导读：多年前，两个小女孩在中国的一家孤儿院成为朋友。照片显示他们经常在一起玩耍。当她们还是孩子的时候，就被不同的美国家庭收养，完全失去了联系。

 

重难句解析

• adopt /əˈdɒpt/ v. 收养
  例句：She was forced to have her baby adopted. 她被迫把婴儿给人收养。
• strike up a conversation 搭讪
  例句：While doing business, he would strike up a conversation with his customers. 他总是一边卖东西一边和顾客搭讪。
• astounded /əˈstaʊndɪd/ adj. 感到震惊的
  例句：She looked astounded at the news. 她听到那消息时显得震惊。
• be drawn to 被……所吸引
  例句：I've always been drawn to tough women. 我总是被坚强的女性所吸引。
• She had pulled up a picture of her on a slide and I realized that background looked very familiar.
  她从幻灯片上调出一张她的照片，我意识到背景看起来很眼熟。pull up意为“调出”；that引导宾语从句。
• Ruby and Ally are picking up their friendship right where they left off!
  鲁比和艾丽正在她们中断友谊的地方重拾她们的友谊！pick up意为“捡起，拾起”；leave off意为“停止，中断”。
• They couldn’t stop talking and sharing old photos, soon realizing that they remember some of the same people from those brief formative years.
  她们情不自禁地交谈和分享旧照片，很快意识到她们还记得在那短暂个性形成时期的一些相同的人。can’t stop doing sth.意为“情不自禁地做某事”；realizing现在分词作伴随状语；that引导宾语从句。

Many years ago, two little girls became friends at an orphanage (孤儿院) in China. Old pictures show them frequently standing next to each other and playing together. When they were still children, they were adopted by separate families in the U.S. and completely lost touch.

Ally Cole grew up to attend Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, a school with over 15,000 students living on campus. She sat down on a school bus one day and struck up a conversation with the student next to her, a freshman named Ruby Wierzbicki. The two of them quickly discovered they have far more in common than they could have imagined!

“As we talked, I asked where she was originally from, and her response was China!” Ally wrote on Facebook. “She had pulled up a picture of her on a slide and I realized that background looked very familiar. So, I pulled up a picture of my own with a similar slide picture, and it turns out we are from the same orphanage!”

Both Ally and Ruby used to live at the Jinan Social Welfare Institute in China. They couldn’t stop talking and sharing old photos, soon realizing that they remember some of the same people from those brief formative years. “We were quiet for a little bit because I think we were both just in shock,” Ruby said. Ally agreed, “I think I was just in shock that I actually knew someone from my past. I think it didn’t really hit me until after I went to class.”

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