大学英语综合教程 第三册 5textB

[00:00.00]swap                            refer to...as                   bring in                        gear
[00:06.33]交换　　　　　　将…称为　　　　收获　　　　　　个人用品
[00:12.67]migrate                         testimony                       saturate                        touch on
[00:17.42]迁移　　　　　　证明　　　　　　使充满　　　　　提起
[00:22.18]designate                       compress                        complain                        to the point
[00:26.81]选定　　　　　　压缩　　　　　　悲叹　　　　　　相关的
[00:31.45]look over                       kick out                        definition                      spectrum
[00:36.27]查阅　　　　　　赶走　　　　　　定义　　　　　　范围
[00:41.09]dual                            advantage                       settle down                     restless
[00:52.51]Thanksgiving ,like Sping Festival,brings families back together from across the country.
[00:59.48]Waiting for her children to arrive.Ellen Goodman reflects on the changing relationship
[01:06.09]between parents and children as they grow up and leave home,often to settle far away.
[01:13.67]WHERE IS HOME?                    by Ellen Goodman
[01:18.08]“The kids are coming home for the holiday.”
[01:21.92]2 My friend announces this as we swap recipes and plans for Thanksgiving.
[01:28.56]3 I stop,amused for a moment at the language we now share. ?°When,?± I ask,
[01:36.31]“did we become the people who call their adult children, ‘the kids’?”
[01:42.27]4 We laugh briefly at the passage of time,at thoughts of our own mothers
[01:41.27]who still refer to us as “the girls,” and then she pauses.
[01:47.98]5 “When,” asks my old friend, “did our kids become the people who come home only at holidays?”
[01:55.51]There is a moment as bittersweet as cranberry sauce.
[02:00.47]6 (1)This is the week when our friends bring in the younger generation,
[02:04.99]eagerly harvesting them from bulging airports.We noisily arrange children, nieces,nephews,cousins
[02:13.71]around tables,placing them like good china that we take out for special occasions.
[02:20.79]7 These energetic offspring do not come over the river and through the woods anymore.