大学英语综合教程 第一册 unit 4a

[06:46.65]At least he will pay your interest."
[06:51.90]Reluctantly,the banker wrote a mortgage for$2,000
[06:58.56]and gave Tony the house with no down payment.
[07:03.73]Tony was delighted.From then on,
[07:08.98]it was interesting to see that any discarded odds and ends around our place
[07:16.43]a broken screen,a bit of hardware,boards from packing-
[07:23.48]Tony would gather and take home.
[07:27.84]After about two years,I found Tony in our familiar meeting spot.
[07:34.79]He seemed to stand a little straigher.
[07:39.96]He was heavier.He had a look of confidence.
[07:46.13]"Mr.Craw,I sell my house!"he said with pride. "I got$8,000."
[07:55.09]I was amazed. "But,Tony,where are you going to live without a hourse?"
[08:03.55]"Mr.Craw,I buy a farm."
[08:09.01]We sat down and talked.Tony told me that to own a farm was his dream.
[08:17.84]He loved the tomatoes and peppers
[08:22.20]and all the other vegetables important to his Italian diet.
[08:29.05]He had sent for his wife and son and daughter back in Italy.
[08:36.10]He had hunted around the edge of town
[08:40.46]until he found a small,abandoned piece of property with a house and shed.
[08:47.91]Now he was moving his family to his farm.
[08:54.02]Sometime later,Tony arrived on a Sunday afternoon,
[09:00.26]neatly dressed.He had another Italian man with him.
[09:06.90]He told me that he had persuaded his childhood friend to move to America.
[09:14.27]Tony was sponsoring him.
[09:19.31]With an amused look in his eye,
[09:23.57]he told me that when they approached the little farm he now operated,
[09:30.93]his friend stood in amazement and said, "Tony,you are a millionaire!"
[09:39.29]Then,during the war,a message came from my company,Tony had passed away.
[09:48.75]I asked our people to check on his family and see that everything was properly handled
[09:56.61]They found the farm green with vegetables,the little house livable and homey.
[10:04.34]There was a tractor and a good car in the yard.
[10:11.58]The children were deucated and working,and Tony didn't owe a cent.
[10:20.04]After he passed away,I thought more and more about Tony's career.
[10:26.99]He grew in stature in my mind.
[10:32.63]In the end,I think he stood as tall,and as proud,a as the greatest American industrialists
[10:42.51]They had all reached their success by the same route
[10:48.07]and by the same values and principles:
[10:53.71]vision,determination,self-control,optimism,self-respect and above al,integrity
[11:04.66]Tony did not begin on the bottom rung of the ladder.
[11:09.99]He began in the basement.Tony's affairs were tiny:
[11:17.64]the greatest industrialists'affairs wre giant.
[11:22.68]But,after all,the balance sheets were exactly the same.
[11:29.95]The only difference was where you put the decimal point.
[11:36.32]Tony Trivisonno came to Americca seeking the American dream.
[11:43.16]But he didn't find it-he created it for himself.
[11:50.24]All he had were 24precious hours a day,and he wasted none of them.
[11:57.51]driveway/  mow/  comprehend/ lawn
[12:09.26]turn a away/  weed/ assume/ compliment
[12:21.54]work out/  weekly/  clean up/  helpful
[12:33.79]do with/ determination/  personnel/  apprentice
[12:45.65]capacity/ micrometer/  precision/  turn down
[12:58.66]graduate/ skilled/  grinder/ grind
[13:11.54]instrument/  for sale/  wreck/ call on
[13:22.59]banker/  loan/  character/  damn
[13:34.73]reluctantly/ mortage/  discard/  odds and ends
[13:49.28]screen/  hardware/  spot/  confidence
[14:01.95]amaze/  amazement/  pepper/  italian
[14:15.82]diet/ send for/  hunt/ abandon
[14:27.68]property/ shed/ sometime/ sponsor
[14:39.15]amuse/  approach/ millionaire/ pass away
[14:51.38]handle / livable/   homey/  tractor
[15:05.64]stature/  industrialist/ route/ principle
[15:17.50]vision optimism/ self-respect/ above all
[15:30.35]integrity/  rung/   basement/  giant
[15:41.53]balance/ balance sheet/ decimal