温馨夜读II PART1 10.Calamity

 

[00:00.96]10.Calamity¹

[00:03.25]A girl grumbled² to her father about her hard life. 

[00:07.39]She didn’t know what she had to do and wanted to give up. 

[00:11.31]She felt tired for fighting and fighting. 

[00:13.92]One problem had been finished but the other overcame.

[00:17.74]Her father, a cook, took her into the kitchen. 

[00:21.00]He poured water into three pans and boiled them. 

[00:24.82]After boiling, in the first pan was put some carrots, the second was put some eggs and the last was put with coffee. 

[00:34.39]He waited for them for a few minutes without any words from his mouth.

[00:39.29]The girl closed her mouth and waited impatiently, confused by what her father did. 

[00:45.18]After approximately 20 minutes, her father turned off the stove, took out the carrots and put them in a bowl. 

[00:53.45]He took the eggs and put them in a bowl. 

[00:56.66]After that the coffee was poured into a cup.

[01:00.69]Turning back to his daughter, he asked, “My sweet heart, what do you see?” 

[01:06.35]“Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she replied.

[01:10.27]Her father told her to close her eyes and asked her to touch the carrots. 

[01:17.57]She did and felt that the carrots were soft. 

[01:21.49]After that he asked her to take the eggs and break them. 

[01:25.30]After peeling them, she got the eggs, cooked and hard. 

[01:30.08]The last, the father asked her to smell the coffee. 

[01:34.66]She asked, “What’s the meaning, Father?” 

[01:38.91]He explained that each had suffered the same unfortunate experience—the boiling water, but each had a different reaction. 

[01:48.60]The strong and hard carrots had become soft and weak after being in the boiling water. 

[01:54.93]The fragile eggs with thin epidermis³ covering the liquid interior became hard after cooked. 

[02:02.26]The coffee grounds were very unique, but they could change water. 

[02:08.05]“Who are you?” asked her father, “When calamity knocks at your door, what is your reaction? 

[02:15.17]Are you carrots, eggs, or coffee?”

1 calamity   

n.灾害，祸患，不幸事件

参考例句：

• Even a greater natural calamity cannot daunt us. 再大的自然灾害也压不垮我们。
• The attack on Pearl Harbor was a crushing calamity.偷袭珍珠港(对美军来说)是一场毁灭性的灾难。

2 grumbled   

抱怨( grumble的过去式和过去分词 )； 发牢骚； 咕哝； 发哼声

参考例句：

• He grumbled at the low pay offered to him. 他抱怨给他的工资低。
• The heat was sweltering, and the men grumbled fiercely over their work. 天热得让人发昏，水手们边干活边发着牢骚。

3 epidermis   

n.表皮

参考例句：

• The external layer of skin is called the epidermis.皮的外层叫表皮。
• There is a neoplasm originating in his leg's epidermis.他的腿上有个生长在表皮上的肿瘤。