最新Unit 11 Salvation 课文翻译 综合教程一名师精心制作教学资料
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KeytoUnit11综合教程一Unit 11 SalvationI. Main ideaWhat is the story narrated in the text about?The story is the author’s recall of an experience in his childhood. He had heard from old folks about the myth of Jesus saving one’s soul, and as a child, held a sincere and na?ve belief in it. His attendance at the revival resulted in his total disillusionment. He wants to tell his readers that there is no almighty Savior, and that only by relying on their own struggle can black people deliver themselves from misery and suffering.II. Structural analysis1. How is the story organized?The story, which is told in the first person, is mainly organized in chronological order, with a flashback in the second paragraph and plenty of vivid and interesting descriptions in the whole text.Key to the ExercisesText comprehensionI. Decide which of the following best states the author’s purpose of writing.AII. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.1. F2. T3. F4. T5. FIV. Explain in your own words the following sentences.1. The membership of the church had increased in large numbers.2. They held a special religious service to lead the young children into the Christian community.3. A lot of old people came and knelt around us and prayed. The old women’s faces were as black as coal…, and the old men’s hands and fingers were twisted with swollen joints and rough skin from hard work.4. The church building was swinging as the people inside were preaching and singing at the top of their voices.VocabularyI. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.1. in advance / beforehand2. was moving slowly and regularly in harmony with3. using his name with disrespect / profaning his name4. delaying the whole thing for a long time5. started suddenly6. became quietII. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word taken from the box in its appropriate form.1. revival2. swirl3. punctuated4. ecstatic5. escorted6. sweep7. rhythmical8. deceive9. prayed10. sereneIII. Choose a word or phrase that best completes each of the following sentences.1-8 BCDDBBAAIV. Fill in each blank with one of the two words from each pair in its appropriate form and note the difference in meaning between them.1. a. crime b. sin c. sin d. crime2. a. preach b. praying c. pray d. preach3. a. specific b. specific c. special d. special4. a. sobbing b. sobbing c. wailed d. wailV. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used.1. Synonym: close (terminate, conclude)2. Antonym: later (afterwards)3. Synonym: internally (within)4. Antonym: excitedly (impatiently):5. Synonym: marvelous (amazing, miraculous, terrific)6. Antonym: first (primarily, initially)7. Synonym: peacefully (quietly, calmly)8. Antonym: cheerless (joyless, sad, melancholy)VI. Rephrase each of the following sentences with the word given in capital letters.1. The murderer wiped the gun in case his fingerprints should give him away.2. It's going to cost an awful lot.3. Who is to blame for all this mess?4. The difference between us is that I don't have to retire when I m sixty.5. Where would you rather go tonight, the theatre or the cinema?6. That house is worth looking at again.7. I'm going to let you off this time.8. Christina came into a large fortune on her father's death.GrammarI. Rewrite the following sentences, starting with "Tom said/asked/suggested ...".1. Tom asked if Paul could come with us.2. Tom said that the earth moves around the sun.3. Tom asked if I preferred Chinese food or western food.4. Tom said that he wanted to go on holiday but that he couldn't afford it.5. Tom said that he had learnt how to eat with chopsticks when he was in China.6. Tom said that the problem was being dealt with by the manager.7. Tom said that she had been sleeping for a long time and told me to wake her up.8. Tom suggested that I (should) bring them all up to the house.II. Report the following sentences using the verbs in the box.1. He agreed that it was a good idea2. He insisted that I (should) go away3. He invited us to stop by for some dessert and coffee tonight4. He predicted that Paul wouldn't be on time5. He complained that he couldn't see the stage dearly6. He suggested that I (should) consult Professor BarnesIII. Rewrite the following conversation in indirect speech.Dr. Grey told Mrs. Flynn that she