NBC晚间新闻 数百人庆贺男孩被收养

Eight-year-old Nike could fill an album with family photos but these special moments of holidays and vacations are with a foster family. We got him when he was four. He showed up at our doorstep at midnight and we we've had him ever since. I thought i would never get adopted. But they didn't know if they could have him forever, not until Monday. At this time i'm officially granting the adoption¹. Packed in a Texas courtroom to see the family pledged to Nike.

His second grade class, church friends, even a superhero, signed swag from his favorite football team the Dallas cowboys and t-shirts merging² the names of mom and dad, David and Christie Schwartz and Nike's love of Star Wars. May the Schwartz be with you. It was very special, it was surreal. The big event likely added a few new pages to Nike's family album. You see, every one of those people in that courtroom is his family. He knows now. Awesomeness³ and awesomeness feels like happiness. Happiness feels like joyfulness⁴. And a first official picture of what home looks like.

8岁的奈基的相册里满是家庭照片，但是这些特别的假日和假期是和他的寄养家庭一起度过的。我们在他四岁时遇见了奈基。他半夜出现在我们门口，从那以后我们就一直陪着他。我以为我永远不会被收养。但是在这周一之前他们都不知道是否能永远收养他。现在我正式批准你们收养奈基。三百人挤在德克萨斯州的法庭上，见证了这家人对奈基的承诺。他的二年级同学，教会的朋友，甚至还有一个超级英雄，还有一堆他最喜欢的球队达拉斯牛仔队球员签过名的的赠物，还有印着父母和大卫、克里斯蒂·施瓦茨名字的T恤和奈基热爱的《星球大战》光剑。愿施瓦茨与你们同在。这太特别了，太不真实了。这一重大事件为奈基的家庭相册增添了几页新的内容。在法庭上看到的每一个人都是他的家人。他现在知道了。美好，美好，我感觉很幸福。幸福，我感觉很快乐。这就是正式收养后家的照片。

1 adoption   

n.采用，采纳，通过；收养

参考例句：

• An adoption agency had sent the boys to two different families.一个收养机构把他们送给两个不同的家庭。
• The adoption of this policy would relieve them of a tremendous burden.采取这一政策会给他们解除一个巨大的负担。

2 merging   

合并（分类）

参考例句：

• Many companies continued to grow by merging with or buying competing firms. 许多公司通过合并或收买竞争对手的公司而不断扩大。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
• To sequence by repeated splitting and merging. 用反复分开和合并的方法进行的排序。

3 awesomeness   

可怕的

参考例句：

• Dominion and awesomeness are his who brings about harmony in his heavens. 权能和威严为他所有，他在高天缔造和平。 来自互联网
• There is no charge?for awesomeness, or attractiveness. 彪悍不求回报，迷人更无所需。 来自互联网

4 joyfulness   

参考例句：

• I never consider ease and joyfulness as the purpose of life itself. 我从不认为安逸和快乐就是生活本身的目的。
• I ago consider ease or joyfulness as the purpose of life itself. 我从来不以为安逸和享乐是一生本来的目的。