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自考英语综合二下册课文 lesson 3

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  [00:00.00]Lesson Three
[00:03.89]Text
[00:06.53]The Man Who Could Work Miracles (II)H. G. Wells
[00:15.31]On Sunday evening Mr.Fotheringay went to church,
[00:21.66]and Mr.Maydig preached about "things that are not lawful1 ".
[00:29.70]Mr. Fotheringay suddenly decided2 to consult Mr. Maydig,
[00:35.94]who took him to his study."You don't believe, I suppose," said Mr. Fotheringay
[00:45.37]"that some common sort of person like myself,for instance
[00:52.51]is able to do things by his will. "
[00:57.68]"Something of the sort, perhaps, is possible," said Mr. Maydig.
[01:04.13]"I think I can show you by a sort of experiment," said Mr.Fotheringay.
[01:11.18]"Now, take that tobacco jar on the table, for instance.
[01:17.74]What I want to know is whether what I am going to do with it is a miracle or not
[01:26.39]"He pointed3 to the tobacco jar, and said:
[01:31.53]"Be a bowl of violets."The tobacco jar did as it was ordered.
[01:41.38]Mr.  Maydig stared at the change,
[01:46.34]and presently he ventured to lean over the table and smell the violets.
[01:53.71]Mr. Fotheringay said,"Just told it and there you are.Is that a miracle?
[02:02.64]What do you think is the matter with me?"
[02:06.77]"It's a most extraordinary thing."
[02:11.13]"And this day last week I knew no more that I could do things like that
[02:18.27]than you did It came quite suddenly.
[02:23.93]It's something odd about my will, I suppose. "
[02:29.29]"Is that the only thing? Could you do other things besides that?"
[02:37.34]"Oh, yes," said  Mr.Fotheringay."Just anything."He thought a little.
[02:44.88]"Here! Change into a glass bowl full of water with goldfish swimming in it
[02:53.64]You see that,Mr. Maydig?"
[02:56.69]"It's incredible.""I could change it into just anything,"Said Mr. Fotheringay
[03:05.65]"Here! Be a pigeon,will you?"
[03:09.91]In another moment a blue pigeon was fluttering round the room.
[03:15.87]"Stop there, will you?said Mr. Fotheringay,
[03:21.20]and the pigeon hung motionless in the air."
[03:26.05]I could change it back to a bowl of flowers," he said
[03:31.10]and after placing the pigeon on the table he worked that miracle.
[03:37.86]Then he restored the tobacco jar.
[03:43.22]Mr.May dig had followed all these changes with small cries.
[03:50.30]"Well,"he said.Mr.Fotheringay
[03:56.46]told Mr. Maydig all about his strange experiences;the latter listened intently
[04:05.60]"Amazing," he said,"
[04:09.97]The power to work miracles is a gift, and a very rare gift.
[04:18.01]Go on. Go on. "Mr. Fotheringay mentioned Winch.
[04:25.06]"That's what troubled me most," he sad,
[04:29.64]and what I'm in need of advice for most is about Winch;
[04:36.09]of course he's in San Francisco.
[04:40.24]You see, I'm in very great difficulties ...
[04:45.52]"Mr. Maydig looked serious.
[04:49.46]"Yes, it's a difficult position,"he said.
[04:55.39]"But we'll leave Winch for a little and discuss the larger question.
[05:02.47]I don't think this is criminal at all.
[05:06.73]No,it's just miracles,miracles of the very highest class.
[05:14.98]"He began to walk about while Mr. Fotheringay sat at the table,looking worried.
[05:23.74]I don't see what I can do about Winch,"he said.
[05:29.69]"If you can work miracles, " said Mr.Maydig, "you can find a way about Winch
[05:38.44]My dear sir, you are a most important man.
[05:44.08]A man of the most astonishing possibilities.
[05:49.83]The things you  may do..."
[05:54.69]"Yes, I've thought of a thing or two," said Mr. Fotheringay.
[06:01.04]"But I thought it better to ask someone.""Quite right," said Mr. Maydig.
[06:08.98]"It's practically an unlimited4 gift.Let us test your powers. "
[06:17.94]Mr. Fotheringay began to work miracles.
