大学英语精读听力第三册 unit5
[00:00.00]A mother and her son learn more from a moment of defeat
[00:28.34]than they ever could from a victory.
[00:28.41]Her example of never giving up gives him courage
[00:32.15]for the rest of his life.
[00:33.93]THE DAY MOTHER CRIED Gerald Moore
[00:38.37]Coming home from school that dark winter\'s day so long ago
[00:43.70]I was filled with anticipation
[00:45.97]I had a new issue of my favorite sports magazine tucked under my arm
[00:51.22]and the house to myself
[00:53.28]Dad was at work, my sister was away
[00:56.73]and Mother wouldn\'t be home from her new job
[00:59.21]for an hour I bounded up the steps
[01:02.58]burst into the living room and flipped on a light
[01:05.46]I was shocked into stillness by what I saw
[01:09.17]Mother, pulled into a tight ball with her face in her hands
[01:13.45]sat at the far end of the couch. She was crying
[01:17.47]I had never seen her cry
[01:19.80]I approached cautiously and touched her shoulder
[01:24.06]"Mother?" I said. "What\'s happened?"
[01:27.22]She took a long breath and managed a weak smile.
[01:31.27]"It\'s nothing, really.Nothing important.
[01:34.79]Just that I\'m going to lose this new job
[01:37.46]I can\'t type fast enough."
[01:40.12]"But you\'ve only been there three days,"I said.
[01:43.36]"You\'ll catch on."
[01:44.51]I was repeating a line she had spoken to me a hundred times
[01:43.51]when I was having trouble learning of doing something important to me
[01:47.61]"No," she said sadly. "
[01:50.28]I always said I could do anything I set my mind to,
[01:53.91]and I still think I can in most things.But I can\'t do this."
[01:58.90]I felt helpless and out of place.
[02:01.74]At age 16 I still assumed Mother could do anything.
[02:06.31]Some years before
[02:07.43]when we sold our ranch and moved to town,
[02:10.15]Mother had decided to open a day nursery.
[02:13.18]She had had no training,
[02:15.63]But that didn\'t stand in her way.
[02:17.70]She sent away for correspondence courses in child care,
[02:22.35]did the lessons and in six months formally qualified herself
[02:26.60]for the task.
[02:28.15]It wasn\'t long before she had a full enrollment and a waiting list.
[02:32.93]I accepted all this as perfectly normal instance of Mother\'s ability
[02:38.57]But neither the nursery nor the motel my parents bought later
[02:43.48]had provided enough income to send my sister and me to college
[02:47.97]In two years I would be ready for college.
[02:51.29]In three more my sister would want to go. Time was running out
[02:56.25]and Mother was frantic for ways to save money.
[02:59.41]It was clear that Dad could do no more than he was doing already
[03:04.17]farming 80 acres in addition to holding a fulltime job
[03:08.84]A few months after we\'d sold the motel
[03:12.71]Mother arrived home with a used typewriter
[03:16.00]It skipped certain letters And the keyboard was soft
[03:16.08]At dinner that night I pronounced the machine a "piece of junk."
[03:21.12]"That\'s all we can afford," Mother said.
[03:24.13]"It\'s good enough to learn on."And from that day on,
[03:27.78]as soon as the table was cleared and the dishes were done,
[03:31.26]Mother would disappear into her sewing room to practice
[03:35.18]The slow tap, tap, tap went on some nights until midnight
[03:39.72]It was nearly Christmas when I heard Mother got a job
[03:43.46]at the radio station.I was not the least bit surprised
[03:47.90]or impressed.But she was ecstatic.
[03:51.24]Monday, after her first day at work,
[03:54.77]I could see that the excitement was gone.
[03:57.56]Mother looked tired and drawn.
[04:00.59]I responded by ignoring her.
[04:03.05]Tuesday, Dad made dinner and cleaned the kitchen.
[04:07.02]Mother stayed in her sewing room, practicing.
[04:10.08]"Is Mother all right?" I asked Dad.
[04:12.53]"She\'s having a little trouble with her typing," he said.
[04:16.87]"She needs to practice
[04:18.75]I think she\'d appreciate it if we all helped out a bit more.
[04:23.11]"I already do a lot,"I said,immediately on guard
[04:27.39]"I know you do,"Dad said, evenly.
[04:30.27]"And you may have to do more.You might just remember
[04:34.03]that she is working primarily so you can go to college."
[04:37.66]I honestly didn\'t care.