really must keep to her diet if she was serious about losing weight. When Dr. Grey asked her if she had been keeping to it, she hesitated and muttered some-thing in reply. After Dr. Grey had repeated her question, Mrs. Flynn confessed that she had occasionally had a bit extra. When asked to explain what she meant, she reluctantly admitted that she meant "a cream cake or two."IV. Write the following paragraph as a conversation between John and Sue.John: How do you feel? I didn't see you at work.Sue I had a temperature but I'm better now. I'm sorry for not ringing you in the last few days. Are you free tomorrow?John: Yes, I am.Sue: What about going to the cinema?John: Yes, OK. What do you think we should see?Sue: We'll decide tomorrow. Can you pick me up at seven?John: Sorry, but I can't use the car because my father has taken it. I'll come and meet you at your house.V. Complete the following sentences with the appropriate form of the verbs given.1. All my belongings have (have) been destroyed in a fire.2. The trousers Sally has just bought are (be) very expensive.3. Our company headquarters is/are (be) in Boston.4. My special thanks go (go) to Prof. Brown, whose suggestions have always enlightened me:5. Is (be) statistics a branch of mathematics?6. This species has (have) green and white spots.7. If your clothes are (be) dirty, please put them in the laundry basket.8. A series of lectures has (have) been given onenvironmental protection.9. The crowd became quiet when a cart and horse was (be) seen in the distance.10. There is (be) a long springboard and three rafts at varying distance from the shore.11. The captain, together with the crew, was (be) determined not to abandon the ship until the passengers were aboard the lifeboats.12. Every man, woman, and child in this community is (be) now aware of the terrible consequences of the habit of smoking.TranslationI. Translate the following sentences into Chinese.1. 好几个星期的每天晚上,总有许多人说教、唱歌、祷告和呼唤。
英语课后翻译Unit 11. Finally, with my mother red in the face and short of breath, we find Room 8, I unlock the door, and we all walk in.(☞介词with 表示状态,不必直译。
)等我们终于找到8号房间的时候,妈妈已经涨红了脸,上气不接下气。
我打开门锁,我们都走了进去。
2. She impresses me, and I feel so ignorant that I shouldn’t even breathe the same air as her.她给我留下了深刻的印象,我觉得自己太无知了,甚至不配跟她呼吸同样的空气。
3. I don’t know why I have to be introduced to literature but the woman in the admissions office says it’s a requirement even though I’ve read Dostoyevsky and Melville and that’s admirable for someone without a high school education.(☞翻译时将be introduced to literature 变成主动语态更通顺。
我不知道为什么我非得了解文学。
可是招生办公室的那位女士说这门课是必修课,即使我读过陀思妥也夫斯基和梅尔维尔的小说也得选,一个没上过高中的人能读这些书的确令人敬佩,但这门课是必修课。
4. I’m in heaven and the first thing to do is buy the required textbooks, cover them with the purple and white NYU book jackets so that people in the subway will look at me admiringly.(☞I am in heaven 不能直译成“我上了天堂”,这句话应意译。
综合教程U n i t U n i t课文翻译SANY标准化小组 #QS8QHH-HHGX8Q8-GNHHJ8-HHMHGN#Unit 1Never Give In, Never, Never, NeverWinston ChurchillAlmost a year has passed since I came down here at your Head Master's kind invitation in order to cheer myself and cheer the hearts of a few of my friends by singing some of our own songs. The ten months that have passed have seen very terrible catastrophic events in the world—ups and downs, misfortunes—but can anyone sitting here this afternoon, this October afternoon, not feel deeply thankful for what has happened in the time that has passed and for the very great improvement in the position of our country and of our home Why, when I was here last time we were quite alone, desperately alone, and we had been so for five or six months. We were poorly armed. We are not so poorly armed today; but then we were very poorly armed. We had the unmeasured menace of the enemy and their air attack still beating upon us, and you yourselves had had experience of this attack; and I expect you are beginning to feel impatient that there has been this long lull with nothing particular turning up!But we must learn to be equally good at what is short and sharp and what is long and tough. It is generally said that the British are often better at the last. They do not expect to move from crisis to crisis; they do not always expect that each day will bring up some noble chance of war; but when they very slowly make up their minds that the thing has to be done and the job put through and