27 布什总统钟爱的运动项目--棒球
DATE=4-13-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #813 - T-Ball at the White House
BYLINE=George Grow
HOST:
（Start at 59"）President Bush has always loved the game of baseball. Mister Bush says that when he was a boy he wanted to grow up to be a baseball player.
Recently, the President announced an effort designed to help America's national sport. Starting this spring, part of the White House grounds will be opened for T-ball, a children's kind of baseball. Shako Neal has more.
ANNCR:
T-ball is a game played by children between the ages of five and eight. Unlike baseball, there is no (1) pitcher to throw the ball. Instead, the ball is placed on a stick usually made of strong plastic. A child uses a bat to swing at the ball. No one cares if a child swings and misses. The goal is to let young children learn to play the game of baseball.
T-ball games at the White House will take place each month during the baseball season for the next four years. Hundreds of Washington area boys and girls will have a chance to play T-ball on the White House South Lawn. They will play in an area where the presidential (2) helicopter sometimes lands.
White House officials plan to change the South Lawn from an open, grassy space into a baseball field. They will set up seats so people can watch the games.
A newly- created White House office will supervise the T-ball program. A (3) spokesman for the President says the program will make an effort to include children from poor families.
Mister Bush (4) announced the plan at a gathering of famous former baseball players. He described his plan as a small way to protect what he calls the best of baseball. The President spoke about the first baseball game he ever attended.
As a boy, Mister Bush played on Little (5) League baseball teams. Later, he played baseball at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. His father, former President George Bush, also played baseball at Yale.
Before entering (6) government, George W. Bush was one of the owners of the Texas Rangers baseball team. In Nineteen-Eighty-Nine, Mister Bush invested six- hundred- thousand dollars with the Rangers. He sold his interest in the team before becoming governor of Texas. By that time, his investment had earned fifteen- million dollars.
Mister Bush has written about how baseball influenced his life. He said the game taught him to develop a strong resistance against (7) critics. He said it also taught him to rise above minor problems and work instead on long-term goals.
美国科技天才选拔测试
DATE=4-13-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #813 - Intel Science Talent Search
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 5'01")Our VOA question this week comes from a listener in Japan. Fumio Nishimoto asks about the Intel Science Talent Search for young people.
The (1) science talent search first began in Nineteen-Forty-Two as a way to get more American high school students (2) involved in science. The competition was known as the Westinghouse Science (3) Talent Search until Nineteen-Ninety-Eight. It is the oldest program in the United States that honors the science projects of high school students.
The program provides a way for American high school students to design and complete research (4) projects. Well-known scientists judge the projects. The projects must show the use of reasoning skills and the scientific method. They can deal with any area of science, including （5） chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, social science and biology.
The winners receive money for a college education and a new computer. Usually, more than one- thousand students enter projects for the competition each year. Forty students are invited to Washington, D.C. each spring for the final judging by scientists. They judge the students on their research ability and （6） creative thinking. They also question the students about scientific problems before deciding on the top ten winners.
The Science Talent Search has given awards to more than two- thousand young Americans. It has provided more than five- million dollars in money for college. Ninety-five percent of the high school winners went on to study science in college. More than seventy percent earned high-level degrees in science and medicine.
More than one- hundred winners of the world's most important science and mathematics honors took part in the science talent search when they were in high school. These honors include the National Medal of Science, MacArthur Foundation （7） Fellowship, the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize. The Intel Company says it wants to continue the program as a way to improve science, mathematics, engineering and technology education.
摇滚音乐名人堂
DATE=4-13-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #813 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 8'20")Some famous recording artists were named to the (1) Rock and (2) Roll Hall of (3) Fame last month. The Hall of Fame has been honoring rock and roll singers and （4） songwriters for sixteen years. Musicians can become members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twenty-five years after their first （5）recordings. Shirley Griffith tells us about a few of the new members.
ANNCR:
Singer and songwriter Paul Simon joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the second time. He first entered the Hall of Fame in Nineteen-Ninety, as part of the group Simon and Garfunkel. This year, he was honored for music he wrote and recorded alone. Here is an example, "Graceland".
((CUT 1: GRACELAND))
Another new member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was also honored for the second time. Michael Jackson first joined the Hall of Fame in Nineteen-Ninety-Seven as a member of the Jackson Five. This year, he was honored for songs he recorded alone, like this one, "Beat It".
