54 "历史之眼"--白宫摄影作品展
DATE=6-22-01
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #823 - White House Photographers' Exhibit
BYLINE= Jerilyn Watson
HOST:
(Start at 0'53") The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., recently showed one-hundred-seventy-three news photographs. Some of America's best news photographers took the pictures. These men and women work for news services, magazines and newspapers. They belong to the White House News Photographers' Association. Their exhibit was called "The Eyes of History." Shirley Griffith tells us more.
ANNCR: 1'05"
The Corcoran Gallery exhibit showed some of the top news photographs of the year. These (1) images were made both in and out of the White House.
Time Magazine (2) photojournalist Diana Walker says photographers in the president's house are (3) restricted from some areas. But she had more freedom than many other photographers.
For example, she took photographs of former President Bill Clinton during his final hours in the White House. She was in the (4) Oval Office as Mister Clinton finished working on some papers. Soon the only paper on his desk was a letter to the new president. She took a picture as Mister Clinton looked out the Oval Office windows for the last time. Her picture (5) captured the feelings of America's forty-second president on an important day in his life.
Other photos in the exhibit showed very different events. For example, Doug Mills of the (6) Associated Press photographed a sailor wounded in the bombing of the Navy ship U-S-S Cole. The ship was attacked last October in Yemen. The wounded man is shown attending a memorial service for the seventeen (7) bombing (8) victims. He sits in a (9) wheelchair, receiving oxygen through a tube. The sailor and his wife press their heads together as they (10) mourn.
Washington Times photographer Gerald Herbert also took an emotional picture. He photographed an (11) emergency medical worker in Maryland. This man is holding the hand of an old woman patient as she dies. (12) Tension and loss show clearly on his young face.
A photo by Dudley Brooks of the Washington Post caught a happier moment. His photograph shows the great basketball player Michael Jordan laughing. The picture was taken during a (13) press conference announcing his new job as an official of the Washington Wizards basketball team.
Exhibit visitors say the White House news photographers' pictures will continue to live in their memories. And reports say the photographs may be published in a book. Then many more people will be able to enjoy "The Eyes of History."
潜水艇的发展史
DATE=6-22-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #823 - Submarines
BYLINE=Paul Thompson
HOST:
(Start at 4'33") Our VOA listener question this week comes from Niger. Igbuan Benson Bamidele asks about a kind of ship called a (1) submarine.
The idea of a boat or ship that can travel under water is extremely old. No one knows who first had the idea. However, the first boat that could travel under water was built by a (2) Dutch inventor named Cornelius van Drebbel. He (3) demonstrated his invention in England in about Sixteen-Twenty. It was a small boat that was covered in animal skins. However, no one at that time could think of a good use for a submarine.
A young inventor named David Bushnell built the first American submarine in Seventeen-Seventy-Six. Mister Bushnell designed a (4) craft he called the Turtle. It was used during the (5) American Revolutionary War. Mister Bushnell's submarine attacked the British warship H-M-S Eagle in New York harbor. He tried to attach a (6) bomb to the side of the ship. He was not successful. However, reports of the event said he (7) severely frightened the (8) crew of the Eagle.
The submarine was first used successfully as a weapon during (9) America's Civil War in the Eighteen-Sixties. A submarine built by the (10) Confederate States sank the Union ship U-S-S Housatonic near Charleston, (11) South Carolina. The little submarine was named the Hunley. It pushed a bomb into the side of the Housatonic. However, the small submarine and its crew were lost after the attack.
The United States Navy bought its first submarine in Nineteen-Hundred. (12) Nuclear powered submarines were built fifty years later. The world's first nuclear submarine was the U-S-S Nautilus. It was (13) launched in Nineteen-Fifty-Four. The U-S-S Nautilus is no longer an active submarine. It is a museum open to the public in the harbor in Groton, (14) Connecticut. Anyone who visits can walk through and examine the submarine.
Today, submarines carry a crew of about one-hundred fifty members. Some are huge -- more than one-hundred-sixty-eight meters long.
Recently, the Confederate submarine Hunley was found on the bottom of Charleston Bay. It was brought to the surface for study.
