新概念英語第三冊(cè)(含lrc文本)Lesson 57 Back in the old country

[ti:δ?] [ar:] [al:] [by:https://www.lrc.com.cn] [00:10.45]Lesson 57 [00:12.03]Back in the old country [00:18.77]I stopped to let the car cool off and to study the map. [00:22.68]I had expected to be near my objective by now, [00:25.74]but everything still seemed alien to me. [00:28.79]I was only five when my father had taken me abroad,and that was eighteen years ago. [00:34.67]When my mother had died after a tragic accident, [00:38.45]he did not quickly recover from the shock and loneliness. [00:41.64]Everything around him was full of her presence,continually reopening the wound. [00:47.02]So he decided to emigrate. [00:49.30]In the new country he became absorbed in making a new life for the two of us, [00:53.93]so that he gradually ceased to grieve. [00:56.70]He did not marry again and I was brought up without a woman's care; [01:00.74]but I lacked for nothing,for he was both father and mother to me. [01:05.08]He always meant to go back one day, but not to stay. [01:08.98]His roots and mine had become too firmly embedded in the new land. [01:13.46]But he wanted to see the old folk againand to visit my mother's grave. [01:18.09]He became mortally ill a few months before we had planned to go [01:22.04]and,when he knew that he was dying,he made me promise to go on my own. [01:26.89]I hired a car the day after landing and bought a comprehensive book of maps, [01:32.18]which I found most helpful on the cross-country journey, [01:35.53]but which I did not think I should need on the last stage. [01:39.26]It was not that I actually remembered anything at all. [01:42.83]But my father had described over and over again [01:45.79]what we should see at every milestone after leaving the nearest town, [01:50.44]so that I was positive I should recognize it as familiar territory. [01:54.60]Well,I had been wrong,for I was now lost. [01:59.14]I looked at he map and then at the milometer. [02:02.16]I had come ten miles since leaving the town and at this point, according to my father [02:07.81]I should be looking at farms and cottages in a valley, [02:11.37]with the spire of the church of our village showing in the far distance. [02:16.09]I could see no valley,no farms,no cottages and no church spire only a lake. [02:23.25]I decided that I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere. [02:26.93]So I drove back to the town and began to retrace the route, [02:30.80]taking frequent glances at the map. [02:34.08]I landed up at the same corner. [02:36.09]The curious thing was that the lake was not marked on the map. [02:39.79]I felt as if I had stumbled into a nightmare country, [02:43.37]as you sometimes do in dreams. [02:45.89]And,as in a nightmare,there was nobody in sight to help me. [02:50.44]Fortunately for me,as I was wondering what to do next, [02:53.94]there appeared on the horizon a man on horseback,riding in my direction. [02:59.22]I waited till he came near,then I asked him the way to our old village. [03:04.13]He said that there was now no village. [03:07.41]I thought he must have misunderstood me,so I repeated its name. [03:11.72]This time he pointed to the lake. [03:14.16]The village no longer existed because it had been submerged,and all the valley too. [03:20.17]The lake was not a natural one,but a man-made reservoir. Did the narrater find his mother's grave?

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