新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第二册 unit03b_new

[07:31.55]That night she chose to direct it toward
[07:37.60]her famous steamed pork and preserved vegetable dish,
[07:44.54]which she always served with special pride.
[07:50.41]"Ai!This dish not salty enough, no flavor,"she complained,
[07:58.66]after tasting a small bite.
[08:02.90]"It is too bad to eat."
[08:07.15]This was our family's cue to eat some and proclaim it the best she had ever made.
[08:16.30]But before we could be so diplomatic, Rich said,
[08:23.96]"You know, all it needs is a little soy sauce."
[08:30.12]And he proceeded to pour a riverful of the salty black stuff on the china plate,
[08:39.66]right before my mother's shocked eyes.
[08:45.49]And even though I was hopeful throughout the dinner
[08:51.54]that my mother would somehow see Rich's kindness,
[08:57.62]his sense of humor and charm, I knew he had failed miserably in her eyes.
[09:06.66]Rich obviously had had a different opinion on how the evening had gone.
[09:15.48]When we got home that night, after we put Shoshana to bed,
[09:23.47]he said modestly, "Well, I think we hit it off A-OK."