贴,补助费 ; [47:12.72]appear/'pi/ vi.出现 attached/'ttt/ 喜欢,依恋于 ; [47:19.86]backyard/'bkja:d/ n.后院 bargain/ba:gin/ n.便宜货,廉价货 ; [47:27.80]block/blk/n.街区 cane/kein/棍,棒 cheer/ti/ vt.& vi.使高兴 ; [47:39.96]concerned/kn's:nd/ (过去分词)担心,关心 doghouse/'dghaus/ 狗窝 ; [47:47.36]fake/feik/ vt.伪装,假装 fetch/fet/vt.拿,取 ; [47:55.03]garage/'gra:/ n.车库 guess/ges/vt.& vi. 猜测 ; [48:03.23]illness/'ilnis/ n.生病 impress/im'pres/ vt.使留下印象 ; [48:11.95]inch/int/ n.英寸 jeans/di:nz/ n.牛仔服,工装裤 ; [48:19.88]lawn/l:n/n.草地,草坪 lick/lik/舔 loud/laud/ adv.大声地,响亮地 ; [48:29.93]lie/lai/vi.躺 lay/lei/(过去式) lain/lein/(过去分词) ; [48:39.72]maybe/'meibi:/ adv.大概,或许 mom/mm/n.妈妈 ; [48:46.06]mower/mu/n.割草机 neat/ni:t/ adj.样式好看的 ; [48:52.14]neglect/ni'glekt/ vt.忽视,忽略 pen/pen/n.栏,圈,棚 ; [48:57.96]pet/pet/n.宠物, 供玩赏的动物 portable/'p:tbl/ adj.轻便的,手提式 ; [49:03.78]recognize /'rekgnaiz/ vt.认识,认出 ; [49:06.42]shirt/:t/n.衬衣 tee shirt T恤衫 smart/sma:t/ adj.伶俐,机灵 ; [49:17.00]sneak/sni:k/ vi.偷偷进来 stick/stik/ n.棍子,手杖 ; [49:23.61]subject /'sbdikt/ adj.易受....的 常遭....的 ; [49:27.31]trick/trik/ n.把戏,玩意儿 weekend/'wi:kend/ n.周末 (49:35.246) whistle/'wisl/ vi.吹口哨 Proper Nouns Drew/dru:/(人名) ; [49:45.55]Tommy/'tmi/ (Thomas的呢称) Yorky/'j:ki/n.(狗名) ; [49:54.81]Text ; [49:57.72]Yorky ; [50:02.21]This happened on my eleventh birthday. It was a Saturday. ; [50:09.88]Mom and Dad had given me $15 to buy my own gift.But what,I wondered. ; [50:19.40]I had a good bike, an almost new baseball glove,a nice portable radio. ; [50:28.39]Well,I thought,maybe some new jeans and a shirt. ; [50:33.94]Smith's store had some ; [50:36.32]really neat tee shirts with SAVE GAS-WALK in big letters on the front. ; [50:45.05]But then I passed Mr.Drew's pet shop and ; [50:48.48]there was this really great-looking little dog. ; [50:53.77]When he saw me he barked twice and stood up on its hind legs. ; [51:01.17]Well,I don't know what it was,maybe because he seemed to recognize me or something. ; [51:08.84]I just had to get a closer look. And when I went inside, ; [51:15.45]he almost jumped out of his pen. ; [51:19.42]"There,there," Mr.Drew said."Calm down,Yorky,calm down." ; [51:26.82]When I reached down to pat him,he licked my hand like it was candy. ; [51:33.96]"Say now,Tommy," Mr.Drew said,"you've got a friend here." ; [51:41.10]Yorky was jumping up and down trying to get out of that pen. ; [51:46.65]You would've thought we'd been friends for years. ; [51:51.68]To make a long story short, ; [51:54.59]I had to have that dog. Mr.Drew said he was a bargain, ; [52:01.20]which made me want him even more. I could have him for only $25. ; [52:09.66]"I'll be back,"I said. My dad was working on the lawn mower out in the garage ; [52:19.97]when I came running in out of breath. "Dad,"I said,"Dad, ; [52:26.05]I just got to have this dog.He's the neatest thing you ever saw, ; [52:30.81]and he acts like he knows me and he's a real bargain and. .. " ; [52:35.83]Dad told me to calm down,and then he listened as ; [52:40.59]I repeated everything. He wasn't too impressed. ; [52:46.67]That's when I told him I'd never wanted anything so much in my life. ; [52:54.08]And that's when he told me that was because I always got ; [52:57.25]what I wanted before I wanted it. "It's my birthday," I said. ; [53:05.65]"Tommy,"he said, "you've got to learn the value of a dollar. ; [53:10.21]Money doesn't just appear.It has to be earned,and. ; [53:15.76]"The extra ten can come out of my allowance,"I said. ; [53:21.31]One difference between me and my dad is this ; [53:26.60]he thinks to himself I think out loud. He was quiet for a long time. ; [53:37.44]But