父親節(jié)英語(yǔ)演講稿：MyFather’sHands

1、父親節(jié)英語(yǔ)演講稿：My Fathers Hands摘錄:My father was frced t let the bank take pssessin f mst f the acreage6) f his farmlandne year when a crp failure meant he culdnt make the mrtgage7) payment. He was ablet keep ne acre f the farmland where the small farm huse was lcated.His hands were rugh and eceedingly1) s

2、trng. He culd gently prune2) a fruit tree rfirmly ease a stubbrn hrse int a harness. What I remember mst is the special warmthfrm thse hands as he wuld take me by the shulder and pint ut the glittering swp f ablue hawk, r a rabbit asleep in its lair. They were gd hands that served him well and faile

3、dhim in nly ne thing. They never learned t write.父親節(jié)英語(yǔ)演講稿：My Fathers HandsMy father was illiterate. The number f illiterates3) in ur cuntry has steadily declined, butif there were nly ne I wuld be saddened4), remembering my father and the pain heendured because his hands never learned t write. He st

4、arted schl in the first grade, wherethe remedy fr a wrng answer was ten rule r strkes acrss a stretched palm.Fr sme reasn, shapes, figures and letters just did nt fall int the rig ht pattern inside hissi-year-ld mind. His father tk him ut f schl after several mnths and set him t a mansjb n the farm.

5、Years later, his wife, with her furth-grade educatin, wuld try t teach him t read. And stilllater I wuld grasp his big fist between my small hands and awkwardly help him t trace theletters f his name. He submitted5) t the rdeal fr a shrt time, but sn grew restless andwuld declare that he had had enu

6、gh.ne night, when he thught n ne saw, he slipped away with my secnd grade reader andlabred ver the wrds until they became t difficult. He pressed his frehead int the pagesand wept. Thereafter, n amunt f persuading culd bring him t sit with pen and paper. Hedid still like t listen t my mther, and the

7、n t me, read t him. He especially enjyedlistening t us read t him frm the Bible.My father was frced t let the bank take pssessin f mst f the acreage6) f his farmlandne year when a crp failure meant he culdnt make the mrtgage7) payment. He was ablet keep ne acre f the farmland where the small farm hu

8、se was lcated.Frm the farm t rad building and later t factry wrk, his hands served him well. His mindwas keen, and his will t wrk was unsurpassed. His enthusiasm and efficiency brught anffer t becme a line bss-until he was handed the qualificatin test.Years later, when Mther died, I tried t get him

9、t cme and live with my family, but heinsisted n staying in the small huse with the garden plt and a few farm animals clse by.His health began t fail, and he was in and ut f the hspital with tw mild heart attacks. ldDc Green saw him weekly and gave him medicatin, including nitrglycerin8) tablets t pu

10、tunder h is tngue shuld he fing n.My last fnd memry f Dad was watching as he walked acrss the brw f a hillside meadwwith thse big warm hands resting n the shulders f my tw children. He stpped t pint uta pnd where he and I had fished years befre. The night, my family an d I flew back t urwn hme. Thre

11、e weeks later Dad was dead because f a heart attack.I returned t my fathers hme fr the funeral. Dc Green tld me hw srry he was. In fact, hewas bthered a bit, because he had just written Dad a new prescriptin, and the druggist9)had filled it. Yet the bttle f pills had nt been fund n Dads persn. Dc Gr

12、een felt that apill might have kept him alive lng enugh t summn help.I went ut t Dads garden plt where a neighbr had fund him. In grief, I stped t t racemy fingers in the earth where he had reached the end f his life. My hand came t rest n ahalf-buried brick, which I aimlessly lifted. I nticed under

13、neath it the twisted and battered, yntainer that had been beaten int the sft earth.As I held the cntainer f pills, the scene f Dad struggling t remve the cap and indesperatin trying t break it with the brick flashed painfully befre my eyes. With deepanguish I knew why thse big hands had lst in their struggle with death. Fr there, imprintedn the cap, were the wrds：“Child-prf cap-Push dwn and twist t unlck. ”The druggist later cnfirmed that he had just started using the new safety caps.I knew it was nt