【轻松英文阅读】“流浪者”的感激

 It was a very kindhearted deed, but not something that would be reported in the news Karine Gombeau, a French tourist visiting New York City, saw a homeless man looking through a garbage container. She had just left a restaurant and was carrying some leftover¹ pizza in a bag. Gombeau decided² to offer the poor man the food. When she handed the bag to the homeless man, he asked her what was in the bag. She told him it was food and apologized for it being cold. The man accepted the food and said, “Thank you so much and God bless you!”

 

Gombeau did not think too much about the encounter³ until two days later, when she saw her photo in the newspaper with the homeless man. The homeless man it turns out, was the actor, Richard Gere. Gere was on the set of his upcoming movie, ‘Time Out of Mind’ playing a homeless man. The whole time Gombeau had no idea she had wandered into the movie set.

 

After the incident⁴ Gombeau talked about her encounter with reporters. “It was magical… It’s unimaginable that something like this could happen.”

 

She also said it broke her heart to see all of the homeless people in New York. “It leaves me really sad to know we waste food and they have nothing,” she said.

1 leftover   

n.剩货，残留物，剩饭；adj.残余的

参考例句：

• These narrow roads are a leftover from the days of horse-drawn carriages.这些小道是从马车时代沿用下来的。
• Wonder if that bakery lets us take leftover home.不知道那家糕饼店会不会让我们把卖剩的带回家。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 encounter   

v.遇到，偶然碰到；遭遇；n.遭遇；意外的相见

参考例句：

• It was a bloody encounter between the two armies. 这是那两军之间的一次激烈的遭遇战。
• A fortunate encounter brought the two friends together after a long separation.两位老朋友长期分离这次才有幸相遇。

4 incident   

n.附带事件，小事件；事件，事变；adj.易发生的；附属的；入射的

参考例句：

• With the passage of time the incident was forgotten.随着时间的消逝，那个事件被忘却了。
• The incident had left him visibly angry and upset.那起事件显然让他既恼火又心烦。