英语灵异故事-The Boy On Chamber's Creek 05 善波河上的小男孩 05

[00:15.70]The Boy On Chamber's Creek
[00:22.11]善波河上的小男孩
[00:35.44]I held onto Mike
[00:37.28]and just when all seemed to be calm and still,
[00:41.43]his bed began to shake.
[00:43.88]It wasn't a hard shake, just a little shake.
[00:48.44]We thought his cat had jumped on the bed
[00:51.48]so he yelled¹ for it to jump off.
[00:54.33]The shaking continued.
[00:56.13]We soon realized,
[00:57.35]it wasn't his cat but "something" else.
[01:01.05]We were about to jump out of the bed
[01:03.20]when we heard the saddest crying ever.
[01:06.25]A child's cry and it was coming from the room.
[01:10.40]A child was sobbing². He wasn't crying loud.
[01:14.79]It was one of those types of cries
[01:17.11]where you want to pick them up and cuddle them.
[01:20.95]It was like he lost his favorite pet.
[01:23.81]It was a heart wrenching³ cry.
[01:26.30]Mike and I felt it in our heart
[01:28.81]and we were about to cry with him.
[01:31.29]We held each other, with our heads under the blanket.
[01:34.68]We didn't want to peek⁴ out and see something
[01:37.76]that will scar⁵ us for the rest of our life.
[01:41.44]We stayed under there until morning when we woke up.
[01:45.85]We don't know how it happened, but we fell asleep.
[01:50.11]Needless to say, we never went down that road again.
[01:54.45]Nothing else happened after that night.
[01:57.06]We did some research on the place.
[01:59.94]The place has had horrible accidents.
[02:02.91]Including a little boy being run over by a train.
[02:16.30]讲解
[03:55.60]I held onto Mike
[03:57.29]and just when all seemed to be calm and still,
[04:01.11]his bed began to shake.
[04:12.13]It wasn't a hard shake, just a little shake.
[04:16.71]We thought his cat had jumped on the bed
[04:19.71]so he yelled for it to jump off.
[04:22.44]The shaking continued.
[04:34.58]We soon realized,
[04:35.83]it wasn't his cat but "something" else.
[04:44.06]We were about to jump out of the bed
[04:46.06]when we heard the saddest crying ever.
[04:49.16]A child's cry and it was coming from the room.
[05:02.06]A child was sobbing. He wasn't crying loud.
[05:06.56]It was one of those types of cries
[05:08.61]where you want to pick them up and cuddle them.
[05:25.00]It was like he lost his favorite pet.
[05:27.96]It was a heart wrenching cry.
[05:36.20]Mike and I felt it in our heart
[05:38.70]and we were about to cry with him.
[05:46.52]We held each other, with our heads under the blanket.
[05:50.24]We didn't want to peek out and see something
[05:53.07]that will scar us for the rest of our life.
[06:06.16]We stayed under there until morning when we woke up.
[06:10.61]We don't know how it happened, but we fell asleep.
[06:21.48]Needless to say, we never went down that road again.
[06:29.92]Nothing else happened after that night.
[06:32.83]We did some research on the place.
[06:43.03]The place has had horrible accidents.
[06:45.82]Including a little boy being run over by a train.
[07:11.24]语言点
[07:13.21]hard  猛烈的、激烈的
[07:17.30]be about to do sth.
[07:23.03]be about to do…when…
[07:28.69]We were about to set out,
[07:30.61]when someone knocked on the door.
[07:37.17]when we heard the saddest crying ever
[07:46.42]When we heard the saddest crying that we had ever heard.
[07:51.30]sob  哭泣
[07:58.54]pick up  拾起、捡起
[08:05.74]cuddle
[08:11.42]hug
[08:14.91]nestle / snuggle
[08:19.05]peek  匆匆一瞥 / 偷看、窥视
[08:28.28]scar  创伤 / 留下疤痕、结疤
[08:38.14]needless to say  不必说
[08:47.23]do research in sth.  研究/调查某事
[09:05.72]research
[09:08.83]research into/on sth.
[09:24.51]谢谢收听

1 yelled   

v.叫喊，号叫，叫着说( yell的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He yelled at the other driver. 他冲着另一位司机大叫。
• The lost man yelled, hoping someone in the woods would hear him. 迷路的人大声喊着，希望林子里的人会听见。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 sobbing   

<主方>Ⅰ adj.湿透的

参考例句：

• I heard a child sobbing loudly. 我听见有个孩子在呜呜地哭。
• Her eyes were red with recent sobbing. 她的眼睛因刚哭过而发红。

3 wrenching   

n.修截苗根，苗木铲根（铲根时苗木不起土或部分起土）v.（猛力地）扭( wrench的现在分词 )；扭伤；使感到痛苦；使悲痛

参考例句：

• China has been through a wrenching series of changes and experiments. 中国经历了一系列艰苦的变革和试验。 来自辞典例句
• A cold gust swept across her exposed breast, wrenching her back to reality. 一股寒气打击她的敞开的胸膛，把她从梦幻的境地中带了回来。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）

4 peek   

vi.偷看，窥视；n.偷偷的一看，一瞥

参考例句：

• Larry takes a peek out of the window.赖瑞往窗外偷看了一下。
• Cover your eyes and don't peek.捂上眼睛，别偷看。

5 scar   

n.伤疤，伤痕，创伤

参考例句：

• This scar is from the bite of a dog.这是狗咬后留下的伤疤。
• The tragedy left a scar on her mind.这个悲剧给她造成精神上的创伤。