开口英语

Lesson 71:Working Hard

My best friend Billy and I decided to learn English last year. We promised each other to work hard. We never failed to attend class. Billy always remembered to do his homework. I never forgot to do mine, either. Our English is pretty good now. It only proves that there's no gain without pain.
努力用功
我和挚友比利去年决心要学英文。我们彼此允诺要努力用
功。我们从不缺课。比利总是会记得做功课。而我也从未忘记做
自己的功课。我们的英文现在很不错了，这就证明了一分耕耘，一
分收获的道理。

Lesson 70:When Will You Be Moving?

Tina : When will you be moving?
Chuck : Next week.
Tina : When will we be seeing you again?
Chuck : Maybe next year;
Tina : Don't forget to write.
Chuck : I won't. Goodbye. Tina.
你什么时候搬家?
蒂娜：你什么时候搬家?
查克：下星期。
蒂娜：我们什么时候会再见到你呢?
查克：也许明年吧。
蒂娜：别忘了写信啊。
查克：我不会忘记的。再见了，蒂娜。

88. The Big Sale 大减价

Scott's girlfriend loved pretty dresses. Her favorite store was having a big sale. Scott wanted to surprise her. He went to the sale to buy her a lot of new dresses.

斯科特的女朋友很爱漂亮裙子，她最爱的商店正在大减价。斯科特想给她一个惊喜，他到那家店买了很多新裙子。

The sale was extremely crowded. He waited one hour just to get inside the store! Scott was very patient. He just wanted to make his girlfriend happy. The girls inside the store were going crazy. All of them were looking for good deals. Some girls were even fighting over dresses. Scott was very scared. He would have to be quick and sneaky to get anything. When he finally made it out of the store, he was sweating. "I'm never doing that again!" he thought.

大减价那里非常拥挤，他等了一个小时才进去商店！斯科特很有耐心，他只想让女朋友开心。商店里的女孩们都疯了，她们都在找划算的买卖，有些甚至为了裙子大打出手。斯科特害怕了，他得动作迅速、偷偷摸摸才能拿到裙子。当他最终从店里出来时，已经大汗淋漓。“我再也不会做这种事了！”他想。

我所认为的史上最伟大的演讲，没有之一！听过不下千遍，真正发自灵魂深处的声音，来自心底的呐喊。

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I have a Dream——Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am happy to join with you. today in what will go down in history ,as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation..

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of bad captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we&`&ve come to our nation&`&s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we&`&ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit
path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God&`&s children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro&`&s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live up to the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color if their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning. My country, ’ tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims’ pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring.

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York! Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slops of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi! From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God almighty, we are free at last!”


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Lesson 69:Running a Bookstore

Tom will be retiring next year. He will be opening a small bookstore. His wife will be helping him run the store. It will be a small family business, so they won't be needing too much money. He won't be making a lot of money, but it'll be enough.

经营书店
汤姆明年将要退休。他将开一家小书店。他太太将会帮他经
营这家店。这将是一个小型的家庭事业，所以他们并不需要太多
资金。他将不会挣很多饯，但那样就够用了。

87. Nelson's Video Games 尼尔森的电子游戏

Nelson loves video games. As soon as he wakes up, he starts playing. Nelson hardly ever turns his games off. He only stops playing to eat and sleep. Sometimes he stays up all night playing. His mother tries to make him stop. "Go play with your friends", she tells him. "Don't just sit there all day."

尼尔森很爱玩电子游戏，他一起床就开始玩。尼尔森几乎没有关过他的游戏，只有当他吃饭和睡觉时才停下。有时候他会玩通宵。他的妈妈试图让他停下来。“去跟你的朋友们一起玩”她告诉他，“不要整天坐在那。”

The only friends Nelson has are video game players, too. They never see each other. They only talk through the computer. "I am playing with my friends!" Nelson always replies. Nelson's mom is worried about him. She thinks he is lonely. She also thinks he is getting very fat. She does not know how to help Nelson. Instead, she goes out to buy him new games.

尼尔森仅有的朋友也是电子游戏玩家，他们从来没见过面，他们只通过电脑讲话。“我是在和朋友一起玩啊！”尼尔森总是这么回答。尼尔森的妈妈很担心他，她觉得他很孤单，而且还长的越来越胖了。她不知道怎么帮助他，反而出去给他买新的游戏。

32.What's That Smell?

A: My grandma's apartment smells funny.

B: So does mine.

A: I think it's an old people's smell.

B: Really?

A: Yes. I think when you get old, you begin to smell.

B: Like fruit that is too ripe?

A: Yes, just like fruit that is too ripe.

B: But the smell is different.

A: Yes, old people don't smell like fruit.

B: No, they smell like a thrift shop.

A: Yes, a thrift shop has that same smell.

B: Yes, an old smell.

32.那是什么味道？

我奶奶的房子闻起来怪怪的。

我奶奶的也是。

我觉得那是老人的味道吧。

真的吗？

是的，我想当你老的时候，你就开始发出怪味了。

就像熟透了水果一样？

但是那味道不一样。

是啊，老人们闻起来不像水果。

不，他们闻起来像旧货店。

是的，旧货店有那种味道。

是的，很陈旧的味道。

Lesson 68:Are You Going to Come?

Candy : Are you going to come to my wedding?
Joe : Of course.
Candy : Good. Are you going to bring your girlfriend?
Joe : Yes. She likes weddings.
Candy: So when are you going to get married?
Joe : We haven't decided yet.
你会来吗?
凯蒂：你会来参加我的婚礼吗?
乔 ：当然。
凯蒂：太好了。你会带女朋友一起来吗?
乔 ：会的。她喜欢参加婚礼。
凯蒂：那么，你们什么时候能结婚呢?
乔 ：我们尚未决定。

Lesson 67:Getting Married

My girlfriend and I are going to get married this year. We are going to have a big
wedding party. All our friends and relatives are going to come. We are going to have a traditional wedding. After the wedding we are going to live with my parents. We are going to be one big happy family.
结婚
我和女友今年将结婚。我们将举行盛大的婚宴。我们所有的
亲朋好友都会来参加。我们将要举行传统的婚礼。婚礼后我们要
和我的父母亲一起住。我们将战为一个快乐的大家庭。