中英对照有声书《相约星期二》

Taking Attendance (14) 出席课堂 There were picketers at the front entrance and marchers chanting up and down the street. 抗议者聚集在 公司大楼前入口，满大街都是喊着口号的游行者。 As a member of the union, I had no choice: I was suddenly, and for the first time in my life, out of a job, out of a paycheck, and pitted against my employers. 作为工会的一员，我也毫无选择：突然间...

Taking Attendance (13) 出席课堂 I flew to London a few weeks later. 几个星期后我 飞往了伦敦。 I was covering Wimbledon, the world's premier tennis competition and one of the few events I go to where the crowd never boos and no one is drunk in the parking lot. 我当时正在报道温布尔顿网球公开赛，这是一个世界顶级网球比赛和少数我去过的那种人群从不喝倒彩也没有人在停车场喝醉的赛事之一。 England...

The Classroom (12) 教室 “You know how I'm going to die?” he said. “你知道我会怎么死吗？”他说。 I raised my eyebrows. 我抬起了眉毛。 “I'm going to suffocate. Yes. My lungs, because of my asthma, can't handle the disease. It's moving up my body, this ALS. It's already got my legs. Pretty soon it'll get my arms and hands. And when it hits my lungs ...” “我会窒息而死。没错。我的肺，由于哮喘，无法...

The Classroom (11) 教室 The sun beamed in through the dining room window, lighting up the hardwood foor. 阳光透过餐厅窗户照进来，照亮了硬木地板。 We had been talking there for nearly two hours. 我们已经在餐厅里聊了将近2小时。 The phone rang yet again and Morrie asked his helper, Connie, to get it. 电话再一次响起，莫瑞让他的助手康妮去接电话。 She had been jotting the callers' na...

The Orientation(10) 教学目标 As I turned the rental car onto Morrie's street in West Newton, a quiet suburb of Boston, I had a cup of coffee in one hand and a cellular phone between my ear and shoulder. 当我开着一辆租来的车来到莫瑞家位于西牛顿区附近的街道时，这个区位于波士顿的一个僻静郊区，我一只手拿着一杯咖啡，同时耳朵和肩膀之间还夹着一台移动电话。 I was talking to a TV producer ab...

Soon the cameras were rolling in front of the living room fireplace, with Koppel in his crisp blue suit and Morrie in his shaggy gray sweater. 很快摄像机在莫瑞家客厅的壁炉前开始拍摄了，科佩尔穿着挺阔的蓝西装而莫瑞穿着他乱蓬蓬的灰毛衣。 He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. His philosophy was that death should not be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose. 他不愿为了...

The Audiovisual (8) 试听教学 In March of 1995, a limousine carrying Ted Koppel, the host of ABC-TV's "Nightline” pulled up to the snow-covered curb outside Morrie's house in West Newton, Massachusetts. 在1995年三月，一辆载着泰德·科佩尔的豪华轿车，泰德·科佩尔其人是ABC电视台“晚间专线”的主持人，载着他的豪华轿车停在位于马赛诸塞州西牛顿区，莫瑞家门外还覆盖着白雪的台阶上。 Morrie was in a wheelchai...

The Student (7) 学生 At this point, I should explain what had happened to me since that summer day when I last hugged my dear and wise professor, and promised to keep in touch. 在这里，我应该解释一下自从那个夏天，最后一次拥抱了我那亲切睿智的老教授并且承诺保持联系之后，在我身上发生了什么。 I did not keep in touch. 我并没有保持联系。 In fact, I lost contact with most of the people I knew in college,...

The Syllabus (6) 教学大纲（6） The fall semester passed quickly.  秋季学期一闪即逝。 The pills increased.  莫瑞的药量增加了。 Therapy became a regular routine.  理疗成为治疗的常态。 Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie's withering legs, to keep the muscle active, bending them back and forth as if pumping water from a well. 护士要到莫瑞的家里治疗他日渐萎缩的双腿，为了保持肌肉...

The syllabus (5) 教学大纲（5） ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax. 渐冻人症就像点蜡烛：它融化了你的神经，留下你的身体变成一堆蜡泥。 Often, it begins with the legs and works its way up. 通常，它从腿开始逐渐向上蔓延。 You lose control of yourthigh muscles, so that you cannot support yourself standing. 你会对大腿肌肉失去控制，所以你没法支撑自己站起来。 Y...

The Syllabus (4) 教学大纲（4） As my old professor searched for answers, the disease took him over, day by day,week by week. 就在我的老教授 寻找答案的时候，疾病一天天，一周周侵占了他的身体。 He backed the car out of the garage one morning and could barely push the brakes. 一天早上他从车库里往出倒车，差点没能踩住刹车。 That was the end of his driving. 那是他最后一次开车。 He kept tripping, so he pu...

The Syllabus (3) 教学大纲 His death sentence came in the summer of 1994. 1994年的夏天，莫瑞被判了死刑。 Looking back, Morrie knew something bad was coming along before that. 回想起来，莫瑞应该早有预感。 He knew it the day he gave up dancing. 在他放弃跳舞的那天他就知道了。 He had always been a dancer, my old professor. 我亲爱的老教授，他一直是一个热爱跳舞的人。 The music didn’t matter. 音乐无关紧要...

The Curriculum（01）  课程计划 The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves. 我那老教授生命中的最后一堂课在他家里上，就在书房的的窗户边，他可以望着窗外的一小丛木槿花落下粉色的叶子。 The class met on Tuesdays. 这节课在周二会面。 It began after breakfast. 早餐后开始。 The...

The Curriculum (2) 课程（2） It is the late spring of 1979, a hot, sticky Saturday afternoon. 那是1979年晚春时节一个闷热粘腻的周六下午。 Hundreds of us sit together, side by side, in rows of wooden folding chairs on the main campus lawn. 我们几百人在主校区草坪上的一排 排椅子肩并肩坐着。 We wear blue nylon robes. 我们穿着蓝色的尼龙长袍。 We listen impatiently to long speeches. 我们不耐烦的听着冗长...