温馨夜读II PART1 8.The Story of the Fishing King

 

[00:01.61]8.The Story of the Fishing King

[00:05.20]It begins with the king as a boy, having to spend the night alone in the forest to prove his courage so he can become king.

[00:16.31]Now while he is spending the night alone he’s visited by a sacred vision. 

[00:22.52]Out of the fire appears the holy grail, symbol of God’s divine grace. 

[00:29.30]And a voice said to the boy,“You shall be the keeper of the grail so that it may heal the hearts of men.”

[00:36.49]But the boy was blinded by greater visions of a life filled with power and glory and beauty.

[00:43.35]And in this state of radical¹ amazement² he felt for a brief moment not like a boy, but invincible³, like God,

[00:53.15]... so he reached into the fire to take the grail,

[00:56.63]... and the grail vanished,

[00:59.46]... leaving him with his hand in the fire to be terribly wounded.

[01:04.47]Now as this boy grew older, his wound grew deeper.

[01:08.72]Until one day, life for him lost its reason. 

[01:13.77]... He had no faith in any man, not even himself.

[01:18.02]... He couldn’t love or feel loved.

[01:21.61]... He was sick with experience.

[01:24.11]He began to die.

[01:26.40]One day a fool wandered into the castle and found the king alone. 

[01:30.97]And being a fool, he was simple minded, he didn’t see a king. 

[01:36.09]He only saw a man alone and in pain. 

[01:39.27]And he asked the king,“What ails⁴ you friend?”

[01:43.85]The king replied,“I’m thirsty. I need some water to cool my throat”.

[01:50.01]So the fool took a cup from beside his bed, filled it with water and handed it to the king.

[01:56.33]As the king began to drink, he realized his wound was healed. 

[02:02.01]He looked in his hands and there was the holy grail, that which he sought all his life. 

[02:08.69]And he turned to the fool and said with amazement,

[02:11.52]“How can you find that which my brightest and bravest could not?”

[02:16.45]And the fool replied,“I don’t know. I only knew that you were thirsty.”

1 radical   

n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的

参考例句：

• The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
• She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。

2 amazement   

n.惊奇，惊讶

参考例句：

• All those around him looked at him with amazement.周围的人都对他投射出惊异的眼光。
• He looked at me in blank amazement.他带着迷茫惊诧的神情望着我。

3 invincible   

adj.不可征服的，难以制服的

参考例句：

• This football team was once reputed to be invincible.这支足球队曾被誉为无敌的劲旅。
• The workers are invincible as long as they hold together.只要工人团结一致，他们就是不可战胜的。

4 ails   

v.生病( ail的第三人称单数 )；感到不舒服；处境困难；境况不佳

参考例句：

• He will not concede what anything ails his business. 他不允许任何事情来干扰他的工作。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Measles ails the little girl. 麻疹折磨着这个小女孩。 来自《简明英汉词典》