}  I stopped to let the car cool off and to study the map. I had expected to be near my objective by now, but everything still seemed alien to me. I was only five when my father had taken me abroad, and that was eighteen years ago.

}  Near：
We are nearly there!
这是我坐公车时，问旁边的老外快到了没，他就这样回答我。
Without you guys, we have not been anywhere near where we are !
没有你们，我们远远没有现在。这是表示感谢的一句话。

}  Look at yourself.you went to law school,you never took the bar.you went to business school, I can’t  get you anywhere near the office. You studied languages, you don’t speak. Instruments you don’t play, you have a series of girlfriends you never see more than twice, do you not see a partern here?

   你读法律，没见你参加过考试；你读商学院，在办公室我从没看到过你；学语言没见你说过；学乐器没见你玩过；你有很多女朋友却没见你跟她们约会超过两次。你没见到自己的生活都成什么样子了吗？

     这是电影里的一段对白。

}  When my mother had died after a tragic accident, he did not quickly recover from the shock and loneliness. Everything around him was full of her presence, continually reopening the wound. So he decided to emigrate. In the new country he became absorbed in making a new life for the two of us, so that he gradually ceased to grieve. He did not marry again and I was brought up without a woman’s care; but I lacked for nothing, for he was both father and mother to me.

}  Emigrate：Immigrate / Migrate
Migrating mambo server
Migrating from Golive to Dreamweaver

}  brought up:
You brought it up!

    你先提起来的；这个话题是你先挑起来的。

}  He always meant to go back on day, but not to stay. His roots and mine bad become too firmly embedded in the new land. But he wanted to see the old folk again and to visit my mother’s grave.

}  meant：
Maybe that is what it was meant to be!

   可能注定就是这样子。
We were meant to be together!

    我们注定要在一起。

}  Root:
root folder ( 根目录 )

}  Embedded:

   镶嵌
Html & php  谁嵌入谁更好一些？

}  He became mortally ill a few months before we had planned to go and, when he knew that he was dying, he made me promise to go on my own.I hired a car the day after landing and bought a comprehensive book of maps, which I found most helpful on the cross-country journey, but which I did not think I should need on the last stage.

}  Comprehensive

   全面的，系统的
including all or everything/ covering or involving much

}  From 1 to 10 (inclusive)

}  listening comprehension

}  comprehend/arrest

   逮捕

}  It was not that I actually remembered anything at all. But my father had described over and over again what we should see at every milestone, after leaving the nearest town, so that I was positive I should recognize it as familiar territory. Well, I had been wrong, for I was now lost.

}  Milestone/cornerstone:

   里程碑/奠基石
over the past few year,your equilibrium has become the cornerstone of modern economics.
过去几年，你的equilibrium 理论已经成为现代经济学的基石。这是电影《美丽心灵》里，纳什拿诺贝尔奖时，主持跟他说的一句话。

}  I looked at the map and then at the millimeter. I had come ten miles since leaving the town, and at this point, according to my father, I should be looking at farms and cottages in a valley, with the spire of the church of our village showing in the far distance. I could see no valley, no farms, no cottages and no church spire — only a lake. I decided that I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere.

}  Turning: Turning signal

   车的转向灯，信号

}  So I drove back to the town and began to retrace the route, taking frequent glances at the map. I landed up at the same corner. The curious thing was that the lake was not marked on the map. I felt as if I had stumbled into a nightmare country, as you sometimes do in dreams. And, as in a nightmare, there was nobody in sight to help me.

}  Route: router→两种发音

   router路由器

}  taking frequent glances at the map 分词伴随

}  Fortunately to me, as I was wondering what to do next, there appeared on the horizon a man on horseback, riding in my direction. I waited till he came near, then I asked him the way to our old village. He said that there was now no village. I thought he must have misunderstood me, so I repeated its name. This time he pointed to the lake. The village no longer existed because it had been submerged, and all the valley too. The lake was not a natural one, but a man-made reservoir.

}  I’m wondering if…

　wonder 犯嘀咕，纳闷；老外在上课提问的时候，通常会说“I was wondering…”
I’m wondering if you like it.
我在想你是不是会喜欢。
I wonder if you could lend me some money.

    我在想你能不能借我点钱。

}  pointed :

    这三个句子，语气不一样，意思就变了
Don‘t you point your finger at me!
不要用手指着我。
Don’t you dare hang up on me!
你敢挂我电话？！
Don’t you follow me!  

     你不要跟着我。

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