finished, then, even if it takes months—if it takes years—they do it.Another lesson I think we may take, just throwing our minds back to our meeting here ten months ago and now, is that appearances are often very deceptive, and as Kipling well says, we must "... meet with Triumph and Disaster. And treat those two impostors just the same."You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imaginationmakes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly many more will happen; but then they must also pray to be given that extra courage to carry this far-reaching imagination. But for everyone, surely, what we have gone through in this period—I am addressing myself to the school—surely from this period of ten months this is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. We stood all alone a year ago, and to many countries it seemed that our account was closed, we were finished. All this tradition of ours, our songs, our school history, this part of the history of this country, were gone and finished and liquidated.Very different is the mood today. Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across her slate. But instead our country stood in the gap. There was no flinching and no thought of giving in; and by what seemed almost a miracle to those outside these islands, though we ourselves never doubted it, we now find ourselves in a position where I say that we can be sure that we have only to persevere to conquer.You sang here a verse of a school song: you sang that extra verse written in my honour, which I was very greatly complimented by and which you have repeated today. But there is one word in it I want to alter—I wanted to do so last year, but I did not venture to. It is the line: "Not less we praise in darker days."I have obtained the Head Master's permission to alter darker to sterner. "Not less we praise in sterner days."Do not let us speak of darker days: let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days; these are great days—the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.绝不屈服,绝不,绝不,绝不温斯顿·丘吉尔1 将近一年前,应贵校校长盛情邀请,我来到这里唱了几首我们自己的歌曲,既为自己加油,也为一些朋友打气。
Eat, have fun and learn in Watertown !Watertown is a great place for the family to take a vacation. Teenagers will want to visit the world’s largest water slides and eat at Uncle Bob’s. A different rock band plays at Uncle Bob’s every night. Kids will enjoy the Clown City Café. They have organized games and the staff dress up as clowns.There’s also a lot for parents in Watertown. If they love good food, they can find it at the Farmer’s Market where the food is both delicious and cheap. While the children have fun, parents can take dance lessons on the beach. And everyone can learn something in Watertown. There are three museums! Teenagers love the Sports Museum and kids enjoy the Science Museum. Parents will spend many happy hours walking through the History Museum.在水城、玩、学习水城是一家人度假的好去处。
青少年会想去世界上最大的水滑道和去鲍勃大叔的餐厅吃饭。
Unit 11The Story of an EyewitnessJack London1 The earthquake shook down in San Francisco hundreds of thousands of dollarsworth of walls and chimneys. But the conflagration that followed burned up hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property. There is no estimating within hundreds of millions the actual damage wrought.2 Not in history has a modern imperial city been so completely destroyed. SanFrancisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories and fringe of dwelling houses on its outskirts. Its industrial section is wiped out. Its business section is wiped out.Its social and residential section is wiped out. The factories and warehouses, the great stores and newspaper buildings, the hotels and the palaces of the nabobs, are all gone. Remains only the fringe of dwelling houses on the outskirts of what was once San Francisco.3 Within an hour after the earthquake shock, the smoke of San Francisco’sburning was a lurid tower visible a hundred miles away. And for three days and nights this lurid tower swayed in the sky, reddening the sun, darkening the day, and filling the land with smoke.4 On Wednesday morning at quarter past five came the earthquake. A minutelater the flames were leaping upward. In a dozen different quarters south of Market Street, in the working class ghetto and in the factories, fires started. There was no opposing the flames. There was no organization, no communication. All