04 西部牛仔的歌曲
Date=2-22-2001
Title=the making of a nation #129 - cowboy songs
Byline=harold braverman
announcer:
The making of a nation -- a program in special english.
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Here is kay gallant with our program.
Narrator:
last week, we talked about the growth of the (1)cattle industry. This industry started in texas during the eighteen-seventies. With its growth came a new kind of worker -- the man who watched and took care of the cattle. These men who watched the cows and rode with them as they moved across the wild lands were often young. Just boys. And so they were called "cowboys."
People all over the world have seen all sorts of films about the (2)cowboy. And he is often shown in television shows. But the real life of the cowboy is not often shown. His work has been hard, and his life (3)lonely and full of danger.
The cowboy has told his own story in many songs and ballads. Hundreds of these have come from cowboys whose names are not known. They just sang these songs as they rode on the (4)saddles of their horses across the cattle lands. Or, as they sat at their campfires at night.
They sang about the things that were close to them. Horses and Cows and danger and death. Often, they sang about the long ride to the cattle markets where the cows were sold for beef, as in this song called, "git along little dogie."
(5)dogie is another name for a young cow, (6)especially one which (7)wanders away from the herd. The song tells how the young cowboy keeps (8)driving the dogies forward. He feels sorry for them, because they will soon be sold for meat. But that's their hard luck, not his. And he keeps (9)pushing them on while he sings
. ((tape cut 1: "git along little dogie"))
One of the most famous of cowboy (10)ballads is this one, called "the chisholm trail."
((tape cut 2: "the chisholm trail")) Day and night, the horse was at the cowboy's side. A cowboy was as proud of his horse as he was of his skill in riding him. There is this feeling in the song "i ride an old paint." a paint, or pinto, is a horse of three or more different colors.
((tape cut 3: "i ride an old paint"))
The cattle herds were driven a very long way to the cattle markets and had to be kept and watched on the open trail for many weeks. And the trail took the cowboys over rough country in all kinds of weather. The wild prairie lands were not (11)friendly to men or animals. It was a lonely land. And the howling of wolves and winds at night made it more so.
Across this (12)strange land, no man in the early days of the west knew just where death was waiting for him. A listener hears the (13)mournful feeling cowboys had for the prairie in this song called, "the dying cowboy." He does not want to be buried out in these wild lands -- in the lone prairie -- as the song says. Still, the dying cowboy does not get his wish. There is no choice. He can be buried only in the lone prairie in a narrow (14)grave six by three...six feet deep and three feet wide.
((tape cut 4: "the dying cowboy"))
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Announcer:
You have been listening to the special english program, the making of a nation. Your narrator was kay gallant.
(1) cattle[???????]n.牛, 家养牲畜
(2) cowboy[???????]n.<美>牛仔, 牧童, 美国西部牧人
(3) lonely[ ??????? ]adj.孤独的, 寂寞的, 偏僻的, 人迹罕至的
(4) saddle[ ????? ]n.鞍, 鞍状物v.承受
(5) dogie[ ?????? ]n.迷途小牛, 失去母牛的小牛
(6) especially[ ????????? ]adv.特别, 尤其
(7) wander[ ?????? ]vi.漫步, 徘徊, 迷路, 迷失方向, 离题
(8) drive[?????]n.驾车, 驱动器, 快车道, 推进力, 驱使, 动力, 干劲,
(9) push[ ??? ]n.推, 推动, 奋发, 干劲, 进取心, 攻击vt.推, 推动,
(10) ballad[ ?????? ]n.民歌, 歌谣, 叙事歌, 流行歌曲, 情歌
(11) friendly[ ???????? ]adj.友好的, 友谊的
(12) strange[ ?????????]adj.陌生的, 生疏的, 前所未知的, 奇怪的,
(13) mournful[ ?????????]adj.悲哀的
(14) grave[ ????? ]n.墓穴, 坟墓adj.严重的, (颜色)黯淡的,
05 2002年冬奥会将在盐湖城举行
DATE= 2-23-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #806 - (1)Utah Olympic Park
BYLINE=George Grow
ANNCR:
(Start at 1'05")The Two-Thousand-Two Winter Olympic Games will begin in February of next year. They will be held in and around Salt Lake City, the (2)capital of the western American state of Utah. Shep O'Neal tells us about one of the main sports areas built for the winter games.
HOST:
The Utah Olympic Park is high in the Wasatch Mountains, about forty kilometers east of Salt Lake. It is about two-thousand-two-hundred meters above sea level. The (3)mountains receive an (4)average of seven- and-one-half meters of snow each winter.
