English-Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie, 1999

Aphorisms

There is no such thing as "too late" in life.

Death

1 To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any rate.

2 Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, "Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?"

3 Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

4 Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Family

1 There is no experience like having children. There is no substitute for it.

2 If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

Ageing

1 Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

2 It is impossible for the old not to envy the young. But the issue is to accept who you are and revel in it.

3 You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.

Money

1 Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

2 Giving to other people is what makes me feel alive.

3 I believe in fully present. That means you should be with the person you are with. 专心陪伴

Culture

1. Every society has its own problems. The way to do it, I think, isn't to run away. You have to work at creating your own culture.

2 .Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.

Final Words on TV

1. Be compassionate. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place.

Forgiveness

1 There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness.

2 You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.

Notes

1 the multitude of Morrie's friends and colleagues

替换 many of Morrie's friends and colleagues

2 place his glasses on the bridge of his nose, drop his glasses off his nose 戴眼镜和摘眼镜

perch his glasses gingerly on his nose

法语 ôter ses lunettes 摘眼镜

3 We throw our caps in the air.  这里没有用into

4 He developed asthma in his sixties. His breathing became labored.

造句：I developed asthma in my thirties. My breathing became laboured.

5 He was weary all the time.  总是有气无力

6 break the news 替换tell

7 The cane was exchanged for a walker.

be exchanged for 替换 be replaced by

8 His voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating with a million thoughts. 物做主语

9 His "living funeral" was a rousing success. 大获成功

10    The dream soured.

11   I was in demand. 我大有市场。

12  I exercised like a demon. I drove my car at breakneck speed. 拼命锻炼，疯狂飙车

13 Morrie had become a lightening rod of ideas.

14 One friend was taken with the words. 

15 They buzzed with excitement. 高兴地叽叽喳喳

16  powder one's nose ; go on the commode ; use the commode 委婉语，上厕所

17 I was casually flipping channels.  换台

18 cut a class 旷课，逃课

19 read from the attendance list 点名

20 catch a glimpse of , shoot a glance at ， shoot sb a look 扫一眼

法语jeter un coup d'oeil

21 drive a beat-up Mercury Cougar 开破车

22 Morrie is even more of a slob than I am. 比我还懒/邋遢

23 It cracks me up. =cause sb to laugh

24 regain his smile/ trust

25 I traded a lot of dreams for a bigger paycheck.

26  be tied to computers/ cell phones  钉在电脑前 be glued to their phones

27 I could not care less about people like me.

28 My days were full. 忙

29 Morrie beamed. 眉开眼笑

30 His passion for books is real and contagious.

31 surrender their entire lunch hours watching it

32 be addicted to someone else's drama

33 Everything I had known was upside down.

34 His eyes got moist.

35 Morrie honked loudly into the tissue.

36 He liked to keep things to himself.

37 I give myself a good cry.

38 shake the bell

39 We're human lab rats. 小白鼠

40 We're so wrapped up with egotistical things.

41 get into the habit of doing

42 America has become a Persian bazaar of self-help.

43 fan oneself 给自己扇扇子

44 Football in America has become ritualistic, almost a religion, an opiate for the masses.

45 leaf through the thesis 翻看

46 share a communal kitchen 共用厨房

47 He felt as if the weight of a mountain were on his shoulders.

48 Morrie waited on those kisses like a puppy waiting on milk.

49 He felt as if the walls had closed in around him.

50 He couldn't take the sight of blood. 怕见血

51  The disease owns him.

52 Without love, we are birds with broken wings.

53 be shy with their affection

54 show respect for his children's worlds

55 a waterfall of affection

56 I would not have missed that experience for anything.

57 brace myself for cancer

58 Months would pass without a word from him.

59 I dove into work.

60 be frozen with the fear of sth

61 I felt my forehead break into a sweat. 脑门冒汗

62  push a tissue to his mouth and spit out a wad of phlegm 吐痰

63 soil their underwear

64 drape the hall in a banner that read ....

65 The situation was diffused. 问题解决

66 His classes were light on "career skills" and heavy on "personal development".

61 big-time cases 大案子

62 stay postivie through that 积极的人生态度

63 I revel in it. I close my eyes and suck it up. 享受revel in, suck up

64 None of us ever got enough it that. 我们从不满足

65 What's bugging my generation?

66 billboards featured young and beautiful people

67 feel over the hill 人老珠黄

I was already feeling over the hill, much as I tried desperately to stay on top of it.

