温馨夜读 PART1 06 The List 缺点单

 

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[00:00.24]The List 缺点单

[00:08.99]A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration.

[00:13.91]All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony 

[00:18.42]and everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.

[00:22.66]A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal,

[00:26.93]“I read in a magazine, a while ago, 

[00:30.25]about how we can strengthen our marriage,”she offered. 

[00:33.28]“Each of us will write a list of the things 

[00:36.49]that we find a bit annoying with the other person.

[00:38.97]Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together 

[00:42.61]and make our lives happier together.”

[00:44.98]The husband agreed, so each of them went to a separate room in the house

[00:50.12]and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other.

[00:53.52]They thought about this question for the rest of the day 

[00:56.90]and wrote down what they came up with.

[00:59.65]The next morning, at the breakfast table, 

[01:02.47]they decided¹ that they would go over their lists.

[01:05.00]“I’ll start,” offered the wife.

[01:07.52]She took out her list. It had many items on it.

[01:11.35]Enough to fill three pages, in fact.

[01:14.08]As she started reading the list of the little annoyances²,

[01:18.02]she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husband’s eyes.

[01:21.96]“What’s wrong?” she asked. “Nothing,” 

[01:25.33]the husband replied, “keep reading your list.”

[01:27.65]The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband.

[01:32.46]She neatly³ placed her list on the table and folded her hands over the top of it.

[01:37.94]“Now, you read your list 

[01:40.78]and then we’ll talk about the things on both of our lists,” she said happily.

[01:45.17]Quietly the husband stated, “I don’t have anything on my list.

[01:50.42]I think that you are perfect the way that you are.

[01:53.48]I don’t want you to change anything for me.

[01:56.00]You are lovely and wonderful 

[01:58.40]and I wouldn’t want to try and change anything about you.”

[02:00.92]The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her 

[02:05.52]and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.

[02:08.80]In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed⁴ and annoyed.

[02:14.16]We don’t really have to go looking for them.

[02:16.90]We have a wonderful world full of beauty, brightness⁵ and hope.

[02:21.16]Why waste time looking for the bad, 

[02:25.05]disappointing or annoying when we can look around us,

[02:28.39]and see the wondrous⁶ things before us?

1 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

2 annoyances   

n.恼怒( annoyance的名词复数 )；烦恼；打扰；使人烦恼的事

参考例句：

• At dinner that evening two annoyances kept General Zaroff from perfect enjoyment one. 当天晚上吃饭时，有两件不称心的事令沙洛夫吃得不很香。 来自辞典例句
• Actually, I have a lot of these little annoyances-don't we all? 事实上我有很多类似的小烦恼，我们不都有这种小烦恼吗？ 来自互联网

3 neatly   

adv.整洁地，干净地，灵巧地，熟练地

参考例句：

• Sailors know how to wind up a long rope neatly.水手们知道怎样把一条大绳利落地缠好。
• The child's dress is neatly gathered at the neck.那孩子的衣服在领口处打着整齐的皱褶。

4 depressed   

adj.沮丧的，抑郁的，不景气的，萧条的

参考例句：

• When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
• His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。

5 brightness   

n.明亮，亮度，聪颖，光泽度，灯火通明

参考例句：

• The brightness of the paint has worn off a little.油漆的光泽有些磨损了。
• Her eyes squinted against the brightness.亮光刺得她眯起眼睛。

6 wondrous   

adj.令人惊奇的，奇妙的；adv.惊人地；异乎寻常地；令人惊叹地

参考例句：

• The internal structure of the Department is wondrous to behold.看一下国务院的内部结构是很有意思的。
• We were driven across this wondrous vast land of lakes and forests.我们乘车穿越这片有着湖泊及森林的广袤而神奇的土地。