2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-Grandmother Knows Best: Advice on Love

archive:1. n. A place or collection containing records, documents, or other materials of historical interest. Often used in the plural¹: old land deeds in the municipal archives
2.vt. To place or store in an archive

On Friday we bring you moments from StoryCorps , the oral history project that's travelling the country. It gives family and friends the chance to ask one another about their lives. Copies of the interviews are archived at the Library of Congress.

Recently, Cinema Wood brought her grandmother to a StoryCorps booth. Peggy Edwards is 81 years old. Cinema Wood is 32. She wanted to capture her grandmother's voice on tape and get her advice about marriage. Cinema Wood asked her grandmother to tell the story of meeting "Papa", her grandfather G. Franklin Edwards. The year was 1946 and Peggy Edwards was working as a secretary at Howard University in Washington, D. C. Franklin was a graduate student.

That first day I started working this man came down and I was typing and he kept looking at me and looking at my legs and I was just appalled². I never had anybody just so blatant³. We went together for six months, and then he was going back to Chicargo to finish work on his doctorate⁴. He asked would I marry him and I said "yeah".

You guys had a long, / strong marriage . That's for sure.

Yeah, right. We were married / 52 years.

What kind of advice would you have for couples like me and Drew?

Be good , be compassionate⁵, be kind to each other, go slow.

Go slow.

Yeah, it's not a marathon. It's a, just a stroll.

That's / good advice.

Yeah.

Thanks. (Yeah, yeah. )

So is there anything you 've never told me but you want to tell me?

No, I tell you all the time whenever I 'm talking to you I love you all. I just love you from the moment you were born. I looked down at you with those little shoulders. And I thought, "Oh, I was so happy".

I love you too, I'm really emotional now. This was fun.
I love you and I am so happy to have been able to come.
Peggy Edwards and her granddaughter Cinema Wood at the StoryCorps booth in Washington D. C. Cinema Wood was married earlier this month, and her grandmother gave her away.

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1 plural   

n.复数；复数形式；adj.复数的

参考例句：

• Most plural nouns in English end in's '.英语的复数名词多以s结尾。
• Here you should use plural pronoun.这里你应该用复数代词。

2 appalled   

v.使惊骇，使充满恐惧( appall的过去式和过去分词)adj.惊骇的；丧胆的

参考例句：

• The brutality of the crime has appalled the public. 罪行之残暴使公众大为震惊。
• They were appalled by the reports of the nuclear war. 他们被核战争的报道吓坏了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 blatant   

adj.厚颜无耻的；显眼的；炫耀的

参考例句：

• I cannot believe that so blatant a comedy can hoodwink anybody.我无法相信这么显眼的一出喜剧能够欺骗谁。
• His treatment of his secretary was a blatant example of managerial arrogance.他管理的傲慢作风在他对待秘书的态度上表露无遗。

4 doctorate   

n.(大学授予的)博士学位

参考例句：

• He hasn't enough credits to get his doctorate.他的学分不够取得博士学位。
• Where did she do her doctorate?她在哪里攻读博士？

5 compassionate   

adj.有同情心的，表示同情的

参考例句：

• She is a compassionate person.她是一个有同情心的人。
• The compassionate judge gave the young offender a light sentence.慈悲的法官从轻判处了那个年轻罪犯。