英语灵异故事-A Mother's Touch 02 一位"妈妈"的"抚触" 02

[00:16.04]A Mother's Touch
[00:20.17]一位"妈妈"的"抚触"
[00:32.72]Michael watched, frozen in horror.
[00:37.18]A bony white hand reached out,
[00:41.37]the nails ripped off revealing the tattered¹ tissue beneath.
[00:46.04]The fingers stroked down his cheek,
[00:48.45]leaving a stripe of bloody² mucus.
[00:53.19]He looked up, his eyes connecting
[00:55.89]with the empty pits of what was his mother's gaze.
[00:59.91]His stomach lurched;
[01:02.28]he fell out of bed, scrambling³ madly across the room.
[01:07.96]He did not try to understand, or to make it right.
[01:12.57]This was not his mother. This was not his life.
[01:17.99]Michael launched himself at the window,
[01:20.78]his mother's fingers scraping his neck.
[01:24.83]He grabbed randomly⁴ behind him;
[01:27.72]as the glass shattered around him,
[01:31.62]his hand caught a grip on bloody, matted hair.
[01:35.73]It ripped away from her as he flailed⁵ through the air.
[01:40.59]He smashed onto the concrete driveway.
[01:43.89]Michael's mother slammed the brakes
[01:46.34]as the body of her son landed in front of her.
[01:50.69]She leapt from the car and fell to her knees by him,
[01:55.11]sobbing in shock and confusion.
[01:59.12]There was no need to look for a pulse.
[02:02.29]She collapsed⁶ over him and cried
[02:06.53]until neighbors dragged her back
[02:08.54]from the scene of flashing fluorescent⁷ lights.
[02:14.21]The police prepared to leave the grisly scene
[02:17.28]in less than an hour,
[02:20.13]but the Chief Inspector⁸ stood silent on the driveway.
[02:25.46]He looked from the body bag
[02:27.28]being loaded effortlessly into the ambulance
[02:31.65]to the fragmented window above him,
[02:35.54]then to the crimson⁹ hair he now held in his hand.
[02:41.30]Michael was the fifth to die that month.
[02:59.11]讲解
[05:44.35]语言点
[05:48.40]reach out  伸出（手）
[05:52.48]The monkey reached out a hand
[05:54.85]through the bars and took the banana.
[06:03.14]reach
[06:05.17]reach out
[06:07.74]reach for  伸手去拿
[06:12.12]He reached out for the baby.
[06:18.27]reach out
[06:32.34]driveway
[06:39.38]Drive on the parkway, Park on the driveway.
[06:50.41]...parkway
[06:52.93]Atlanta
[06:55.21]Cobb parkway
[07:03.88]driveway
[07:11.30]park
[07:14.46]parkway
[07:21.98]driveway
[07:46.85]Michael watched, frozen in horror.
[07:51.31]A bony white hand reached out,
[07:55.48]the nails ripped off revealing the tattered tissue beneath.
[08:00.21]The fingers stroked down his cheek,
[08:02.65]leaving a stripe of bloody mucus.
[08:07.36]He looked up, his eyes connecting
[08:09.95]with the empty pits of what was his mother's gaze.
[08:14.10]His stomach lurched;
[08:16.43]he fell out of bed, scrambling madly across the room.
[08:22.08]He did not try to understand, or to make it right.
[08:26.68]This was not his mother. This was not his life.
[08:32.14]Michael launched himself at the window,
[08:34.92]his mother's fingers scraping his neck.
[08:38.97]He grabbed randomly behind him;
[08:41.86]as the glass shattered around him,
[08:45.77]his hand caught a grip on bloody, matted hair.
[08:49.92]It ripped away from her as he flailed through the air.
[08:54.80]He smashed onto the concrete driveway.
[08:58.03]Michael's mother slammed the brakes
[09:00.59]as the body of her son landed in front of her.
[09:04.83]She leapt from the car and fell to her knees by him,
[09:09.27]sobbing in shock and confusion.
[09:13.23]There was no need to look for a pulse.
[09:16.47]She collapsed over him and cried
[09:20.60]until neighbors dragged her back
[09:22.32]from the scene of flashing fluorescent lights.
[09:27.94]The police prepared to leave the grisly scene
[09:31.23]in less than an hour,
[09:34.04]but the Chief Inspector stood silent on the driveway.
[09:39.15]He looked from the body bag
[09:40.97]being loaded effortlessly into the ambulance
[09:44.83]to the fragmented window above him,
[09:48.93]then to the crimson hair he now held in his hand.
[09:54.80]Michael was the fifth to die that month.
[10:16.61]谢谢收听

1 tattered   

adj.破旧的，衣衫破的

参考例句：

• Her tattered clothes in no way detracted from her beauty.她的破衣烂衫丝毫没有影响她的美貌。
• Their tattered clothing and broken furniture indicated their poverty.他们褴褛的衣服和破烂的家具显出他们的贫穷。

2 bloody   

adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染

参考例句：

• He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
• He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。

3 scrambling   

v.快速爬行( scramble的现在分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞

参考例句：

• Scrambling up her hair, she darted out of the house. 她匆忙扎起头发，冲出房去。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• She is scrambling eggs. 她正在炒蛋。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 randomly   

adv.随便地，未加计划地

参考例句：

• Within the hot gas chamber, molecules are moving randomly in all directions. 在灼热的气体燃烧室内，分子在各个方向上作无规运动。 来自辞典例句
• Transformed cells are loosely attached, rounded and randomly oriented. 转化细胞则不大贴壁、圆缩并呈杂乱分布。 来自辞典例句

5 flailed   

v.鞭打( flail的过去式和过去分词 )；用连枷脱粒；（臂或腿）无法控制地乱动；扫雷坦克

参考例句：

• The boys flailed around on the floor. 男孩子们在地板上任意地动来动去。
• The prisoner's limbs flailed violently because of the pain. 那囚犯因为疼痛，四肢剧烈地抖动着。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 collapsed   

adj.倒塌的

参考例句：

• Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
• The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。

7 fluorescent   

adj.荧光的，发出荧光的

参考例句：

• They observed the deflections of the particles by allowing them to fall on a fluorescent screen.他们让粒子落在荧光屏上以观察他们的偏移。
• This fluorescent lighting certainly gives the food a peculiar color.这萤光灯当然增添了食物特别的色彩。

8 inspector   

n.检查员，监察员，视察员

参考例句：

• The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
• The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。

9 crimson   

n./adj.深(绯)红色(的)；vi.脸变绯红色

参考例句：

• She went crimson with embarrassment.她羞得满脸通红。
• Maple leaves have turned crimson.枫叶已经红了。