新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第四册 课文 4t01ab

[-1:-3.00]His words became a meaningless succession of verbs,nouns,adverbs,and adjectives;
[-1:-4.00]she only drank in the tones of his voice.
[-1:-5.00]She wanted to reach out her hand in the darkness and touch him
[-1:-6.00]— which she might have done if she had not been a respectable woman.
[-1:-7.00]The stronger the desire grew to bring herself near him,
[-1:-8.00]the further,in fact,did she move away from him.
[-1:-9.00]As soon as she could do so without an appearance of being rude,
[-1:10.00]she pretended to yawn,rose,and left him there alone.
[-1:11.00]Mrs.Baroda was greatly tempted that night to tell her husband
[-1:12.00]— who was also her friend
[-1:13.00]— of this foolishness that had seized her.
[-1:14.00]But she did not yield to the temptation.
[-1:15.00]Besides being an upright and respectable woman
[-1:16.00]she was also a very sensible one.
[-1:17.00]When Gaston arose the next morning,his wife had already departed,
[-1:18.00]without even saying farewell.
[-1:19.00]A porter had carried her trunk to the station
[-1:20.00]and she had taken an early morning train to the city.
[-1:21.00]She did not return until Gouvernail was gone from under her roof.
[-1:22.00]There was some talk of having him back during the summer that followed.
[-1:23.00]That is,Gaston greatly desired it;
[-1:24.00]but this desire yielded to his honorable wife's vigorous opposition.
[-1:25.00]However,before the year ended,she proposed,wholly from herself,
[-1:26.00]to have Gouvernail visit them again.
[-1:27.00]Her husband was surprised and delighted with the suggestion coming from her.
[-1:28.00]"I am glad,my dear,to know that you have finally overcome your dislike for him;
[-1:29.00]truly he did not deserve it."
[-1:30.00]"Oh," she told him,laughingly,after pressing a long,
[-1:31.00]ender kiss upon his lips,"I have overcome everything!
[-1:32.00]You will see.This time I shall be very nice to him."
[-1:33.00] The Obligations and Responsibilities to Marriage
[-1:34.00]I had given a talk on family change one night.
[-1:35.00]At dinner afterwards I was subjected to a hostile quizzing
[-1:36.00]by a group of women in their thirties
[-1:37.00]who claimed that my whole analysis ignored the most basic change of all.
[-1:38.00]They took offense to my statement that a family consists of a husband,
[-1:39.00]a wife and children, they said.
[-1:40.00]They,as a group of single women,were best friends,
[-1:41.00]supported one another,and defined one another as "family".
[-1:42.00]Marriage and having kids were now irrelevant,
[-1:43.00]and in their opinion,that was the most basic social change.
[-1:44.00]Looking back on it,I find they were right,
[-1:45.00]but this rising tide of change is itself the problem.
[-1:46.00]Family is,if anything,the link between generations,
[-1:47.00]the center of child rearing and cultural transmission.
[-1:48.00]It's not just a " big stadium " where everyone can enjoy the show.
[-1:49.00]Both marriage and family involve long-term obligations
[-1:50.00]and responsibility for shared care,not just the search of happiness,
[-1:51.00]that hollow goal of the modern age.It seems that love has got out of hand.
[-1:52.00]The modern nuclear family was rooted in the desire
[-1:53.00]to live happily in a more equal marriage,
[-1:54.00]where the raising of children and the investment of both parents
[-1:55.00]in the children's lives were guaranteed by bonds of friendship
[-1:56.00]between the parents,which were based on rational love.
[-1:57.00]There is a natural tendency for any relationship
[-1:58.00]based on voluntary affection to come apart,
[-1:59.00]but marriage provides the glue needed to keep a couple together
[-2:00.00]by providing ties of family,
[-2:-1.00]in conjunction with the obligations of parents to children.
[-2:-2.00]What people call the new Love Family,unfortunately,
[-2:-3.00]has replaced a permanent relationship with a new ideal of unlimited choice.
[-2:-4.00]We can now not only choose our marriage partner,
[-2:-5.00]we also can divorce that partner at will,
[-2:-6.00]subject children to our own adult worship of happiness,