Mother to Many
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents The Extraordinary Mother Teresa.
(原始内容存档于2018-03-13) (英语). Table of Course The Expective Mother Teresa.
4 From Agnes to Teresa.
从艾格尼丝到特蕾莎
6 A Day of Inspiration.
6 启发日。
10 Her Good Work Goes On.
10她的好工作开始。
15 The Extraordinary Mother Teresa “Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.”
15 特蕾莎圣母 “用非凡的爱做普通的事情。 “
These are the words of Mother Teresa.
这些是特蕾莎修女的话
She was a famous Roman Catholic nun who worked with poor and dying people.
她是一位著名的罗马天主教修女,与穷苦和垂死的人一起工作.
Mother Teresa was born an ordinary girl.
母亲特蕾莎生来是一个普通的女孩.
Yet through her deep faith and love for others, she became an extraordinary woman who touched many lives.
然而,通过她的深刻信仰和对他人的爱,她成为一位非凡的女人,她触动了多人的生命。
From Agnes to Teresa Mother Teresa was born in Skopje (SKOHP-yuh) on August 26, 1910.
从阿格尼丝到特蕾莎修女特蕾莎于1910年8月26日生于斯科普里(SKOHP-yuh).
She was named Agnes and was the third of three children.
她被取名为"艾格尼丝",是三个孩子中的第三个.
What does a nun do?
修女会做什么?
Nuns are women who take vows committing their lives to their religion.
努斯人就是那些将生命献给宗教的妇女。
For some, that means living a life of service to others.
对有些人来说,这意味着过着为他人服务的生活。
Some are teachers.
有些是老师。
Some are nurses who care for sick people.
有些是护理病人的护士.
Others spend their lives in a form of prayer called meditation.
其他人以一种叫"冥想"的祷告形式度过了一生.
Catholic nuns usually live in special homes called convents.
天主教修女通常居住在被称作修道院的特殊家庭.
They do not marry or have families of their own.
他们没有结婚,也没有自己的家庭。
To show their commitment to God, many take special religious names.
为了显示他们对上帝的承诺,许多人取了特殊的宗教名.
Skopje has been part of many different empires and countries through the centuries.
斯科普里在几个世纪中一直是许多不同的帝国和国家的一部分.
Today it is the capital of and largest city in Macedonia.
今天它是马其顿的首都和最大城市.
in Senegal.
在塞内加尔。
in India.
(原始内容存档于2018-09-21). India.
Myanmar sit and study at their monastery.
缅甸坐在他们的修道院学习.
an injured girl.
一个受伤的女孩。
Agnes had a happy life.
艾格尼丝的生活很快乐
Her family belonged to the Roman Catholic Church, and religion was an important part of their lives.
她的家庭属于罗马天主教会,宗教是他们生活的重要组成部分.
Young Agnes loved church, went to a church school, and sang at church.
年轻的艾格尼丝热爱教堂,进入了一所教会学校,并在教堂唱歌.
She was also interested in missionaries who worked with poor or needy people on behalf of the church.
她还对代表教会与贫穷或有需要的人一起工作的传教士感兴趣.
When Agnes was eight, her father died.
当艾格尼丝8岁时,她的父亲去世了.
Without him, her family was poor.
没有他,她的家庭很穷.
Her mother opened a cloth and sewing shop to support them.
她的母亲开了一家布和缝纫店来支持他们.
No matter how little the family had, Agnes’s mother always helped others.
Agnes的母亲总是帮助他人,
She cared for sick people and fed those who were hungry, even strangers.
她照顾病人,喂饱那些饥饿的人,甚至陌生人.
Her kindness was an inspiration to Agnes who wanted to help people, too.
她的好心是艾格尼丝的灵感 她也想帮助别人
These are the only available photos of Nikola and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, Agnes’s parents.
这些是尼可拉和德兰纳菲·博贾克希乌,
A century ago, photos were much rarer than they are today.
一个世纪前,照片比今天少得多。
By the time she was twelve years old, Agnes believed God wanted her to become a nun.
在她十二岁的时候,艾格尼丝相信上帝希望她成为修女.
With her mother’s blessing, Agnes left her family at age eighteen and went to Ireland.
在她母亲的祝福下,阿格尼丝18岁离开家庭去爱尔兰.
There she became a nun and chose the name Sister Teresa.
在那里她成为了修女并选择了特蕾莎修女这个名字.
A Day of Inspiration The nuns had schools in India.
一个启发日 修女们在印度有学校。
They sent Sister Teresa to Calcutta, one of India’s largest and poorest cities.
他们派特蕾莎修女去加尔各答,
She taught there and later became the school’s principal.
她在那里任教,后来成为学校校长。
Teresa believed that she received a message from God one day in 1946.
特蕾莎认为她于1946年有一天收到了上帝的讯息.
She believed that God wanted her to go work in the slums with poor and sick people.
她相信上帝希望她和穷人和病人去贫民窟工作.