If you have a computer, you can find more information about the Hunley and other submarines. Have your computer search for H-U-N-L-E-Y or the word "submarine."
当红爵士乐手简·梦海特
DATE=6-22-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #823 - Jane Monheit
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 8'15") Jane Monheit (MON-hite) is being praised as the best young jazz singer performing today. She is twenty-three years old, and has just (1) released her second album. Shep O'Neal tells us about her.
ANNCR:
Jane Monheit grew up near New York City. Her parents were (2) professional musicians.
Jane Monheit studied voice at the Manhattan School of Music and won second place in the Thelonius Monk Vocal Competition. That led to her first album, "Never Never Land." It was released last year and sold more than sixty-thousand copies.
Jane Monheit says she included songs in the album that she loved as a child. The title song is from the show "Peter Pan."
((CUT 1: NEVER NEVER LAND))
(3) Critics say Mizz Monheit's voice is clear, smooth and controlled. They especially like her new album, "Come Dream With Me." They say her singing now (4) demonstrates great feeling. Here is an example, "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most."
((CUT 2: SPRING CAN REALLY HANG YOU UP THE MOST))
Now Jane Monheit is traveling across the United States performing her songs. She says that singing good songs makes her happy. We leave you now with another good song from Jane Monheit's new album, "Hit The Road To (5) Dreamland."
((CUT 3: HIT THE ROAD TO DREAMLAND))
(1) image [??????] n.图象, 肖像
(2) photojournalist [??????????????????] n.摄影记者
(3) restricted [???????????] adj.受限制的, 有限的
(4) Oval Office 美国总统办公室
(5) capture [???????] vt.俘获, 捕获, 夺取
(6) Associated Press [美]美联社
(7) bombing [??????] adj.轰炸, 投弹
(8) victim [???????] n.受害人, 牺牲者
(9) wheelchair [?????????] n.轮椅
(10) mourn [????] v.哀悼, 忧伤
(11) emergency [???????????] n.紧急情况, 突然事件, 紧急事件
(12) tension [???????] n.紧张(状态), 不安
(13) press conference n.记者招待会
(1) submarine [??????????] n.潜水艇, 潜艇 adj.水下的, 海底的
(2) Dutch [?????] adj.荷兰的
(3) demonstrate [????????????] vt.示范, 证明, 论证
(4) craft [??????] n.工艺, 手艺
(5) American Revolutionary War n.美国独立战争
(6) bomb [???] n.炸弹
(7) severely [????????] adv.严格地, 激烈地
(8) crew [????] n.全体人员, (工作)队
(9) America's Civil War n. 美国内战
(10) Confederate States n.（美国南北战争时的）南部邦联
(11) South Carolina n. 南卡罗来纳（美国）
(12) nuclear [?????????] adj.[核]核子的, 原子能的, 核的
(13) launch [??????] vt.使(船)下水
(14) Connecticut [??????????] n.（美国）康涅狄格
(1) release [???????] vt. 发表，发行
(2) professional [??????????] adj.专业的, 职业的
(3) critic [???????] n.批评家, 评论家
(4) demonstrate [????????????] vt.示范, 证明, 论证
(5) dreamland [??????????] n.梦境, 睡觉, 梦乡
55 临灭绝的大猩猩
DATE=6/22/01
TITLE=ENVIRONMENT REPORT - Apes Endangered
BYLINE=Cynthia Kirk
(Start at 0'59") This is Bill White with the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT.
(1) Great apes are the animals most like humans. Experts say that great apes in the forests of Africa and Asia will disappear within ten years if nothing is done to save them. The United Nations Environment Program has begun a campaign called the Great Ape (2) Survival Project.
Its members are working with wildlife groups and non-governmental organizations. Their goal to prevent the disappearance of (3) gorillas, (4) bonobos, (5) chimpanzees and (6) orangutans. The project targets areas in Africa and southeast Asia where apes are threatened by war, environmental (7) destruction and hunting.
Ten years ago, there were more than six-hundred mountain gorillas in eastern and central Africa. Today, there are only about three-hundred. They are disappearing from forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. Many of them are being killed for food as part of the growing (8) illegal bush-meat trade.
