新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第二册 unit04b_new

[06:12.56]Everything is the color of gray.
[06:16.81]From out of this grayness, two figures approach us
[06:22.07]— an unremarkable middle-aged man and woman
[06:26.93]— and after making sure that we are the right people,
[06:31.79]the arrivals from the other side of the world, they embrace us;
[06:38.16]but I don't feel much warmth in their half-embarrassed embrace.
[06:44.24]"You should kneel down and kiss the ground," the man tells my parents.
[06:50.62]"You're lucky to be here." My parents' faces fill with a kind of simple hope.
[07:00.16]Perhaps everything will be well after all.
[07:05.20]Then we get into an enormous car—yes,this is North America
[07:11.86]— and drive into the city that is to be our home.