新概念英語第三冊(cè)（美音版）Back in the old country

[ti:未知] [ar:] [al:] [by:https://www.lrc.com.cn] [00:02.95]Lesson 57 [00:04.53] Back in the old countryDid the narrater find his mother's grave? [00:11.27]I stopped to let the car cool off and to study the map. [00:15.18]I had expected to be near my objective by now, [00:18.24]but everything still seemed alien to me. [00:21.29]I was only five when my father had taken me abroad,and that was eighteen years ago. [00:27.17]When my mother had died after a tragic accident, [00:30.95]he did not quickly recover from the shock and loneliness. [00:34.14]Everything around him was full of her presence,continually reopening the wound. [00:39.52]So he decided to emigrate. [00:41.80]In the new country he became absorbed in making a new life for the two of us, [00:46.43]so that he gradually ceased to grieve. [00:49.20]He did not marry again and I was brought up without a woman's care; [00:53.24]but I lacked for nothing,for he was both father and mother to me. [00:57.58]He always meant to go back one day, but not to stay. [01:01.48]His roots and mine had become too firmly embedded in the new land. [01:05.96]But he wanted to see the old folk againand to visit my mother's grave. [01:10.59]He became mortally ill a few months before we had planned to go [01:14.54]and,when he knew that he was dying,he made me promise to go on my own. [01:19.39]I hired a car the day after landing and bought a comprehensive book of maps, [01:24.68]which I found most helpful on the cross-country journey, [01:28.03]but which I did not think I should need on the last stage. [01:31.76]It was not that I actually remembered anything at all. [01:35.33]But my father had described over and over again [01:38.29]what we should see at every milestone after leaving the nearest town, [01:42.94]so that I was positive I should recognize it as familiar territory. [01:47.10]Well,I had been wrong,for I was now lost. [01:51.64]I looked at he map and then at the milometer. [01:54.66]I had come ten miles since leaving the town and at this point, according to my father [02:00.31]I should be looking at farms and cottages in a valley, [02:03.87]with the spire of the church of our village showing in the far distance. [02:08.59]I could see no valley,no farms,no cottages and no church spire only a lake. [02:15.75]I decided that I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere. [02:19.43]So I drove back to the town and began to retrace the route, [02:23.30]taking frequent glances at the map. [02:26.58]I landed up at the same corner. [02:28.59]The curious thing was that the lake was not marked on the map. [02:32.29]I felt as if I had stumbled into a nightmare country, [02:35.87]as you sometimes do in dreams. [02:38.39]And,as in a nightmare,there was nobody in sight to help me. [02:42.94]Fortunately for me,as I was wondering what to do next, [02:46.44]there appeared on the horizon a man on horseback,riding in my direction. [02:51.72]I waited till he came near,then I asked him the way to our old village. [02:56.63]He said that there was now no village. [02:59.91]I thought he must have misunderstood me,so I repeated its name. [03:04.22]This time he pointed to the lake. [03:06.66]The village no longer existed because it had been submerged,and all the valley too. [03:12.67]The lake was not a natural one,but a man-made reservoir.

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