((CUT 2: BEAT IT))
A third new member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was killed in a plane crash in Nineteen-Fifty-Nine. His name was Ritchie Valens. We leave you now with Ritchie Valens singing his big （6）hit record, "La Bamba."
注释：
（1） pitcher [ ?????? ]n.(带柄和倾口的)大水罐, (棒球)投手
（2） helicopter[??????????]n.直升(飞)机, 直升机
（3） spokesman[??????????? ]n.发言人, 代表者
（4） announce[???????]v.通告；宣布
（5） league?[????]n.同盟,社团，
（6） government[??????????]n.统治;政府
（7） critic[ ???????]n.评论家, 吹毛求疵者
注释：
(1) science [???????]n.科学，科学研究
(2) involved[????????]a.复杂的
(3) talent[???????]n.天资，天赋；才能
(4) project[?????????]n.计划；设计
(5) chemistry[?????????]n.化学
(6) creative[??????????]a.有创造力的；创造性的；独创的
(7) fellowship[ ????????? ]n.伙伴关系, 团体, 奖学金, 友谊
注释：
(1) rock[???]v.摇摆；摆动
(2) roll [r??l]v.滚动；转动；打滚
(3) fame [????]n.名声；声望
(4) songwriter [?????????? ]n. 歌曲作家，歌曲作者
(5) recording[r????????]n录音节目
(6) hit[h?t]v.打；打击 n. 成功的表演
28 美国 "诗歌月"
DATE=4/16/01
TITLE=THIS IS AMERICA #1060 - National Poetry Month and Walt Whitman BYLINE=Jerilyn Watson
VOICE ONE:
April is National （1）Poetry Month. People are （2）celebrating poetry in the United States, around the world and even in space. I'm Shirley Griffith.
VOICE TWO:
And I'm Sarah Long. We tell about National Poetry Month and the great American poet Walt Whitman on our report today on the VOA Special English program, THIS IS AMERICA.
((THEME))
VOICE ONE:
America's National Poetry Month has become a (3) worldwide event. Millions of people are taking part in poetry activities this month. People are reading poems in more than one- hundred cities around the world. They are presenting poems in Antarctica and on Mount Everest. (4) Astronauts are reading poems on the International Space Station.
The (5) Academy of American Poets organized this worldwide National Poetry Month celebration. The academy was (6) established in Nineteen-Thirty-Four to support poets and their work. It started the first National Poetry Month in Nineteen-Ninety-Six. The goal was to help more Americans add poetry to their lives.
VOICE TWO:
In the Nineteenth (7) Century, one of America's greatest writers, Walt Whitman, helped people learn to value poetry. Whitman created a new kind of poetry. People across the nation are (8) honoring Whitman with readings of his work during National Poetry Month.
Walt Whitman was born in Eighteen-Nineteen in New York City. During his long life, he watched America grow from a new nation to the strongest industrial power in the world. Whitman was (9) influenced by events around him. But his poetry speaks of the inner self. He celebrated great people like President Abraham Lincoln. He also celebrated common people.
VOICE ONE:
As a young man, Whitman worked as a schoolteacher, a printer and a newspaper reporter. He was thirty-six years old when he (10) published his first book of poetry in Eighteen-Fifty-Five. He called it "Leaves of Grass." It had only twelve poems. The poems are written in free verse. The lines do not follow any set form. Some lines are short. Some are long. The words at the end of each line do not have a similar sound. They do not (11) rhyme.
Here are some lines from the famous poem "Song of Myself" from "Leaves of Grass." Whitman writes about grass as a sign of (12) everlasting life.
VOICE THREE:
A child said, what is the grass? Fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green (13) stuff woven.
Or I guess it is the (14) handkerchief of the Lord,
A scented gift and (15) remembrancer designedly dropped,
Bearing the owner's name someway in the covners, that we may see and (16) remark, and say whose?
…And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of (17) graves,
Tenderly will I use you curling grass?
It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men…
…It may be you are from old people, or from (18) offspring taken soon out of their mother's laps.