the cunning adjustments of a twentieth-century city had been smashed by the earthquake. The streets were humped into ridges and depressions, and piled with the debris of fallen walls. The steel rails were twisted into perpendicular and horizontal angles. The telephone and telegraph systems were disrupted. And the great water mains had burst. All the shrewd contrivances and safeguards of man had been thrown out of gear by thirty seconds’ twitching of the earth-crust.5 By Wednesday afternoon, inside of twelve hours, half the heart of the city wasgone. At that time I watched the vast conflagration from out on the bay. It was dead calm. Not a flicker of wind stirred. Yet from every side wind was pouring in upon thecity. East, west, north, and south, strong winds were blowing upon the doomed city.The heated air rising made an enormous suck. Thus did the fire of itself build its own colossal chimney through the atmosphere. Day and night this dead calm continued, and yet, near to the flames, the wind was often half a gale, so mighty was the suck.6 Wednesday night saw the destruction of the very heart of the city. Dynamite waslavishly used, and many of San Francisco’s proudest structures were crumbled by man himself into ruins, but there was no withstanding the onrush of the flames.Time and again successful stands were made by the firefighters and every time the flames flanked around on either side, or came up from the rear, and turned to defeat the hard won victory.7 An enumeration of the buildings destroyed would be a directory of SanFrancisco. An enumeration of the buildings undestroyed would be a line and several addresses. An enumeration of the deeds of heroism would stock a library and bankrupt the Carnegie medal fund. An enumeration of the dead ― will never be made. All vestiges of them were destroyed by the flames. The number of the victims of the earthquake will never be known. South of Market Street, where the loss of life was particularly heavy, was the first to catch fire.8 Remarkable as it may seem, Wednesday night, while the whole city crashed androared into ruin, was a quiet night. There were no crowds. There was no shouting and yelling. There was no hysteria, no disorder. I passed Wednesday night in the path of the advancing flames, and in all those terrible hours I saw not one woman who wept, not one man who was excited, not one person who was in the slightest degree panic-stricken.9 Before the flames, throughout the night, fled tens of thousands of homeless ones.Some were wrapped in blankets. Others carried bundles of bedding and dear household treasures. Sometimes a whole family was harnessed to a carriage or delivery wagon that was weighted down with their possessions. Baby buggies, toy wagons and go-carts were used as trucks, while every other person was dragging a trunk. Yet everybody was gracious. The most perfect courtesy obtained. Never, in all San Francisco’s history, were her people so kind and courteous as on this night of terror.10 All night these tens of thousands fled before the flames. Many of them, the poorpeople from the labor ghetto, had fled all day as well. They had left their homes burdened with possessions. Now and again they lightened up, flinging out upon the street clothing and treasures they had dragged for miles.11 They held on longest to their trunks, and over these trunks many a strong manbroke his heart that night. The hills of San Francisco are steep, and up these hills, mile after mile, were the trunks dragged. Everywhere were trunks, with across them lying their exhausted owners, men and women. Before the march of the flames were flung picket lines of soldiers. And a block at a time, as the flames advanced, these pickets retreated. One of their tasks was to keep the trunk-pullers moving. The exhausted creatures, stirred on by the menace of bayonets, would arise and struggle up the steep pavements, pausing from weakness every five or ten feet.12 Often, after surmounting a heart-breaking hill, they would find another wall offlame advancing upon them at right angles and be compelled to change anew the line of their retreat. In the end, completely played out, after toiling for a dozen hours like giants, thousands of them were compelled to abandon their trunks. Here the shop-keepers and soft members of the middle class were at a disadvantage. But the working-men dug holes in vacant