The Utah Olympic Park (5)extends over one-hundred-fifty hectares of land. The Park has five areas for ski jump (6)competitions. In warm weather, (7)skiers train on (8)special man-made jumps.
An Olympic-size track has been built for bobsleigh and (9)luge competitions. It is one of only three such tracks in North America. The track is close to the ground and has fifteen turns. Its path is (10)similar in shape to the land.
The Utah Olympic Park will hold four major (11)events during the Two-Thousand-Two Winter Games. They are the Nordic skiing, (12)bobsleigh, luge, and (13)skeleton competitions. The skeleton event has not been seen at the Olympics since Nineteen-Forty-Eight. Officials expect it to be extremely popular next year. Athletes competing in the skeleton slide down the track on a luge sled. But they lie on their stomachs instead of their backs.
The Utah Olympic Park can hold about twenty-thousand people to watch the ski jumping event. It can hold about fifteen-thousand people to see the other events. The Utah Olympic Park already is used for national and international competitions. It also (14)operates as a (15)training center for the competitors. And, young people who wish to join the United States national teams train there.
The Utah Olympic Park is open to the (16)public during the summer and winter months. Everyone is welcome to watch the athletes train and compete against each other. Visitors also can try some of the Olympic sports. This includes going down one of the ski jumps or riding on the bobsleigh or luge track.
介绍奥兰治海岸学院
DATE=2-23-2001
TYPE=Special English (17)Feature NUMBER=7-21961
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #806 - Foreign Student Series: Part 23, Orange Coast College
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
Our VOA listener question this week comes in an e-mail from (18)Vietnam. Nguyen Hanh Thao asks about Orange Coast College.
(19)Orange (20)Coast College is one of the largest (21)community colleges in the United States. It is in the southern California town of Costa Mesa. Orange Coast College offers more than one-hundred programs to train students for jobs. Students usually graduate after two years. Orange Coast College also prepares students to continue studying at a four-year college or university.
College officials say foreign students who want to attend Orange Coast College must earn a score of at least five-hundred on the written Test of English as a Foreign Language. Foreign students must also be tested in English and (22)mathematics when they arrive at Orange Coast College. Each student has an adviser to help choose which classes to take.
Classes for one year at Orange Coast Community College cost about three-thousand dollars. Housing and food cost another seven-thousand dollars. Orange Coast College does not provide housing for its students. However, its International Student Center helps foreign students find American families in the (23)area with whom they can live. The International Student Center also helps foreign students prepare any necessary (24)documents, choose (25)activities and plan for (26)trips.
More than twenty-two-thousand students (27)attend Orange Coast College. More than one-thousand-two-hundred are from outside the United States. They are from seventy-four different nations. College officials say about half the foreign students are in work-training programs. The others are preparing to attend a four-year college or university. Most are studying (28)business or (29)computer science.
You can learn more about Orange Coast College by using a computer. The address is www.occ.edu. Students who use a computer can get similar information about any American college by typing the college's name into a computer search engine. Click on the name from the list provided and the college's (30)web (31)site should appear.
简介戴尔 埃文斯
DATE=2-23-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #806 - Dale Evans
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
American western actress and singer Dale Evans died earlier this month. She was eighty-eight years old. She is best remembered as the wife of "The King of The Cowboys," Roy Rogers. She was known as "Queen of the West." Dale Evans also wrote books and music. Shirley Griffith tells us about her.
ANNCR:
The real name of Dale Evans was Frances Octavia Smith. She was born in Texas and raised in (32)Arkansas. She started singing after high school.
In Nineteen-Forty, she got a job singing on a national radio show. Then she moved to California and acted in movies. Dale Evans and Roy Rogers appeared in a movie together in Nineteen-Forty-Four. They married three years later. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans (33)appeared in thirty-five movies together.
They also recorded more than four-hundred songs. Dale Evans wrote some of them. Here she sings a (34)religious song she wrote, "Get To Know The Lord."
((CUT 1: GET TO KNOW THE LORD))10'47''
Dale Evans also wrote more than twenty books. The most (35)popular was "Angel Unaware". It was about their daughter Robin, who died before she was two years old.
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans appeared on a popular children's television program in the Nineteen-Fifties, "The Roy Rogers Show." Many Americans still remember Dale and Roy singing their theme song at the end of each show. Dale Evans wrote it. We leave you now with that song, "Happy Trails."
