Unit 11 The Hand

  五、本講重點知識講解1. a friend of mine told me a story about thanksgiving, a holiday americans celebrate on the fourth thursday of november. it is their custom to give thanks to god for the harvest. a big dinner is prepared, and turkey is usually the main dish. 我的一個朋友給我講了一個感恩節的故事。美國人在11月的第4個星期四慶祝感恩節。他們的風俗是感謝上帝給予他們的收獲。在這一天，人們準備了豐盛的晚餐，其中主要的食物是火雞。 a friend of mine 我的一個朋友 tell me a story   講故事 a big dinner is prepared   大餐已經準備好 2. one thanksgiving day, a teacher of an elementary school asked her first graders what they were thankful for. she asked them to draw a picture of it. these children were from poor neighborhoods. their families could hardly provide them with a big dinner for the holiday. she wondered how little they had to be thankful for. she knew that most of them would draw pictures of turkeys on tables because they had looked forward to having turkey for a long time. the teacher was surprised and puzzled by the picture that jack handed in— a hand, a simple childishly drawn hand! 有一次在感恩節那天，一位小學老師問她一年級的學生們他們有什么需要感謝的。她讓學生們把所感謝的東西畫出來。這些學生都是從貧困街區來的，他們的家庭幾乎不能為他們提供節日大餐。老師在想他們所能感謝的東西太少了。她知道學生中的大部分人都會畫桌上放著的火雞，因為他們早就盼望著吃火雞了。但是當老師看到杰克交來的畫時，卻吃了一驚，他畫的是一只手，一只簡單的，出自孩子之手的手。 ask sb. to do sth.                   要求某人做某事 most of them                       他們當中的絕大部分人 look forward to doing sth.         期望做某事 hand in                            上交 3. but whose hand? the class was excited by the strange painting. “i think it must be the hand of god that brings us food,” said one child. “it must be the farmer’s hand,” said another, “because he raises turkeys.” 但這是誰的手呢？這幅奇怪的畫令全班都很興奮。一個孩子說：“我覺得這一定是給我們帶來食物的上帝之手。”另一個孩子說：“這一定是農民的手，因為他飼養火雞。”i think it must be the hand of god that brings us food,” must be...                     一定是…… raise turkeys         養火雞 4. finally, when others were back at work, the teacher bent over jack’s desk and asked whose hand it was, “it’s your hand, teacher,” he said in a weak voice. 最后，當所有的孩子回去畫畫時，老師在杰克的桌子旁邊彎下腰來問他畫的是誰的手。杰克小聲說：“這是您的手，老師。” 5. she remembered she had taken jack, a poor shy child, by the hand several times. she often did that with the children, but is meant so much to jack. perhaps this was everyone’s thanksgiving, not for the material things given to us, but for the chance, in whatever small way, to give to others. 她想了起來，有好幾次她都拉著這個既貧窮又靦腆的孩子—杰克的手，對其他孩子，她也經常這么做。但這對杰克竟有如此重要的意義。或許，這是每個人的感恩節，感謝的不是給予我們物質上的東西，而感謝的是這樣一個機會—無論以怎樣微不足道的方式去感謝其他人。