lots and backyards and buried their trunks.13 At nine o’clock Wednesday evening, I walked down through the very heart of thecity. I walked through miles and miles of magnificent buildings and towering skyscrapers. There was no fire. All was in perfect order. The people patrolled the streets. Every building had its watchman at the door. And yet it was doomed, all of it.There was no water. The dynamite was giving out. And at right angles two different conflagrations were sweeping down upon it.14 At one o’clock in the morning I walked down the same section. Everything stillstood intact. There was no fire. And yet there was a change. A rain of ashes was falling. The watchmen at the doors were gone. The police had been withdrawn.There were no firemen, no fire-engines, no men fighting with dynamite. The district had been absolutely abandoned.15 I stood at the corner of Kearney and Market, in the very innermost heart of SanFrancisco. Kearney Street was deserted. Half a dozen blocks away it was burning onboth sides. The street was a wall of flame. And against this wall of flame, silhouetted sharply, were two United States cavalrymen sitting their horses, calmly watching.That was all. Not another person was in sight. In the intact heart of the city two troopers sat their horses and watched.16 Surrender was complete. There was no water. The sewers had long since beenpumped dry. There was no dynamite. Another fire had broken out farther uptown, and now from the three sides conflagrations were sweeping down. The fourth side had been burned earlier in the day. In that direction stood the tottering walls of the Examiner Building, the burned out Call Building, the smouldering ruins of Grand Hotel, and the gutted, devastated, dynamited Palace Hotel.证人亲历杰克·伦敦1 旧金山的地震摧毁了不少墙壁和烟囱,价值成千上万美元。
Unit 11课文翻译a2d 1.怎么了?What happened to...?\What’s wrong with ...?2.开始了解get to know3.有共同之处have...in common3.成为...更好的朋友be better friends with...4.为什么不...?Why don't you..?\Why not+动词原形5.感觉被冷落feel left out南希:嗨!伯特,我想我让爱丽丝生气了,而且我还不确信该怎么做。
波特:发生什么事了?南希:你知道朱莉是爱丽斯最好的朋友,对吧?波特:嗯嗯。
南希:唔,我对朱莉了解得越多,越感到我们有许多相同之处。
所以我们最近在一起度过的时间比较多。
波特:但那有什么问题吗?南希:嗯….这让爱丽丝不开心,因为她认为朱莉现在成为了跟我比跟她更要好的朋友。
波特:我知道了。
嗯….每次你和朱莉在一起做事的时候,你为何不邀请爱丽丝加入呢?这样她就不会觉得被冷落。
南希:奥,好主意!那能使我们的友谊更加牢固。
Section A 3a 快乐者的衬衫!(1)很久以前,在一个富饶而又美丽的国家里,住着一位不开心的国王。
他睡不好觉,也不愿吃东西。
他的脸苍白如粉笔,还常常无端哭泣。
这让往后和他的子民都很担心。
一天,一位医生被招来给国王检查身体。
但他发现国王的身体并没有任何的问题。
“他的病都在心里。
药物和休息对他都无效。
他需要的是一个快乐的人所穿的衬衫,那会使他快乐起来。
”首相被叫到宫殿,但当人们把国王的情况向他解释后,他却说:“尽管我有很多权利,但他并没有让我快乐。
我总是担心会失去权力。
有许多人都在试图取代我的位置。
”接着,国王的银行家来到宫殿,“唉,我恐怕也不快乐呢,”他说:“我有很多财富,但是我总是担心丢失钱财。
每天都有人想窃取我的金钱。
”接下来,宫殿的歌手来到国王的房间,但是他所说的是:“的确我很有名,而且每个人都喜欢我的歌。
但是我并不快乐,因为我总是担心被别人跟踪,我没有自由。
综合教程TRANSLATIONUnit11. 这个婴儿还不会爬(crawl),更不要说走了。
(let alone)The baby can't even crawl yet, let alone walk!2. 威尔声称谋杀案发生时他正在与一群朋友吃饭,但是我认为他在说谎。
(claim, in one's opinion)Will claimed he was dining with a group of friends at the time of the murder, but in my opinion he told a lie.3. 一定程度上阅读速度与阅读技巧密切相关;有了阅读技巧,你就可以更好地应对课外阅读了。
(to a certain extent, relate … to …, cope with)To a certain extent the speed of reading is closely related to reading skills; and with reading skills you can cope with outside class reading better.4. 根据规则他俩都可以参加比赛。
(according to)According to the regulation/rule, they both can play the game/participate in the game.5. 有些人想当然地认为日语(Japanese)中的每一个词在汉语中都有对应的词语。
(assume, equivalent)Some people assume that there is a Chinese equivalent for every Japanese word.6. 我们已将所有的相关信息告知了警方。
(relevant)We have passed all relevant information on to the police.7. 关于那件事你问我再多的问题也没用,因为我是不会回答你的。
Unit 11 SalvationWords and Expressions1. preach:v. deliver a religious speeche.g. Christ preached to large crowds.The priest preached a sermon on the need for charity.Derivation:preacher: n.Collocation:preach at/to/about: to offer unwanted advice on matters of right and wrong.2. escort v. go with and protect sb.e.g. The queen was escorted by the directors as she toured the factory.The police escorted her to the airport.Collocation:escort sb. (to sth.)3. rhythmical: adj. having a regular repeated pattern of weak and strong stressese.g. The rhythmical sound of the train sent him to sleep.He could hear the rhythmical beating of his heart.Derivation:rhythm: n.4. moan: n. a soft low sound of pain or grief; a complaint, expressed in a suffering discontentedvoicee.g. From time to time there was a moan of pain from the sick man.We had a good