温馨夜读II PART4 5.Did The Earth Move For You?

 

[00:01.17]5.Did The Earth Move For You?

[00:04.65]Eleven-year-old Angela was stricken with a debilitating¹ disease involving her nervous system. 

[00:10.54]She was unable to walk and her movement was restricted in other ways as well. 

[00:15.98]The doctors did not hold out much hope of her ever recovering from this illness.

[00:21.21]They predicted she’d spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. 

[00:25.57]They said that few, if any, were able to come back to normal after contracting this disease. 

[00:31.88]The little girl was undaunted. 

[00:34.28]There, lying in her hospital bed, she would vow² to anyone who’d listen that she was definitely going to be walking again someday.

[00:43.20]She was transferred to a specialized³ rehabilitation⁴ hospital in the San Francisco Bay area. 

[00:50.72]Whatever therapies could be applied⁵ to her case were used. 

[00:54.42]The therapists were charmed by her undefeatable spirit. 

[00:58.02]They taught her about imaging — about seeing herself walking. 

[01:02.92]If it would do nothing else, it would at least give her hope and something positive to do in the long waking hours in bed. 

[01:11.73]Angela would work as hard as possible in physical therapy, in whirlpools and in exercise sessions. 

[01:18.92]But she worked just as hard lying there faithfully doing her imaging, visualizing⁶ herself moving, moving, moving!

[01:28.18]One day, as she was using all her might to imagine her legs moving again, it seemed as though one miracle had happened: 

[01:35.69]The bed moved! She screamed out, “Look what I’m doing! Look! Look! I can do it! I moved, I moved!”

[01:43.53]Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was screaming, too, and running for cover. 

[01:50.82]People were screaming, equipment was falling and glass was breaking. 

[01:54.66]You see, it was the recent San Francisco earthquake. 

[01:59.03]But don’t tell that to Angela. 

[02:01.44]She’s convinced that she did it. 

[02:04.28]And now only a few years later, she’s back in school. 

[02:08.22]You see, anyone who can shake the earth between San Francisco and Oakland can conquer a piddling little disease, can’t they?

1 debilitating   

a.使衰弱的

参考例句：

• The debilitating disease made him too weak to work. 这个令他衰弱的病，使他弱到没有办法工作。
• You may soon leave one debilitating condition or relationship forever. 你即将永远地和这段霉运说拜拜了。

2 vow   

n.誓(言)，誓约；v.起誓，立誓

参考例句：

• My parents are under a vow to go to church every Sunday.我父母许愿，每星期日都去做礼拜。
• I am under a vow to drink no wine.我已立誓戒酒。

3 specialized   

adj.专门的，专业化的

参考例句：

• There are many specialized agencies in the United Nations.联合国有许多专门机构。
• These tools are very specialized.这些是专用工具。

4 rehabilitation   

n.康复，悔过自新，修复，复兴，复职，复位

参考例句：

• He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
• No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。

5 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

6 visualizing   

肉眼观察

参考例句：

• Nevertheless, the Bohr model is still useful for visualizing the structure of an atom. 然而，玻尔模型仍有利于使原子结构形象化。
• Try to strengthen this energy field by visualizing the ball growing stronger. 通过想象能量球变得更强壮设法加强这能量场。