大学英语3 笔记 Unit 1 Stories Lighting up the Hospital - PartIII Extensive Reading_B 词汇&讲解

A Story of Hope

# Vocabulary

occupy  英 /ˈɒkjupaɪ/

drain   英 /dreɪn/

fluid  英 /ˈfluːɪd/

involvement  英 /ɪnˈvɒlvmənt/

military  英 /ˈmɪlətri/

overlook  英 /ˌəʊvəˈlʊk/

swan  英 /swɒn/

amidst  英 /əˈmɪdst/

skyline  英 /ˈskaɪlaɪn/

enliven  英 /ɪnˈlaɪvn/

sadden  英 /ˈsædn/

attendant  英 /əˈtendənt/

switch  英 /swɪtʃ/

blank  英 /blæŋk/

compel  英 /kəmˈpel/

sit up  熬夜；端坐

on end  连续地；竖着

in detail  详细地

Questions:

Have you read any stories or heard any songs about hope?Share with your classmates

1. Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

  ## occupied 1st 意思： 居住；使用

   ## occupied 2nd 意思：占领；占据

   ## occupied 3rd意思：

  ## sit up 1st意思： 做起来；坐直

   ## sit up 2nd意思：深睡，熬夜

 PS：I didn't feel like DOTING STH     不愿意做什么

  ## drain 意思：排出；（使）流出

2. The man talked for hours on end. The poke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation. And every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.

  ## one end 1st 意思： 连续的

  ## one end 2nd 意思：直立着；竖着

 3. The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color of the rainbow A fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

  ## overlook 1st 意思：俯视；眺望

 PS: flower-filled   到处开满了花

  ## overlook 2nd 意思：忽略；忽视

4. The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside. The man by the window desribed what he could see in detail and the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine everything happily. Days and weeks passed this way.

  ## enlivened    活泼有生机    # 形容词后面加ened变成动词

5. One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the man by the window had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

 only to find   结果却发现（表达出人意料或不愉快的意思）

saddened  v. 使……悲伤，使……黯然（sadden 的过去式和过去分词）

6. The other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone. Slowly, painfully, he struggled to take his first look at the world outside.

7. To his surprise, the window faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.

To his surprise   令谁敢到惊讶

 compelled    驱动，强迫

 PS： "could have done" 结构在此表示对过去发生的事情做出的猜测

8. The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall. She said, "Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you."