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自考英语综合一下册课文 lesson 4

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  [00:00.00Text  The Trashman
[00:03.81]Saturday,April 7
[00:07.16]Steve and I hauled1 trash for four solid hours without a break of any sort,
[00:13.64]except for about five mintes when we stopped to talk.
[00:18.18]We got eight hours of pay for cleaning up
[00:22.54]our route no matter how little time it took.
[00:26.07]My shoulder hurt badly each time I put another full barrel on it,
[00:31.95]and my legs occasionally shook as I started out to the street.
[00:36.91]But all the rest of me said,"Go,trashman,go."
[00:41.77]I could not have guessed that there would be joy in this.
[00:46.45]Dump.Lift.Walk.Lift.Walk.The hours went by quickly.
[00:53.71]Saturday meant that most adults were at home on the route.
[00:58.25]So were school-age children.
[01:01.70]I thought this might mean more talk back and forth2 as I made the rounds today.
[01:07.58]There were many people outdoors,working in their gardens.
[01:12.44]Most of them looked friendly enough.
[01:15.89]While I wouldn't have time to talk at length,
[01:19.73]there was time to exchange the greetings that go with civilized3 ways.
[01:25.29]That is where I got my shock.
[01:28.76]I said hello in quite a few yards before the message sank
[01:33.73]in that this wasn't the thing to do.
[01:37.38]Occasionally,I got a straight man-to-man or woman-to-man reply
[01:43.34]from someone who looked me in the eye,smiled,and asked either
[01:48.49]"How are you?or"Isn't this a nice day?"
[01:53.35]I felt human then.But most often the response was either nothing at all,
[01:59.72]or a look of surprise that I had spoken and used familiar words,
[02:05.36]or a friendly hello.
[02:08.42]Both men and women stared at me and said nothing.
[02:12.68]A woman in a housecoat was startled5 as I came around the corner of her house.
[02:18.14]At the sound of my greeting,
[02:21.37]she gathered her housecoat tightly6 about her and moved quickly indoors.
[02:27.83]I heard the lock click.
[02:30.99]Another woman had a strange,large animal in her yard.
[02:35.45]I asked her what kind of dog it was.She gaped7 at me.
[02:40.60]I thought she was hard of hearing and asked my question louder.
[02:45.36]She seemed a little frightened before she turned coldly away.
[02:50.21]The nice response came from women alone.
[02:54.18]From the way they replied and asked after my health,
[02:58.63]I knew that at the day's end when they listed the nice things they had done,
[03:03.90]there would be a place on the list for"I spoke4 to the trashman today.
[03:09.54]Steve spoke spontaneously8 about these things on the long ride to the dump.
[03:15.29]The way most people look at you,you'd think a trashman was a monster.
[03:21.53]Say hello and they stare at you in surprise.They don't know we're human.
[03:27.60]"One lady had put ashes from the fire in her trashcan.
[03:32.64]I said we couldn't take them.She said,
[03:36.89]'Who are you to say what goes?You're nothing but a trashman.'
[03:42.35]I told her,'Listen,lady,I've got an I.Q.of 137,
[03:48.91]and I graduated near the top of my high school class.
[03:53.67]I do this for the money,not because it's the only work I can do.'
[03:59.31]"I want to tell them,'Look,I am as clean as you are,'
[04:04.06]but it wouldn't help.I don't tell anyone I'm a trashman.
[04:08.92]I say I'm a truck driver.
[04:12.29]My family knows,but my in-laws don't.
[04:16.84]If someone comes right out and asks.
[04:20.39]'Do you drive for a trash company?'I say yes.
[04:25.43]I believe we're doing a service that people need,
[04:29.66]like being a police officer or fire fighter.
[04:33.89]I'm not ashamed of it,but I don't go around boasting about it either.
[04:39.33]"A friend of my wife yelled9 at her kid one day
[04:43.45]when they were running out to meet a trash truck.
[04:47.61]'Stay away from those trashmen.They're dirty.'
[04:51.97]I was angry with her.'They're as good as we are,'I told her.
[04:57.25]'You seem to have a lot of sympathy for them,'she said.
[05:01.51]'Yes,I do.'But I never told her why."
[05:06.78]Our truck was packed full before noon.

