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新视野英语讲课文稿 7-8段 * * * * There is a deep hurt that I feel as a mother. Some days it is a feeling of uselessness. I remember how carefully I ate when I was pregnant, how patiently I taught my daughter how to cross a street safely. For what, I sometimes wonder; so that she can struggle to breathe through most of her life feeling half her strength, and then die of self-poisoning, as her grandfather did There is a quotation from a battered womens shelter that I especially like: Peace on earth begins at home. I believe everything does. I think of a quotation for people trying to stop smoking: Every home is a no smoking zone. Smoking is a form of self-battering that also batters those who must sit by, occasionally joke or complain, and helplessly watch. I realize now that as a child I sat by, through the years, and literally watched my father kill himself: surely one such victory in my family, for the prosperous leaders who own the tobacco companies, is enough. Uselessness: n. [U] being not useful 无用，无价值eg: Too ill to get out of bed, she had strong feelings of uselessness. 由于疾病缠身，卧床不起，她深深感到力不从心。Some people think this method of education is entire uselessness.有些人认为这一教育方法完全不起作用。 Pregnant: a. having a baby or young animal develop怀孕的，妊娠的eg: She was six months pregnant. 她怀孕六个月了。The center gives advice and care to pregnant women. 该中心给怀孕妇女提供建议和护理。 Struggle to do: experience difficulty and make a very great effort in order to do something 奋斗，挣扎eg: Ive been struggling to understand this article all afternoon. 整整一个下午我都在试图弄懂这篇文章的意思。 Die of: die because of some illnesses or feelings 因（某疾病，某情感等）而死eg:She died of a fever, and no one could save her. 她患热病死去，谁也救不了她。In the hard winter, wild animals can die of hunger. 严冬时，野兽可能会饿死 Self-poisoning: killing oneself with poison 自我毒害 Posion: vt. give some poisonous things to; kill or harm sb. with poisonous things 使中毒，毒杀，毒害eg: Hundreds of wild animals had been poisoned by the insecticide sprays. 数百只野生动物被喷射的杀虫剂毒死。Four m