[06:24.18]At first the miracles he worked were little things with cups and such things
[06:32.54]But after they had worked a dozen of these,
[06:37.58]their sense of power grew,their imagination increased,
[06:46.73]and their ambition enlarged."And about Mr. Winch "said Mr. Fotheringay.
[06:56.16]Mr. Maydig waved the Winch difficulty away,

  [07:01.75]and made a series of wonderful proposals.
[07:06.89]The small hours found Mr. Maydig
[07:12.07]and Mr. Fotheringay outside under the moon.
[07:18.13]Mr. Fotheringay was no longer afraid of his greatness.
[07:25.07]They had reformed every drunkard in the area;
[07:31.03]they had changed all the beerand alcohol to water;
[07:38.58]they had improved the railway communication of the place,
[07:44.43]drained a swamp, and improved the soil.
[07:50.31]"The place," gasped5 Mr. Maydig,"won't be the same place tomorrow.
[07:58.15]And just at that moment the church clock struck three.
[08:04.70]"I say," said Mr. Fotheringay, "I must be getting back.
[08:11.47]I've got to be at business by eight."
[08:16.33]"We're only beginning "said Mr. Maydig,
[08:21.60]full of the sweetness of unlimited power.
[08:27.06]"Think of all the good we're doing. "
[08:31.71]"But ..." said Mr.Fotheringay.
[08:35.58]Mr. Maydig gripped his arm suddenly. His eyes were bright and wild.
[08:44.51]"My dear chap," he said,  "there's no hurry.
[08:49.84]Look!"He pointed to the moon. "Stop it!"
[08:55.90]"That's a bit tall," he said after a pause."Why not?" said Mr.Maydig.
[09:05.88]"Of course it don't stop.You stop the rotation6 of the earth, you know.
[09:13.25]Time slops.It isn't as if we were doing harm." "Well,"said Mr. Fotheringay.
[09:23.41]"I'll try."He spoke7 to theturning earth.
[09:29.57]"Just stop rotating, will you?"
[09:33.94]Immediately he was flying head over heels through
[09:40.31]at the rate of dozens of miles a minute.
[09:45.35]He was turning round and round.
[09:49.71]He thought in a second, and willed."Let me down safe and sound."
[09:57.47]He willed it only just in time,
[10:01.84]for his clothes,heated by his rapid flight through the air,
[10:08.31]were already beginning to burn.
[10:12.47]He came down with a forcible bump on what appeared to be some fresh-turned earth
[10:21.30]A flying cow hit the ground and smashed like an egg.
[10:27.15]There was a crash that made all the most violent crashes of his past life
[10:34.62]seem like the sound of falling dust.
[10:39.66]A vast wind roared throughout earth and heaven,
[10:45.90]so that he could scarcely lift his head to look.
[10:51.18]For a while he was too breathless and astonished
[10:57.24]even to see where he was or what had happened.
[11:03.20]"Good heavens!" he gasped."I was nearly killed!What has gone wrong?
[11:11.56]And only a minute ago,a fine night.
[11:16.52]What a wind! Where's Maydig?"He looked around him.
[11:24.38]"The sky's all right,"said Mr. Fotheringay.
[11:29.74]"There's the moon overhead. Just as it was. But the rest?
[11:37.29]Where's the village?Where's anything?
[11:42.25]And what started this wind? I didn't order the wind."Mr.Fotheringay
[11:51.81]struggled to get to his feet in vain and remained on all fours,holding on
[12:00.95]Far and wide nothing was visible
[12:07.12]through the dust that flew in the wind except masses of earth and heaps of ruins.
[12:16.55]No trees, no houses,no familiar shapes,
[12:24.31]only a wilderness8 of disorderand a rising storm.
[12:31.67]When Mr. Fotheringay stopped the rotation of the solid globe,
[12:38.94]he said nothing about the movables upon its surface.
[12:45.00]And the earth spins so fast that the surface at its equator
[12:52.65]is travelling at more than a thousand miles an hour.
[12:58.89]So that the village,
[13:02.13]and everything and everybody had been thrown violently forward
[13:10.88]at about nine miles per second much more violently
[13:18.82]than if they had been fired out of a cannon9.
[13:23.47]And every human being,every living creature,every house,
[13:30.84]and every tree had been so jerked and smashed and utterly10 destroyed.
[13:39.02]That was all
[13:41.97]These things Mr.Fotheringay did not fully11 appreciate.
