第1个回答 2023-01-17
Lesson 49
第49课
The End of a Dream
美梦告终
First listen and then answer the question.
听录音，然后回答以下问题。
How did the dream end?
梦是怎样结束的？
Tired of sleeping on the floor,
德黑兰的一个人年轻人由于对睡地板感到厌倦，
a young man in Teheran saved up for years to buy a real bed.
于是积蓄多年买了一张真正的床。
For the first time in his life,
他平生第一次
he became the proud owner of a bed which had springs and a mattress.
自豪地拥有了一张既有弹簧又带床垫的床。
Because the weather was very hot,
由于天气很热，
he carried the bed on to the roof of his house.
他便把床搬到了他的屋顶上。
He slept very well for the first two nights,
头两天晚上，他睡得非常好。
but on the third night, a storm blew up.
但第三天晚上起了风暴。
A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard below.
一阵大风把床从屋顶上刮了下来，把它摔碎在下面的院子里。
The young man did not wake up
那年轻人直到床撞到地上才醒了过来。
until the bed had struck the ground.
尽管床摔成了碎片，
Although the bed was smashed to pieces,
但年轻人却奇迹地没有受伤。
the man was miraculously unhurt.
他醒来时，仍然躺在床垫上。
When he woke up, he was still on the mattress.
年轻人看了一眼周围的碎木片和碎金属片，
Glancing at the bits of wood and metal that lay around him,
伤心地捡起了床垫，
the man sadly picked up the mattress and carried it into his house.
把它拿进了屋。
After he had put it on the floor,
他把床垫往地板上一放，
he promptly went to sleep again.
很快又睡着了。