(9) Congo was once a safe area for gorillas. But years of war and forest destruction have made the gorillas easier targets for hunters. Miners searching for minerals also hunt the great apes. The gorillas that are left have to be protected by armed soldiers in national parks.
Bonobos are small apes found only in the forests of Congo. Twenty years ago, there were about one-hundred-thousand bonobos. There are only about three-thousand today. Some bonobos have fled to nearby countries. Most of them are being hunted for food.
Many chimpanzees have died out in countries where they once lived. Fifty years ago, there were millions of chimpanzees across western and central Africa. Today, only about one-hundred-fifty-thousand chimpanzees remain.
The orangutan is endangered in Indonesia's (10) rainforests. The rainforests are shrinking because of farming, cutting down trees and gold mining in protected areas.
Environmental experts say apes need more protection in national parks. They say (11) local people need to be educated about the value of apes and their importance to the environmental system. Experts say the apes are important for scientific study because they are so closely related to humans.
United Nations officials say they need one-million dollars to support the Great Ape Survival Project. They want private companies to (12) assist in the campaign.
This VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT was written by Cynthia Kirk. This is Bill White.
(1) great ape [???] n. 大猩猩
(2) survival [?????????] n.生存, 幸存
(3) gorilla [???????] n.大猩猩
(4) bonobo [??????????] n.(产于非洲刚果河以南的)倭黑猩猩
(5) chimpanzee [? ???????????] n.[动]非洲的小人猿, 黑猩猩
(6) orangutan [??????????] n.猩猩
(7) destruction [???????????] n.破坏, 毁灭
(8) illegal [????????] adj.违法的, 不合规定的
(9) Congo [???????] n. 刚果
(10) rainforest [????????????] [生态]雨林
(11) local [???????] adj.地方的, 当地的
(12) assist [??????] v.援助, 帮助
56 约翰·刘易斯和他的现代爵士四人组
DATE=6/24/01
TITLE=PEOPLE IN AMERICA #1827 - John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet BYLINE=Cynthia Kirk
VOICE ONE:
I'm Steve Ember
VOICE TWO:
And I'm Shirley Griffith, with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about pianist John Lewis. He created one of the most famous jazz groups in America, the Modern Jazz Quartet.
((THEME))
VOICE ONE:
John Lewis was known for his (1) creativity. He was a skilled piano player and musical (2) director of the Modern Jazz (3) Quartet for almost fifty years. He wrote and arranged all the music for the small group. Mister Lewis was responsible for the group's sound and its (4) identity.
John Lewis was interested in jazz, blues, and bebob, a music with a great deal of energy. Yet he was also greatly influenced by his training in European classical music. Classical music is expressive and (5) intense, but is also structured. He thought jazz should be presented the same way.
John Lewis (6) combined classical music with traditional jazz to create songs for himself and the three other members of his quartet. He believed music should be simple and clear, yet played in a meaningful way. Here is one of the Modern Jazz Quartet's big hits, Django:
CUT ONE: "DJANGO"
VOICE TWO:
John Lewis was greatly influenced by the piano style of the famous jazz (7) bandleader, Count Basie. Like Basie, Lewis believed in making every note of music count. He depended as much on silence as he did on notes to get his message across.
John Lewis often used a form of music called (8) fugue [fewg]. Fugue is (9) a series of opposing melodies used to create a complex effect. Mister Lewis also combined written music with music that the group invented as it went along.
This new kind of jazz attracted both lovers of jazz and classical music. It also (10) appealed to people who did not necessarily like jazz. Here is an example of fugue in the song, "Alexander's Fugue":
CUT TWO: "ALEXANDER'S FUGUE"
VOICE ONE:
The Modern Jazz Quartet included John Lewis, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath and Connie Kay. The group made its first recording in Nineteen-Fifty-Two. And they continued to play together, with a seven year break, until Nineteen-Ninety-Nine.
John Lewis was as concerned about (11) appearances as he was about the music. The musicians had to dress well for every performance. They played mostly in concert halls instead of small dance clubs. Lewis believed jazz should receive the same respect as classical music.