[13:48.42]But he perceived that his miracle had miscarried,
[13:54.30]and with that a great disgust of miracles came upon him.
[14:01.38]A great roaring of wind and waters filled the earth and sky,
[14:09.03]and he saw a wall of water pouring towards him.
[14:15.28]"Stop!" cried Mr.Fotheringay to the advancing water.

  [14:22.33]"Stop just a moment while I collect my thoughts-.. "said Mr. Fotheringay
[14:29.88]to the storm and the thunder.
[14:35.52]"And now what shall I do? Oh, I wish Maydig was about. "
[14:43.17]He remained on all fours leaning against the wind,
[14:49.34]intent to have everything right."I know," said Mr.Fotheringay.
[14:58.12]"Let nothing that I'm going to order happen until I say 'Off!'.
[15:05.98]"He lifted his voice against the whirlwind,
[15:10.84]shouting louder and louder in a vain desire to hear himself speak.
[15:19.38]"Now! Remember what I said just now.In the first place,
[15:27.74]when all I've got to say is done, let me lose my miraculous12 power;
[15:35.68]let all these dangerous miracles be stopped.
[15:41.04]And second, let me be back just before the miracles began;
[15:49.50]let everything be just as it was before that lamp turned upside down.
[15:57.96]It's a big job, but it's the last.Have you got it?
[16:05.62]That's it! Yes. "He dug his fingers into the earth, closed his eyes,
[16:16.35]"Off!"Everything became perfectly13 still."So you say," said a voice.
[16:27.43]He opened his eyes and found himself in the bar,
[16:33.18]arguing about miracles with Toddy Beamish.
[16:38.35]He had a vague sense of some great thing forgotten,which passed immediately
[16:47.60]Except for the loss of his miraculous powers,everything was back as it had been
[16:56.37]And among other things, of course, he did not believe in miracles.
[17:03.82]"I tell you that miracles can't possibly happen,"
[17:08.86]he said,"and I'm prepared to prove it. "
[17:13.61]"That's what you think,"said Toddy Beamish.
[17:19.07]"Look here,Mr.Beamish," said Mr. Fotheringay.
[17:24.53]"Let us clearly understand what a miracle is. . . "


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1 lawful ipKzCt     
adj.法律许可的,守法的,合法的
参考例句:
  • It is not lawful to park in front of a hydrant.在消火栓前停车是不合法的。
  • We don't recognised him to be the lawful heir.我们不承认他为合法继承人。
2 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
3 pointed Il8zB4     
adj.尖的,直截了当的
参考例句:
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
4 unlimited MKbzB     
adj.无限的,不受控制的,无条件的
参考例句:
  • They flew over the unlimited reaches of the Arctic.他们飞过了茫茫无边的北极上空。
  • There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris.在技术方面自以为是会很危险。
5 gasped e6af294d8a7477229d6749fa9e8f5b80     
v.喘气( gasp的过去式和过去分词 );喘息;倒抽气;很想要
参考例句:
  • She gasped at the wonderful view. 如此美景使她惊讶得屏住了呼吸。
  • People gasped with admiration at the superb skill of the gymnasts. 体操运动员的高超技艺令人赞叹。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
6 rotation LXmxE     
n.旋转;循环,轮流
参考例句:
  • Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion.农作物轮作有助于防止水土流失。
  • The workers in this workshop do day and night shifts in weekly rotation.这个车间的工人上白班和上夜班每周轮换一次。
7 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。
8 wilderness SgrwS     
n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等,荒漠
参考例句:
  • She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
  • Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
9 cannon 3T8yc     
n.大炮,火炮;飞机上的机关炮
参考例句:
  • The soldiers fired the cannon.士兵们开炮。
  • The cannon thundered in the hills.大炮在山间轰鸣。
10 utterly ZfpzM1     
adv.完全地,绝对地
参考例句:
  • Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民,把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
  • I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。
11 fully Gfuzd     
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
参考例句:
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
12 miraculous DDdxA     
adj.像奇迹一样的,不可思议的
参考例句:
  • The wounded man made a miraculous recovery.伤员奇迹般地痊愈了。
  • They won a miraculous victory over much stronger enemy.他们战胜了远比自己强大的敌人,赢得了非凡的胜利。
13 perfectly 8Mzxb     
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
参考例句:
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
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