【正文】 ed to relish our little conversations and hung on my every word. Naturally, the more I read, the more my confidence grew. In time I recovered from my wounds. The next year Debbie moved from the neighborhood and transferred to another school. Soon she became no more than a memory. So wrote Alexander Pope, Volume XIV Paprika to Pterodactyl. 我竭力向我的學(xué)生們解釋我在他們心目中的形象 一個(gè)在青春期熱衷于書本和作業(yè)的人 有一點(diǎn)被扭曲了。我往身后一看，她正好在那兒。 她顯得有點(diǎn)驚訝?！皾O民們?cè)诘刂泻：袜徑靼嘌?、葡萄牙的大西洋海岸捕捉鳳尾魚。 幾天之后，在一次消防演習(xí)時(shí)，我裝作不經(jīng)意地走到她身邊，問(wèn)，“去過(guò)阿留申群島嗎？”在群島的100多座島嶼中，沒有一座有樹木。 “一個(gè)意為東方女傭的四字母詞，”黛比說(shuō)。 黛比填入空格，然后轉(zhuǎn)過(guò)頭驚訝地盯著我。自然，我讀得越多，信心也越強(qiáng)?！?我未能察覺到的是那一陣子黛比正同一個(gè)鄰近學(xué)校的三年級(jí)學(xué)生約會(huì) 一個(gè)平均分為C+的籃球運(yùn)動(dòng)員。已經(jīng)品嘗過(guò)知識(shí)的美酒，此時(shí)我已無(wú)法改變我的前進(jìn)方向了?！眘 first car is pared to a monument something that is_______________. (fairly permanent, admirable, noble, significant, etc.)2. Before long, that car and I had bee the best of friends.The mental picture the best of friends brings is that the car and the wtiter are_____.(emotionally linked, inseparable, enjoying one another and willing to do a lot for each other)3. I piled ten friends into the car.The writer pushed his friends into the car in a__________(disorderly/ careless/ thoughtless) way perhaps as if they were _________ (objects).4. The car was far from a beauty, but she was mine.The word she is used to convey the writer39。ll admit it. Sitting behind the wheel of my first car before it was towed off to the junkyard, I cried. You can tell me a car is only so much glass and steel, but I39。re the worst driver on the planet.”你可以對(duì)我說(shuō)一輛車只是一堆玻璃和鋼鐵而已，但我永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)為那天的失態(tài)而抱歉。很快，我和那輛車便成了最好的朋友。我首先想到的就是行李箱里的埃里克。 當(dāng)１０個(gè)神情恍惚的高二學(xué)生一個(gè)一個(gè)從我的車?yán)锱莱鰜?lái)時(shí)，站在一旁觀看的人都看呆了。所以在車子修好時(shí)，那輛舊的紅車便有了一個(gè)綠色的發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)罩，一塊黃色的擋泥板和一扇藍(lán)色的車門。我們戴著太陽(yáng)眼鏡，把葵花子殼吐到車窗外，感覺好得就象已經(jīng)打贏了比賽一樣。于是我走回了家。它跑得不快５５英里的時(shí)速是極限。我們談?wù)撆⒆?，相互亂編一些無(wú)聊的歌曲，或者講故事，以此來(lái)填補(bǔ)沒有音樂(lè)的空白。 自從我們高中畢業(yè)后，我和我的朋友們已經(jīng)分散到全國(guó)各地，并已長(zhǎng)大成人。s sincere. It pleases both partners and renews their mitment to each other. It gives them a brief break from the daily grind, an opportunity to focus on each other and the relationship in a positive way.s really required in the beginning is some attraction, mutual openness, affection, and desire for intimacy (親密). 4. Mutual honesty and trust. Dishonesty has no place in true love。s deepest hopes, fears and feelings, and discover and bee part of each other39。