大学英语精读预备二 LESSON 2
大学英语精读预备二 LESSON 2 Beauty (After Erma Bombeck)[table=98%][tr][td][size=16pt][font=Times New Roman][size=5]According to her height and weight she should be a guard for the rich. She has [color=red]iron[/color]-willed blood, one [color=red]shoulder[/color] is lower than the other, and she [color=red]bites[/color] her [color=red]fingernails[/color]. But she is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. She should be. She has worked on that body and face for more than sixty years. The [color=red]course[/color] for that kind of beauty can't be rushed.[/size][/font][/size]
[size=16pt][font=Times New Roman][size=5]The lines in her face have been earned one at a time. The thick one around the [color=red]lips[/color] became deeper with every pain and hurt. The thin ones on the forehead appeared when the first child was born.[/size][/font][/size]
[size=16pt][font=Times New Roman][size=5]The eyes are protected by glasses now, but still full of life. These are eyes that have shone with pride, filled with tears of [color=red]bitterness[/color], stared in anger and burned from lack of sleep. There are now direct and sharp and look at you when you speak.[/size][/font][/size]
[size=16pt][font=Times New Roman][size=5]The double [color=red]chin[/color] took years to grow. Sometimes you can only see it from the side but it is there. Modern women don't have a double chin. They beat it away or [color=red]pat[/color] the fat until it becomes [color=red]firm[/color]. But her chin is always there. It supports a nodding head that has slept in a chair all night or bent over pressing clothes.[/size][/font][/size]
[size=16pt][font=Times New Roman][size=5]The bent back developed slowly. She had carried home her babies who were too sleepy to walk, heavy bags from the car, rubbish out of the house while her husband was at war.[/size][/font][/size]
[size=16pt][font=Times New Roman][size=5]The legs are still in shape, but the step is slow. They ran too often for the bus. They stood a little too long when she worked in the department store. They got beat up while teaching her daughter to ride a two-[color=red]wheeler[/color]. They are dark red at the back of the knees.[/size][/font][/size]
[size=16pt][font=Times New Roman][size=5]The hands? There are small but able. They are [color=red]rough[/color], because they did washing, cooking, and sewing for the family and cleaning for the department stores all the year round. [/size][/font][/size]
[size=16pt][font=Times New Roman][size=5]I looked at Mother long and hard the other day and said," Mom, I have [/size][/font][/size]
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