英语灵异故事-Mister 01 先生 01

[00:16.15]Mister
[00:23.39]先生
[00:37.32]We lived in NYC in Manhattan on 130 something street,
[00:44.12]in a three-story brownstone
[00:46.57]that housed many of my relatives.
[00:50.03]At this time I was not yet five years old.
[00:54.37]When we lived in this neighborhood
[00:56.54]I had not yet started school
[00:58.98]and I started kindergarten at five.
[01:02.78]By the time I went to school
[01:04.59]we had moved to another neighborhood.
[01:07.49]On the corner of 130 something
[01:11.45]and Amsterdam was a combination Pharmacy¹
[01:15.25]and Soda² Fountain store. Mister owned it.
[01:20.36]He was a Jewish man
[01:22.34]and could not get my immature³ tongue around his name
[01:26.82]so I just called him Mister.
[01:29.60]The building my family lived in
[01:31.98]was on the same side of the street,
[01:34.57]three buildings east of Amsterdam that ran north and south.
[01:41.75]Mister was a dapper little old man maybe in his late sixties.
[01:48.27]In the winter his uniform at the pharmacy
[01:51.49]besides his white pharmacy overcoat
[01:54.39]was a flannel⁴ checkered⁵ shirt,
[01:58.48]with matching vest, tie,
[02:00.51]slacks and well polished penny loafers in black or brown
[02:06.10]depending on the color combination of the day.
[02:09.62]He had beautiful skin, with rosy⁶ cheeks, blue eyes,
[02:15.01]rimless round bifocal spectacles,
[02:18.21]resting on the tip of his nose.
[02:21.10]He smelled like Allspice.
[02:24.48]The top of his head was shiny and bald
[02:28.16]with a pure white fringe of abundant shiny hair
[02:32.11]around the sides of his head.
[02:34.74]He also had beautiful white teeth.
[02:37.91]Today, I wonder if the teeth were false.
[02:42.14]He always had a big smile
[02:44.43]and a warm welcoming handshake for anyone
[02:47.59]who came into his store.
[03:01.33]讲解
[04:58.90]语言点
[05:01.07]something
[05:10.28]The parcel was ten pounds something.
[05:21.46]He considers himself something, but in fact he is nothing.
[05:31.17]something of
[05:34.73]kind of  有一点，有几分
[05:39.85]He is something of odd today.
[05:45.17]story  楼层
[05:47.84]floor
[05:54.60]story
[06:02.26]floor
[06:04.18]He lives on the second floor.
[06:08.91]neighborhood  街区，社区
[06:12.73]in the neighborhood  在…附近
[06:16.45]You'll find it somewhere in the neighborhood of the park.
[06:24.69]of
[06:26.21]in the neighbourhood of  大约
[06:30.88]He paid in the neighborhood of $5000 for the car.
[06:41.31]something
[06:43.49]depend on  依赖，依靠 / 取决于
[06:52.46]Your mother's happiness depends on your performance.
[07:03.08]it depends  看情况咯
[07:17.79]We lived in NYC in Manhattan on 130 something street,
[07:24.33]in a three-story brownstone
[07:26.90]that housed many of my relatives.
[07:30.64]At this time I was not yet five years old.
[07:34.51]When we lived in this neighborhood
[07:36.93]I had not yet started school
[07:39.31]and I started kindergarten at five.
[07:43.14]By the time I went to school
[07:44.93]we had moved to another neighborhood.
[07:47.76]On the corner of 130 something
[07:51.71]and Amsterdam was a combination Pharmacy
[07:55.53]and Soda Fountain store. Mister owned it.
[08:00.59]He was a Jewish man
[08:02.56]and could not get my immature tongue around his name
[08:07.20]so I just called him Mister.
[08:09.88]The building my family lived in
[08:12.33]was on the same side of the street,
[08:15.26]three buildings east of Amsterdam that ran north and south.
[08:22.13]Mister was a dapper little old man maybe in his late sixties.
[08:29.04]In the winter his uniform at the pharmacy
[08:31.86]besides his white pharmacy overcoat
[08:34.81]was a flannel checkered shirt,
[08:38.82]with matching vest, tie,
[08:40.96]slacks and well polished penny loafers in black or brown
[08:46.06]depending on the color combination of the day.
[08:49.68]He had beautiful skin, with rosy cheeks, blue eyes,
[08:55.02]rimless round bifocal spectacles,
[08:58.14]resting on the tip of his nose.
[09:01.30]He smelled like Allspice.
[09:04.17]The top of his head was shiny and bald
[09:08.22]with a pure white fringe of abundant shiny hair
[09:12.14]around the sides of his head.
[09:14.69]He also had beautiful white teeth.
[09:17.36]Today, I wonder if the teeth were false.
[09:21.89]He always had a big smile
[09:24.38]and a warm welcoming handshake for anyone
[09:27.38]who came into his store.
[09:39.15]谢谢收听

1 pharmacy   

n.药房，药剂学，制药业，配药业，一批备用药品

参考例句：

• She works at the pharmacy.她在药房工作。
• Modern pharmacy has solved the problem of sleeplessness.现代制药学已经解决了失眠问题。

2 soda   

n.苏打水；汽水

参考例句：

• She doesn't enjoy drinking chocolate soda.她不喜欢喝巧克力汽水。
• I will freshen your drink with more soda and ice cubes.我给你的饮料重加一些苏打水和冰块。

3 immature   

adj.未成熟的，发育未全的，未充分发展的

参考例句：

• Tony seemed very shallow and immature.托尼看起来好像很肤浅，不夠成熟。
• The birds were in immature plumage.这些鸟儿羽翅未全。

4 flannel   

n.法兰绒；法兰绒衣服

参考例句：

• She always wears a grey flannel trousers.她总是穿一条灰色法兰绒长裤。
• She was looking luscious in a flannel shirt.她穿着法兰绒裙子，看上去楚楚动人。

5 checkered   

adj.有方格图案的

参考例句：

• The ground under the trees was checkered with sunlight and shade.林地光影交错。
• He’d had a checkered past in the government.他过去在政界浮沉。

6 rosy   

adj.美好的，乐观的，玫瑰色的

参考例句：

• She got a new job and her life looks rosy.她找到一份新工作，生活看上去很美好。
• She always takes a rosy view of life.她总是对生活持乐观态度。