和谐英语

新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第二册 unit01c_new

2012-04-18来源:和谐英语

[06:00.86]a few were dozing on the sofa along the wall.
[06:05.90]Looking at those tired students,
[06:10.04]I remembered an article in the newspaper had reported that the 1981 fees
[06:17.89]would be $6,900.
[06:23.26]How could I blame them for not wanting to talk to me?
[06:28.12]Costs were so high;
[06:31.79]they had to put their time and energy into their studies.
[06:37.15]I closed my books and began a letter to Fengyun,but couldn’t finish it.
[06:44.82]Sad,I packed up my books and walked slowly back to my room.
[06:51.48]I knew my sadness came not only from missing my family,
[06:57.24]but also from the frustration of being unable to learn.
[07:02.78]People in Beijing must be thinking I was enjoying myself here
[07:08.36]in the richest country in the world.
[07:12.61]Yet I was suffering,
[07:16.68]not because people in America were not accepting me,
[07:22.22]but because they didn’t understand me and didn’t seem to care how I felt
[07:28.88]-- and because I didn’t understand them, either.
[07:33.92]After my three classes each day,
[07:38.17]I walked without aim around the grounds like a lost soul.
[07:44.44]I had no place to go.
[07:48.40]I felt better when dusk fell, knowing that another day had passed.