69 作家富兰纳瑞·欧康纳
DATE=7-15-01
TITLE=PEOPLE IN AMERICA #1830 - Flannery O'Connor
BYLINE=RICHARD THORMAN
Voice one:
I'm Shirley Griffith.
Voice two:
And I'm ray freeman with the VOA Special English Program, People in America. Today, we tell about writer Flannery O'Connor.
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Voice one:
Late in her life someone asked the American writer Flannery O'Connor why she wrote. She said, "because I am good at it."
She was good. Yet, she was not always as good a writer as she became. She improved because she listened to others. She changed her stories. She re-wrote them, then re-wrote them again, always working to improve what she was creating.
Flannery had always wanted to be a writer. After she graduated from (1)Georgia state college for women, she asked to be accepted at a writing program at the State University of (2)Iowa. The head of the school found it difficult to understand her southern speech. He asked her to write what she wanted. Then he asked to see some examples of her work.
He saw immediately that the writing was full of (3)imagination and bright with knowledge, like Flannery O'Connor herself.
Voice two:
Mary Flannery O'Connor was born march twenty-fifth, Nineteen-Twenty-Five, in the southern city of Savannah, Georgia.
The year she was born, her father developed a (4)rare disease called (5)lupus. He died of the disease in Nineteen-Forty-One. By that time the family was living in the small southern town of Milledgeville, Georgia, in a house owned by Flannery's mother.
Life in a small town in the American south was what O'Connor knew best. Yet she said, "if you know who you are, you can go anywhere."
Voice one:
Many people in the town of Milledgeville thought she was different from other girls. She was kind to everyone, but she seemed to stand to one side of what was happening, as if she wanted to see it better. Her mother was her example. Her mother said, "I was brought up to be nice to everyone and not to tell my business to anyone."
Flannery also did not talk about herself. But in her writing a silent and distant anger (6)explodes from the quiet (7)surface of her stories. Some see her as a (8)Roman (9)Catholic (10)Religious writer. They see her anger as the search to save her moral being through her belief in (11)Jesus Christ. Others do not (12)deny her Roman Catholic Religious beliefs. Yet they see her not writing about things, but presenting the things themselves.
Voice two:
When she left the writing program at Iowa State University she was invited to join a group of writers at the Yaddo Writers' (13)Colony. Yaddo is at Saratoga springs in New York State. It provides a small group of writers with a home and a place to work for a short time.
The following year, Nineteen-Forty-Nine, she moved to New York City. She soon left the city and lived with her friend Robert Fitzgerald and his family in the northeastern state of (14)Connecticut. Fitzgerald says O'Connor needed to be alone to work during the day. And she needed her friends to talk to when her work was done.
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Voice one:
While writing her first novel, Wise Blood, she was stricken with the disease, Lupus, that had killed her father. The (15)treatment for lupus weakened her. She moved back to Feorgia and lived the rest of her life with her mother on a farm outside Milledgeville. O'Connor was still able to write, travel, and give speeches.
Wise Blood appeared in Nineteen-Fifty-Two. Both it and O'Connor's second novel, the (16)Violent Bear It Away, are about a young man growing up. In both books the young men are unwilling to accept the work they were most fit to do.
Like all of Flannery O'Connor's writing, the book is filled with humor, even when her meaning is serious. It shows the mix of a (17)traditional world with a modern world. It also shows a battle of ideas (18)expressed in the simple, country talk that O'Connor knew very well.
Voice two:
In Wise Blood a young man, Hazel Motes, leaves the army but finds his hometown empty. He (19)flees to a city, looking for "a place to be." On the train he (20)announces that he does not believe in Jesus Christ. He says, "I wouldn't even if he existed. Even if he was on this train."
His moving to the city is an (21)attempt to move away from the natural world and become a thing, a machine. He decides that all he can know is what he can touch and see.
In the end, however, he destroys his physical sight so that he may truly see, because he says that when he had eyes he was blind. (22)Critics say his action seems to show that he is no longer willing to deny the (23)existence of Jesus but now is willing to follow him into the dark.
The novel received high praise from critics. It did not become popular with the public, however.
Voice one:
O'Connor's second novel, the Violent Bear It Away, was (24)published in Nineteen-Sixty. Like Wise Blood, it is a story about a young man learning to deal with life.
The book opens with the young man, Francis Marion Tarwater, refusing to do the two things his grandfather had ordered him to do. These are to (25)bury the old man deep in the ground, and to bring religion to his uncle's mentally sick child.
Instead, tarwater burns the house where his grandfather died and lets the mentally sick child drown during a religious (26)ceremony.
