玫瑰-普特英语听力.DOC

普特英语www.P 玫 瑰 【作者简介】 洛根·皮尔索尔·史密斯（1865——1946），生于美国费城，但大半生在英国度过，主要致力于英国语言的研究。主要作品有《亨利·沃顿爵士传记》、《读莎士比亚》、《弥尔顿和他的现代评论家》、《难忘的年代》等。《玫瑰》是一篇围绕玫瑰展开的一个触动人心的爱情故事。专业英语考试中也常采用此篇文章作为翻译材料，建议背诵这篇文章，对写作或翻译都有帮助，细细品味它的美吧...... The old lady had always been proud of the great rose-tree in her garden, and was fond of telling how it had grown from a cutting she had brought years before from Italy, when she was first married. She and her husband had been travelling back in their carriage from Rome ( it was before the time of railways ) and on a bad piece of road south of Siena they had broken down, and had been forced to pass the night in a little house by the road-side. The accommodation was wretched of course; she had spent a sleepless night, and rising early had stood, wrapped up, at her window, with the cool air blowing on her face, to watch the dawn. She could still, after all these years, remember the blue mountains with the bright moon above them, and how a far-off town on one of the peaks had gradually grown whiter and whiter, till the moon faded, the mountains were touched with the pink of the rising sun, and suddenly the town was lit as by an illumination, one window after another catching and reflecting the suns beam, till at last the whole little city twinkled and sparkled up in the sky like a nest of stars. 这位老太太总以她花园中那棵巨大的玫瑰树为荣。她会津津有味地告诉你她头一次结婚时，从意大利带回来的一根枝条，是怎么样长成参天大树的。回想当年她和丈夫乘马车从罗马归来（那是还未通铁路），途径锡耶纳南部的一段路时，道路很难走以致于马车都坏了，没有办法他们只好就宿于路边的一间小店。住宿条件的恶劣致使她彻夜难眠，很早就起身穿好衣服，站在窗前等待黎明。凉风不时从窗外袭来。时隔多年，她依然记得一轮明月挂在那蓝色的群山上，远山上的小城一点一点地变白，知道月亮渐渐落下，初升的太阳为群山抹上一层淡淡的粉色。突然之间，一束光辉照亮小城，小城扇扇窗户亮了起来，反射出耀眼的光芒，最后，小城如满天繁星般在蓝天下熠熠生光。 　　That morning, finding they would have to wait while their carriage was being repaired, they had driven in a local conveyance up to the city on the mountain, where they had been told they would find better quarters; and there they had stayed two or three days. It was one of the miniature Italian cities with a high church, a pretentious piazza, a few narrow streets and little pala