l新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第二册 unit05a_new

[06:29.81]There is a deep hurt that I feel as a mother.
[06:35.06]Some days it is a feeling of uselessness.
[06:39.82]I remember how carefully I ate when I was pregnant,
[06:45.50]how patiently I taught my daughter how to cross a street safely.
[06:51.77]For what, I sometimes wonder;
[06:56.23]so that she can struggle to breathe through most of her life feeling half her strength
[07:03.79]and then die of self-poisoning,as her grandfather did?
[07:09.77]There is a quotation from a battered women's shelter that I especially like:
[07:17.00]"Peace on earth begins at home."
[07:22.19]I believe everything does.
[07:26.36]I think of a quotation for people trying to stop smoking:
[07:32.30]"Every home is a no smoking zone."
[07:37.56]Smoking is a form of self-battering that also batters those who must sit by,
[07:46.81]occasionally joke or complain,and helplessly watch.
[07:53.54]I realize now that as a child I sat by,
[07:59.23]through the years, and literally watched my father kill himself:
[08:06.18]surely one such victory in my family,
[08:11.33]for the prosperous leaders who own the tobacco companies,is enough.