高中英语人教版必修第三册14

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[00:11.65]A TALE OF TWO CITIES
[00:14.68]On a cold November night in 1775,
[00:19.04]Miss Lucie Manette,
[00:21.00]who had grown up in England,
[00:22.67]traveled to France to meet her father,
[00:25.13]whom she thought was dead.
[00:27.09]Eighteen year before, her father, Doctor Manette attended to a young peasant¹ boy and girl,
[00:34.85]who had been wounded² and died at the hands of two brothers of the Marquis St Evremonde.
[00:40.80]Dr³ Manette wrote a letter about this crime⁴ to the government,
[00:45.45]but instead of justice being done,
[00:48.09]the doctor was thrown in prison for more than eighteen years.
[00:52.17]Such was the situation in France before the revolution⁵ of 1789.
[00:57.81]The rich could do so they liked,
[01:00.37]while the peasants⁶ suffered.
[01:02.01]Freed from prison, Dr Manette stayed at the wine shop of Ernest Defarge,
[01:07.58]his former servant.
[01:09.33]he wine shop, in one of the poorest suburbs⁷ of Paris,
[01:13.85]was the hot spot for the French revolution.
[01:17.01]Mr defarge and his wife, madame⁸ defarge, were key leaders and officials of the revolution.
[01:24.17]Madame Defarge hated the Evremonde family and wanted revenge⁹ for her sister and brother, who were murdered.
[01:32.40]Lucie brought her father to England.
[01:35.35]On the boat, she met Charles Darnay.
[01:38.38]Darnay, 30 years old, worked in London as a teacher of French.
[01:43.63]He had left France because he hated the cruel deeds of his family,
[01:48.07]the St Evremondes, and the way they treated the peasants.
[01:52.20]He gave up his fortune and tried to forget his roots.
[01:55.93]When Darnay met Lucie, they fell in love.
[01:59.07]Meanwhile Sydney carton, one of Darnay’s friends also loved Lucie.
[02:05.31]Strangely the two men looked so such alike¹⁰ that people thought they were twins.
[02:11.47]Cartons, whose life was a failure, knew he could not marry Lucie.
[02:17.14]He promised that as a friend he would do anything for her.
[02:21.30]Lucie married Darnay the following year and they lived a happy life in London.
[02:26.76]Several years later, in 1792,
[02:31.12]Darnay received a letter from a former servant of the Evremondes,
[02:35.66]asking him for help.
[02:37.52]Darnay, who had been avoiding France for fear of what might happen to him there because of his background,
[02:44.60]realized that he must go.
[02:46.77]A revolution had taken place.
[02:49.40]The peasants were killing¹¹ many belonging to the old order.
[02:53.22]Upon arrival¹², Darnay was immediately arrested as an enemy of the people and thrown into prison.
[03:00.19]He tried to explain that he was not like his uncle and father,
[03:04.61]saying he was on the peasants’ side and wanted to help them.
[03:09.18]Dr Manette tried to use his influence to save him,
[03:12.71]but Ernest Deafarge produced a paper and read it to the court.
[03:18.06]It was an account¹³, written by Dr Manette in the tenth year of his stay in prison,
[03:23.49]about the bed behaviour of Darnay’s uncle.
[03:26.13]He hid it in a chimney¹⁴ and had forgotten all about it.
[03:30.39]In the letter Dr Manette said that all members of the St Evermondes must answer for the wrongs done to the peasant boy and girl.
[03:39.04]The court found Darnay guilty¹⁵ and sentenced him to death for things his family had done.
[03:45.80]A few hours before he was put to death,
[03:48.96]Darnay was visited by Carton in prison.
[03:52.31]Carton changed clothes with Darnay to take his place.
[03:56.25]He made this final sacrifice to help Lucie and save his friend.
[04:01.11]Lucie, Dr Manette and Darnay escaped to London,
[04:05.76]while Carton was taken to the guillotine
[04:08.92]Just before he died, he thought to himself that his final act was far better than anything else he had ever done in his life.
[04:16.97]“It is a far, far better thing that I do,
[04:20.21]than I have ever done;
[04:22.35]it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known

1 peasant   

n.农夫，佃农

参考例句：

• His father is a peasant.他父亲是一位农民。
• He was born of a peasant family.他出生于一个农民家庭。

2 wounded   

adj.受伤的；n.伤员

参考例句：

• The wounded man let out a cry of pain.伤员发出一阵痛苦的叫喊声。
• She attended on the wounded soldier day and night.她日夜护理着负伤的战士。

3 Dr   

n.医生，大夫；博士(缩)（= Doctor）

参考例句：

• Dr.Williams instructs us in botany.威廉博士教我们植物学。
• The ward of the hospital is in the charge of Dr.Green.医院的这间病房由格林医生负责。

4 crime   

n.犯罪，罪行，罪恶

参考例句：

• You'll have to pay for your crime.你得为你的罪行付出代价。
• Crime in our big cities is on the increase.在我们大城市里犯罪率正在增长。

5 revolution   

n.革命，大变革；旋转；周期，循环

参考例句：

• The earth makes a yearly revolution around the sun.地球每年绕太阳一周。
• This volume records the history of the country's revolution.这卷书记载了这个国家的革命历史。

6 peasants   

农民(复数)

参考例句：

• the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 1381年的农民起义
• They advised the peasants on how to use the machine. 他们指导农民如何使用这台机器。

7 suburbs   

n.郊区，城郊( suburb的名词复数 )；四乡；隧；四郊

参考例句：

• The poor suburbs traditionally formed the bedrock of the party's support. 贫穷的郊区在传统上构成了支持该党的牢固基础。
• The new college will be located in the suburbs. 这所新建的学院将设在郊区。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 madame   

n.女士；夫人；小姐

参考例句：

• Madame Curie was the only famous woman scientist in the world.居里夫人是世界上唯一有名的女科学家。
• Radium is discovered by Madame Curie.镭是由居里夫人发现的。

9 revenge   

v.报...之仇，为...报仇 ；n.报仇，复仇

参考例句：

• She poisoned his mind with ideas of hate and revenge.她用复仇的思想来毒害他的心灵。
• There was anger in his eyes and revenge in his heart.他两眼闪现怒火，一心只想复仇。

10 alike   

adj.同样的，相像的；adv.一样地；同程度地　

参考例句：

• The twins are so alike that I can't tell which is which.这对双胞胎一模一样，我分辨不出谁是谁。
• All stories seemed dreadfully alike,no matter who told them.看来，不管谁讲，故事都是千篇一律的。

11 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

12 arrival   

n.到达，达到，到达者

参考例句：

• She's impatient for her father's arrival.她急切地盼望着父亲的到来。
• The new arrival was none other than the President.刚到的不是别人，正是总统。

13 account   

n.叙述；帐目；帐户

参考例句：

• She left out an important item in her account.她的账目漏掉了一个重要的项目。
• He has made several withdrawals from his bank account.他从银行账户上提了几次款。

14 chimney   

n.烟囱，烟筒；玻璃罩

参考例句：

• The chimney blew out a cloud of black smoke.烟囱里喷出一团黑烟。
• His father is a chimney sweeper.他的父亲是一位扫烟囱的工人。

15 guilty   

adj.犯罪的；有罪的；内疚的

参考例句：

• There wasn't enough evidence to prove him guilty.没有充分的证据证明他有罪。
• Really honest people are ofter made to feel guilty.真正老实的人常被弄得感到犯了罪似的。