VOA慢速英语文本：《今日美国》第23课.doc

1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家英语翻议讲解：1.permit vt.允许,容许例句：These stores do not permit sales of alcoholic beverages. 这些商店不准出售含酒精饮料。 The ticket permits three people to go into the exhibition . 这张票允许三个人参观展览会。2.brine vt.浸入盐水bine vt.使结合,使联合;兼有,兼备;使化合例句：It would be more profitable to combine the two factories. 把这两家工厂联合起来

2、更能赚钱。4.land vt.使上岸,使登陆例句：He landed by parachute. 他跳伞着陆。5.survive vi.幸存, 活下来 例句：These plants cannot survive in very cold conditions. 这些植物在严寒中不能存活。 None of Shakespeares plays survives in its original manuscript form. 莎士比亚剧本的真迹已流失殆尽。6.concept n.概念,观念,思想例句：This is a concept we in the West find difficult

3、 to grasp. 这是我们西方人觉得难以理解的一个概念。 That the earth is flat is an erroneous concept. 认为地球是平的观念是错的。7.particular a.特别的,特殊的,详细的,挑剔的,苛求的例句：They depend on a particular historical situation. 它们取决于特定的历史境况。8.multiple a.多样的,复合的,复杂的例句：The driver of the crashed car received multiple injuries. 出事汽车的司机多处受伤。9.acknowled

4、ge vt.承认;感激,答谢例句：He grudgingly acknowledged having made a mistake. 他勉强承认他做错了。10.yield vt.生产,给予,同意,被迫放弃,放纵例句：Seed that yields up to 300 Bushels per acre. 每英亩能产三百蒲式耳的种子1.The first thing that came to my mind was actually thats a lot of food!come to my mind想到例句：An idea has just come into my mind. 我刚想到一个

5、主意。 The following questions and issues immediately come to my mind: 我顿时想到以下的问题。 2.We used to get together at my parents house and all of my relatives would come over and wed have a big e over过来 过来,抓住例句：My sister persuaded him to come over. 我姐姐说服他来。 I wish very much you could manage to come over. 我非常

6、希望你能来。3.The study found that families in seventeen million households had difficulty getting enough food at times during the year. have difficu lty doing做某事有困难。have difficulty/trouble/problem doing sth这几个短语的用法相同。例句：We had difficulty (in) carrying out the plan 我们执行计划有困难。英语听力原文：VOICE ONE:Welcome to TH

7、IS IS AMERICA. Im Faith Lapidus. This Thursday is a day for families and friends to share a special holiday meal and think about what they are thankful for. This week on our program, we ask some people to share their favorite memories of Thanksgiving Day.(MUSIC)Special English reporters June Simms a

8、nd Dana Demange talked to people about the holiday.JIM OLDHAM: My name is Jim Oldham and Im from Nashville, Tennessee. I remember my father drove a bus and my mother was a waitress, and so we often didnt get to have Thanksgiving together. And I remember when I was about twelve, her work and his work

9、 permitted us all to do that. And we had brothers and sisters, and the traditional turkey and all the trimmings. We always had pumpkin pie, and if we were really lucky, a little bit of whipped cream on top. And it was just a wonderful day.ANN GEIGER: Im Ann Geiger from Tucson, Arizona. Thanksgiving

10、is special for our family because like so many families our adult children live around the country. And we usually get at least part of them together for Thanksgiving.REPORTER: And what is one of your fondest Thanksgiving Day memories?ANN GEIGER: Oh, I think a recent Thanksgiving when my son and I h

11、ad a turkey cook-off. He brined his turkey and I didnt brine mine. And we decided which one was the best.REPORTER: Who won?ANN GEIGER: He did.Brining is a way to prepare meat in a salt solution, whether for a competitive cook-off or just any meal. Traditionally the meat served on Thanksgiving is tur

12、key. The bird is usually served with side dishes including a mixture known either as stuffing or dressing.Many families also bring out their finest table settings - the good china - for Thanksgiving.JOEL UPTON: My name is Joel Upton. Im from Livingston, Tennessee. Thanksgiving at my family was alway

13、s a time when brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, cousins, we all got together. And someone would bring different dishes. Someone would bring the sweet potatoes. Someone would bring the meat. Someone would bring the dressing. And we would all sort of combine the efforts to have a family Thanksgi

14、ving dinner and bring out the good china for that particular event.And Thanksgiving also, in my early days when I was a child, the kids would all get to play, maybe we hadnt seen each other for a while. The men would always watch a football game on TV. And Thanksgiving was just a really, really spec

15、ial time. And, of course, we had in mind the Pilgrims and what it was all about too. But it was a family time.The Pilgrims first arrived in America in sixteen twenty. They were separatists from the Church of England and other settlers. The ship that brought the first group was the Mayflower.An explo

