名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选 The Code of the Road
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心灵鸡汤精选The Code of the Road
2013四级考试【文章梗概】父亲是长途司机，我和父亲聚少离多，青春期过后逐渐懂得了父亲教给我的做人道理——父亲曾经帮一位路人换轮胎而不求回报，只求自己的妻女遇到困难时也能得到同样的帮助。多年后的一天我的车在高速上抛锚，一位卡车司机如父亲当年所做，帮我换了轮胎，也说了和父亲一样的话，此时我体会到了助人为乐的“公路法则”，并深深感激父亲和帮助过我的好心人。
Blesd are tho that can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
~Elizabeth Bibesco
As the daughter of a truck driver and a cretary, I grew up knowing my mother far better than my father. As a young child I was “Daddy’s little girl,” but then I hit tho teen years and my relationship with my father no longer existed. He had spent most of my life on the road, leaving before 4:00 A.M. and arriving home well after my bedtime. By the time I was old enough to stay up past 9:00 P.M., I was no longer Daddy’s little girl, I was a teenager. Now we were strangers—I didn’t know him and he couldn’t have known me. It was almost as if one day he went out on the truck, and, when he returned, I was 13. It took me years to understand that he had no idea what to do with me. He didn’t know how to handle a teenage girl with crazedhormones and a big mouth. The little girl who adored her daddy was replaced by a horrendous teen who liked nothing better than to have the last word in every argument. And so began a lesson I will
awaken
conquently造句I was a rebellious teenager with big dreams and an open mind. During the hardest parts of my life, I believe my mother sustained me. When she attempted to guide me, of cour I fought every inch of the way. But she never let go—she held on for dear life, and finally I outgrew tho raging hormones and outrageous behaviors. It was during this time that I l
earned an important lesson from my father. A lesson of strength, love, honesty and kindness.
One evening he returned from another day on the truck, probably delivering cargo to Brooklyn, the Bronx, Harlem or Philadelphia. He told us how that afternoon he was on the highway and saw a woman opening her trunk to take out a spare tire. He stopped, introduced himlf and proceeded to take over the task of changing the blown-out tire. While he jacke考银行的条件d up the car, the woman told him how grateful she was for his kindness. She said people’s fear of crime in urban areas often dissuade local people from stopping to help one another. When Dad finished changing the tire and returning all of the equipment to the trunk of her car, she offered him a $20 bill for his help. He smiled at her and said, “No need. I have a wife and a daughter who just started driving, and my only hope is that if ever one of them breaks down on the side of the road, someone honest and friendly will stop and do for them what I just did for you.” He said good-bye and headed back to the 18-wheeler he had left with its motor running on the shoulder of the road.
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This was a side of my father I didn’t e often. Instead, throughout my life, my Brooklyn-Italian father nonchalantly taught me the rules of the road and life through loud funny stories shared boisterously with his trucking buddies at family parties. Through the laughter, I heard explanations of “on the road” safe places to sleep, where to eat, definitions of respect, honesty and hard work, and “blue collar” survival. I was 24 years old before I realized how much I had really learned from him.
In 1992, I moved from my parents’ New Jery home to an apartment in eastern Kansas, where I worked as a volunteer for a civil rights organization. During tho three and a half years I traveled almost continuously. One day, the 12-year-old daughter of a friend suggested we head to western Kansas to join the “Walk Across America for Mother Earth.” As a firm believer in recycling and saving our environment, I agreed. The next day I borrowed my roommate’s car for the four-hour trip.
We were almost halfway there when the leftrear tire blew out. I maintained control of the car and pulled off of I-70 onto the shoulder of the road. Quite shook-up took a deep breat
h and got out of the car. I went into the trunk for the spare tire. As I was removing the jack, an 18-wheeler went flying past us at top speed. I was positioning the jack when I heard the annotatescreeching of air brakes across the road. I looked up to e a trucker running across four lanes of interstate to our aid. The trucker explained that the driver of the previous 18-wheeler radioed ahead informing him that we were in trouble. He introduced himlf, asked where we were going and took the jack from my hands. Within 20 minutes, the tire was changed and the jack was placed back in the trunk.
I was instructed by the driver to stop at the first auto plaza for a new tire. He explained that the spare “donut” could not make that round-trip. As we said our good-byes, I reached into my pocket and offered him a $20 bill for his help. He smiled and said in his Midwestern accent, “I have a daughter just about the same age as you—the only thanks I need is to hope that if she ever breaks down on the road, someone honest would stop to help her as I’ve done with you.” I heard my own father’s Brooklyn dialect repeating almost the same ntiment. I told the driver about my father and his experience in New Jery. The truck driver smiled, and as he crosd the interstate, he turned and said, “Your dadd
y’s a good man . . . he knows the code of the road.”
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I stopped at the next auto plaza to replace the tire. Using my calling card, I then dialed my parents’ number, knowing everyone would be at work. I left a message for my father telling him about the truck driver who helped me and thanking Dad for knowing the code of the road.
heroic coupletSpecial thanks from a trucker’s little girl to all of the drivers who know and understand the code of the road . . . especially the two gentlemen in Kansas who helped me!
Michele H. Vignola
雅思考试机经【词汇过关】
请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。
1.crazed [kreɪzd] adj. ________________________________
2.hormone ['hɔ:məʊn] n. ________________________________
3.adore [əˈdɔ:(r)] vt. ________________________________函授报名
4.horrendous [hɒˈrendəs] adj.________________________________
5.rebellious [rɪˈbeljəs] adj. ________________________________
6.sustain [səˈsteɪn] vt.________________________________
