用全部的爱,构搭心灵的桥梁(有声)
日期:2010-08-20 18:07

(单词翻译:单击)

英文原文

人的一生,就像一趟旅行,每个人都坐在时间的列车上,有了起点,便不知道哪一站是终点...这个世界也因为充满了爱而更加美丽多姿! 可你发觉了吗?

You don’t expect your child to grow up to be a heroin addict. From the moment of her birth, you have hopes and dreams about the future, but they never include heroin addiction. That couldn’t happen to your child, because addiction is the result of a bad environment, bad parenting. There is most definitely someone or something to blame.

That’s what I used to believe. But after failed rehab and long periods of separation from my heroin-addicted daughter, after years of holding my breath, waiting for another relapse, I now believe there is no blame.

After Katie admitted her addiction, I struggled to understand how this could have happened to my daughter — a bright, beautiful, talented and most importantly, loved young woman. When the initial shock wore off, I analyzed and inventoried all the whys and hows of Katie’s addiction. I searched for someone or something to blame. I blamed her friends. I blamed her dad. I blamed our divorce. But mostly, I blamed myself. My desperate heart convinced me that I should have prevented Katie’s addiction, and that given another chance, I could correct my mistakes.

When Katie came home from rehab, I approached each day with the zeal of a drill sergeant. I championed the 12-step program and monitored her improvement daily as though curing heroin addiction was as simple as nursing a cold. I drove her to therapy sessions and AA meetings. I controlled everything and left nothing to chance. But in spite of my efforts, Katie didn’t get better. She left my home, lost again to the powerful grip of addiction.

In the long days, weeks and months that followed, I gathered bits and pieces of old beliefs and tried to assemble them into something whole. Sometimes I gave up, and sometimes I simply let go. Gradually, my search for blame changed to a longing for hope. I comforted myself with the only thing that still connected me to my daughter: love.

I thought about Katie every day, and I missed her. I cried, and worried about her safety and whereabouts. I wrote letters I knew she’d never see. Sometimes I woke up panicked in the middle of the night, certain that my mother’s intuition was preparing me for something bad. But through it all, I loved her.

I don’t know why or how my daughter became addicted to heroin; I do know that it doesn’t really matter. Life goes on, and Katie is still my daughter.

Katie and I meet for breakfast on Friday mornings now. We drink coffee and talk. I don’t try to heal her. I just love her. Sometimes there is pain and sorrow, but there is no blame. I believe there is only love.

重点词汇

1. heroin addict 海洛因吸食者

In that case I'm a homosexual heroin addict.
如果我说慌的话,那么我会告诉你我是个同性恋,嗜毒成瘾。

2.holding my breath 屏住呼吸

How long can you hold your breath for?
你能屏住呼吸多久?

The swimmer couldn't hold her breath any longer.
那个游泳的人再也不能屏住呼吸了

3. relapse n. 复发,再发;故态复萌;回复原状

The exploration program aims to help reduce relapse in patients with schizophrenia to clinical cure, the final full return to society.
这一计划旨在探索帮助精神分裂症患者降低复发,达到临床痊愈、最终全面回归社会的效果。

4. grip n. 紧握;柄;支配;握拍方式;拍柄绷带

I have the similar dream, missing grip your hand, my right side seat is empty now, disguises you is my.
我还是做同样的梦,思念握住你的手,我的右边座位现在空空荡荡,假装你还是我的。

5.whereabouts n. 下落;行踪;去向;所在之处

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
地址是用来隐藏我们的真实下落的。

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重点单词
  • spiten. 恶意,怨恨 vt. 刁难,伤害
  • sergeantn. 中士,巡佐,军士 (法庭或议会等地的)警卫官
  • initialn. (词)首字母 adj. 开始的,最初的,字首的 v
  • therapyn. 疗法,治疗
  • certainadj. 确定的,必然的,特定的 pron. 某几个,某
  • intuitionn. 直觉,直觉的知识
  • controlledadj. 受约束的;克制的;受控制的 v. 控制;指挥;
  • understandvt. 理解,懂,听说,获悉,将 ... 理解为,认为
  • concealvt. 隐藏,隐瞒,掩盖
  • desperateadj. 绝望的,不顾一切的