【心灵鸡汤】高中英语 增加词汇量 圣诞颂歌Christmas素材.doc
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1、心灵鸡汤:圣诞颂歌ChristmasChristmas: ADefenseIn defending Christmas I have nothing to say about Jesus Christ, aterrifyingandinfluentialhistoricalfigurewho, Iconfess, has had littleimpacton my life.2 My Christmas, the Christmas I have known,revolves centrally aroundobjectsmostcruciallyaround presents and the
2、nsecondarilyaround things like Christmas trees,ornaments, decorations,advent calendars, etc.3I have a particularlyvividmemoryof a childhood Christmas during which my sister wouldstalk4 the Christmas tree day after day counting presents. On the final day she made astack5 in the middle of the room. On
3、 one side were the presents with her name on them and on the other, those withmine. Shetallied them up6. The number was not to her liking. I can still picture thestunned calm7 as shecountedand counted again. It was clear that my pile was two presents larger than hers. I think it was the “two” that r
4、eally bothered her. A difference of one is one thing, a difference of two is quite another.When there was nothing more to be done she gathered herself up, collected her faculties, and then proceeded to throw anepicandviolentfit.8 Right there. She screamed andraged, she tore paper andhurledobjects.9
5、Shedashedher head, as only she could, on thekitchenfloor, her beautifulblond curlsbouncing upand down against thetileand mixing with the tears andsaliva.10 Shegrunted11 things that couldnt be understood. I say again that this is one of the clearest memories of my childhood.In my 20s, living in that
6、odd no mans land of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Istumbled onto12 the L Train station in the evening during a snow storm. Asmatteringof people stood on theplatformwaiting for the train.13 A hearty woman was singingChristmas carolsinhigh operatic fashionas a rather moregnarledgentleman accompanied on hisa
7、ccordion.14 It was probably the exacttemperaturein the air, and the way it carried her voice, and the sound of the accordion around and around theunderground chamber15. The train came and no one got on it. No one said anything. We just stood there, we could do no other.Walter Benjaminonce wrote abou
8、t his fear of clocks and themarching homogenous units of timethey represent.16 He wrote of fighters during theJuly Revolution17 who suddenly turned their guns on the clock towers, trying tofreezethe day, to get as much as they possibly could from those moments beyond thenormalflow of history. There
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