wife怎么读（慢读双语短文033 ARE YOU GOD'S WIFE）

ARE YOU GOD'S WIFE?

您是上帝的太太吗？

New York City: It's a cold day in December. A little boy about 10-year-old was standing before a shoe store on Broadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold. A lady approached the boy and said, “My little fellow, why are you looking so earnestly in that window?”

“I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes,” was the boy's reply.

The lady took him by the hand and went into the store, and asked the clerk to get a half dozen pairs of socks for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin of water and a towel. He quickly brought them to her. She took the little fellow to the back part of the store and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet, and dried them with a towel.

By this time the clerk had returned with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy's feet, she then purchased him a pair of shoes, and tying up the remaining pairs of socks, gave them to him. She patted him on the head and said, “No doubt, my little fellow, you feel more comfortable now?”

As she turned to go, the astonished lad caught her by the hand, and looking up in her face, with tears in his eyes, answered the question with these words: “Are you God's wife?”

先逐字读一遍短文，不认识的不着急查词典，读完一遍，不熟悉的生词大约心中有数了，再回头仔细读一遍，有生词的部分，细读，根据上下文猜测一下意思。如果手头有纸笔不妨写下来。最好通读三遍，文章的大约意思估计也就明白八九不离十了。再逐字查阅生词，最后再对照译文，通读一两遍。还有疑难不解的地方做好笔记请教他人。

Broadway

英 [ˈbrɔːdweɪ] 美 [ˈbrɔːdweɪ]

n. 百老汇（美国纽约市戏院集中的一条大街）

百老汇大道是纽约市重要的南北向道路，为美国戏剧和音乐剧的重要发扬地，百老汇也因此成为了音乐剧的代名词。

The play opened on Broadway in 2004.

这个剧在2004年于百老汇首演。

barefooted

英 [ˌbeəˈfʊtɪd] 美 [ˈberˈfʊtɪd]

adj. 光着脚的（等于 barefoot）

adv. 光着脚地

I hurried barefooted to the window.

我光着脚匆匆跑向窗边。

adj.

barefoot 赤脚的

bareheaded 不戴帽子的；光着头的

barelegged 露腿的，没有穿袜子的

adv.

barefoot 赤着脚地

bareheaded 不戴帽地；光着头

barelegged 光着腿

peer

英 [pɪə(r)] 美 [pɪr]

n. 同龄人，同等地位的人，相匹敌的人；（英国）贵族

v. 凝视，费力地看；隐现；<古>看见；<古>匹敌

If you peer at something, you look at it very hard, usually because it is difficult to see clearly. 费力地看; 盯着

I had been peering at a computer print-out that made no sense at all.

我一直在费力地看一份不知所云的电脑打印稿。

词根：peer

adj.

peerless 无与伦比的；出类拔萃的；无比的

n.

peek 偷看；一瞥，看一眼

peep 偷看；隐约看见，瞥见

peephole 窥视孔

peerage （全体）贵族；贵族地位；贵族阶级

peeress 有爵位的妇女；贵族夫人

vi.

peek 窥视，偷看peep 窥视；慢慢露出，出现；吱吱叫

vt.

peep 使出现

fellow

英 [ˈfeləʊ] 美 [ˈfeloʊ]

n. 小伙子，家伙；同伴，同事，同学；研究员；男朋友；（研究期间领取津贴的）研究生；<英>（大学的）董事；（学术或专业团体）会员；对等者，对手

adj. 同类的，同伴的

A fellow is a man or boy. 家伙; 小伙儿

By all accounts, Rodger would appear to be a fine fellow.

根据大家的说法，罗杰应该是个好小伙儿。

A half dozen

Dozen是指12个，也就是我们说的“一打”。

新闻中经常用a half dozen来代指6个。

And a half dozen states have stopped suspending drivers licenses for failing to pay fines.

六个州已经停止了因未缴纳罚款而吊销驾照的做法。

如果是“a baker’s dozen”就是表示“十三”的意思

One theory is that in times when bread was sold by weight, bakers who short-weighted their customers were heavily fined, and for safety's sake they would sell thirteen loaves for the price of twelve.

一种说法是，在面包按重量出售的时代，面包师如果短斤少两，会被重罚，为了安全起见，他们会以12个面包的价格出售13个面包。

a basin of water

英[ə ˈbeɪsn ɒv ˈwɔːtə(r)]

美[ə ˈbeɪsn əv ˈwɔːtər]

一盆水;

knelt down

英[nelt daʊn]美[nelt daʊn]

跪下来; 跪下; 下跪;

They knelt down and prayed.

他们跪下来祷告。

tying up

英[ˈtaɪɪŋ ʌp]美[ˈtaɪɪŋ ʌp]

捆绑; 欲望捆绑;

Derived from the tape used for tying up legal and official documents.

用来捆绑法律文件和官方文件的专用带子。

no doubt

英[nəʊ daʊt]美[noʊ daʊt]

毫无疑问; 固然;诚然; 无疑地;必定;

There is no doubt at all that we did the right thing.

毫无疑问我们做得对。

故事发生在纽约市：十二月的一天，天气寒冷。一个约莫十岁大的小男孩站在百老汇一家鞋店门口，光着脚，隔着玻璃窗向内张望，浑身冷得瑟瑟发抖。一位女士走过来问：“小朋友，那玻璃窗里有什么呀？你看得那么入迷？”

“我在请求上帝赐给我一双鞋。”小男孩回答。

女士拉着他的手走进店内，让店员给小男孩拿来六双袜子。然后又问店员要了一盆水和一块毛巾。店员很快拿了来。女士领着小家伙到了柜台后面，自己脱掉手套，跪在地上，亲手给孩子洗脚，又用毛巾把他的小脚丫擦干。

这时，店员拿来了袜子。女士先给小男孩穿上一双袜子，然后又买了一双鞋。还把剩下几双袜子绑在一起，一并送给了他。她拍了拍男孩的头，说道：“怎么样，小伙子，这下舒服多了吧？”

小男孩被眼前的这一切惊呆了。就在女士转身离开的时候，男孩抓着她的手，仰头看着她的脸，泪眼汪汪地回答着刚才的问题：“您是上帝的太太吗？”