[04:40.09]I wished she would just forget the whole thing
[04:43.22]My shock and embarrassment at finding Mother in tears on Wednesday
[04:47.93]was a perfect index of how little I understood the pressures on her
[04:52.18]Sitting beside her on the couch,
[04:54.72]I began very slowly to understand.
[04:57.83]"I guess we all have to fail sometime," Mother said quietly.
[05:02.22]I could sense her pain and the tension of holding back
[05:05.64]the strong emotions that were interrupted by my arrival
[05:09.69]Suddenly, something inside me turned
[05:13.00]I reached out and put my arms around her
[05:16.45]She broke then.She put her face against my shoulder and sobbed
[05:22.62]I held her close and didn\'t try to talk.
[05:25.39]I knew I was doing what I should, what I could
[05:28.73]and that it was enough. In that moment
[05:31.94]feeling Mother\'s back racked with emotion
[05:34.87]I understood for the first time her vulnerability
[05:38.60]She was still my mother,but she was something more:
[05:42.65]a person like me,capable of fear and hurt and failure.
[05:48.11]I could feel her pain as she must have felt mine on a thousand occasions
[05:53.15]when I had sought comfort in her arms
[05:55.85]A week later Mother took a job selling dry goods
[05:59.71]at half the salary the radio station had offered
[06:02.98]"It\'s a job I can do,"she said simply
[06:06.63]But the evening practice sessions on the old green typewriter continued
[06:11.57]I had a very different feeling now
[06:14.34]when I passed her door at night and heard her tapping away
[06:17.81]I knew there was something more going on in there
[06:21.26]than a woman learning to type
[06:23.25]When I left for college two years later
[06:26.88]Mother had an office job with better pay and more responsibility
[06:31.24]I have to believe that in some strange way
[06:34.90]she learned as much from her moment of defeat as I did
[06:38.84]because several years later
[06:40.67]when I had finished school and proudly accepted a job
[06:43.91]as a newspaper reporter
[06:42.91]she had already been a journalist
[06:45.29]with our hometown paper for six months
[06:48.13]The old green typewriter sits in my office now unrepaired
[06:52.92]It is a memento,but what it recalls for me
[06:56.76]is not quite what it recalled for Mother
[06:59.39]When I\'m having trouble with a story
[07:01.95]and think about giving up or when I start to feel sorry for myself
[07:06.24]and think things should be easier for me
[07:08.98]I roll a piece of paper into that cranky old machine and type
[07:13.55]word by painful word, just the way Mother did
[07:17.60]What I remember then is not her failure
[07:20.79]but her courage, the courage to go ahead
[07:24.34]It\'s the best memento anyone ever gave me
[07:29.09]words
[07:49.55]Anticipation
[07:50.53]预料
[07:51.51]Anticipate
[07:52.33]期望
[07:53.15]Issue
[07:53.89]发行物
[07:54.62]Tuck
[07:54.65]塞（进）
[07:54.69]Bound
[07:55.16]跳跃
[07:55.63]Flip
[07:56.20]轻击
[07:56.78]Tight
[07:57.31]牢的
[07:57.85]Couch
[07:58.69]长沙发椅
[07:59.52]Approach
[08:00.24]靠近
[08:00.96]Cautiously
[08:01.78]谨慎地
[08:02.60]Cautious
[08:03.32]谨慎的
[08:04.04]Type
[08:04.56]打字
[08:05.09]Line
[08:05.73]（诗、文的）一行
[08:06.37]Helpless
[08:06.99]无能的
[08:07.62]Assume
[08:08.25]假设
[08:08.87]Ranch
[08:09.49]大牧场
[08:10.10]Nursery
[08:10.83]托儿所
[08:11.56]Day nersery
[08:12.48]托儿所（白天照看的）
[08:13.39]Training
[08:14.01]练习
[08:14.62]Correspondence
[08:15.50]通信
[08:16.37]correspondence course
[08:17.00]函授课程
[08:17.63]Formally
[08:18.27]正式地
[08:18.91]Formal
[08:19.69]正式的
[08:20.48]qualify
[08:21.46]使具有资格
[08:22.44]enrollment
[08:23.46]注册
[08:24.47]Enrol
[08:25.24]登记
[08:26.02]motel
[08:26.76]汽车旅馆
[08:27.50]Frantic
[08:28.43]疯狂的