(1) Utah[????????]n.犹他州(略作Ut.,UT)
(2) capital[ ???????? ]n.首都, 首府, 大写字母, 资本, adj.首都的, 重要的, 死罪的, 大写的,
(3) mountain[ ???????? ]n.山, 山脉
(4) average[ ???????? ]n.平均, 平均水平, 平均数, 海损adj.一般的, 通常的, 平均的
(5) extend[ ???????? ]v.扩充, 延伸, 伸展, 扩大[军]使疏开, 给予, 提供, 演化出的全文
(6) competition[ ??????????? ]n.竞争, 竞赛
(7) skier[?????????]n.滑雪的人
(8) special[ ??????? ]n.特派员, 专车, 专刊adj.特别的, 特殊的, 专门的, 专用的
(9) luge[ lu:? ]n.竞赛用的小型撬vi.坐小橇内滑雪
(10) similar[ ??????? ]adj.相似的, 类似的
(11) event[ ?????? ]n.事件, 事变, 结果, 活动, 精力, 竞赛
(12) bobsleigh[????????]n.长橇
(13) skeleton[ ????????? ]n.(动物之)骨架, 骨骼, 基干, 纲要, 万能钥匙
(14) operate[ ???????? ]v.操作, 运转, 开动, 起作用, 动手术, 开刀n.[军]作军事行动
(15) training[ ???????? ]n.训练, 练习adj.训练的
(16) public[ ??????? ]n.公众, (特定的)人群, 公共场所adj.公众的, 公共的, 公立的, 公用的
(17) feature[ ??????? ]n.面貌的一部分(眼,口,鼻等)特征, 容貌, 特色, 特写vt.是...的特色,
(18) Vietnam[?????????]n.越南
(19) Orange[ ??????? ][史]奥林奇派的
(20) coast[ ????? ]n.海岸, 滑坡v.沿海岸而行
(21) community[ ??????????? ]n.公社, 团体, 社会, (政治)共同体, 共有, 一致, 共同体
(22) mathematics[ ???????????? ]n.数学
(23) area[ ?????? ]n.范围, 区域, 面积, 地区, 空地
(24) document[ ?????????? ]n.公文, 文件, 文档, 档案, 文献v.证明
(25) activity[ ????????? ]n.活跃, 活动性, 行动, 行为, [核]放射性
(26) trip[ ???? ]n.(短途)旅行, 摔倒, 失足, 往返, 旅程vt.使跌倒, 使犯错, vi.轻快地走, 绊倒
(27) attend[ ?????? ]vt.出席, 参加, 照顾, 护理, 注意vi.专心, 留意
(28) business[ ??????? ]n.商业, 买卖, 交易, 生意, 事情, 事物, 营业, 商行
(29) computer[ ?????????? ]n.计算机, 电脑
(30) web[ ??? ]n.网, 蛛丝, 蹼, 翼手, 织物, 圈套,
(31) site[ ???? ]n.地点, 场所, 遗址vt.定...的地点n.站点
(32) Arkansas[ ????????? ]n.阿肯色州(美国中南部的州)
(33) appear[ ????? ]vi.出现, 看来, 似乎, 公开露面, 出版, 发表
(34) religious[ ????????? ]adj.信奉宗教的, 虔诚的, 宗教上的, 修道的, 严谨的n.僧侣,
(35) popular[ ???????? ]adj.通俗的, 流行的, 受欢迎的
06 作家海明威的一生 (一)
DATE=2-25-01
TITLE=PEOPLE IN AMERICA #1810 - ERNEST HEMINGWAY, PT. 1
BYLINE=RICHARD THORMAN
voice one:
I'm shirley griffith. Voice two: And I'm frank oliver with people in america, a special english program about people who were important in the history of the united states. Today, we tell about the life of writer ernest hemingway.
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Voice one:
"A writer is always alone, always an (1)outsider," (2)ernest (3)hemingway said. Others said that of the many people he (4)created in his books, hemingway was his own best creation
Ernest hemingway was born in eighteen-ninety-five. He grew up in (5)oak park, illinois, near the middle western city of chicago. He was the second child in a family of six. His father was a doctor. His mother liked to paint and play the piano.
Each summer the family travelled to their holiday home in northern (6)michigan. Ernest's father taught him how to catch fish, hunt, set up a camp and cook over a fire.
At home in oak park, ernest wrote for his school newspaper. He tried to write like a famous sports writer of that time, ring lardner. He developed his writing skills this way.
Voice two:
In nineteen-seventeen, hemingway decided not to go to a (7)university. The united states had just entered world war one and he wanted to join the army. But the army rejected him because his (8)yesight was not good enough. Ernest found a job with the (9)kansas city star newspaper in kansas city, (10)missouri. He reported news from the hospital, police (11)headquarters, and the railroad station. One reporter remembered: "hemingway liked to be where the action was."
