《新版新概念英语第三册(英音)Lesson (57)》歌词

歌曲： 新版新概念英语第三册(英音)Lesson (57)

所属专辑：新版新概念英语第三册(英音)

歌手： 朗文

时长： 03:54

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--- lesson 57 back in the old country[00:00:01]

--- listen to the tape then answer the question below.[00:00:06]

--- did the narrator find his mother's grave?[00:00:12]

i stopped to let the car cool off and to study the map.[00:00:17]

i had expected to be near my objective by now, but everything still seemed alien to me.[00:00:22]

i was only five when my father had taken me abroad, and that was eighteen years ago.[00:00:28]

when my mother had died after a tragic accident, he did not quickly recover from the shock and loneliness.[00:00:35]

everything around him was full of her presence, continually reopening the wound.[00:00:43]

so he decided to emigrate.[00:00:49]

in the new country he became absorbed in making a new life for the two of us, so that he gradually ceased to grieve.[00:00:51]

he did not marry again and i was brought up without a woman's care;[00:01:00]

but i lacked for nothing, for he was both father and mother to me.[00:01:05]

he always meant to go back one day, but not to stay.[00:01:10]

his roots and mine bad become too firmly embedded in the new land.[00:01:14]

but he wanted to see the old folk again and to visit my mother's grave.[00:01:19]

he became mortally ill a few months before we had planned to go and, when he knew that he was dying, he made me promise to go on my own.[00:01:24]

i hired a car the day after landing and bought a comprehensive book of maps,[00:01:34]

which i found most helpful on the cross-country journey, but which i did not think i should need on the last stage.[00:01:40]

it was not that i actually remembered anything at all.[00:01:47]

but my father had described over and over again what we should see at every milestone, after leaving the nearest town,[00:01:50]

so that i was positive i should recognize it as familiar territory.[00:01:59]

well, i had been wrong, for i was now lost.[00:02:04]

i looked at the map and then at the milometer.[00:02:09]

i had come ten miles since leaving the town,^从小镇出来，我走了10英里。[00:02:13]

and at this point, according to my father, i should be looking at farms and cottages in a valley,[00:02:16]

with the spire of the church of our village showing in the far distance.[00:02:23]

i could see no valley, no farms, no cottages and no church spire -- only a lake.[00:02:28]

i decided that i must have taken a wrong turning somewhere.[00:02:36]

so i drove back to the town and began to retrace the route, taking frequent glances at the map.[00:02:40]

i landed up at the same corner.[00:02:47]

the curious thing was that the lake was not marked on the map.[00:02:51]

i felt as if i had stumbled into a nightmare country, as you sometimes do in dreams.[00:02:55]

and, as in a nightmare, there was nobody in sight to help me.[00:03:02]

fortunately for me, as i was wondering what to do next, there appeared on the horizon a man on horseback, riding in my direction.[00:03:06]

i waited till he came near, then i asked him the way to our old village.[00:03:16]

he said that there was now no village.[00:03:22]

i thought he must have misunderstood me, so i repeated its name.[00:03:25]

this time he pointed to the lake.[00:03:30]

the village no longer existed because it had been submerged, and all the valley too.[00:03:33]

the lake was not a natural one, but a man-made reservoir.[00:03:41]