[08:29.36]Acre
[08:30.08]英亩
[08:30.80]Addition
[08:31.51]加法
[08:32.23]Full-time
[08:33.07]专职的
[08:33.90]Typewriter
[08:34.57]打字机
[08:35.24]Keyboard
[08:35.82]键盘
[08:36.41]Junk
[08:37.04]垃圾
[08:37.67]Tap
[08:38.14]轻叩
[08:38.61]Midnight
[08:39.26]午夜
[08:39.91]ecstatic
[08:40.54]欣喜若狂的
[08:41.17]Drawn
[08:41.83]紧张的
[08:42.50]Respond
[08:43.18]反应
[08:43.86]Dad
[08:44.38]爸爸
[08:44.90]Evenly
[08:45.62]平坦地
[08:46.34]Even
[08:47.03]平滑的
[08:47.72]Primarily
[08:48.35]起初
[08:48.98]Embarrassment
[08:49.70]阻碍
[08:50.41]Index
[08:51.18]指标
[08:51.96]Pressure
[08:52.45]（心理上的）压力
[08:52.95]Tension
[08:52.97]紧张
[08:53.00]Arrival
[08:52.50]到达
[08:52.00]Rack
[08:52.64]猛力摇动
[08:53.28]Vulnerability
[08:54.12]脆弱性
[08:54.95]Vulnerable
[08:55.53]易受攻击的
[08:56.10]Dry goods
[08:56.83]织物类商品
[08:57.56]Session
[08:58.24]会议
[08:58.92]Journalist
[08:59.60]记者
[09:00.28]Memento
[09:00.89]纪念品
[09:01.51]Cranky
[09:01.98]有毛病的
[09:02.45]phrases and expressions
[09:04.61]Have sth.To oneself
[09:05.59]给某人东西
[09:06.57]At work
[09:07.18]在工作
[09:07.80]Catch on (to)
[09:09.12]学会
[09:10.43]Set one\'s mind to
[09:11.41]决心做
[09:12.39]Set one\'s mind on
[09:13.41]决心做
[09:14.43]Stand in sb\'s way
[09:15.52]妨碍
[09:16.60]be in sb\'s way
[09:17.59]妨碍
[09:18.58]Send away for
[09:19.41]函索
[09:20.23]Run out
[09:20.91]用完
[09:21.59]In addition
[09:22.27]另外
[09:22.95]In addition to
[09:23.72]除...之外
[09:24.49]Help out
[09:25.17]帮助
[09:25.85]On guard
[09:26.49]提防
[09:27.13]In tears
[09:27.71]流着泪
[09:28.30]Hold back
[09:28.50]阻止
[09:28.69]Go on
[09:29.16]继续下去
[09:29.63]Go ahead
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[00:28.34]than they ever could from a victory.
[00:28.41]Her example of never giving up gives him courage
[00:32.15]for the rest of his life.
[00:33.93]THE DAY MOTHER CRIED Gerald Moore
[00:38.37]Coming home from school that dark winter\'s day so long ago
[00:43.70]I was filled with anticipation
[00:45.97]I had a new issue of my favorite sports magazine tucked under my arm
[00:51.22]and the house to myself
[00:53.28]Dad was at work, my sister was away
[00:56.73]and Mother wouldn\'t be home from her new job
[00:59.21]for an hour I bounded up the steps
[01:02.58]burst into the living room and flipped on a light
[01:05.46]I was shocked into stillness by what I saw
[01:09.17]Mother, pulled into a tight ball with her face in her hands
[01:13.45]sat at the far end of the couch. She was crying
[01:17.47]I had never seen her cry
[01:19.80]I approached cautiously and touched her shoulder
[01:24.06]"Mother?" I said. "What\'s happened?"
[01:27.22]She took a long breath and managed a weak smile.
[01:31.27]"It\'s nothing, really.Nothing important.
[01:34.79]Just that I\'m going to lose this new job
[01:37.46]I can\'t type fast enough."
[01:40.12]"But you\'ve only been there three days,"I said.
[01:43.36]"You\'ll catch on."
[01:44.51]I was repeating a line she had spoken to me a hundred times
[01:43.51]when I was having trouble learning of doing something important to me
[01:47.61]"No," she said sadly. "
[01:50.28]I always said I could do anything I set my mind to,
[01:53.91]and I still think I can in most things.But I can\'t do this."
[01:58.90]I felt helpless and out of place.
[02:01.74]At age 16 I still assumed Mother could do anything.
[02:06.31]Some years before
[02:07.43]when we sold our ranch and moved to town,
[02:10.15]Mother had decided to open a day nursery.
[02:13.18]She had had no training,
[02:15.63]But that didn\'t stand in her way.
[02:17.70]She sent away for correspondence courses in child care,
[02:22.35]did the lessons and in six months formally qualified herself
[02:26.60]for the task.
[02:28.15]It wasn\'t long before she had a full enrollment and a waiting list.