VOICE TWO:
One of America's greatest thinkers and writers immediately recognized the importance of "Leaves of Grass." Ralph Waldo Emerson praised Whitman's work. But most other poets and writers said nothing or (19) denounced it.
Most readers also rejected Whitman’s poems. The new form of his poetry surprised many people. His praise of the human body and sexual love shocked many people. Whitman was (20) homosexual. He loved other men. Some people disliked Whitman’s opinions of society. He rejected the search for money and power.
Even his own brother told Whitman that he should stop writing poetry. But Whitman had many things to say. And he continued to say them. Readers began to understand that America had a great new poetic voice.
((BRIDGE MUSIC))
VOICE ONE:
The American Civil War began in Eighteen-Si|ty-One. The southern states had broken away from the United States. They wanted to protect their rights against the central government. They especially wanted to continue owning black (21) slaves.
The northern states fought the South to save the Union and free the slaves. Walt Whitman hated slavery because he believed all people are equal. He supported the northern cause.
During the war Whitman worked for the government in Washington, D.C. He also worked without pay at army hospitals. He helped care for wounded and dying soldiers. He sat beside these men for hours. He wrote letters for them. He brought them food and money.
Whitman sometimes saw President Abraham Lincoln riding his horse in Washington. President Lincoln was murdered soon after the Civil War ended. Whitman honored him with a poem called "When (22) Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed." The poem describes Lincoln as a great spirit and a fallen star. This is how the poem begins:
VOICE THREE:
When lilacs last in the dooryard (23) bloomed,
And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,
I (24) mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
VOICE THREE (CONT):
Lilac blooming (25) perennial and (26) drooping star in the west,
And thought of him I love.
O powerful western fallen star!
VOICE TWO:
After the Civil War, Whitman worked for government agencies. He watched the United States try to heal itself and increase democracy.
To Walt Whitman, democracy was more than a political system or idea. It was the natural form of government for free people. Whitman believed democracy is meant to honor the rights of every person and the equality of all people. Whitman (27) denounced people who believed they were better than others in the eyes of God. He expresses these ideas in his poem "Song of Myself."
VOICE THREE:
I think I could turn and live with animals; they are so placid and self-contained,
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweet and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is (28) demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, or to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
((MUSIC BRIDGE))
VOICE ONE:
Experts today praise "Leaves of Grass" as a major (29) literary work. In his time, Whitman thought of it as a work in progress. He re-published the book every few years for the rest of his life. Each time he added new poems. And he changed many of the old lines. The last version of the book contained more than four- hundred poems. By then, Whitman's fame had spread to many nations.
In Eighteen-Seventy-Three, Walt Whitman suffered a stroke. He spent the last years of his life in Camden, New Jersey. He wrote more poems. He also wrote about political and democratic policies.
Whitman was poor and weak during the last years of his life. He died in Eighteen-Ninety-Two. But if we can believe his poetry, death held no terrors for him. Listen to these lines from "Song of Myself":
VOICE THREE:
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me…
And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me…
And as to you Life I (30) reckon you are the leavings of many deaths.
(No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before)…
Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
It is not chaos or death -- it is form, union, plan -- it is eternal life -- it is Happiness…
I depart as air; I shake my white locks at the runaway sun…
I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless…
Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you.
VOICE TWO:
Some critics say Walt Whitman was a spokesman for democracy. Others say he was not a spokesman for anything. Instead, they simply call him a great poet. We leave you now with more words from "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman.
VOICE THREE:
I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, I am the poet of the woman the same as the man
(PAUSE)
I celebrate myself.
((THEME))
VOICE ONE:
This program was written by Jerilyn Watson. It was produced by Caty Weaver. The poetry was read by Steve Ember. I'm Shirley Griffith.
VOICE TWO:
And I'm Sarah Long. Join us again next week for another report about life in the United States on the VOA Special English program, THIS IS AMERICA.