Voice two:
Critics say Tarwater's violence comes from his attempt to find truth by denying religion. In the end, however, he accepts that he has been touched by a deeper force, the force of the word of god, and he must accept that word.
Both of O'Connor's novels explore the long moment of fear when a young man must choose between the difficulties of growing up and the safe world of a child.
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Voice one:
Flannery O'Connor is at least as well known for her stories as for her novels. Her first book of stories, a good man is hard to find, appeared in Nineteen Fifty-Five. In it she deals with many of the ideas she wrote about in Wise Blood, such as the search for Jesus Christ.
In many of the stories there is a (27)conflict between the world of the spirit and the world of the body. In the story, "the life you save may be your own," a traveling workman with only one arm comes to a farm. He claims to be more concerned with things of the spirit than with objects.
Voice two:
The woman who owns the farm offers to let him marry her deaf daughter. He finally agrees when the mother gives him the farm, her car, and seventeen dollars for the wedding trip. He says, "lady, a man is divided into two parts, body and spirit.... the body, lady, is like a house: it don't go anywhere; but the spirit, lady, is like a (28)automobile, always on the move...."
He marries the daughter and drives off with her. When they stop to eat, the man leaves her and drives off toward the city. On the way he stops and gives a ride to a wandering boy.
We learn that when the one-armed man was a child his mother left him. Critics say that when he helps the boy he is helping himself.
Voice one:
In Nineteen-Sixty-Four, O'Connor was operated on for a (29)stomach disease. One result of this operation was the return of lupus, the disease that killed her father. On August third, Nineteen-Sixty-Four, Flannery O'Connor died. She was thirty-nine years old.
Near the end of her life she said, "I'm a born catholic, and death has always been brother to my imagination."
Voice two:
The next year, in Nineteen-Sixty-Five, her final (30)collection of stories, everything that rises must (31)converge, appeared. In it she speaks of the cruelty of disease and the deeper cruelty that exists between parents and children. In these stories, grown children are in a (32)struggle with parents they neither love nor leave. Many of the children feel (33)guilty about hating the mothers who, the children feel, have destroyed them through love. The children want to (34)rebel (35)violently, but they fear losing their mothers' protection.
In Nineteen-Seventy-One, O'Connor's collected stories was published. The book (36)contains most of what she wrote. It has all the stories of her earlier collections. It also has early (37)versions of both novels that were first published as stories. And it has parts of an uncompleted novel and an unpublished story.
In Nineteen-Seventy-Two this last book won the (38)American Book Industry's Highest Prize, the (39)National Book Award. As one critic noted, Flannery O'Connor did not live long, but she lived deeply, and wrote beautifully.
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Voice one:
This Special English Program was written by Richard Thorman. I'm Shirley Griffith.
Voice two:
And I'm Ray Freeman. Join us again next week for another People in America program on the Voice of America.
(1)Georgia [?????????? ]n.乔治亚州
(2)Iowa [ ???????]n.爱荷华州
(3)imagination [ ?????????????? ]n.想象力
(4)rare [ ????]adj.罕见的
(5)lupus [ ??????? ]n.[医]狼疮
(6)explode [?????????? ] vi. 爆发
(7)surface [ ??????? ]n.表面
(8)Roman [ ????????]n.罗马人
(9)catholic [ ???????? ] adj.天主教的
(10)religious [?????????? ]adj.信奉宗教的
(11)Jesus Christ [ ???????? ]n.耶稣(基督教信奉的救世主)
(12)deny [ ???????]v.否认
(13)colony [ ??????? ]n. (聚居的)一群同业, 一批同行
(14)Connecticut [??????????? ]n. （美国）康涅狄格
(15)treatment [??????????? ]n.治疗
(16)violent [ ????????? ]adj.暴力的
(17)traditional [?????????????]adj.传统的
(18)express [ ???????? ] vt.表达, 表示
(19)flee [????? ] vi.逃
(20)announce [???????? ]vt.宣布
(21)attempt [???????? ]n.努力, 尝试, 企图
(22)critic [ ??????? ]n. 评论家
(23)existence [??????????? ]n.存在
(24)publish [ ??????? ]v.出版
(25)bury [?????? ]vt.埋葬
(26)ceremony [?????????? ]n.仪式
(27)conflict [?????????? ]n.斗争, 冲突
(28)automobile [ ???????????????????????????????????????? ]n.<主美>汽车
(29)stomach [ ??????? ]n.胃
(30)collection [ ????????? ]n.文集
(31)converge [?????????? ]v.聚合
(32)struggle [ ??????? ]n.斗争
(33)guilty [ ?????? ]adj.内疚的
(34)rebel [ ???????]v. 反抗
(35)violently [?????????] adv.猛烈地, 激烈地, 极端地
(36)contain [????????? ]vt.包含
(37)version [ ????????]n.译文, 译本, 翻译
(38)American Book Industry's Highest Prize n.美国图书工业最高奖
(39)National Book Award n.国家图书奖
70 史密森民间文化节
DATE=7-16-01
TITLE=THIS IS AMERICA #1073 - Smithsonian Folklife Festival
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach, Paul Thompson
VOICE ONE:
The (1)Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. is famous around the world. Each summer, the Smithsonian (2)organizes a celebration of (3)cultural (4)traditions. It is called the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. I'm Sarah Long.
