10. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.
我们要懂得道义的苍穹长又长,但它终将落向正义。
让这一信念成为我们的战斗口号。它将给我们勇气以面对无法预见的未来,它将给我们疲惫的双脚以新的力量,向着自由大城大踏步继续我们的征程。当绝望的阴云密布,我们的日子变得阴郁无望时,当我们的夜晚变得比1000个深夜还黑暗时,让我们记住宇宙之间有一种创造力,能把黑暗的昨天变成光辉灿烂的明天。让我们铭记道德的苍穹长又长,但它终将落向正义。
Lesson two
Vocabulary
1.ballerina: a woman ballet dancer
2.dial: control panel/buttons on the TV set
3.to entrance: to be interested in
4.to mesmerize: to fascinate
5. To keep time: to use the right rhythm and speed
6. Reverie: imagination
7.debut: a first show in public
8.to twirl: to turn round and round
9.to prance: to move with high steps
10. Jumble: untidy mixture
11. Repeat: sign at the end of line in music indicating a parts to be repeated
12. To anchor: to fasten, can not move
13.fiasco: complete failure
14.recital: performance
15.tuner: the man who adjusts the strings of a musical instrument
16.moth-proof: treated chemically so as to resist the attacks from moths
Paragraph
1. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.
I imagined myself being different types of prodigy, trying to find out which type would best suit me.
2. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts.
Some new thoughts came to my mind, thoughts that I deliberately wanted to be disobedient, or to be more exact, thoughts that I would say lots of “I won’t …” to my mother.
3. The girl had a sauciness of a Shirley Temple.
The girl was somewhat like Shirley Temple, a bit rude, but in an amusing way.
4. It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last.
While saying these, I was scared as if some very unpleasant, horrible things had got out of my chest; but at the same time, I felt a bit delighted for I was finally able to make this awful part of me known to my mother.