英语灵异故事-The Banshee 02 爱尔兰女妖 02

[00:23.25]The Banshee
[00:27.38]爱尔兰女妖
[00:40.77]So then my great grandpa
[00:42.60]would feel the coldness of ghosts
[00:45.07]and would hear the banshee's wail¹,
[00:48.04]and my Aunt Mary recalled² him saying that
[00:51.19]the banshee's wail is the worst.
[00:54.77]Then the wailing³ and the touch of the ghosts
[00:58.18]would pass on and his horse would move again.
[01:02.51]That was all my aunt Mary could remember.
[01:07.58]Now since my grandpa had seen
[01:09.68]and heard the banshees,
[01:11.57]I'm beginning to think
[01:13.08]we may have a banshee in our family.
[01:16.47]But not just because of my great grandpa,
[01:20.05]but because of my mom as well.
[01:24.26]When my mom was nine,
[01:26.02]she woke up in the middle of the night
[01:28.08]to look outside the window into the backyard.
[01:31.42]Glittering in the moonlight,
[01:33.58]she saw a woman weeping.
[01:36.50]My mom could hear her cries
[01:38.40]and said they were more like the wind
[01:41.32](she told me this before I read
[01:43.49]that most banshees cries are more like the wind).
[01:48.46]She also said that the woman
[01:50.28]was floating above their swimming pool
[01:52.78]and her appearance was unexplainable.
[01:57.71]My mom claimed that this woman looked young,
[02:01.40]but seemed as if she had lived for many years
[02:04.85]and was an old spirit.
[02:07.54]She also said that the woman had fair flowing hair.
[02:12.96]After a while of staring,
[02:14.92]my mom just lay her head back down on the pillow
[02:18.33]and drifted⁴ off to sleep.
[02:22.50]Then I think one or two weeks later,
[02:25.40]my mom's grandparents died - in the same week.
[02:30.29]Coincidence?
[02:32.07]I wonder if I'm going to see one.
[02:40.07]讲解
[04:47.19]So then my great grandpa
[04:49.11]would feel the coldness of ghosts
[04:51.61]and would hear the banshee's wail,
[05:01.41]and my Aunt Mary recalled him saying that
[05:04.83]the banshee's wail is the worst.
[05:13.36]Then the wailing and the touch of the ghosts
[05:16.58]would pass on and his horse would move again.
[05:27.29]That was all my aunt Mary could remember.
[05:34.04]Now since my grandpa
[05:35.37]had seen and heard the banshees,
[05:38.05]I'm beginning to think
[05:39.33]we may have a banshee in our family.
[05:49.78]But not just because of my great grandpa,
[05:53.47]but because of my mom as well.
[06:04.48]When my mom was nine,
[06:06.14]she woke up in the middle of the night
[06:08.31]to look outside the window into the backyard.
[06:19.70]Glittering in the moonlight,
[06:22.13]she saw a woman weeping.
[06:29.31]My mom could hear her cries
[06:31.16]and said they were more like the wind
[06:37.49](she told me this before I read
[06:39.33]that most banshees cries are more like the wind).
[06:50.55]She also said that the woman
[06:52.22]was floating above their swimming pool
[06:54.74]and her appearance was unexplainable.
[07:05.64]My mom claimed that this woman looked young,
[07:09.07]but seemed as if she had lived for many years
[07:12.69]and was an old spirit.
[07:14.77]She also said that the woman had fair flowing hair.
[07:30.32]After a while of staring,
[07:32.63]my mom just lay her head back down on the pillow
[07:36.07]and drifted off to sleep.
[07:44.76]Then I think one or two weeks later,
[07:47.47]my mom's grandparents died - in the same week.
[07:59.91]Coincidence? I wonder if I'm going to see one.
[08:27.62]语言点
[08:29.67]That was all my aunt Mary could remember.
[08:34.58]aunt
[08:42.28]Mary
[08:48.83]aunt
[08:57.82]Mary
[09:02.18]that was all...
[09:06.90]that's all
[09:19.59]That's all, thank you for coming.
[09:23.24]more like  大约，差不多那样
[09:29.43]floating above their swimming pool
[09:35.89]above / on
[09:41.26]on
[09:44.71]above
[09:50.55]swimming pool  游泳池
[09:54.97]fair flowing hair
[09:59.15]fair
[10:05.76]coincidence  巧合
[10:12.73]Coincidence?
[10:22.39]Is that coincidence?
[10:30.77]谢谢收听

1 wail   

vt./vi.大声哀号，恸哭；呼啸，尖啸

参考例句：

• Somewhere in the audience an old woman's voice began plaintive wail.观众席里，一位老太太伤心地哭起来。
• One of the small children began to wail with terror.小孩中的一个吓得大哭起来。

2 recalled   

回忆起( recall的过去式和过去分词 )； 使想起； 使想到； 勾起

参考例句：

• I recalled that he had mentioned the problem once. 我回忆起他曾经有一次提到过这个问题。
• The sight recalled the days of childhood to me. 那情景使我回忆起童年。

3 wailing   

v.哭叫，哀号( wail的现在分词 )；沱

参考例句：

• A police car raced past with its siren wailing. 一辆警车鸣着警报器飞驰而过。
• The little girl was wailing miserably. 那小女孩难过得号啕大哭。

4 drifted   

漂( drift的过去式和过去分词 )； 吹积； 漂泊； 浮现

参考例句：

• The boat slipped its moorings and drifted out to sea. 船的系泊绳索滑落，船漂向大海。
• Cold and hungry, they drifted helplessly towards the Arctic. 他们又冷又饿，无助地漂向北极。