NCE-III 第22课 -请大家指正, 病愈之重出江湖(01/29/2009）

Lesson 22 By heart

Listen' to the tape' then answer' the question' below.

Which actor' read the letter'' in the end', the aristocrat' or the jailer?

Some plays' are so successful' that they run' for years' on end, In many' ways, this is unfortunate' for the poor actors who are required to go on repeating the same lines /night after night. One would expect them to know their parts by heart/ and never have cause to falter. Yet this is not always the case.

A famous actor in a highly successful play /was once cast /in the role of /an aristocrat /who had been imprisoned in the Bastille/ for twenty years. In the last act, a jailer would always come on to the stage with a letter/ which he would hand to the prisoner. Even though the noble was expected to read the letter at each performance, he always insisted that it should be written out in full.

One night, the jailer decided to play a joke on his colleague to find out if, after so many performances, he had managed /to learn the contents of the letter /by heart. The curtain went up on the final act of the play and revealed the aristocrat/ sitting alone behind bars /in his dark cell. Just then, the jailer appeared with the precious letter in his hands. He entered the cell and presented the letter to the aristocrat. But the copy he gave him had not been written out in full /as usual. It was simply a blank sheet of paper. The jailer looked on eagerly, anxious to see if his fellow actor had at last/ learnt his lines. The noble stared at the blank sheet of paper /for a few seconds. Then, squinting his eyes, he said: 'The light is dim. Read the letter to me'. And he promptly handed the sheet of paper to the jailer. Finding that he could not remember a word of the letter either, the jailer replied: 'The light is indeed dim, sire, I must get my glasses.' With this, he hurried off the stage. Much to the aristocrat's amusement, the jailer returned/ a few moments later/ with a pair of glasses /and the usual copy of the letter /with he proceeded to read to the prisoner.

Thank you for listening, any comments are welcome.

孩子病倒好了，我却实在是撑不住了，终于倒下了。这才明白单身妈妈的日子真的是不好过。 虽然一直带孩子，一是我工作较轻松，时间也FLEXIBLE，二是能花钱解决的就花钱解决了，也一直没有觉得特别难。这一病，才知道真不容易。在这里呼吁各位姐妹一定要多多关心单位或邻居的单身妈妈，能帮忙时就帮忙，真的，她们的心理一定会存感谢的。

其实，最感动的就是儿子了，虽然只有2岁半，但非常的贴心。儿子晚上怕他烧的厉害，我把他抱到床上，结果半夜里喝水，儿子连妈妈也不叫，自己爬起来打开感应灯，自己端着杯子喝水，喝完后自己关灯睡觉。我发烧，把孩子放到客厅里看电视，不知过了多久，摇摇晃晃的出去。估计儿子从来没有看过我那样子，问：MOMMY， ARE YOU OK？ 把我那冻得要命的心立时就暖了起来。女儿就更不用提了，真是贴心小棉袄！！

病好了，没有什么好夸的，显摆一下孩子啊！！