[02:32.93]I accepted all this as perfectly normal instance of Mother\'s ability
[02:38.57]But neither the nursery nor the motel my parents bought later
[02:43.48]had provided enough income to send my sister and me to college
[02:47.97]In two years I would be ready for college.
[02:51.29]In three more my sister would want to go. Time was running out
[02:56.25]and Mother was frantic for ways to save money.
[02:59.41]It was clear that Dad could do no more than he was doing already
[03:04.17]farming 80 acres in addition to holding a fulltime job
[03:08.84]A few months after we\'d sold the motel
[03:12.71]Mother arrived home with a used typewriter
[03:16.00]It skipped certain letters And the keyboard was soft
[03:16.08]At dinner that night I pronounced the machine a "piece of junk."
[03:21.12]"That\'s all we can afford," Mother said.
[03:24.13]"It\'s good enough to learn on."And from that day on,
[03:27.78]as soon as the table was cleared and the dishes were done,
[03:31.26]Mother would disappear into her sewing room to practice
[03:35.18]The slow tap, tap, tap went on some nights until midnight
[03:39.72]It was nearly Christmas when I heard Mother got a job
[03:43.46]at the radio station.I was not the least bit surprised
[03:47.90]or impressed.But she was ecstatic.
[03:51.24]Monday, after her first day at work,
[03:54.77]I could see that the excitement was gone.
[03:57.56]Mother looked tired and drawn.
[04:00.59]I responded by ignoring her.
[04:03.05]Tuesday, Dad made dinner and cleaned the kitchen.
[04:07.02]Mother stayed in her sewing room, practicing.
[04:10.08]"Is Mother all right?" I asked Dad.
[04:12.53]"She\'s having a little trouble with her typing," he said.
[04:16.87]"She needs to practice
[04:18.75]I think she\'d appreciate it if we all helped out a bit more.
[04:23.11]"I already do a lot,"I said,immediately on guard
[04:27.39]"I know you do,"Dad said, evenly.
[04:30.27]"And you may have to do more.You might just remember
[04:34.03]that she is working primarily so you can go to college."
[04:37.66]I honestly didn\'t care.
[04:40.09]I wished she would just forget the whole thing
[04:43.22]My shock and embarrassment at finding Mother in tears on Wednesday
[04:47.93]was a perfect index of how little I understood the pressures on her
[04:52.18]Sitting beside her on the couch,
[04:54.72]I began very slowly to understand.
[04:57.83]"I guess we all have to fail sometime," Mother said quietly.
[05:02.22]I could sense her pain and the tension of holding back
[05:05.64]the strong emotions that were interrupted by my arrival
[05:09.69]Suddenly, something inside me turned
[05:13.00]I reached out and put my arms around her
[05:16.45]She broke then.She put her face against my shoulder and sobbed
[05:22.62]I held her close and didn\'t try to talk.
[05:25.39]I knew I was doing what I should, what I could
[05:28.73]and that it was enough. In that moment
[05:31.94]feeling Mother\'s back racked with emotion
[05:34.87]I understood for the first time her vulnerability
[05:38.60]She was still my mother,but she was something more:
[05:42.65]a person like me,capable of fear and hurt and failure.
[05:48.11]I could feel her pain as she must have felt mine on a thousand occasions
[05:53.15]when I had sought comfort in her arms
[05:55.85]A week later Mother took a job selling dry goods
[05:59.71]at half the salary the radio station had offered
[06:02.98]"It\'s a job I can do,"she said simply
[06:06.63]But the evening practice sessions on the old green typewriter continued
[06:11.57]I had a very different feeling now
[06:14.34]when I passed her door at night and heard her tapping away
[06:17.81]I knew there was something more going on in there