moan about the weather.Derivations:moaner: n.moan: v.Collocation:moan about: complain annoyingly5. leave out:v. phr.1) pay no attention to sb.e.g. No one speaks to him; he’s always left out.2) fail to includee.g. This word is wrongly spelt; you’ve left out a letter.Don’t leave me out when you’re giving out the invitations!Collocations:leave over: postpone sth.leave off: stop sth./doing sth.leave behind: fail or forget to bring or take sb./sth.6. hold out:1) stretch oute.g. He held out his hand to Mary.2) offere.g. These plans hold out the prospect of new jobs for the area.Science may hold out the prospect of feeding the hungry.3) last; remaine.g. How much longer can our supplies hold out?The town was surrounded but the people held out until help came.Collections:hold back: make something stay in place; prevent from moving, esp. in spite of pressurehold down: control the freedom of sb.; oppress sb.hold off: (of rain, a storm, etc.) not occur; be delayedhold on: wait or stop7. swirl: v. move round and round quicklye.g. The water swirled about his feet.The leaves were swirled away on the wind.Derivation:swirl: n8. mighty: adj. very great in forcee.g. He raised the hammer and struck the rock a mighty blow.She gave him a mighty thump.Derivation:might: n.Idioms:high and mighty: arrogant; haughtythe pen is mightier than the sword: poets, thinker, ect., affect human affairs more than soldiers do9. wail: v. cry or complain in a loud (usu. shrill) voicee.g. The sick child was wailing miserably.There is no use wailing about/over mistakes made in the past.Collocation:wail about/over sth.: cry or complain about sth. in a loud (usu. shrill) voiceComparison: wail; sobsob: draw in breath noisily and irregularly from sorrow, pain, etc., esp. while crying10. serenely:adv. calmly and peacefullye.g. She smiled serenely and said nothing.She just says what she thinks, serenely indifferent to whether it may offend people.Derivations:serene: adj.serenity: nSynonyms:peacefully; tranquilly11. sob: v. to cry while making short bursts of sound as one breathes in, because of sadness or feare.g. A little girl was sitting sobbing in the corner.She sobbed into her handkerchief.Derivation:sobbing: adjsob: n.Synonyms:cry; wailCollocation:sob sth. out: tell sth. while sobbingIdioms:sob oneself to sleep: sob until one falls asleepsob one’s heart out: cry bitterly with great emotion12. swing:v. move backwards and forwardse.g. He walked briskly along the path, swinging his rolled-up umbrella.The sign was swinging in the wind.Collocations:swing around/round: turn suddenly to face the opposite wayswing (sb.) (from sth.) to sth.: (cause sb. to) change suddenly from one opinion or mood, etc. to anotherIdioms:swing into action: act swiftlyswing the lead: (try to) avoid work or a duty, usually by pretending to be ill13. grin v. smile broadlye.g. The children grinned with pleasure when I gave them the sweets.He grinned at me, as if sharing a secret joke.Synonym:smileCollocations:grin at sb.: smile broadly, so as to show the teeth, expressing amusement, foolish satisfaction, etc.grin from ear to ear: smile very broadlyIdiom:grin and bear it: endure pain, disappointment, etc. without complaining14. rejoice: v. show great joye.g. She rejoiced in meeting the challenge of her new job.I rejoiced to see that she had made such a quick recovery.Derivation:rejoicing: n.Collocations:rejoice at/over sth.: feel or show great joyrejoice in sth.: have or glory in (a title, etc)15. ecstatic: adj. showing great joye.g. I wasn’t exactly ecstatic about being woken up at two o’clock in the morning.The new president was greeted by an ecstatic crowd.Derivation:ecstasy: n.16. deceive: vt. make someone believe something that is not truee.g. He had been deceived by a young man claiming to be the son of a millionaire. Collocations:deceive sb. into doing sth.e.g. He tried to deceive the public into thinking the war could still be won. deceive sb. about sth.e.g. I wouldn't deceive you about anything as important as this.Phrase:deceive oneselfe.g. I thought she loved me, but I was deceiving myself.Synonym:trickDerivations:deception: n.deceptive: adj.。
