英语灵异故事-The Phone Call Goodbye 道别电话

When I was small, my Great-Aunt Nony was still alive. Her life had been a terrible ordeal¹ for her as she had been plagued with lots of different types of cancer. One day, my parents took me to see her in the nursing² home in which she lived. It was quite scary³ as the cancer had started to show and you could see tumors on her face and arms. She seemed to just be wasting away, but my parents wanted me to see her before she died.

A few days after this, my parents were talking in the kitchen when I received a seemingly⁴ real phone call on my plastic toy phone. It was Nony.

"Hello. It's Nony, Carrie. Don't worry. Everything will be alright. Tell your parents. Don't worry, everything's going to be fine."

So I hung up and told my parents what Nony had said, but they didn't believe me. They just thought that she was playing on my mind when I was playing on my pretend⁵ telephone.

One hour later, we received a phone call from my grandmother. She told us that Nony had died about an hour ago.

我的姑奶奶诺尼在我小的时候还在世了，但是她患有很多种的癌症，生命中的每时每刻都在遭受着病痛的折磨，苦不堪言。有一天，爸爸妈妈带我去疗养院看她，她的身体状况简直把我吓坏了，癌细胞已经扩散到了皮肤上，甚至脸上胳膊上都能看到肿瘤。她一天一天地消瘦下去，爸妈带我来就是想让我见她最后一面。

几天以后的一天里，爸妈正在厨房说话，我的塑料玩具电话居然接到了一个真实的来电，是诺尼姑奶奶打来的。

“你好，凯丽，我是诺尼。别担心，事情会好起来的。告诉你爸妈别担心，事情会好起来的。”

我挂了电话，跟爸妈说了这一切。但是他们并不相信，他们以为是我玩电话玩具的时候突然想起她了。

一小时之后，我们接到了奶奶的电话，她告诉我们诺尼姑奶奶一小时前去世了。

1 ordeal   

n.苦难经历，（尤指对品格、耐力的）严峻考验

参考例句：

• She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。
• Being lost in the wilderness for a week was an ordeal for me.在荒野里迷路一星期对我来说真是一场磨难。

2 nursing   

n.看护，养育，授乳

参考例句：

• She takes up nursing as a career.她以看护为职业。
• They trained her for nursing.他们培训她做护理工作。

3 scary   

a.引起惊慌的；害怕的

参考例句：

• What animal do you think is the most scary?你认为什么动物最可怕？
• Are you afraid of scary movies?你害怕恐怖电影吗？

4 seemingly   

adv.从表面上看起来，似乎是

参考例句：

• Seemingly,we can do nothing to prevent this from happening.我们似乎没有什么办法阻止这件事发生。
• For several seemingly interminable seconds no one spoke.有几秒钟没有人讲话，这几秒钟似乎十分漫长。

5 pretend   

vt.假装，假托，装扮；vi.假装，装作

参考例句：

• So you don't need to pretend,do you?所以你不必装假了，对吧？
• Many people pretend that they understand modern art.许多人装着自己懂得现代艺术。