[06:21.26]than a woman learning to type
[06:23.25]When I left for college two years later
[06:26.88]Mother had an office job with better pay and more responsibility
[06:31.24]I have to believe that in some strange way
[06:34.90]she learned as much from her moment of defeat as I did
[06:38.84]because several years later
[06:40.67]when I had finished school and proudly accepted a job
[06:43.91]as a newspaper reporter
[06:42.91]she had already been a journalist
[06:45.29]with our hometown paper for six months
[06:48.13]The old green typewriter sits in my office now unrepaired
[06:52.92]It is a memento,but what it recalls for me
[06:56.76]is not quite what it recalled for Mother
[06:59.39]When I\'m having trouble with a story
[07:01.95]and think about giving up or when I start to feel sorry for myself
[07:06.24]and think things should be easier for me
[07:08.98]I roll a piece of paper into that cranky old machine and type
[07:13.55]word by painful word, just the way Mother did
[07:17.60]What I remember then is not her failure
[07:20.79]but her courage, the courage to go ahead
[07:24.34]It\'s the best memento anyone ever gave me
[07:29.09]words
[07:49.55]Anticipation
[07:50.53]预料
[07:51.51]Anticipate
[07:52.33]期望
[07:53.15]Issue
[07:53.89]发行物
[07:54.62]Tuck
[07:54.65]塞（进）
[07:54.69]Bound
[07:55.16]跳跃
[07:55.63]Flip
[07:56.20]轻击
[07:56.78]Tight
[07:57.31]牢的
[07:57.85]Couch
[07:58.69]长沙发椅
[07:59.52]Approach
[08:00.24]靠近
[08:00.96]Cautiously
[08:01.78]谨慎地
[08:02.60]Cautious
[08:03.32]谨慎的
[08:04.04]Type
[08:04.56]打字
[08:05.09]Line
[08:05.73]（诗、文的）一行
[08:06.37]Helpless
[08:06.99]无能的
[08:07.62]Assume
[08:08.25]假设
[08:08.87]Ranch
[08:09.49]大牧场
[08:10.10]Nursery
[08:10.83]托儿所
[08:11.56]Day nersery
[08:12.48]托儿所（白天照看的）
[08:13.39]Training
[08:14.01]练习
[08:14.62]Correspondence
[08:15.50]通信
[08:16.37]correspondence course
[08:17.00]函授课程
[08:17.63]Formally
[08:18.27]正式地
[08:18.91]Formal
[08:19.69]正式的
[08:20.48]qualify
[08:21.46]使具有资格
[08:22.44]enrollment
[08:23.46]注册
[08:24.47]Enrol
[08:25.24]登记
[08:26.02]motel
[08:26.76]汽车旅馆
[08:27.50]Frantic
[08:28.43]疯狂的
[08:29.36]Acre
[08:30.08]英亩
[08:30.80]Addition
[08:31.51]加法
[08:32.23]Full-time
[08:33.07]专职的
[08:33.90]Typewriter
[08:34.57]打字机
[08:35.24]Keyboard
[08:35.82]键盘
[08:36.41]Junk
[08:37.04]垃圾
[08:37.67]Tap
[08:38.14]轻叩
[08:38.61]Midnight
[08:39.26]午夜
[08:39.91]ecstatic
[08:40.54]欣喜若狂的
[08:41.17]Drawn
[08:41.83]紧张的
[08:42.50]Respond
[08:43.18]反应
[08:43.86]Dad
[08:44.38]爸爸
[08:44.90]Evenly
[08:45.62]平坦地
[08:46.34]Even
[08:47.03]平滑的
[08:47.72]Primarily
[08:48.35]起初
[08:48.98]Embarrassment
[08:49.70]阻碍
[08:50.41]Index
[08:51.18]指标
[08:51.96]Pressure
[08:52.45]（心理上的）压力
[08:52.95]Tension
[08:52.97]紧张
[08:53.00]Arrival
[08:52.50]到达
[08:52.00]Rack
[08:52.64]猛力摇动
[08:53.28]Vulnerability
[08:54.12]脆弱性
[08:54.95]Vulnerable
[08:55.53]易受攻击的
[08:56.10]Dry goods
[08:56.83]织物类商品
[08:57.56]Session
[08:58.24]会议
[08:58.92]Journalist
[08:59.60]记者
[09:00.28]Memento
[09:00.89]纪念品
[09:01.51]Cranky
[09:01.98]有毛病的
[09:02.45]phrases and expressions
[09:04.61]Have sth.To oneself
[09:05.59]给某人东西
[09:06.57]At work
[09:07.18]在工作
[09:07.80]Catch on (to)
[09:09.12]学会
[09:10.43]Set one\'s mind to
[09:11.41]决心做
[09:12.39]Set one\'s mind on
[09:13.41]决心做
[09:14.43]Stand in sb\'s way
[09:15.52]妨碍
[09:16.60]be in sb\'s way
[09:17.59]妨碍
[09:18.58]Send away for
[09:19.41]函索
[09:20.23]Run out
[09:20.91]用完
[09:21.59]In addition
[09:22.27]另外
[09:22.95]In addition to
[09:23.72]除...之外
[09:24.49]Help out
[09:25.17]帮助
[09:25.85]On guard
[09:26.49]提防
[09:27.13]In tears
[09:27.71]流着泪
[09:28.30]Hold back
[09:28.50]阻止
[09:28.69]Go on
[09:29.16]继续下去
[09:29.63]Go ahead
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