68 I embrace aging.

69 adjust the pillows behind his head

70 be packed for shipping

71 cross/mark off calendar days

72 cry over sth

73 move sb to tears

sb is near tears

smile through tears 笑中带泪

74 His bank account was rapidly depleting.

75 I had been doing a lot of thinking about us.

76 on one's last breath 最后一口气

77 I came to like the way Morrie lit up when I entered the room.

78 look sb straight in the eye/eyes

79 feel a surge of guilt

80 Someone wants to get ahead of me in traffic. 超车

81 I don't have to be in that much of a hurry with my car. 开车不必那么着急

82 swallow his memories of his mother

83 return the favour报答

84 at the operating table 手术台

85 an overflow of containers 冰箱塞得满当当

86 sing for a living, a professional singer 职业的两种说法

87 be shy about her talent 害羞

88 She would politely decline. 礼貌地拒绝

89 a crescent smile

90 Tears rolled down his cheeks. 流泪

91 have a problem with sth

92 They don't know what they want in a partner. 他们不知道要什么样的伴侣

93 Charlotte might be uncomfortable with me revealing that. 不愿意我做某事

94 talk openly about what goes on between you 开诚布公

95 have a common set of values in life 共同的价值观

96  the devil is within earshot 死亡近在咫尺

97 I could not imagine a more terrible way to go. 句型

98 spray some air freshner 空气清新剂

99 run through red lights 闯红灯

100 Take my condition. 以我的情况为例

101Morrie had become a prisoner of his chair.  比喻义

102 But as his body rotted, his character shone ever more brightly. 对比

103 He had me over to his house. 请我去他家

104 The rain splattered against the windows.

105 If I could have had another son, I would have liked it to be you. 与过去相反

106 On a hill, beneath a tree, overlooking a pond. 介词连用

au pied d'un arbre =beneath a tree

107 He saw it(the body) as a mere shell, a container of the soul. 躯壳

108 bring up a topic 聊起

109 You'll find a way back to your brother.

110 She had a drawn look on her face.

drawn: very tired and showing suffering

111 I tapped my shoe lightly on the hardwood floor. 硬木地板

112 I entered, pushing a smile onto my face. 强作欢颜

113 I blinked back the tears. 眨眨眼不让泪水落下来

114 his immediate family 直系亲属（父母、兄弟姊妹、配偶、子女）

115 to see ducks shaking off their feathers 掉毛

116 It was taught from experience. 人生经验

Oral English

1 Would you mind helping? Are you OK with that?

2 I hope Ted goes easy on Morrie. 宽容点，别为难他

3 Have you found someone to share your heat with?分享心事, 谈心

4 Are you at peace with yourself?

5 Ask me anything. 随便问

6 I‘m very up. 心情好= feeling happy

7 What will become of you?

8 Take pity on me. 可怜我

9 That's a very high compliment. 过誉了

10 I've never had another teacher like you. 夸人

11 All this emphasis on youth--I don't buy it.

12 You can't take it with you. 死不带去

13 You know what really gives you satisfaction?  Offering others what you have to give.

14 Put her on. 让她接电话

15 I'm coming next trip. 下次我也去

16 I want to come see you work. 我想去看你工作

17 Scrub down, put on a mask, and get into a gown. 进手术室之前的步骤：洗手、戴口罩、穿隔离衣

18 Life's a bitch. (Life has been pretty mean and unfair to you. )

Knowledge

1 ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax. 渐冻症，物做主语

Materials(in my time order)

1 Eric 英语学习笔记的文章 《30岁前，读一读<相约星期二>》https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/pIgcnvRzOsWzSMUUZoPCRg

2 Nightline: Lessons on Living(B站，生肉) https://www.bilibili.com/video/av16977498?from=search&seid=13614281496748109603

3 Audio book（喜马拉雅，彩蛋：最后一个音频的最后十分钟是Morrie与作者的对话录音）Tuesdays with Morrie 相约星期二 【英文原版】有声书有声书在线收听_文学_喜马拉雅FM

4 The book