VOA慢速英语:Healing with Magic

短语讲解：

1. I woke up in neurological intensive care with a closed brain injury and a lower spinal cord injury and spent almost a year in therapy just trying to regain the skills I’d lost as a result of the accident.”

wake up 醒来; 活跃起来; 引起注意
例句：I used to wake up early and get up at 6:30. 
我通常醒得早，六点半钟起床。

2. His accident made him think about using magic tricks as a tool for healing.

think about 考虑…; 捉摸…
例句：Even now when I think about it I feel pain in my heart. 
就是现在想起来我心里都感到难受。 

3. “We can be on a stage and get the applause of thousands of people, and that is nothing compared to the smile that comes across a kid’s face and when they say ‘Look! I did it’ and it’s like, yeah, you did!”

thousands of 数千的
例句：The game drew thousands of spectators. 
这场比赛吸引了数千名观众。 

4. Kevin: "Parachute jump out of the plane..."

jump out of 突然离开，跳离
例句：Felt an irresistible impulse to jump out of a window.
他感觉到无法抵抗的冲动，欲跳出窗外。

5. He says he plans to spend more and more of his time working with people with disabilities.

more and more 越来越; 越来越 ...; 日益
例句：As he talked with more and more gusto, we came more and more under his spell. 
大家越听越入神。