VOICE TWO:
John Lewis was born in La Grange, Illinois, in Nineteen-Twenty. He grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He started playing the piano when he was seven. As a teenager, he played (12) professionally in churches around Albuquerque. He soon was playing in local dance halls.
Lewis studied (13) anthropology and music at the University of New Mexico. In Nineteen-Forty-Two, he joined the army and served in Europe during World War Two.
After the war, Lewis moved to New York City and played in Dizzy Gillespie's big band. He also studied for his master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music.
VOICE ONE:
John Lewis played in the (14) rhythm section of Gillespie's band. Other members were (15) drummer Kenny Clarke, bass player Ray Brown and (16) vibraphone player Milt Jackson. The four often performed together while the (17) horn players in the band rested.
The four band members continued to work together after leaving Dizzy's group in the late Nineteen-Forties. At that time, they were (18) criticized for not playing "true jazz." But they continued anyway. Ray Brown and Kenny Clarke soon left the group. Bass player Percy Heath and drummer Connie Kay replaced them. In Nineteen-Fifty-Two, the group became the Modern Jazz Quartet and established its own identity.
VOICE TWO:
In Nineteen-Fifty-Six, the Modern Jazz Quartet played a series of concerts in Europe. The group helped make jazz popular with many music listeners in Europe. The members of the quartet had become major stars by the time they returned to the United States.
The Modern Jazz Quartet continued to perform all over the world for sold-out crowds until the late Nineteen-Seventies. People loved the group's teamwork and their amazing sound. Listen as we play, "Vendome", another big hit:
CUT THREE: "VENDOME"
VOICE ONE:
(19) Critics say John Lewis's "less is more" piano style and Milt Jackson's energy on the vibraphone were the secret to the group's long lasting success. Yet over the years, Mister Jackson expressed dissatisfaction with limits that were put on his talents. The group separated in Nineteen-Seventy-Four. However, the members of the quartet (20) reunited after seven years. They played together until Milt Jackson's death in Nineteen-Ninety-Nine.
In addition to his work with the Modern Jazz Quartet, John Lewis worked for many years as musical director of the Monterey Jazz Festival in California. He wrote the music for several Hollywood films. He taught at Harvard University and the City College of New York. And he helped establish a jazz school in Massachusetts.
VOICE TWO:
Through the years, John Lewis worked with some of the biggest names in jazz, including (21) trumpet player Miles Davis. Yet for all the praise Lewis received, he was known for putting the interests of the group over the (22) individual. John Lewis lived a quiet life with his wife, Mirjana, in New York City. In March,Two-Thousand-One, he died of cancer. He was eighty years old. His death officially marked the end of a historic period in modern jazz.
CUT FOUR: "BLUESOLOGY" (INSTEAD OF THEME)
VOICE ONE:
This Special English program was written and produced by Cynthia Kirk. Our studio engineer was Roy Benson. I'm Steve Ember.
VOICE TWO:
And I'm Shirley Griffith. Listen again next week for another PEOPLE IN AMERICA program on the Voice of America.
(1) creativity [??????????????] n.创造力, 创造
(2) director [????????] n.导演
(3) quartet [????????] n.四重奏, 四重唱, 四部合奏(唱)曲
(4) identity [??????????] n.身份
(5) intense [???????] adj.强烈的, 剧烈的, 热切的, 热情的
(6) combine [????????] v.(使)联合, (使)结合
(7) bandleader [???????????] n.伴舞乐队的指挥
(8) fugue [?????] n.[音]赋格曲
(9) a series of 一连串的
(10) appeal to vt.有吸引力
(11) appearance [?????????] n.出现, 露面, 外貌, 外观
(12) professionally adv.专业地, 内行地
(13) anthropology [??????????????] n.人类学
(14) rhythm [??????] n.节奏, 韵律
(15) drummer [??????] n.鼓手
(16) vibraphone [???????????] n.电颤琴
(17) horn [????] n.喇叭
(18) criticize [??????????] v.批评, 责备
(19) critic [???????] n.批评家, 评论家, 吹毛求疵者
(20) reunite [????????????] v.(使)再结合
(21) trumpet [????????] n.喇叭
(22) individual [??????????????] n.个人, 个体