注释：
(1) poetry[ ?????????????????? ]n.诗,诗意
(2) celebrate[ ?????????? ]v.庆祝, 祝贺
(3) worldwide[?????????????????]adj.全世界的
(4) astronaut[??????????]n.太空人, 宇航员
(5) academy [ ???????? ]n.(高等)专科院校, 研究院
(6) established[ ?????????? ]adj.已制定的, 确定的
(7) century[ ????????????????? ]n.世纪, 百年
(8) honor[ ?????]n.尊敬, 敬意v.尊敬, 给以荣誉
(9) influence[ ????????? ]n.影响, 感化v.影响, 改变
(10) publish[ ??????? ]v.出版,公布
(11) rhyme[ ???? ]n.韵, 押韵v.押韵
(12) everlasting[ ???????????? ]adj.永恒的, 持久的, 无止境的, 耐用的
(13) stuff[ ?????]n.原料, 材料, 素材资料v.塞满, 填满, 填充
(14) handkerchief[???????????? ]n.手帕
(15) remembrancer[ ?????????????]n.纪念品, 提醒者
(16) remark????????? ]n.备注, 评论, 注意, 注释v.评论
(17) Graves [??????] n（法国）格拉夫葡萄酒
(18) offspring [????????????????????] n..儿女, 子孙
(19) denounce[ ???????? ]v.公开指责, 公然抨击,
(20) homosexual[ ???????????????? ]adj.同性恋的n.同性恋
(21) slave[ ????? ]n.奴隶v.辛勤努力
(22) lilac [???????] n. [植] 丁香 (尤指西洋丁花) 紫丁香adj.淡紫色的
(23) bloomed[ ????????] a.模糊的,发晕的
(24) mourn[ ?????]v.哀悼, 忧伤
(25) perennial[ ????????? ]adj.四季不断的, 终年的
(26) drooping[????????]adj.下垂的,无力的
(27) denounce[ ?????????]v.公开指责, 公然抨击,
(28) demented[ ????????? ]adj.失去本性的, 发狂的
(29) literary[?????????? ]adj.文学(上)的, 从事写作的
(30) reckon[ ?????? ]v.计算, 总计, 估计
29 高龄老人摩西的艺术创作历程
DATE=4-20-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #814 - Grandma Moses Show
BYLINE=Caty Weaver
HOST:
（Start at 55"）The American (1) artist known as Grandma Moses did not begin (2) painting until she was more than seventy-five years old. But her work soon was popular around the world. Shep O'Neal tells about her paintings now being shown in Washington, D-C.
ANNCR:
Jane Kallir (kuh-leer) is an (3) expert on the art of Grandma Moses. Mizz Kallir's grandfather was an art dealer in New York City. He organized Grandma Moses's first major show in Nineteen-Forty.
Sixty-one years later, Mizz Kallir is the guest organizer for a show of Grandma Moses's work. It is called "Grandma Moses in the Twenty-First Century." The （4）exhibit is at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
About ninety paintings are in the show. The colorful pictures show everyday life in small farming villages during the last century. That is the kind of life Grandma Moses knew in the states of New York and Virginia.
Grandma Moses wrote that her art was a （5）combination of memory and hope. There is a sense of well being in most of the paintings. The people look healthy and happy. Farmhouses and other buildings appear strong and well built. The farm animals are clean and fat. The grass is deep green. The snow is pure white.
But the life shown is not an easy one. Many of Grandma Moses's paintings show the hard labor connected to farm life. Men are gathering hay and hunting. Women are (6) sewing quilts and taking care of children.
Mizz Kallir writes that Grandma Moses used pictures in magazines and newspapers to help create her paintings. She cut out the pictures of people, animals and other things. She placed the cuttings on a piece of wood and drew around them. Then she painted them. This gives her subjects a flat quality.
Grandma Moses's name was Anna Mary Robertson Moses. She began painting when the disease （7）arthritis prevented her from doing the sewing she loved. She showed her paintings at country fairs and stores. An art collector discovered them and had them shown in New York City. By the early Nineteen-Fifties, Grandma Moses was famous around the world.
Grandma Moses died in Nineteen-Sixty-One at the age of one- hundred- one. She had produced more than one- thousand- six- hundred paintings in the last twenty years of her life.
美国的传统节日--复活节
DATE=4-20-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #814 - Easter Traditions
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 4'34")Our VOA listener question this week comes from Germany. Michael Westphal asks about Easter (1) customs in the United States.
Christians in the United States celebrated Easter last Sunday, April fifteenth. (2) Easter is the day (3) Christians believe that （4）Jesus Christ rose from the dead about two- thousand years ago. Most Christians believe Jesus was sent to Earth to save humans from （5）wrongdoing, and to give them everlasting life.
