每日英语精读《Becoming》116节

每日英语精读：

《Becoming》 116:

He’d been in his thirties when a doctor informed him that the odd weakness he’d started to feel in one leg was just the beginning of a long and probably painful slide toward immobility, 

that odds were that someday, due to a mysterious unsheathing of neurons in his brain and spinal cord, he’d find himself unable to walk at all.

词汇解释：

odd

/ɑːd/

strange or unexpected

slide

/slaɪd/

noun

the process of moving into a worse state, often through lack of control or care:

Thegovernmentmust takemeasures,he said,tohaltthe country's slideintorecession.

immobility

/ˌɪm.oʊˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/

noun

the fact that it is difficult to move 

unsheathe

/ˌənˈSHēT͟H/

verb

draw or pull out (a knife, sword, dagger,or similar weapon) from its sheath(剑鞘) or covering.

neuron

/ˈnʊr.ɑːn/

a type of cell that sends and receives messages within the brain and the nerves of the body

spinal cord

脊髓

上下文背景：

这小节，Michelle解释了父亲钟情于开车的原因。