Sister Teresa would later call it her “day of inspiration.”
特蕾莎修女后来称之为“灵感的日子”。 “
“The message was very clear,” Sister Teresa said.
Teresa修女说,“这一信息非常明确”。
“It was a command.
“这是一个命令。
I knew where I had to go.”
我知道该去哪儿 “
Wearing a simple white and blue dress, Sister Teresa left the school.
穿着一身简单的白色和蓝色的裙子,特蕾莎修女离开了学校.
She began teaching children under a tree, scratching the letters of the alphabet into the dirt with a stick.
她开始在一棵树下教孩子,用棍子把字母表的字母划入泥地.
She also began caring for sick people.
她还开始照顾病人.
In 1950, other nuns came to work with Sister Teresa.
1950年,其他修女来到与特蕾莎修女一起工作.
That’s when she formed the Missionaries of Charity and became known as Mother Teresa.
这时她组建了慈善传教士,并被称作"特蕾莎修女".
Sister Teresa talks to a young child in the 1950s.
特蕾莎修女在20世纪50年代与一个年幼的孩子交谈.
Millions of children live in slums in India.
印度有数百万儿童生活在贫民窟。
In 1979, Mother Teresa was given the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979年,特蕾莎修女被授予诺贝尔和平奖.
The award is given yearly to people who work to promote peace or better the lives of others.
该奖每年颁发给致力于促进和平或改善他人生活的人。
It is a very high honor.
这是一个非常高的荣誉。
Mother Teresa received the award because she had eased great suffering for so many.
特蕾莎修女获奖是因为她为这么多人减轻了巨大的痛苦.
At a ceremony, Mother Teresa accepted the honor “ on behalf of the poor.”
在一次仪式上,Teresa修女“代表穷人”接受了这一荣誉。 “
She used the award’s prize money to feed poor people and pay for their medical care.
她利用奖项的奖金养活穷人并支付他们的医疗费用。
In Calcutta, many people were too poor to go to doctors.
在加尔各答,许多人太穷了,不能去看医生.
Mother Teresa worried that so many people died alone on the streets.
特蕾莎修女担心这么多人在街上独自死去.
So in 1952, she opened a special home for poor and dying people.
于是在1952年,她为穷人和垂死的人们开设了一所特殊的住宅.
She also opened a home for children whose parents had died or who were too poor to care for them.
她还为父母已经死亡或太穷无法照顾的儿童开设了一个家庭。
The post office in India issued a special stamp honoring Mother Teresa after she was awarded the Nobel Prize.
印度的邮局在特蕾莎修女被授予诺贝尔奖后发行了特别邮票来纪念她.
It was a way of honoring her and thanking her for her work on behalf of the Indian people.
这是一种向她致敬并感谢她代表印度人民所做所为的方式.
Mother Teresa plays with a child at the Missionaries of Charity hospital.
特蕾莎修女在慈善医院的传教士那里和孩子玩耍。
High Honors for Hard Work Many other countries have also honored Mother Teresa with stamps.
许多其他国家也向特蕾莎母亲颁发了邮票。
The United States issued this stamp in 2010.
美国于2010年发行了该邮票.
Her Good Work Goes On Mother Teresa died in 1997 at the age of 87, but the work of the Missionaries of Charity goes on.
她的"好活"出自"特蕾莎修女"1997年逝世,享年87岁,但慈善会传教士的工作仍在继续.
As of 2016, more than 5,800 men and women help sick and poor people in 139 countries.
截至2016年,有超过5800名男女帮助了139个国家的病人和穷人.
Her story goes on as well.
她的故事也继续
On September 4, 2016, before huge crowds in Rome, Pope Francis declared her a saint.
2016年9月4日,在罗马出现巨大人群之前,教宗方济各宣布她为圣人.
Glossary charity (n.)
词汇慈善(不详)
a sense of love and generosity toward people in need (p.
对需要帮助的人的爱和慷慨(p.
12) inspiration a good influence; (n.)
12) 激发良好的影响力;(n.)
something that leads to creativity (p.
导致创造力的东西(p.
8) missionaries people who travel (n.)
8) 出行的传教士 (n.
to another place to spread a religion (p.
到别处去传播宗教(p.
7) nun (n.)
7) 修女 (n.
a female member of a religious community who vows to remain poor and unmarried, and devotes her life to active service or prayer (p.
宗教界的女性成员,发誓要保持贫穷和未婚,并奉献出自己的一生服现役或祈祷(p.
4) saint (n.)
4) 圣人 (n.
a person who has been formally recognized for having lived a holy or virtuous life (p.
因过上神圣或良性生活而被正式承认的人(p.
15) slums (n.)
15) 贫民窟 (n.
poor, crowded areas of a city (p.
城市的贫困、拥挤地区(p.
11) A nun with the Missionaries of Charity feeds soup to poor people in Russia, 2003.
11) 2003年,一名修女与慈善传教士一起向俄罗斯穷人提供汤。