温馨夜读 PART1 09 My Best Friend And I

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[00:00.00]My Best Friend And I 好友与我

[00:07.99]I can still remember the first day when I met my best friend.

[00:13.24]She had just moved into the neighborhood and her grandmother

[00:17.30]who also lived in the neighborhood brought her down to meet me.

[00:21.12]I hid behind my mother and she hid behind her grandmother,

[00:25.34]scared to look at each other.

[00:27.58]Soon, we lost the shyness and started playing with each other,

[00:32.23]bike riding to each other’s house and having sleepovers.

[00:36.66]In 7th grade, I first lost touch with her.

[00:40.16]However every summer we would always sit at each other’s house

[00:44.68]and watch soap operas, and talk about all the boys we liked.

[00:48.14]It was last year when I noticed the problem.

[00:51.86]I guess I was just to catch up in high school

[00:54.79]to realize she needed someone there for her.

[00:57.12]Well, she made a new "best friend" and so did I.

[01:01.38]Then I didn’t know why, but she started cutting herself!

[01:05.76]She was diagnosed² with clinical depression³,

[01:09.01]and had to go to a hospital during the day.

[01:11.56]I was very upset at first but with the late night calls,

[01:16.46]and meeting each other halfway⁴ up the street at midnight⁵.

[01:19.33]We still stayed in touch.

[01:21.29]I wanted to be there for her since her new best friend basically⁶ deserted⁷ her

[01:26.63]since people were calling her crazy,

[01:28.52]and I knew I still cared about her like a sister.

[01:31.91]Yesterday she came to me and said this:

[01:34.86]"I never knew what a best friend was

[01:37.65]until you were the only person that would stop me from cutting;

[01:41.32]the only person that ever made me feel better about myself and my problems.

[01:46.35]You don’t know this but I was trying to kill myself

[01:50.37]this one night you called me and I was crying.

[01:52.85]I owe¹ you so much, and you didn’t even know you were helping⁸ me."

[01:57.51]We both cried. And I guess a kind of lesson from my life so far

[02:03.76]is to never give up on your friends.

[02:06.36]Even if they aren’t as cool as others,

[02:09.34]or people think they are crazy, they need someone there.

[02:13.15]If you desert them, you will only be miserable⁹ yourself.

[02:16.87]So if a friend needs you, and you care for them, you can never desert them. 

1 owe   

vt./vi.欠（债等）；感激；把……归功于某人

参考例句：

• We still owe one hundred dollars for the car.为这部车我们还欠着100美元。
• We owe it to society to make our country a better place.把国家建设得更美好是我们对社会应尽的责任。

2 diagnosed   

诊断( diagnose的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Some foetal malformations cannot be diagnosed until late in pregnancy. 有些胎儿的畸形部位得等到妊娠后期才能诊断出来。
• He diagnosed the trouble that caused the engine to knock. 他找出了引擎咔咔响的毛病所在。

3 depression   

n.压抑，抑制，沮丧；萧条，衰退

参考例句：

• During a depression money circulates slowly.在商业萧条时期，货币流通滞缓。
• He suffers from acute depression.他患有严重的忧郁症。

4 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。

5 midnight   

n.午夜

参考例句：

• The ship pulled in to the shore at midnight.那船半夜时靠岸。
• He looked at the moon and made the time to be midnight.他看了看月亮，估计时间是半夜了。

6 basically   

adv.基本上，从根本上说

参考例句：

• His heart is basically sound.他的心脏基本上健康。
• Basically I agree with your plan.我基本上同意你的计划。

7 deserted   

adj.荒芜的，荒废的，无人的，被遗弃的

参考例句：

• The deserted village was filled with a deathly silence.这个荒废的村庄死一般的寂静。
• The enemy chieftain was opposed and deserted by his followers.敌人头目众叛亲离。

8 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

9 miserable   

adj.悲惨的，痛苦的；可怜的，糟糕的

参考例句：

• 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。