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英語四級聽力美文第22篇:Oh,babies!
My husband and I were traveling in Italy, with two small babies. One day we took the babiesalong to go to Assis. The morning was wonderful — feeling like happy pilgrims, we read eachother stories of St. Francis while the babies cooed and gurgled as we drove up the windingstreets. But by the end of a very hot day, walking uphill and downhill in the 90-degree Italiansun, the two kids were crying nonstop.
One was throwing up; the other had diarrhea. We were all irritable and exhausted, and we hada three-hour trip ahead of us to get back to Florence, where we were staying. Somewhere onthe plains of Perugia we stopped at a little trattoria to have dinner. Embarrassed at ourbedraggled state and our smelly, noisy children, we sheepishly tried to sneak into the diningroom, hoping we could silence the children long enough to order before they threw us out. Theproprietor took one look at us, muttered, “You wait — a — here,” and went back to the kitchen.
We thought perhaps we should leave right then, but before we could decide what to do, hereappeared with his wife and teenage daughter. Beaming as they crossed the dining room, thetwo women threw out their arms, cried, “Oh, babies!” and took the children from our arms, motioning us to sit at a quiet corner table. For the duration of a long and hospitable dinner, they walked the babies back and forth in the back of the dining room, cooing, laughing andsinging them to sleep in gentle, musical Italian. The proprietor even insisted we stay and havean extra glass of wine after the babies were asleep! Any parent who has reached the end of hisor her rope with an infant will appreciate that God had indeed sent us angels that day.