16、ring party landed at Plymouth, in what became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The state is named after an American Indian tribe - a recognition of the groups that came long before the Pilgrims.The first Pilgrims established a village. Those who survived the first difficult years held harvest fest

17、ivals and religious celebrations of thanksgiving. These events formed the basis of the holiday that Americans now celebrate.But there are no official rules for a Thanksgiving meal. Some people like to find ways to do things a little differently.BUTCH HUNSINGER: Butch Hunsinger from Williamsport, Pen

18、nsylvania.REPORTER: The bird. What are you going to do differently this year?BUTCH HUNSINGER: Try to shoot it myself, instead of go to the store to buy it. Go to the family cabin, and hunt on the family land and try to call in a turkey and fire away.REPORTER: And whos the better shot in the family?B

19、UTCH: Oh my son, by far.REPORTER: What about your worst Thanksgiving memory?BUTCH: Worst.Laughter The worst was also the funnest, cause I got up early Thanksgiving day and we went to the Burwick Marathon, but its a nine-mile road race. Just a crusher. LaughterHUGUETTE MBELLA: Hi, my name is Huguette

20、 Mbella. And I was born in Cameroon and grew up in France. And I live now in the United States in Washington, D.C. The whole concept of Thanksgiving was a little bit bizarre. In France, the main celebration is Christmas, not Thanksgiving.REPORTER: Can you think of one of your most fond Thanksgiving

21、memories?HUGUETTE MBELLA: I would say my first one. It was in New York. Suddenly the turkey comes on the table, and I was amazed by the size. It was huge! The first thing that came to my mind was actually thats a lot of food!ELIZABETH BRINKMAN: My name is Elizabeth Brinkman and Im from Cleveland, Oh

22、io. It was always a day that my mother did all the cooking. And we had turkey and I got to chop the vegetables for the dressing. And we got out the good china.GORDON GEIGER: Gordon Geiger from Tucson, Arizona. We used to get together at my parents house and all of my relatives would come over and we

23、d have a big dinner. And after dinner we would watch football games on the television.I think its probably really the most important holiday in the United States because it is a day that is not tied to a particular religion. It is not tied as much to commercial activities. Its more a reflection of t

24、he fact that weve had a good life and we appreciate it.This Thanksgiving, Americans can be thankful that the Great Recession may be over. But the job market faces a long recovery. Unemployment is now above ten percent. And if the underemployed are added, the rate is seventeen and a half percent. The

25、 underemployed are people no longer searching for work or only able to find part time jobs.Last week, the United States Department of Agriculture released its household food security report for two thousand eight. The study found that families in seventeen million households had difficulty getting e

26、nough food at times during the year. That was almost fifteen percent - up from eleven percent in two thousand seven. It was the highest level since the current surveys began in nineteen ninety-five.The Agriculture Department says poverty is the main cause of food insecurity and hunger in the United

27、States.President Obama, in a statement, called the report unsettling. Especially troubling, he said, is that there were more than five hundred thousand families in which a child experienced hunger multiple times during the year.He said the first task is to renew job growth, but added that his admini

28、stration is taking other steps to prevent hunger. These include an increase in aid for people in the governments nutrition assistance program, commonly known as food stamps.The Continental Congress wrote the first national Thanksgiving proclamation in seventeen seventy-seven, during the Revolutionar

29、y War. George Washington issued the first presidential Thanksgiving proclamation in seventeen eighty-nine. Here is part of what he wrote.READER:Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implor

30、e his protection and favor - and whereas both houses of Congress have by their joint committee requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially

31、by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the twenty-sixth day of November next to be devoted by the people of these states to the service of that great and glorious being, who is the b

32、eneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be .Sarah Josepha Hale was a magazine editor and writer who campaigned for a Thanksgiving holiday. That way, there would be two great American national festivals, she said, the other being Independence Day on the Fourth of July.In Sept

33、ember of eighteen sixty-three, Sarah Josepha Hale appealed to President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln had made proclamations in the spring of eighteen sixty-two and sixty-three. But these gave thanks for victories in battle during the Civil War.Then came another proclamation on October third, eighteen si

34、xty-three. It gave more general thanks for the blessings of the year. This is part of what it said:In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order

35、 has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields

36、 of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. .I do therefore invite my fell

37、ow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.Lincolns proclamation bega

38、n a tradition. Presidents have issued Thanksgiving proclamations every year since eighteen sixty-three. All can be found on the Web site of the Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth.In nineteen forty-one, Franklin Roosevelt was president. Roosevelt approved a resolution by Congress. It established, by law, the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.Our program was produced by Caty Weaver. Im Faith Lapidus. Join us again next week for THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.版权所有：高考资源网()版权所有：高考资源网()高考资源网版权所有 侵权必究