VOICE TWO:
And I'm Shirley Griffith. We tell about the recent Smithsonian Folklife Festival on our report today on the VOA Special English program, THIS IS AMERICA.
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VOICE ONE:
Visitors to Washington usually spend some time on the open grassy area called the National Mall. The United States Capitol building is at the east end of the Mall. The monument honoring America's sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln, is at the west end. Museums and Smithsonian Institution buildings are on the north and south sides of the Mall.
Usually, the Mall is a place where people walk, sit or play. But for ten days each summer, part of the area is crowded with unusual sights, sounds and smells. That is when the Smithsonian holds its Folklife Festival. Today, we bring you some of these sights and sounds.
((CUT 1: CHINESE OPERA MUSIC))
VOICE TWO:
That is the sound of Chinese (5)classical music (6)performed at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this year. It was just one of many kinds of music that Festival visitors enjoyed.
People have been visiting The Smithsonian Folklife Festival each summer for the past thirty-five years. The word folklife (7)describes the cultural traditions of a people. It includes their music and art. Their stories and celebrations. The things they make for their homes and to sell.
These cultural traditions are passed from old people to the young. Few traditions are taught in schools. Young people learn them from living within a cultural group.
The Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage organized the festival. It ended on July eighth. Each festival is about different cultures and people. This year, the festival presented the cultures of New York City and the islands of (8)Bermuda.
VOICE ONE:
Bermuda includes more than three-hundred islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. About sixty-three-thousand people live on twenty of the islands. One of these islands is also called Bermuda. About four-hundred-thousand people visit that island each year. (9)Presentations at the Folklife Festival showed some of what those visitors see.
Three-hundred artists and crafts workers showed the different kinds of work performed by people in Bermuda. These included a (10)beekeeper and his bees and boat builders with their boats. One grassy area of the Mall was covered with small Bermudan boats and flowers common in the islands. Bermudan (11)athletes played (12)cricket while (13)announcers explained the sport and told stories about it. Visitors saw a small Bermudan house. They learned about weddings and preparing food. A large tent sold traditional food from Bermuda.
On the musical stage, Bermudan musicians performed native music. These included Bermudan (14)jazz, (15)religious songs, (16)calypso and (17)reggae. Here the calypso group called the Bermudan (18)Strollers performs the song "Don't Worry, Be Happy."
((CUT 2: DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY))
VOICE TWO:
New York City was the other culture (19)represented at the Folklife Festival. Festival officials decided to show the city as its own people see it. So the festival included people who (20)demonstrated how (21)stocks and (22)bonds are bought and sold on Wall Street in the financial area of New York. The festival also included explanations and (23)demonstrations of the different kinds of (24)transportation used in New York. Visitors saw an underground rail car or subway. They also saw a taxicab and a city bus. New York City bus driver Tony Palombella told stories about his eighteen years driving a bus in New York. And he cooked some Italian food at the festival, too. He learned to cook Italian food from his mother.
VOICE ONE:
Another kind of food that is culturally linked to New York City is the (25)bagel. A bagel is a thick, round piece of bread with a hole in the middle. Old stories say the bagel was first developed in Poland and brought to New York by Polish Jews. Bagels have become (26)extremely (27)popular in the United States. You can buy them just about anywhere in the country today. But many Americans say the best bagels are made and sold in New York City.
Steve Ross probably would agree. He has owned a bagel shop in New York for more than sixty years. At the Folklife Festival, he demonstrated how to make bagels and another kind of bread, a (28)bialy. A bialy is also a round piece of bread, but it is thinner than a bagel and has no hole in the middle. Instead, it has (29)onions in the middle.
VOICE TWO:
The Folklife Festival representation of New York City was really a celebration of many different cultures. Each culture represented a group of people who came to the United States from a different country and settled in New York City. These people include (30)Greeks, Indians, Chinese, (31)Albanians, (32)Caribbeans, Africans, Europeans, (33)Lebanese, (34)Ukrainians and many others.
