8月18日英语故事：Summer Gift 英语, Gift, Summer, 故事

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read the story carefully and then translate the phrases which are marked in red or write down what
you get from the story to gain the score. 试着翻译红色的部分或者发表自己的看法.

       One hot and humid day,I decided to mow our extremely hilly lawn. It was threatening to turn into a jungle.
       After several false starts ,I got our ancient lawn mower going. Struggling to push the machine uphill,I grumbled under my breath.
      At the top of a rise ,I looked up to see my 12-year-old son standing there,a smile on his face and a glass of ice water in his hand , “here ,Mom.”he said , “have a drink.Want me to rest you ?Dad lets me mow on the flat places.”

      I accepted the ice water and went to sit in the shade of a tall tree . As I sipped my drink ,I watched John Thamas.He didn’t seem to be following the normal mowing pattern.And he kept grinning at me as he worked. What’
he doing that makes him so happy?I thought to myself.
      After a while ,he stopped mowing . “Hey,Mom ,could you come over here?”
      I stood up grumpily . As I walked across the lawn,I noticed that he’d missed a sizable spot. “John ,you didn’t …” The irritable words faded .For the spot I thought he’d neglected had been carefully and meticulously mowed into the shape of a heart.
      “Like it ,Mom?”he askd with a big smile . “Now I’ll finish the job,”

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