Love Hurts原版英文小故事內容：

The old house was sold. A new house was yet to be purchased, so Randy was going to rent for a while. He was moving from Virginia to California. The move would put some memories behind him. He was looking forward to a fresh start.

Randy and Nora got married six years ago. It was the first marriage for both of them. Eight months after the marriage, Nora found out she was pregnant. That was good. When she started getting stomachaches, they figured it was the new baby. But then she miscarried.

The stomachaches, however, continued. In fact, they got worse. It wasn’t a simple stomachache. It was liver cancer. Then it was stomach cancer, lymph gland1 cancer, breast cancer, and brain cancer. It never stopped spreading. There was little hope, but Nora battled the daily pain with smiles and few complaints.

1 gland n.腺體，(機)密封壓蓋，填料蓋

參考例句：

This is a snake's poison gland.這就是蛇的毒腺。

Her mother has an underactive adrenal gland.她的母親腎上腺機能不全。

2 ramp n.暴怒，斜坡，坡道;vi.作恐嚇姿勢，暴怒，加速;vt.加速

參考例句：

That driver drove the car up the ramp.那司機將車開上了斜坡。

The factory don't have that capacity to ramp up.這家工廠沒有能力加速生產。

3 filthy adj.卑劣的;惡劣的，骯臟的

參考例句：

The whole river has been fouled up with filthy waste from factories.整條河都被工廠的污穢廢物污染了。

You really should throw out that filthy old sofa and get a new one.你真的應該扔掉那張骯臟的舊沙發，然后再去買張新的。

4 locusts n.蝗蟲( locust的名詞復數 );貪吃的人;破壞者;槐樹

參考例句：

a swarm of locusts 一大群蝗蟲

In no time the locusts came down and started eating everything. 很快蝗蟲就飛落下來開始吃東西，什么都吃。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》