美国国家公共电台 NPR What We Learned From Dad

 

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:

Today, we celebrate fathers for a lot of reasons - for their support and love, their jokes and, more importantly, their lessons. How to ride a bike, throw a ball, how to be a good friend. What our dads teach us can shape who we are. This Father's Day, we asked you to tell us something special your dad taught you. Dana Hammond starts us off.

DANA HAMMOND: I was trying to get my bicycle tube fixed¹. I was putting patching over the patching, and it was never working. My dad came out and said, you can't patch over patching. And I just kind of thought that that was a great life lesson there, too. I mean, you can apply that to just about anything.

BENJAMIN TORRES: One thing that my dad taught me is how to run. He taught me how to breathe, how to pace myself, how to stretch. It's something I'll always hold on to and treasure, the - him giving me the gift of the sheer exhilaration of physical fitness.

LINDSEY BEAGLEY: So my dad taught me the power of listening. Ever since I was old enough to have any kind of social drama at school, I have memories of my dad listening to me go on and on about what happened. And his listening was, in retrospect², really validating³. And probably that contributed a lot to my sense of self-confidence and my self-love.

KATHLEEN MULROY: My dad taught me that having a sense of humor will get you through an amazing amount of difficulty in life. His sense of humor is still a joy to me. And yes, he does make bad dad jokes. Well, I love them.

TORRES: I love you, Dad. Happy Father's Day.

BEAGLEY: I really love you, Papa. Happy Father's Day.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: That was Dana Hammond, Benjamin Torres, Lindsey Beagley and Kathleen Mulroy. And Happy Father's Day to my favorite dad - my husband, James. I lost my father when I was a very little girl, and watching him raise our little girl makes me happy every day.

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1 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

2 retrospect   

n.回顾，追溯；v.回顾，回想，追溯

参考例句：

• One's school life seems happier in retrospect than in reality.学校生活回忆起来显得比实际上要快乐。
• In retrospect,it's easy to see why we were wrong.回顾过去就很容易明白我们的错处了。

3 validating   

v.证实( validate的现在分词 )；确证；使生效；使有法律效力

参考例句：

• His politics at home were validating his efforts in the hemisphere. 他的国内政策也有效地支持了他对本半球所做的努力。 来自辞典例句
• A number of different experimental approaches have aided in validating the concept. 许多不同的实验方法，有助于确证这种概念。 来自辞典例句