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第55章 自然之趣(5)

join hands with sb.与某人携手。Let us join hands with each other in friendship.让我们携手和好吧。

C From now on,when it rains,each of you will stretch across the sky in a great bow of coIor as a reminder that you can all Iive in peace.

从今以后,只要一下雨,你们每个都得伸展成大弓形横跨在天际,藉以提醒大家和平共处。

when“当……的时候”,其引导的是一个时间状语从句。from now on,从现在开始。

The Fairy Lilies 百合花仙的故事

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一个善良的人,一个感恩的百合花仙,演绎了一个美好的故事。当一种呵护入微,当一种关怀真诚,不论是谁,能够亲身去经历,都会生出感恩之情,这便是爱的回报。由爱而衍生出的爱,便是人间的真情。

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[A]Once upon a time there was a good old woman who lived in a little house.She had in her garden a bed of beautiful trumpet lilies.

One night she was wakened by the sounds of sweet singing and of babies laughing.She looked out at the window.The sounds seemed to come from the lily bed,but she could see nothing.

The next morning she walked among her flowers,but there were no signs of any one having been there the night before.

On the following night she was again wakened by sweet singing and babies laughing.She walked softly to her garden.The moon was shining brightly on the lily bed,and the flowers were swaying to and fro.The old woman looked closely and she saw,standing by each lily,a little Fairy mother who was singing and rocking the flower like a cradle,while in each lily trumpet lay a little Fairy baby laughing and playing.

The good old woman went quietly back to her house.[A]And from that time on she never picked a lily,nor did she allow her neighbors to touch the flowers.

[C]The lilies grew brighter in color and larger in size,and they gave out a delicious perfume like that of roses.They began,too,to bIoom all the year round.

The day came when the good old woman died,and the lily-bed was torn up,other plants were planted there,but they all withered,and from that time on nothing would grow there.

But the good old woman's grave grew beautiful,for the Fairies sang above it,and kept it green;while on the grave and all around it there sprang up lilies,tulips,violets,and other lovely flowers of spring.

难点重点,一目了然!

长难句解析 Sentence Structures

A Once upon a time there was a good old woman who Iived in a little house.

从前,有个很好的老太太,她住在一个小房子里。

who引导定语从句,先行词是women。

B And from that time on she never picked a lily,nor did she allow her neighbors to touch the flowers.

从那以后,她再也没有摘过一朵百合花,也不再允许她的邻居前去碰百合花。

nor否定副词,放在分句首,要求部分倒装。

C The lilies grew brighter in color and larger in size,and they gave out a delicious perfume like that of roses.

百合花长得越来越鲜艳,越来越大,散发出像玫瑰一样好闻的香味。

give out散发,用完,消耗尽,例如:After a month their food supplies gave out.一个月以后他们的粮食储备消耗殆尽。

A True Story of Birds 鸟儿尚且如此,何况人呢?

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一只被困冰中的黑额黑雁,一群路过的陌生天鹅,本不是同类,本没有人类所具有的思想,却将互帮互助演绎得让人动容。如果把这些看成是一种天性,那么人类的这种天性本应更加完善。当看到黑额黑雁再次飞起,回到天空中,我们是否也愿成为飞翔的天鹅?

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This is a true story.It was on a winter morning,near Oxford,Maryland,that a friend of mine set the breakfast table beside the huge window,which overlooked the Tred Avon River.Across the river,beyond the dock,the snow laced the rim of the shore in white.[A]For a moment she stood quietly,looking at what the night's storm had painted.

Suddenly she leaned forward and peered close to the frosted window."It really is true,"she cried out loud."There is a goose out there."She saw a large Canadian goose,very still,its wings folded tight to its sides,its feet frozen to the ice.

Then from the dark skies,she saw a line of swans.They moved in their own singular formation,graceful,intrepid and free.Suddenly they floated from the top of the sky downward and at last surrounded the frozen goose.[B]Seeing this,my friend feared what life it still had might be pecked out by those great swan bills.

Instead,amazingly,those bills began to work on the ice.At last,the goose was rimmed by a narrow margin of ice instead of the entire creek.The swans rose again,hovered in a circle,awaiting the results of their Iabors.

The goose's head lifted.Its body pulled.Then the goose was free and standing on the ice.But it seemed not be able to fly.Later,four of the swans came down around it.[C]Their powerful beaks scraped the goose's wings from top to bottom and rode up its body,chipping off the ice held in the feathers.

The goose spread its wings as far as they would go.When at last the wings reached their fullest,the four swans took off and joined the hovering group.They resumed flying in perfect formation,to their secret destination.

Behind them,rising with incredible speed and joy,the goose moved into the sky.It followed them,fIapping double time,until it caught up,until it joined the last end of the eIegant line.

My friend was deeply moved with tears running down her cheeks.Even birds give a hand to those in trouble.I just often think of this story in the bad moments and tell myself,"If so for birds,why not for man?"

难点重点,一目了然!

长难句解析 Sentence Structures

A For a moment she stood quietIy,Iooking at what the night's storm had painted.

looking at……现在分词作状语,what引导名词性从句,在从句中作主语。

B Seeing this,my friend feared what Iife it still had might be pecked out by those great swan bills.

我的朋友满心恐惧,担心那只一息尚存的黑额黑雁或许将在一群天鹅的利喙下变得千疮百孔。

seeing……现在分词作状语,与my friend是主动关系。

C Their powerful beaks scraped the goose's wings from top to bottom and rode up its body,chipping off the ice held in the feathers.

用它们那强有力的喙上上下下地蹭它的翅膀,拱它的身体,啄掉它羽毛里的冰块。

held in the feathers过去分词作后置定语。

The Most Beautiful Flower 最美丽的花

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盲人虽然看不见眼外的世界,却比我们看得真切,因为他们以心为目,能看到我们看不到的美丽。即便是一朵枯萎的花,他们也能赋予它新的生命意义。因为,最美的花不是开在春天,而是开在我们的心中。

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