温馨夜读II PART2 8.Love Is Everything

 

[00:00.40]8.Love Is Everything

[00:04.97]The winter cold hung in the air like a frozen dinosaur¹ trying to thaw² from his glacier³ and walk across the earth. 

[00:12.60]Breath iced like a tiny morning mist upon a meandering⁴ river. 

[00:16.07]The sounds of the city rising and spilling into silence as the night began to claim its citizens for sleep.

[00:22.61]Blowing on gloved hands that seemed to have little effect on cold hands that ached with chill. 

[00:28.60]Long hours hanging pressed clothes, pulling tickets and ringing up the customers. 

[00:34.48]The last of the packaged hot chocolate gone and only the longing⁵ need for home and a pot pie to warm her.

[00:41.34]It was payday and she cashed her check. 

[00:44.39]Two Santas and one Salvation⁶ Army captain and she was minus ten dollars but what did it matter? 

[00:51.25]She had a place to sleep, something decent to eat, and she had Drew.

[00:55.94]Drew with his kindness, his caring and his humor to lighten her day. 

[01:00.94]Thanksgiving was nigh and they were collecting early for the hungry and the children that would have no Christmas without them. 

[01:07.91]She was so much more lucky than most of them but perhaps not as lucky as those that scurried⁷ in the Wednesday night sleet, 

[01:16.19]shopping early before the pickings became slim. 

[01:18.48]Life was not always easy but sometimes it could always be safe.

[01:22.53]She had Drew, and Smat, the ugly little terrier that nobody wanted. 

[01:28.22]She had comfort and warmth in the apartment. 

[01:31.06]She had dinner for tomorrow thawing⁸ in the small turkey and the little Thanksgiving bonus from her boss.

[01:36.65]But most of all, she had love. 

[01:39.38]It was the most important of all.

1 dinosaur   

n.恐龙

参考例句：

• Are you trying to tell me that David was attacked by a dinosaur?你是想要告诉我大卫被一支恐龙所攻击？
• He stared at the faithful miniature of the dinosaur.他凝视著精确的恐龙缩小模型。

2 thaw   

v.（使）融化，（使）变得友善；n.融化，缓和

参考例句：

• The snow is beginning to thaw.雪已开始融化。
• The spring thaw caused heavy flooding.春天解冻引起了洪水泛滥。

3 glacier   

n.冰川，冰河

参考例句：

• The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。
• The upper surface of glacier is riven by crevasses.冰川的上表面已裂成冰隙。

4 meandering   

蜿蜒的河流，漫步，聊天

参考例句：

• The village seemed deserted except for small boys and a meandering donkey. 整个村子的人都像是逃光了，只留下了几个小男孩和一头正在游游荡荡的小毛驴。 来自教父部分
• We often took a walk along the meandering river after supper. 晚饭后我们常沿着那条弯弯曲曲的小河散步。

5 longing   

n.（for）渴望

参考例句：

• Hearing the tune again sent waves of longing through her.再次听到那首曲子使她胸中充满了渴望。
• His heart burned with longing for revenge.他心中燃烧着急欲复仇的怒火。

6 salvation   

n.（尤指基督）救世，超度，拯救，解困

参考例句：

• Salvation lay in political reform.解救办法在于政治改革。
• Christians hope and pray for salvation.基督教徒希望并祈祷灵魂得救。

7 scurried   

v.急匆匆地走( scurry的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She said goodbye and scurried back to work. 她说声再见，然后扭头跑回去干活了。
• It began to rain and we scurried for shelter. 下起雨来，我们急忙找地方躲避。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 thawing   

n.熔化，融化v.（气候）解冻( thaw的现在分词 )；（态度、感情等）缓和；（冰、雪及冷冻食物）溶化；软化

参考例句：

• The ice is thawing. 冰在融化。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• It had been snowing and thawing and the streets were sloppy. 天一直在下雪，雪又一直在融化，街上泥泞不堪。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