I got the dog. It's still funny, you know,the way Yorky ; [53:45.37]and I took to each other.Mom said later it was because I never ; [53:51.45]had a brother or sister.Anyway, we were together every minute ; [53:57.54]that I was out of school. But then it got so that every time I turned around, ; [54:04.67]Mom was saying, "No. " "No, Yorky can not sleep in your bed. ; [54:11.02]Dogs don't sleep in beds." ; [54:13.40]"No,Yorky can not walk to school with you,even if he does know the way back." ; [54:21.33]"No,Yorky can not go to the movies with you." ; [54:25.83]"No,Yorky can not watch television with us. Dogs don't watch television." ; [54:33.23]"But Yorky does," I said. "I think he fakes it," Dad said. ; [54:42.49]"How can you tell when a dog's faking?" I asked him. ; [54:46.98]"I can tell,"Dad said. I didn't argue. Parents are like that. ; [54:56.76]I built Yorky a doghouse,which he didn't like. ; [55:01.52]So at night I'd sneak him in the back and he'd sleep under my bed. ; [55:09.19]Most weekends I spent teaching him tricks-the usual ones, you know. ; [55:16.60]In two months'time he knew how to shake hands and roll over and fetch a stick. ; [55:24.53]I even taught him how to jump over a cane, eighteen inches off the floor. ; [55:32.20]"Smart dog,"Dad said. "I hear they take after their owners," I said. ; [55:42.24]The two of us were playing in the backyard after school one day ; [55:48.06]when Mom called me into the house. "Tommy,I'm a little concerned." ; [55:55.20]"About what?" "You and Yorky. You spend so much time with him. ; [56:03.13]You're even neglecting your homework." ; [56:06.83]"I'll do better. I promise." "Not only that. ; [56:12.65]It's... well,nothing is forever,Tommy. Pets are subject to illness. ; [56:21.64]There are accidents." "I don't understand." "It's just that you're so attached to him." ; [56:31.69]"Mom, dogs sometimes live ten or twelve years.I'II be grown by then." ; [56:40.68]We left it at that. There was no reason for me to worry. I took care of Yorky. ; [56:49.67]He was mine. I had every reason to believe he was mine forever. ; [56:58.66]It happened in late February.There was snow on the ground. ; [57:05.27]It was a dark day and cold.I was on the way home from school as usual, ; [57:12.67]and I stopped three blocks away to whistle for Yorky.I waited. ; [57:20.34]He didn't come. I whistled again. Then I began to run. I stopped before ; [57:32.50]I got to the street in front of our house. ; [57:36.47]I could see him lying very still in the middle of the street on his side. ; [57:43.61]He wasn't moving. I saw the tire marks. I wanted to run away. ; [57:51.90]I didn't want to see him.But I couldn't leave him there. ; [57:58.57]Dad came into my room over the weekend. I hadn't eaten much for two days. ; [58:06.24]He brought a piece of my favorite pie and a glass of milk. ; [58:12.59]"You can't just stop everything,son. We'II get you another dog." ; [58:20.26]"I don't want another dog." He stayed for a while, trying to cheer me up. ; [58:27.92]When he got up to leave,I said: "Dad, why do things have to die? Why?" ; [58:40.09]"I wish I could give you a good answer," he said. "The best I can say is this: ; [58:48.02]things have to die to make room for something new. ; [58:52.25]And there will be something new in your life, Tommy." ; [58:57.01]"How do you know that?" "Because there has to be" ; [59:06.53]I didn't believe him then.I guess it takes a while to learn anything. ; [59:13.93]I mean really learn. ;

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