自考英语综合一上册 lesson 5

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[00:02.69]The story began on a downtown Brooklyn street corner.
[00:08.05]An elderly man had collapsed¹ while crossing the street,
[00:13.51]and an ambulance rushed him to Kings County Hospital.
[00:18.96]There,when he came to now and again,the man repeatedly called for his son.
[00:27.43]From a worn letter found in his pocket,
[00:32.08]an emergency-room nurse learned that his son was a Marine²
[00:37.83]stationed in North Carolina.It seemed there were no other relatives.
[00:44.30]Someone at the hospital called the Red Cross office in Brooklyn,
[00:49.87]and a request for the boy to rush to Brooklyn
[00:54.83]was sent to the Red Cross director of the North Carolina Marine Corps³ camp.
[01:01.81]Because time was short the patient was dying
[01:07.27]the Red Cross man and officer set out in a jeep.
[01:13.22]They found the young man wading⁴ through some marshesin a military exercise.
[01:19.07]He was rushed to the airport in time
[01:24.14]to catch the one plane that might enable him to reach his dying father.
[01:30.98]It was mid-evening when the young Marine
[01:35.56]walked into the entrance lobby⁵ of Kings County Hospital.
[01:41.20]A nurse took the tired,anxious serviceman to the bedside.
[01:47.57]"Your son is here,"she said to the old man.
[01:52.12]She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes opened.
[01:59.38]The medicine he had been give because of the pain from his heart attack
[02:05.34]made his eyes weak and he only dimly saw the young man in Marine Corps uniform
[02:13.88]standing outside the oxygen tent.
[02:18.84]He reached out his hand.
[02:22.60]The Marine wrapped his strong fingers around the old man's limp⁶ ones,
[02:29.55]squeezing a message of love and encouragement.
[02:35.51]The nurse brought a chair,so the Marine could sit by the bed.
[02:41.75]Nights are long in hospitals,
[02:46.30]but all through the night the young Marine sat there in the dimly-lit ward⁷,
[02:52.25]holding the old man's hand and offering words of hope and strength.
[03:00.30]Occasionally,the nurse suggested that the Marine rest for a while.He refused.
[03:08.37]Whenever the nurse came into the ward,the Marine was there,
[03:14.12]but he paid no attention to her and the night noises of the hospital
[03:20.59]the clanking of an oxygen tank,
[03:24.96]the laughter of night-staff members exchanging greetings,
[03:30.83]the cries and moans⁸ and snores of other patients.
[03:37.31]Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words.
[03:43.66]The dying man said nothing,
[03:48.52]only held tightly⁹ to his son through most of the night.
[03:55.00]It was nearly dawn when the patient died.
[04:00.35]The Marine placed on the bed the lifeless hand he had been holding,
[04:07.01]and went to tell the nurse.
[04:10.78]While she did what she had to do,
[04:14.85]he smoked a cigarette his first since he got to the hospital.
[04:20.49]Finally,she returned to the nurse's station,where he was waiting.
[04:26.66]She started to offer words of sympathy,but the Marine interrupted her.
[04:32.43]"Who was that man?"he asked.
[04:36.79]"He was your father,"she answered,startled.
[04:41.55]"No,he wasn't,"the Marine replied."I never saw him before in my life."
[04:49.59]"Why didn't you say something when I took you to him?"the nurse asked.
[04:56.25]"I knew immediately there'd been a mistake,
[05:00.80]but I also knew he needed his son,and his son just wasn't here.
[05:07.88]When I realized he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son,
[05:15.04]I guessed he really needed me.So I stayed."
[05:20.78]With that,the Marine turned and left the hospital.
[05:25.96]Two days later a message came in from the North Carolina Marine Corps base
[05:32.49]informing the Brooklyn Red Cross
[05:36.43]that the real son was on his way to Brooklyn for his father's funeral.
[05:43.51]It turned out there had been two Marines with the same name
[05:49.86]and similar numbers in the camp.
[05:54.53]Someone in the personnel¹⁰ office had pulled out the wrong record.
[06:00.70]But the wrong Marine had become the right son at the right time.

　　[06:07.67]And he proved,in a very human very,
[06:12.72]that there are people who care what happens to their fellow men.

1 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。

2 marine   

adj.海的；海生的；航海的；海事的；n.水兵

参考例句：

• Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

3 corps   

n.(通信等兵种的)部队；(同类作的)一组

参考例句：

• The medical corps were cited for bravery in combat.医疗队由于在战场上的英勇表现而受嘉奖。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

4 wading   

（从水、泥等）蹚，走过，跋( wade的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The man tucked up his trousers for wading. 那人卷起裤子，准备涉水。
• The children were wading in the sea. 孩子们在海水中走着。

5 lobby   

n.前厅，（剧院的）门廊

参考例句：

• As he walked through the lobby,he skirted a group of ladies.他穿过门厅时，绕过了一群女士。
• The delegates entered the assembly hall by way of the lobby.代表们通过大厅进入会场。

6 limp   

adj.软弱的，无精神的，松沓的；vi.蹒跚；n.跛行

参考例句：

• His limp is result of a car accident last year.他的跛足是去年一次车祸所致的结果。
• He gave her a limp,cold handshake.他有气无力且冷淡地与她握了一下手。

7 ward   

n.守卫，监护，病房，行政区，由监护人或法院保护的人（尤指儿童）；vt.守护，躲开

参考例句：

• The hospital has a medical ward and a surgical ward.这家医院有内科病房和外科病房。
• During the evening picnic,I'll carry a torch to ward off the bugs.傍晚野餐时，我要点根火把，抵挡蚊虫。

8 moans   

n.呻吟声( moan的名词复数 )；（尤指风的）呼啸声；萧萧声v.呻吟，悲叹( moan的第三人称单数 )；抱怨；发出萧萧声

参考例句：

• They get fed up with her moans. 她的抱怨令他们感到厌烦。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• O the long, long night, with the moans of the poor wife! 啊，那可怜的妻子痛哭着度过的漫漫长夜呀！ 来自互联网

9 tightly   

adv.紧紧地，坚固地，牢固地

参考例句：

• My child holds onto my hand tightly while we cross the street.横穿马路时，孩子紧拉着我的手不放。
• The crowd pressed together so tightly that we could hardly breathe.人群挤在一起，我们几乎喘不过气来。

10 personnel   

n.[总称]人员，员工，人事部门

参考例句：

• The personnel are not happy to change these rules.全体工作人员对改变这些规定很不高兴。
• Personnel has lost my tax forms.人事部门把我的税收表格给弄丢了。