智慧背囊 品味人生-14-看看你周围

[00:02.17]Look around You看看你周围
[00:04.95]A very special teacher in a high school had a husband
[00:09.80]who died suddenly of a heart attack.
[00:12.54]About a week after his death,
[00:14.83] she shared some of her thoughts with a classroom of students.
[00:18.66] As the late afternoon sunlight shined through the classroom windows,
[00:23.14] and when the class was nearly over,
[00:25.55]she moved a few things aside on her desk and sat down there.
[00:29.49] With a gentle look on her face,
[00:32.33]she paused and said,
[00:34.30]“Before class is over,
[00:36.38] I would like to share with all of you a thought
[00:39.78]which I feel is very important.
[00:41.97] Each of us is put here on earth to learn, share, love, appreciate and give of ourselves...
[00:50.39] and none of us knows when this fantastic experience will end.
[00:54.66] It can be taken away at any moment.
[00:58.16] Perhaps this is a sign that we must make the most out of every single day.”
[01:04.49] Her eyes beginning to water,
[01:06.89] she went on,
[01:08.09]“So I would like you all to make me a promise...
[01:11.92] from now on,
[01:13.12]on your way to school,
[01:14.56]or on your way home,
[01:15.77]find something beautiful to notice.
[01:18.17]It doesn’t have to be something you see
[01:21.23]—it could be a scent—
[01:23.31]perhaps of freshly baked bread wafting¹ out of someone’s house,
[01:27.36] or it could be the sound of the breeze² slightly rustling³ the leaves in the trees,
[01:32.29] or the way the morning light catches one autumn leaf as it falls gently to the ground.
[01:37.86] Please, look for these things, and remember them.
[01:41.58] “For, although it may sound silly to some people,
[01:45.62]these things are the “stuff” of life.
[01:48.36]The little things we are put here on earth to enjoy.
[01:52.08]The things we often take for granted⁴.
[01:55.44]We must make it important to notice them,
[01:58.29]for at any time ... it can all be taken away.”
[02:02.12] The class was completely quiet.
[02:04.63]We all picked up our books and filed out of the room silently.
[02:08.79] That afternoon,
[02:11.09]I noticed more things on my way home from school than I had that whole semester⁵.
[02:16.55] Every once in a while,
[02:18.53]I think of that teacher and remember what an impression she made on all of us,
[02:23.56] and I try to appreciate all of those things that sometimes we all overlook⁶.
[02:28.92] Take notice of something special you see on your lunch hour today.
[02:32.97] Go barefoot. Or walk on the beach at sunset.
[02:36.47] Stop off on the way home tonight to get a double dip ice cream cone⁷.
[02:41.06]For as we get older,
[02:43.25]it is not the things we did that we often regret,
[02:45.98] but the things we didn’t do.

1 wafting   

v.吹送，飘送，（使）浮动( waft的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• But that gentle fragrance was clearly wafting from the window. 但那股淡淡的香气，却分明是从母亲的窗户溢出的。 来自互联网
• The picture-like XueGuo, wafting dense flavor of Japan, gives us a kind of artistic enjoyment. 画一般的雪国，飘溢着浓郁的日本风情，给人以美的享受。 来自互联网

2 breeze   

n.微风；轻而易举的事；vi.来去匆匆，急速走

参考例句：

• A little breeze is blowing in from the window.微风从窗户里吹进来。
• The clouds are pale and a light breeze is blowing.云淡风轻。

3 rustling   

n. 瑟瑟声，沙沙声 adj. 发沙沙声的

参考例句：

• the sound of the trees rustling in the breeze 树木在微风中发出的沙沙声
• the soft rustling of leaves 树叶柔和的沙沙声

4 granted   

conj.假定，就算v.（退一步）承认( grant的过去式和过去分词 )；（尤指正式地或法律上）同意；准许；让渡

参考例句：

• The president granted a general amnesty for all political prisoners. 总统大赦了所有的政治犯。
• She feared she would not be granted re-entry into Britain. 她担心不会获准再次踏足英伦。

5 semester   

n.一学期，半学年，六个月的时间

参考例句：

• A student will probably attend four or five courses during each semester.每个学生一学期可能要修四五门课程。
• I had an especially rough time during my first semester.我第一个学期的日子难受极了。

6 overlook   

v.忽视，忽略，俯瞰，眺望，宽容，宽恕

参考例句：

• How could you overlook paying the rent?你怎么会忘了付房租？
• It was a slight overlook on my part.这是我的一个小疏忽。

7 cone   

n.圆锥体，圆锥形东西，球果

参考例句：

• Saw-dust piled up in a great cone.锯屑堆积如山。
• The police have sectioned off part of the road with traffic cone.警察用锥形路标把部分路面分隔开来。