英语专业四级听写012

Passage 12
A Young Man’s Promise
One day a young man was writing a letter to his girl friend who lived just a few miles away in a nearby town. He was telling her how much he loved her and how wonderful he thought she was. The more he wrote, the more poetic¹ he became. Finally, he said that in order to be with her he would suffer² the greatest difficulties³, he would face the greatest dangers that anyone could imagine. In fact, to spend only one minute with her, he would swim across the widest river, he would enter the deepest forest, and he would fight against the fiercest⁴ animals with his bare⁵ hands.
He finished the letter, signed his name, and then suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to mention something quite important. So, in a postscript⁶ below his name, he added:
“By the way, I’ll be over to see you on Wednesday night, if it doesn’t rain.” (154 words)

1 poetic   

adj.富有诗意的，有诗人气质的，善于抒情的

参考例句：

• His poetic idiom is stamped with expressions describing group feeling and thought.他的诗中的措辞往往带有描写群体感情和思想的印记。
• His poetic novels have gone through three different historical stages.他的诗情小说创作经历了三个不同的历史阶段。

2 suffer   

vi./vt.遭受；忍受；经历

参考例句：

• She couldn't bear to see others suffer.她不忍看见别人受苦。
• Kings go mad and the people suffer for it.〔谚语〕国王发狂，百姓遭殃。

3 difficulties   

n.困难( difficulty的名词复数 )；难度；难事；麻烦

参考例句：

• I am acutely aware of the difficulties we face. 我十分清楚我们面临的困难。
• the difficulties of English syntax 英语句法的难点

4 fiercest   

adj.（尤指人或动物）凶猛的( fierce的最高级 )；凶狠的；（尤指动作或情感） 强烈的；酷烈的

参考例句：

• The sun was at its fiercest and beads of sweat kept rolling down his face. 那时太阳正毒，晒得他汗珠直往下滚。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The leopard seal is one of the Antarctic fiercest marine predators. 豹海豹是北极最凶猛的海洋捕食者之一。 来自互联网

5 bare   

adj.赤裸裸的，无遮蔽的；空的，无设备的；稀少的，仅有的，勉强的；vt.露出，暴露

参考例句：

• The boy likes to walk on the sand with bare feet.这男孩喜欢赤足在沙滩上走。
• She got shocked when she touched the bare wire.她摸了裸线，遭电击了。

6 postscript   

n.附言，又及；(正文后的)补充说明

参考例句：

• There was the usual romantic postscript at the end of his letter.他的信末又是一贯的浪漫附言。
• She mentioned in a postscript to her letter that the parcel had arrived.她在信末附笔中说包裹已寄到。