Unit 11 SalvationI was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen. But not really saved. It happened like this. There was a big revival at my Auntie Reed's church. Every night for weeks there had been much preaching, singing, praying, and shouting, and some very hardened sinners had been brought to Christ, and the membership of the church had grown by leaps and bounds. Then just before the revival ended, they held a special meeting for children, "to bring the young lambs to the fold." My aunt spoke of it for days ahead. That night I was escorted to the front row and placed on the mourners' bench with all the other young sinners, who had not yet been brought to Jesus.My aunt told me that when you were saved you saw a light, and something happened to you inside! And Jesus came into your life! And God was with you from then on! She said you could see and hear and feel Jesus in your soul. I believed her. I had heard a great many old people say the same thing and it seemed to me they ought to know. So I sat there calmly in the hot, crowded church, waiting for Jesus to come to me.The preacher preached a wonderful rhythmical sermon, all moans and shouts and lonely cries and dire pictures of hell, and then he sang a song about the ninety and nine safe in the fold, but one little lamb was left out in the cold. Then he said: "Won't you come? Won't you come to Jesus? Young lambs, won't you come?" And he held out his arms to all us young sinners there on the mourners' bench. And the little girls cried. And some of them jumped up and went to Jesus right away. But most of us just sat there.A great many old people came and knelt around us and prayed, old women with jet-black faces and braided hair, old men with work-gnarled hands. And the church sang a song about the lower lights are burning, some poor sinners to be saved. And the whole building rocked with prayer and song.Still I kept waiting to see Jesus.Finally all the young people had gone to the altar and were saved, but one boy and me. He was a rounder's son named Westley. Westley and I were surrounded by sisters and deacons praying. It was very hot in the church, and getting late now. Finally Westley said to me in a whisper: "God damn! I'm tired of sitting here. Let's get up and be saved." So he got up and was saved.Then I was left all alone on the mourners' bench. My aunt came and knelt at my knees and cried, while prayers and song swirled all around me in the little church. The whole congregation prayed for me alone, in a mighty wail of moans and voices. And I kept waiting serenely for Jesus, waiting, waiting—but he didn't come. I wanted to see him, but nothing happened to me. Nothing!I wanted something to happen to me, but nothing happened.I heard the songs and the minister saying: "Why don't you come? My dear child, why don't you come to Jesus? Jesus is waiting for you. He wants you. Why don't you come? Sister Reed, what is this child's name?""Langston," my aunt sobbed."Langston, why don't you come? Why don't you come and be saved? Oh, Lamb of God! Whydon't you come?"Now it was really getting late. I began to be ashamed of myself, holding everything up so long. I began to wonder what God thought about Westley, who certainly hadn't seen Jesus either, but who was now sitting proudly on the platform, swinging his knickerbockered legs and grinning down at me, surrounded by deacons and old women on their knees praying. God had not struck Westley dead for taking his name in vain or for lying in the temple. So I decided that maybe to save further trouble, I'd better lie, too, and say that Jesus had come, and get up and be saved.So I got up.Suddenly the whole room broke into a sea of shouting, as they saw me rise. Waves of rejoicing swept the place. Women leaped in the air. My aunt threw her arms around me. The minister took me by the hand and led me to the platform.When things quieted down, in a hushed silence, punctuated by a few ecstatic "Amens," all the new young lambs were blessed in the name of God. Then joyous singing filled the room.That night, for the first time in my life but one for I was a big boy twelve years old—I cried. I cried, in bed alone, and couldn't stop. I buried my head under the quilts, but my aunt heard me. She woke up and told my uncle I was crying because the Holy Ghost had come into my life, and because I had seen Jesus. But I was really crying because I couldn't bear to tell her that I had lied, that I had deceived everybody in the church, that I hadn't seen Jesus, and that now I didn't believe there was a Jesus anymore, since he didn't come to help me.救赎在我快十三岁时被上帝从罪恶中超度了,但并非真正地超度。