  [05:10.83]We drove to the dump,were back on the route by 1:00,
[05:16.40]and had finished for the day by 2:00.
[05:20.05]I had planned to stay at this job for only two days.
[05:24.41]But now I'm going to stay.The exercise is great.
[05:29.17]The lifting gets easier with every load,even if my left shoulder stays sore.
[05:35.33]I become faster and neater as time goes by.
[05:39.77]I'm outdoors in clean air.
[05:43.61]And,contrary to what people think,I don't get dirty on the job.
[05:48.45]I have made up my mind,too,to go on saying hello in back-yards.
[05:54.09]It doesn't do any harm,and it still feels right.
[05:58.45]Frankly,I'm proud.
[06:01.82]I'm doing an essential task,"like a police officer or a fire fighter."
[06:07.99]I left this country a little cleaner than I found it this morning.
[06:13.13]Not many people can say that tonight.
[06:16.79]John Gardener has said that a society which praises its philosophers
[06:22.96]and looks down on its plumbers10 is in for trouble.
[06:27.32]"Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water,"he warns.
[06:32.28]He might have gone a step further and called for respect for both our economists11
[06:38.03]and our trashmen;
[06:40.98]otherwise they'll both leave trash behind.


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1 hauled 20bcee1e8fa70a6483fda79d495a7174     
拖,拉( haul的过去式和过去分词 ); 运送; 传讯; 强迫(某人)去某处
参考例句:
  • The wagons were hauled by horses. 那些货车是马拉的。
  • He's been hauled before the court on a charge of dangerous driving. 他因被控危险驾车而被传讯上法庭。
2 forth Hzdz2     
adv.向前;向外,往外
参考例句:
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
3 civilized UwRzDg     
a.有教养的,文雅的
参考例句:
  • Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society. 文明社会憎恶种族主义。
  • rising crime in our so-called civilized societies 在我们所谓文明社会中日益增多的犯罪行为
4 spoke XryyC     
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句:
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
5 startled 651a5bec8a61bb5867cc270c8ec3c20b     
adj.受惊吓的v.使惊跳,使大吃一惊( startle的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • A crowd of 2000 was startled near the end of the concert. 2000名观众在音乐会将近结束时大吃一惊。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Startled by the sudden whistle of the train, the horse broke away. 火车突然鸣笛,那匹马受惊脱逃。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 tightly ZgbzD7     
adv.紧紧地,坚固地,牢固地
参考例句:
  • My child holds onto my hand tightly while we cross the street.横穿马路时,孩子紧拉着我的手不放。
  • The crowd pressed together so tightly that we could hardly breathe.人群挤在一起,我们几乎喘不过气来。
7 gaped 11328bb13d82388ec2c0b2bf7af6f272     
v.目瞪口呆地凝视( gape的过去式和过去分词 );张开,张大
参考例句:
  • A huge chasm gaped before them. 他们面前有个巨大的裂痕。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The front door was missing. A hole gaped in the roof. 前门不翼而飞,屋顶豁开了一个洞。 来自辞典例句
8 spontaneously chLzn6     
ad.自发地
参考例句:
  • We decided spontaneously to board a train for Geneva. 我们自行决定搭乘去日内瓦的火车。
  • Opportunities for learning occur spontaneously every day. 学习的机会每天都会自然而然地出现。
9 yelled aeee2b86b284e7fbd44f45779d6073c1     
v.叫喊,号叫,叫着说( yell的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He yelled at the other driver. 他冲着另一位司机大叫。
  • The lost man yelled, hoping someone in the woods would hear him. 迷路的人大声喊着,希望林子里的人会听见。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 plumbers 74967bded53f9cdf3d49cad38cfca8ba     
n.管子工,水暖工( plumber的名词复数 );[美][口](防止泄密的)堵漏人员
参考例句:
  • Plumbers charge by the hour for their work. 水管工人的工作是以小时收费的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Plumbers, carpenters, and other workmen finished the new house quickly. 管道工、木工及其他工匠很快完成了这幢新房子。 来自辞典例句
11 economists 2ba0a36f92d9c37ef31cc751bca1a748     
n.经济学家,经济专家( economist的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
  • Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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