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【每日英语故事9月12日】——一个信封的故事(上)

本帖最后由 jane019 于 2012-9-12 10:28 编辑

  It's just a small, white envelope stuck among the branches of our Christmas tree. No name, no identification, no inscription. It has peeked through the branches of our tree for the past 10 years or so.
  It all began because my husband Mike hated Christmas. He didn't hate the true meaning of Christmas, but the commercial aspects of it; overspending, the frantic running around at the last minute to get a tie for Uncle Harry and the dusting powder for Grandma and the gifts given in desperation because you couldn't think of anything else.
  Knowing he felt this way, I decided one year to bypass the usual shirts, sweaters, ties and so forth. I reached for something special just for Mike. The inspiration came in an unusual way.
  Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was wrestling at the junior level at the school he attended and shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match against a team sponsored by an inner-city church, mostly black.
  These youngsters, dressed in sneakersso ragged that shoestrings seemed to be the only thing holding them together, presented a sharp contrast to our boys in their spiffyblue and gold uniforms and sparkling new wrestling shoes.
  As the match began, I was alarmed to see that the other team was wrestling without headgear, a kind of light helmet designed to protect a wrestler's ears.
  It was a luxury the ragtag team obviously could not afford. Well, we ended up walloping them. We took every weight class. And as each of their boys got up from the mat, he swaggered around in his tatters with false bravado, a kind of street pride that couldn't acknowledge defeat.
  Mike, seated beside me, shook his head sadly, "I wish just one of them could have won," he said. "They have a lot of potential, but losing like this could take the heart right out of them."
  Mike loved kids-all kids-and he knew them, having coached little league football, baseball and lacrosse. That's when the idea for his present came.
  That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and bought an assortment of wrestling headgear and shoes and sent them anonymously to the inner-city church.

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回复 6# jane019


    是我看错啦,嘿嘿。

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It is a little difficult !
But we need improve ourself , right?
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回复 4# shenjunqun


    说的好,最富有成效的就是付诸行动。
呵呵,我也经常看错,是不是哪一个单词错了?欢迎指出更正哈

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一个信封的故事。。。

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貌似我误解一个词了

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I went to a local sporting goods store 如果是我的话早就这样了

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看看下下。

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