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牛津译林版 必修五 Unit 2
My Father’s Hands
As my father’s devoted and only daughter,I noticed things about him my two brothers never mentioned or may have taken for granted.Two things in particular made Daddy more wonderful,interesting and capable than all the other fathers I’d ever seen or heard of—Daddy’s large,sensitive hands.How wonderfully warm they were when I placed mine in his to be rubbed warm on cold winter days.Daddy’s hands had endless capabilities,from braiding(用穗带装饰) my pigtails(辫子) or successfully getting back a kite from the topmost branches of a tree,to washing my little brother’s diapers by hand when we couldn’t afford a washing machine.Whatever the job or situation,his tireless hands actively carried it out. When he was a child,the eldest of seven children,Daddy went to work in order to help support his family.His own father’s failing health made it necessary for Daddy to drop out of school.He never complained about being a provi |
