魔术美文记英语4级词汇 06.Those Days in Your Life

When you came into the world, she held you in her arms. You thanked her by shaking your fists and weeping your eyes out. When you were 3years old, she made all your meals with love. You thanked her by tossing your tray on her lap, crying for ice-cream and ham sandwich. When you were 6years old, she enrolled¹ you in kindergarten; she began to teach you arithmetic and alphabet; she told you the tale of the fisherman and the little fish. You thanked her by hiding in the dwarf² bushes to play with ants, contaminating your school uniform. When you were 12 years old, you were fascinated with chess and painting. She invited chess coach for you, bought you painting brushes and took you to galleries. You thanked her by being careless about your studies, drawing portraits of teachers in class. When you were 15 years old, she took you to learn to play the violin and trumpet³ in an orchestra, and paid you for summer camp abroad. You thanked her by going to bars to listen to jazz and pop music secretly, by being cynical⁴ to her so-called classic art and her tunnel vision. When you were 20 years old, you began to date with your girlfriend. You learnt to play the guitar and went to gymnasium for girlfriend. She was concerned about you, telling this to your aunts in neighborhood accidentally. You thanked her by disputing with her, “I’m an adult. You needn't worry about me!" when you were 25years old, she was busy decorating the house with colorful ornaments⁵, reckoning on the date of your wedding. you thanked her by asserting to her holding your slim(slender)bride, “We are to be on a global tour wedding." when you were 30 years old, you became a competent editor of Eastern Literature, busy with revising sequences of scripts every day. She was worried, asking you to rest besides work. You thanked her by moaning, “you can't realize the tense competition in media circle." when you were 35years old, you divorced unfortunately. She came to you, tending to your daughter and doing housework at home. You thanked her by being drunk every night, smoking cigar on after another in the living-room. When you were 4- years old, you gained recovery from gloomy feelings gradually and became a well-known fiction author. She gave her genuine congratulations to you. You thanked her by trying to convince her to live with you, but she declined (refused). When you were 45years old, with the oxygen mask, she was taken away by an ambulance due to an acute epidemic⁶. You thanked her by thinking she actually shouldn't fall ill at the crisis of your career. Then one day in autumn, she quietly died. In front of her ashes, you looked through you’re sometimes albums, and the fragments of your life came into illusion: an infant, a youngster and a mature man in the end. Suddenly you perceived that there was no substitute for mother. Though sometimes she might think awkwardly or might not consent to your opinions, she was still your mother! All that she did was for the welfare of you.

1 enrolled   

adj.入学登记了的v.[亦作enrol]( enroll的过去式和过去分词 )；登记，招收，使入伍（或入会、入学等），参加，成为成员；记入名册；卷起，包起

参考例句：

• They have been studying hard from the moment they enrolled. 从入学时起，他们就一直努力学习。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He enrolled with an employment agency for a teaching position. 他在职业介绍所登了记以谋求一个教师的职位。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 dwarf   

n.矮子，侏儒，矮小的动植物；vt.使…矮小

参考例句：

• The dwarf's long arms were not proportional to his height.那侏儒的长臂与他的身高不成比例。
• The dwarf shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. 矮子耸耸肩膀，摇摇头。

3 trumpet   

n.喇叭，喇叭声；v.吹喇叭，吹嘘

参考例句：

• He plays the violin, but I play the trumpet.他拉提琴，我吹喇叭。
• The trumpet sounded for battle.战斗的号角吹响了。

4 cynical   

adj.(对人性或动机)怀疑的，不信世道向善的

参考例句：

• The enormous difficulty makes him cynical about the feasibility of the idea.由于困难很大，他对这个主意是否可行持怀疑态度。
• He was cynical that any good could come of democracy.他不相信民主会带来什么好处。

5 ornaments   

n.装饰( ornament的名词复数 )；点缀；装饰品；首饰v.装饰，点缀，美化( ornament的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The shelves were chock-a-block with ornaments. 架子上堆满了装饰品。
• Playing the piano sets up resonance in those glass ornaments. 一弹钢琴那些玻璃饰物就会产生共振。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 epidemic   

n.流行病；盛行；adj.流行性的，流传极广的

参考例句：

• That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
• The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。