一輪滿月，柔和的燭光氛圍完美無(wú)缺。理想的做法是，將浪漫編織在充滿愛的關(guān)系之中，而不時(shí)地喚醒它則是一種表達(dá)愛意和承諾的極佳方式。它是真誠(chéng)的。這些力量將構(gòu)成你們愛的基礎(chǔ)，在未來(lái)的挑戰(zhàn)中支撐著你們的關(guān)系。你們的期望既應(yīng)該以真愛的要求為基礎(chǔ)，也應(yīng)以各自的性格和需求為基礎(chǔ)。以圖表形式表示，這三種可能性看上去是這樣的：沉湎于愛中的情侶 疏遠(yuǎn)的情侶 8．共同的生活。有時(shí)候覺得自己像個(gè)神經(jīng)病。只有你自己才能把歲月描畫成一幅難以忘懷的人生畫卷。在紛雜的塵世里，為自己留下一片純靜的心靈空間，不管是潮起潮落，也不管是陰晴圓缺，你都可以免去浮躁，義無(wú)反顧，勇往直前，輕松自如地走好人生路上的每一步3. 花一些時(shí)間，總會(huì)看清一些事。你需要一些和你的伴侶并不共有的朋友、活動(dòng)和興趣。成熟的愛人不會(huì)象沉溺于愛中的戀人那樣全部融入對(duì)方，他們也不會(huì)毫無(wú)交流。在以虛假的愛為基礎(chǔ)的關(guān)系中，這些情感通常只從一方流露出來(lái)。最初所真正需要的只是某種吸引力，相互間的坦誠(chéng)，柔情和對(duì)親昵言行的渴望。這正是使一種關(guān)系情趣盎然，激動(dòng)人心的部分原因但雙方一定都要懂得浪漫所扮演的角色才行。 浪漫既是一種氛圍也是一種心態(tài)。 劉s expectations.s natural to expect, and to express, some degree of romance in a new relationship. That39。s natural to think of love. 通常，我們只是讓它關(guān)著。即使在那個(gè)時(shí)候，我也不懂這是為什么。 一天晚上，我正在打工的餐館里洗碟子，我的幾個(gè)朋友趁機(jī)將我的汽車輪胎卸了下來(lái)，讓車子無(wú)能為力地難堪地躺在停車場(chǎng)的水泥地上。以前，我和我的朋友們得騎著自行車去公共游泳池，現(xiàn)在我們卻可以駕著我的車，沿著河邊的路，去踏勘一座廢棄的老火車站。 我的父母當(dāng)然非常生氣，他們決定了對(duì)我的懲罰：我得用我那年夏天打工賺來(lái)的工資支付修理費(fèi)。我們只是駕著車得意洋洋地兜風(fēng)，海闊天空，東拉西扯。 好吧，我承認(rèn)。 financial troubles, Tom spoke sadly of his father39。t fortable there was no air conditioning, and on hot days our bare legs stuck to the seats.My parents furious, of course settled on my punishment: I would use my uping summer wages to pay for the repairs. To lessen the financial blow, I insisted that the mechanic fix the car with used parts. So when the work was pleted, the old red car had a green hood, a yellow fender and a blue door. I didn39。s first car is less a means of transportation than a monument to his discovery of youthful freedom. 我覺得自己不僅受到了傷害，而且還遭到了背叛。她自豪得笑容滿臉，也對(duì)我眨了眨眼。它以魚類和帶殼的水生動(dòng)物為食。 那個(gè)光輝燦爛的、充滿歡樂(lè)的、富有浪漫色彩的二年級(jí)就這樣繼續(xù)著?！傍P尾魚生活在咸水里，淡水里很少見。櫥窗里的一塊廣告牌稱商店正以29美分的特價(jià)供應(yīng)一套百科全書的第一卷。突然間，我喜歡上學(xué)了，而這只是為了能夠凝視英語(yǔ)二班里那張可愛的臉。 “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing: There was a long silence in the room. Mrs. Larrivee couldn39。 Debbie39。 “I don39。 A few days later, during a fire drill, I casually went up to her and asked, “Ever been to the Aleutian Islands?” “Hi,” she said. My princess sat near the pencil sharpener, and that year I ground up enough pencils to fuel a campfire. Alas, Debbie was far beyond my wildest dreams. We were separated not only by five rows of desks, but by about 50 . points. She was the top student in English II, the apple of Mrs. Larrivee39。 A mon misconception among youngsters attending school is that their teachers were child prodigies. Who else but a bookworm, with none of the normal kid39。Do you remember your f