大学英语精读听力第三册 unit6

[00:00.00]Ernest Hemingway's story is about an incident
[00:20.32]that happens between a father and his son.
[00:24.32]The small boy's misunderstanding
[00:28.21]of the difference in measuring temperature on a Fahrenheit
[00:33.02]and a Celsius scale causes him to believe
[00:37.30]that he is dying of a high fever.
[00:40.91]However,the father doesn't realize it until very late that day…
[00:48.12]A DAY'S  WAIT   Ernest Hemingway
[00:53.92]He came into the room to shut the windows
[00:57.91]while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill.
[01:02.51]He was shivering, his face was white,
[01:06.12]and he walked slowly as though it ached to move.
[01:10.30]"What's the matter, Schatz?"
[01:13.27]"I've got a headache."
[01:16.56]"You better go back to bed."
[01:19.46]"No. I'm all right."
[01:22.47]"You go to bed. I'll see you when I'm dressed."
[01:26.75]But when I came downstairs he was dressed,
[01:31.25]sitting by the fire,
[01:33.52]looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years.
[01:38.61]When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever.
[01:43.81]"You go up to bed," I said, "You're sick."
[01:48.20]"I'm all right," he said.
[01:51.60]When the doctor came he took the boy's temperature.
[01:55.77]"What is it?" I asked him.
[01:58.67]"One hundred and two."
[02:01.97]Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines
[02:06.64]in different colored capsules with instructions for giving them
[02:11.42]One was to bring down the fever,
[02:15.03]another a purgative,the third to overcome an acid condition.
[02:21.11]The germs of influenza can only exist in an acid condition,he explained
[02:28.19]He seemed to know all about influenza
[02:32.19]and said there was noting to worry about
[02:35.27]if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degress
[02:40.57]This was a light epidemic of flu
[02:44.18]and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia.
[02:48.67]Back in the room I wrote the boy's temperature down
[02:52.88]and made a note of the time to give the various capsules.
[02:57.16]"Do you want me to read to you?"
[03:00.85]"All right. If you want to ," said the  boy.
[03:04.84]His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes.
[03:10.85]He lay still in the bed
[03:13.54]and seemed very detached from what was going on.
[03:17.75]I read aloud from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates;
[03:22.74]but I could see he was not following what I was reading.
[03:26.92]"How do you feel, Schatz?"I asked him
[03:31.02]"Just the same, so far," he said.
[03:35.12]I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself
[03:39.53]while I waited for if to be time to give another capsule.
[03:44.24]It would have been natural for him to go to sleep,
[03:48.31]but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the bed
[03:52.70]looking very strangely
[03:55.49]“Why don't you try to sleep? I'll wake you up for the medicine.”
[04:00.80]“I'd rather stay awake.”After a while he said to me,
[04:06.99]You don't have to stay in here with me,Papa,if it bothers you.
[04:12.58]"It doesn't bother me."
[04:15.48]"No, I mean you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you."
[04:21.38]I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded
[04:25.48]and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven o' clock
[04:30.16]I went out for a while.It was a bright, cold day
[04:35.15]the ground covered with a sleet that had frozen
[04:38.94]so that it seemed as if all the bare trees,
[04:42.91]the bushes,the cut brush and all the grass
[04:47.40]and the bare ground had been varnished with ice
[04:51.50]I took the young Irish setter for a walk up the road
[04:55.99]and along a frozen creek,
[04:58.89]but it was difficult to stand or walk on the glassy surface
[05:03.80]and the red dog slipped and I fell twice, hard,
[05:09.29]once dropping my gun and having it slide away over the ice.
[05:14.70]We flushed a covey of quail under a high clay bank with overhanging brush
[05:20.89]and I killed two as they went out of sight
[05:24.39]over the top of the bank.Some of the covey lit in trees 
[05:29.90]but most of them scattered into brush piles
[05:33.58]and it was necessary to jump on the ice coated mounds of brush
[05:38.86]several times before they would flush.
[05:42.36]Coming out while you were poised unsteadily on the icy,
[05:46.96]springy brush they made difficult shooting and I killed two,
[05:52.34]missed five,and started back pleased to have found a covey
[05:57.43]close to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day
[06:03.62]At the house they said the boy had refused
[06:07.91]to let anyone come into the room
[06:11.02]"You can't come in," he said. "You mustn't get what I have."
[06:16.11]I went up to him and found him in exactly the position I had left him
[06:22.01]white-faced,but with the tops of his cheeks flushed by the fever
[06:27.42]staring still, as he had stared, at the foot of the bed
[06:32.91]I took his temperature."What is it?"
[06:38.00]"Something like a hundred,"I said.
[06:41.50]It was one hundred and two and four tenths.
[06:45.39]"It was a hundred and two," he said.
[06:48.89]“Who said so?” "The doctor."
[06:53.10]"Your temperature is all right," I said.
[06:56.99]"It's nothing to worry about."
[06:59.68]"I don't worry," he said, "but I can't keep from thinking."
[07:05.38]"Don't think," I said. "Just take it easy."
[07:10.05]"I'm taking it easy," he said and looked straight ahead,
[07:15.44]He was evidently holding tight onto himself about something.
[07:20.63]"Take this with water.""Do you think it will do any good?"
[07:26.43]"Of course it will."
[07:29.33]I sat down and opened the Pirate book and commenced to read,
[07:34.43]but I could see he was not following,
[07:37.22]so I stopped
[07:39.70]"About what time do you think I'm going to die?" he asked
[07:44.98]"What?" "About how long will it be before I die?"
[07:51.69]"You aren't going to die. What's the matter with you?"
[07:56.40]"Oh, yes, I am. I heard him say a hundred and two."
[08:02.30]People don't die with a fever of one hundred and two.
[08:07.18]“That's a silly way to talk." "I know they do.
[08:12.28]At school in France the boys told me
[08:15.96]you can't live with forty-four degrees.
[08:19.75]I've got a hundred and two."
[08:22.83]He had been waiting to die all day,
[08:27.32]ever since nine o'clock in the morning
[08:30.90]"You poor Schatz," I said
[08:34.30]"Poor old Schatz. It's like miles and kilometers
[08:39.29]You aren't going to die. That's a different thermometer
[08:44.67]On that thermometer thirty-seven is normal
[08:48.95]On this kind it's ninety-eight."
[08:52.17]"Are you sure?" "Absolutely," I said
[08:57.26]"It's like miles and kilometers.
[09:00.34]You know, like how many kilometers
[09:03.43]we make when we do seventy miles in the car?"
[09:07.32]"Oh," he said.But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly
[09:14.11]The hold over himself relaxed too, finally,
[09:18.71]and the next day it was very slack
[09:22.00]and he cried very easily at little things
[09:25.92]that were of no importance