NPR 11-26:They Found Magic on Broadway 还记得我俩相识的那一天

Miriam Cruz-Colon¹ and her husband Oscar Colon remember meeting as acting² students in 1959

Somehow a friend of ours wanted us to meet together in a scene. And we were supposed to meet in front of the Ed Sullivan Theater on 52th Street on Broadway. Oscar was late, we went to Hector's.

Hector's is a restaurant on Broadway. We sat down, And the moment I sat down, there was an electricity.

There was a magic about me.right?

And we never did the scene.

But we got married, which's even better.

But, he went into the army, and he was the only guy that would get 3 or 4 letters a day because I wrote to him every single day.

It was a joke in the militaries³. Colon, letter! Colon! everybody's standing⁴ there, nobody is getting letters. Colon! We are in the middle of the bone dust.

And we have about 700 letters in a box that one day we gonna publish.

We gotta be dead before they are published .

And we've been married how long? Let's see if you remember now?

43 years. Thank you.

We've been married and it's been the greatest thing in my life because Oscar is a special being. He is a little impatient⁵, (impetuous) impetuous that I call him,uh, ....(Never had a youth.) He's like a baby,and that's what I love about him.

Miriam, you are without doubt a good and giving person, much more giving than I. You really, no no, you really are....

No.Oscar, you've given me your time, your years, you always paid attention to the kids. I was always running around doing my acting and you had the patience, you had a special ability that I think I never told you of stopping whatever you were doing ,you could have been in a big meeting, who cared you would stop and listen to me and the kids. and that.. (Saintly, I would say.) Yes, to marry me you have to be a saint⁶.

1 colon   

n.冒号，结肠，直肠

参考例句：

• Here,too,the colon must be followed by a dash.这里也是一样，应当在冒号后加破折号。
• The colon is the locus of a large concentration of bacteria.结肠是大浓度的细菌所在地。

2 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

3 militaries   

n.军人，军队，武装力量( military的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• During the 1990s, PMCs trained militaries in some 42 countries. 20世纪90年代，私营军事公司曾为约42个国家训练了军队。 来自互联网
• METHODS Analyse the amino acid content of Cordyceps militaries by amino autoanalyzer. 方法采用氨基酸自动分析仪对经盐酸水解北虫草进行分析。 来自互联网

4 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

5 impatient   

adj.不耐烦的，急躁的；热切的，急切的

参考例句：

• He was so impatient that I could hardly hold him back.他是那样急躁，我简直拉不住他。
• With an impatient gesture he thrust the food away from him.他不耐烦地把吃的东西猛地推开。

6 saint   

n.圣徒；基督教徒；vt.成为圣徒，把...视为圣徒

参考例句：

• He was made a saint.他被封为圣人。
• The saint had a lowly heart.圣人有谦诚之心。