The kansas city star (12)demanded that its reporters write short (13)sentences. It wanted reporters to see the unusual details in an (14)incident. Hemingway quickly learned to do both.
He worked for the newspaper only nine months before he joined the red cross to help on the battlefields of europe. His job was to drive a red cross truck carrying wounded away from battle.
Voice one:
The red cross sent him to italy. Soon he saw his first wounded when an arms factory in (15)milan exploded. Later, he was sent to the battle front. He went as close to the fighting as possible to see how he would act in the face of danger. Before long, he was seriously wounded.
The war ended soon after he healed. Hemingway returned to the united states. Less than a year had passed since he went to (16)europe. But in that short time he had changed forever. He needed to write about what he had seen. Voice two:
Ernest hemingway left home for chicago to prove to himself, and to his family, that he could earn a living from his (17)writing.
But, he ran out of money and began to write for a newspaper again. The canadian newspaper, the (18)toronto star, liked his reports about life in chicago and paid him well.
Voice one:
In chicago, hemingway met the writer sherwood anderson. Anderson was one of the first writers in america to write about the lives of common people. Hemingway saw that anderson's stories showed life as it really was, the way hemingway was trying to do.
Anderson gave hemingway advice about his writing. He told hemingway to move to paris, where living was less costly. He said paris was full of young artists and writers from all over the world.
In return for anderson's (19)kindness hemingway wrote a book called the torrents of spring. It makes fun of anderson and the way he wrote. There was something in hemingway that could not say "thank you" to anyone. He had to believe he did everything for himself, even when he knew others helped him. Voice two:
Hemingway decided to move to paris. But before he did he married a woman he had recently met. Her name was hadley (20)richardson.
Paris was cold and gray when hemingway and his new wife arrived in nineteen-twenty-one. They lived in one of the poorer parts of the city. Their rooms were small and had no running water. But the toronto star (21)employed him as its european reporter, so there was enough money for the two of them to live. And the job gave hemingway time to write his stories.
Voice one:
Hemingway enjoyed (22)exploring paris, making new friends, learning french customs and sports. Some new friends were artists and writers who had come to paris in the nineteen-twenties. Among them were poet, ezra pound, and writers gertrude stein, john dos passos, and f. Scott (23)fitzgerald. They quickly saw that hemingway was a good writer. They helped him publish his stories in the united states. He was thankful for their support at the time, but later denied that he had received help.
As a reporter, hemingway travelled all over europe. He wrote about (24)politics. He wrote about peace conferences and border disputes. And he wrote about sports, skiing and fishing. Later he would write about bull fighting in spain. The toronto star was pleased with his work, and wanted more of his reports. But hemingway was busy with his own writing.
He said: "sometimes, i would start a new story and could not get it going. Then i would stand and look out over the roofs of paris and think. I would say to myself: 'all you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know. So (25)finally, i would write a true sentence and go on from there. It was a (26)wonderful (27)feeling when i had worked well." voice two:
Hemingway's first book of stories was called in our time. It included a story, called "big two hearted river," about the effect of war on a young man. It tells about the young man taking a long fishing trip in michigan. Hemingway had learned from his father when he was a boy about living in the wild.
The story is about two kinds of rivers. One is calm and clear. It is where the young man fishes. The other is dark. It is a (28)swamp, a (29)threatening place.
The story shows the young man trying to forget his past. He is also trying to forget the war. Yet he never really speaks about it. The reader learns about the young man, not because hemingway tells us what the young man thinks, but because he shows the young man learning about himself. "big two hearted river" is (30)considered one of the best modern american stories. It is often published in collections of best writing.
Voice one:
After the book was (31)published in nineteen-twenty-five, hadley and hemingway returned to the united states for the birth of their son. They quickly returned to paris.
Hemingway was working on a long story. He wanted to publish a (32)novel so he would be recognized as a(33)serious writer. And he wanted the money a novel would earn.
The novel was called the sun also rises. It is about young americans in europe after world war one. The war had destroyed their (34)dreams. And it had given them nothing to replace those dreams. The writer gertrude stein later called these people members of "the lost (35)generation."
Voice two:
The book was an (36)immediate success. At the age of twenty-five ernest hemingway was famous.
Many people, however, could not recognize hemingway's art because they did not like what he wrote about. Hemingway's sentences were short, the way he had been taught to write at the kansas city star newspaper. He wrote about what he knew and felt. He used few descriptive words. His statements were clear and easily understood.