Thousands of American churches held services outside on Easter morning. This tradition is very old. It probably was started by Moravian Christians in the Eastern State of Pennsylvania in 1743. This Moravian service of praise still is held today.
Sunrise services in the United States are usually planned to include members of many Christian religious groups. One of the most famous takes place at the Hollywood Bowl, an outdoor center in Los Angeles, California. People arrive the night before to try to gain attendance to this event.
Many Americans also observe Easter customs not directly linked to religious tradition. People in many cities walk through the streets on Easter morning after attending church. Each year, thousands of people in New York City wear new clothes to take part in this Easter (6) parade on Fifth Avenue.
Some families color eggs and hide them for their children to find. Parents say a rabbit leaves the Easter eggs. The rabbit is known as the Easter （7）Bunny. Here in Washington, a big celebration takes place each year the day after Easter. The President of the United States invites children to play a game rolling colored Easter eggs on the grounds around the White House.
President Rutherford Hayes and his wife, Lucy, started this American Easter (8) tradition in Eighteen-Seventy-Eight. This year, rain forced officials to cancel the White House Easter Easter_Egg Roll. But the children who had planned to take part got a special tour of the White House, and received a wooden Easter egg instead.
美国流行音乐家约翰·菲利浦
DATE=4-20-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #814 - John Phillips
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 7'55")American （1）singer and songwriter John Phillips died last month. He is best known as a member of the （2）popular Nineteen-Sixties singing group "The Mamas and the Papas." Shirley Griffith has more.
ANNCR:
John Phillips was singing with a （3）folk group in New York City in the Nineteen-Sixties. He and his wife Michelle formed The Mamas and the Papas with two friends, Denny Doherty and Cass Elliot. They moved to California in Nineteen-Sixty-Five.
The group recorded songs John Phillips had written. Their first big hit was one he wrote after walking through New York on a snowy day. It is "California Dreaming'."
((CUT 1: CALIFORNIA DREAMIN')
The Mamas and the Papas had other hit records. They performed all over the world. The group won a （4）Grammy award in Nineteen-Sixty-Six for another song John Phillips wrote, "Monday, Monday."
((CUT 2: MONDAY, MONDAY))
The Mamas and the Papas broke up in Nineteen-Sixty-Eight. John and Michelle Phillips ended their marriage. He wrote songs for other （5）performers. John Phillips had problems with alcohol and drugs and talked publicly about them. He was arrested for （6）illegal drug use in Nineteen-Eighty. He suffered health problems, including a liver -transplant operation in Nineteen-Ninety-Two. John Phillips continued to write and record music. He completed a new album just before he died.
We leave you now with another hit song written by John Phillips and recorded by the Mamas and the Papas, "I Saw Her Again."
注释：
（1） artist[ ??????? ]n.艺术家, 画家
（2） painting[????????? ]n.上油漆, 着色v.描绘
（3） expert[ ???????? ]n.专家, 行家adj.老练的, 内行的
（4） exhibit[ ?????????]v.展出, 陈列n.展览品
（5） combination[ ????????????? ]n.结合, 联合
（6） sewing[????????]n.裁缝, 缝纫
（7） arthritis[ ???????????]n.关节炎
注释：
(1) custom[ ????????]n.习惯, 风俗,海关v.定制
(2) Easter [??????] n. [宗](耶稣) 复活节
(3) Christian[ ????????? ]n.基督徒, 信徒adj.基督教的, 信基督教的
(4) Jesus[ ???????? ]n.耶稣(基督教信奉的救世主)
(5) wrongdoing[?????????????????]n.坏事, 不道德行为
(6) parade[ ??????? ]n.游行, 炫耀v.游行, 炫耀
(7) bunny[ ????? ]n.小兔子(儿童对兔子的昵称)
(8) tradition[ ????????? ]n.传统, 惯例
注释：
(1) singer[ ??????? ]n.歌手
(2) popular[ ???????? ]a.通俗的, 流行的, 受欢迎的
(3) folk[ ???? ]n.人们, 亲属(复数), 民族adj.民间的
(4) Grammy[??????]n.格莱美奖
(5) performer[???????????]n.表演者
(6) illegal[??????????]adj.违法的, 不合规定的
