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1、180118 英语学习高级阅读材料 今天你读到最美好的文字A man married a beautiful girl. He loved her verymuch. 一个男人娶了一个漂亮女孩，他非常爱她。One day she developed a skin disease. Slowly shestarted to lose her beauty. It so happened that oneday her husband left for a tour. While returning hemet with an accident and lost his eyesight. How
2、evertheir married life continued as usual. But as dayspassed she lost her beauty gradually. 突然她得了一种皮肤病，慢慢地开始失去美貌。碰巧有一天她丈夫去旅行，回来的路上他遭遇车祸失明了，然而他们的婚姻生活照旧，但随着时间的流逝她越来越丑。Blind husband did not know this and there was not any difference in their married life. Hecontinued to love her and she also loved him
3、very much. One day she died. Her death broughthim great sorrow.失明的丈夫并不知情，他们的婚姻也没有任何变化。他依然爱她，她也非常爱他。一天她死了，她的死带给他很大伤痛。He finished all her last rites and wanted to leave that town. A man from behind called and said, now how will you be able to walk all alone? All these days your wife used to help you.
4、He replied, I am not blind.他处理好一切后事，想要离开那个城镇，后面有人叫住他说：“现在你自己怎么过？以往都是妻子照顾你的。”他回答说：“我没有失明。”I was acting, because if she knew l could see her ugliness it would have pained her more thanher disease. So I pretended to be blind. She was a very good wife. I only wanted to keep herhappy.我是装的，因为如果她知道我能看到她的丑，
5、给她带来的痛苦比疾病本身更让她难以承受，所以我假装失明。她是个好妻子，我只想让她开心。 Moral: Some times it is good for us to act blind and ignore one anothers sh1 / 26ort comings, inorder to be happy. No matter how many times the teeth bite the tongue, they still staytogether in one mouth. Thats the spirit of FORGIVENESS.寓意：有时为了开心，我们假装看不见别人
6、的短处也挺好。无论牙齿咬了舌头多少次，它们依然待在一个嘴里。这就是“天长地久”的真正含义。 Many of you must have recognized this lovable elderly couple that goes around Goa, living it uplike you and I would. Youve probably spotted a grandpa getting a tattoo and a grandma goingfor parasailing.你们很多人一定认识这对环游果阿邦的可爱老夫妻，他们过着你我向往的快乐生活。你可能看见过一位老爷爷纹着纹身
7、，老奶奶做着帆伞运动。 The heart-warming actors that play Asha and Bala of Vodafone SuperNet 4G ads fame areactually real life couple and Padma Bhushan recipients V.P. Dhanajayan (78) and ShantaDhanajayan (73).在沃达丰（印度第二大电信运营商）的SuperNet 4G广告中扮演Asha和Bala的演员暖心演绎的生活原型是莲花装勋章获得者副总裁Dhanajayan (78岁)和Shanta Dhanajayan
8、(73岁)。The new ad shows the couple what they do best, showing off few freestyle moves at a party ona boat. The ad will have us believe that the pair learns to dance by watching high-speedinternet, but their admirers know otherwise. The couples are founders of the dance schoolBharata Kalanjali. They w
9、on the Padma Bhushan in 2009 for the contribution toBharatanatyam. 这个新广告向这对夫妻展示他们最擅长的，炫耀了船上聚会里的几个自由舞步。广告想让我们相信这对夫妻通过高速网络学会了跳舞，但他们的崇拜者知道事实并非如此，这对夫妻是Bharata Kalanjali舞蹈学校的创建者。他们在2009年因为对婆罗多舞所做的贡献获得了莲花装勋章。Usually were pretty envious of celebrity couples just because theyre famo2 / 26us. But this pair i
10、sso different from others. They have set the bar for relationships really high.我们通常很羡慕名人夫妻，因为他们有名气，但这对夫妻跟其他人不同，他们为爱情树立了很高的标杆。Nothing is cuter than a couple that is truly in love! 没有什么比真正相爱的夫妻更可爱的了 =怎样有效转移话题Answer and then immediately pivot. 回答问题后立刻转移话题。If you can pivot to something people will want
11、to talk about, so much the better.如果能转移到人们想谈论的话题上，那就再好不过了。For example, your family member asks you Syrian refugees?比如，家人问你；“我们该怎么应对叙利亚难民？”你真的不想引起争执的话。 the son of an immigrant, and a couple of his wives are immigrants too. I think a more urgent problem is the decline of the American family, celebrity
12、 culture and throwaway marriages.就说：“我认为我们国家应该开放，比如唐纳德特朗普是移民的儿子，他的几任夫人也都是移民。我觉得更紧迫的问题是美国家庭的衰退，名人文化和随意的婚姻”A great technique is just to use the connector absolutely right and.you can then alter the conversation as you wish. 有一招很好用，就是只说过渡语“是的，而且”或“是的，你说的很对，而3 / 26且”，然后你就可以随意转移话题了 Answer and then immedi
13、ately pivot. 回答问题后立刻转移话题。If you can pivot to something people will want to talk about, so much the better.如果能转移到人们想谈论的话题上，那就再好不过了。For example, your family member asks you Syrian refugees?比如，家人问你；“我们该怎么应对叙利亚难民？”你真的不想引起争执的话。 the son of an immigrant, and a couple of his wives are immigrants too. I thin
14、k a more urgent problem is the decline of the American family, celebrity culture and throwaway marriages.就说：“我认为我们国家应该开放，比如唐纳德特朗普是移民的儿子，他的几任夫人也都是移民。我觉得更紧迫的问题是美国家庭的衰退，名人文化和随意的婚姻”A great technique is just to use the connector absolutely right and.you can then alter the conversation as you wish. 有一招很好用
15、，就是只说过渡语“是的，而且”或“是的，你说的很对，而且”，然后你就可以随意转移话题了 =兴趣不一样的人怎么在一起 I just broke up with my girlfriend. 我刚刚和女朋友分手了。 Yeah, its a sad story. 对，这是个悲伤的故事。4 / 26But we are totally OK with it. 但是我们俩对此都很淡定。Its not that something bad happened and we broke each others heart. 并不是有什么坏事发生了然后我们伤了彼此的心。Its just that we foun
16、d out we dont really have many mutual hobbies. 我们只是发现，彼此真的没有什么共同爱好。So we broke up peacefully and wished each other a better future. 于是，我们就和平分手了，然后希望对方能有一个更好的未来You see, sometimes you just got attracted biologically or irrationally by someone.你看，有时候你就是会被一些人吸引，可能是生理性地，可能是没理性地。 But as time goes by you find out that you two are not interested in the same