He had learned from earlier writers, like ring lardner and sherwood anderson. But hemingway brought something new to his writing. He was able to paint in words what he saw and felt. In later books, sometimes he missed. Sometimes he even looked foolish. But when he was right he was almost perfect. Voice one:
With the success of his novel, hemingway became even more popular in paris. Many people came to see him. One was an american woman, pauline pfeiffer. She became hadley's friend. Then pauline fell in love with hemingway. Hemingway and pauline saw each other secretly. One time, they went away together on a short trip. Years later, hemingway wrote about returning home after that trip:
"when i saw hadley again, i wished i had died before i ever loved anyone but her. She was smiling and the sun was on her lovely face."
But the (37)marriage was over. Ernest hemingway and hadley separated. She kept their son. He agreed to give her money he (38)earned from his books.
In later years, he looked back at his marriage to hadley as the happiest time of his life.
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voice two:
This people in america (39)program was written by richard thorman and bill rogers. I'm frank oliver.
Voice one:
And i'm shirley griffith. Join us again next week for the final part of the story of erndst hemingway in special english on the voice of america.
(1) outsider[???????????? ]n.无取胜希望者
(2) Ernest[ ????????]n. 欧内斯特（男子名）
(3) Hemingway[ ????????? ]海明威(①姓氏 ②Ernest, 1899-1961, 美国小说家, 曾获1954 年诺贝尔文学奖)
(4) create[ ??????? ]vt.创造, 创作, 引起, 造成
(5) oak[???? ]n.[植]橡树, 橡木adj.橡木制的
(6) Michigan[????????]n.密歇根州(美国州名)
(7) university[ ?????????????? ]n.(综合)大学
(8) eyesight[???????]n.视力, 目力
(9) Kansas[ ??????? ]n.堪萨斯州
(10) Missouri[ ?????????]n.密苏里州(美国州名)
(11) headquarters[????????????? ]n.司令部, 指挥部, 总部
(12) demand[ ???????? ]n.要求, 需求(量), 需要v.要求, 需要, 要求知道, 查询
(13) sententia[??????????]n.[常作 sententiae]警句, 格言
(14) incident[?????????? ]n.事件, 事变adj.附带的, 易于发生的
(15) Milan[mI????????????]n.米兰(意大利北部城市)
(16) Europe[ ??????? ]n.欧洲
(17) writing[ ??????? ]n.笔迹, 作品, 著述
(18) Toronto[ ????????? ]n. 多伦多（加拿大）
(19) kindness[?????????? ]n.仁慈, 亲切, 好意, 善意
(20) Richardson[ ????????? ]理查森(①姓氏②Sir Owen Willians,1879-1959, 英国物理学家, 曾获1928年诺贝尔物理学奖)
(21) employe[ ???????????????????? ](=employee) n.雇工, 从业员
(22) exploring[ ??????????? ]扫描, 探索的, 探测的
(23) Fitzgerald[ ???????????? ]菲茨杰拉德(①姓氏 ②Edward, 1809-1883, 英国诗人, 戏曲和诗 的翻译家 ③Francis Scott Key, 1896-1940, 美国小说家)
(24) politics[ ????????? ]n.政治, 政治学, 政纲, 政见
(25) finally????????I]adv.最后, 终于, 不可更改地, 决定性地
(26) wonderful[ ????????? ]adj.令人惊奇的, 奇妙的, 极好的, 令人愉快的
(27) feeling[ ??????? ]n.知觉, 感觉, 情绪, 同情adj.富于感情的, 富于同情心的, 有同情心的,
(28) swamp[?????? ]n.沼泽, 湿地, 煤层聚水v.陷入沼泽, 淹没, 覆没
(29) threatening[?????????? ]adj.胁迫的, 危险的
(30) considered[?????????? ]adj.考虑过的, 被尊重的
(31) publisher[???????????]n.出版者, 发行人
(32) novel[??????? ]n.小说, 长篇故事adj.新奇的, 新颖的, 异常的
(33) serious[ ???????? ]adj.严肃的, 认真的, 严重的
(34) dream[ ????? ]v.做梦, 梦见, 梦想, 想到n.梦, 梦想
(35) generation[ ????????????? ]n.产生, 发生, 一代, 一代人
(36) immediate[?????????? ]adj.直接的, 紧接的, 紧靠的, 立即的, 知觉的
(37) marriage[ ??????? ]n.结婚, 婚姻, 婚姻生活, 密切结合, 合并
(38) earn[ ??? ]vt.赚, 挣得, 获得v.赚得, 获得
(39) program[?????????? ]n.节目, 程序, 纲要, 计划vt.规划, 拟...计划, 安排...入节目vi.安 排节目, 编程序(电脑)程序,(电视)节目