The Festival presented music of these different groups. Many New Yorkers still perform and enjoy this music as a way of keeping their culture alive. Here is an example - (35)Romanian-(36)Gypsy music.
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VOICE ONE:
Artists were also represented in the New York celebration at the Folklife Festival. One group is called Tats Cru. It is a six-person (37)graffiti organization. Graffiti is artwork painted on the subway cars in New York. (38)Teenagers would paint the cars and the station walls with bright colors, words and pictures. Such graffiti has been (39)illegal in New York for many years.
The three founding members of Tats Cru started painting graffiti in New York twenty years ago. Tats Cru is now a legal business. It paints pictures on buildings. The artists have worked in the United States, Canada and Europe. At the Folklife Festival, they painted a large picture on a special wall.
VOICE TWO:
The musical shows presented on (40)Broadway in New York were also represented at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. People who make clothes for performers in Broadway shows demonstrated their skills. So did a (41)theatrical (42)wig maker, a person who makes false hair for people acting in plays. Actors and singers showed how a Broadway musical is prepared. We leave you now with some music from that show, "Guys and Dolls".
((CUT 4: GUYS ANDS DOLLS OVERTURE INSTEAD OF CLOSING THEME))
VOICE ONE:
This program was written by Nancy Steinbach and Paul Thompson. It was produced by George Grow. I'm Sarah Long.
VOICE TWO:
And I'm Shirley Griffith. Join us again next week for another report about life in the United States on the VOA Special English program, THIS IS AMERICA.
((OUT ON GUYS AND DOLLS))
(1)Smithsonian Institution史密森学会
(2)organize [ ??????????] vt.组织
(3)cultural [????????????] adj.文化的
(4)tradition [???????????] n.传统, 惯例
(5)classical [ ??????????] adj.古典的
(6)perform [ ??????? ] vt.表演, 演出
(7)describe [ ????????? ] v.描述
(8)Bermuda [ ???????????? ] n.百慕大群岛(北大西洋西部群岛)
(9)presentation [????????????????]n.介绍
(10)beekeeper n.养蜂人
(11)athlete [ ??????? ] n.运动员, 运动选手
(12)cricket [ ??????? ] n. [运动]板球
(13)announcer [ ???????? ] n.广播员, 告知者, 报幕员
(14)jazz [ ???? ] n.(20世纪产生于美国的一种舞曲性音乐)爵士乐
(15)religious [?????????? ] adj.宗教上的
(16)calypso [ ????????? ] n.卡里普索(特立尼达岛上土人即兴演唱的歌曲)
(17)reggae [ ????????] n. 瑞格舞（西印度群岛的一种舞蹈及舞曲）
(18)stroller [ ???????? ] n.散步者, 流浪者
(19)represent [ ???????????? ] vt. 再上演
(20)demonstrate [ ???????????? ] vt.示范
(21)stock [ ???? ] n. 股票
(22)bond [ ???? ] n. 债券
(23)demonstration [ ????????????????] n.示范, 实证
(24)transportation [ ???????????????? ] n.运输, 运送
(25)bagel [ ???????] n.百吉饼(先蒸后烤的发面圈)
(26)extremely [ ??????????? ] adv.极端地, 非常地
(27)popular [ ???????? ] adj.受欢迎的
(28)bialy [ ??????? ] <美>比亚利碎洋葱面包卷
(29)onion [??????? ] n.洋葱
(30)Greek [???????] n.希腊人
(31)Albanian [ ?????????? ] n. 阿尔巴尼亚人
(32)Caribbean [ ???????????? ] n.加勒比海人
(33)Lebanese [ ?????????? ] n.黎巴嫩人
(34)Ukrainian [ ?????????????? ] n.乌克兰人
(35)Romanian [???????????] n.罗马尼亚人
(36)Gypsy [ ??????? ] n.吉普赛人
(37)graffiti [ ?????????? ] n.一种雕刻艺术
(38) teenager [???????????? ] n.十几岁的青少年
(39)illegal [????????? ] adj.违法的
(40)Broadway [ ????????? ] n. 百老汇
(41)theatrical [ ???????????] adj.戏剧性的
(42)wig [ ??? ] n.假发
71 大卫·麦卡罗笔下的约翰·亚当斯总统
DATE=7-20-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #827 - New Interest in John Adams
BYLINE=Paul Thompson
HOST:
(Start at 0'51") A recent book by American history writer David McCullough has (1)renewed interest in America's second president, John Adams. Shep O'Neal tells us more.
HOST:
Very few people in history have left a record as clear as John Adams. He carried a small book with him every day in which he wrote about his experiences. He also wrote thousands of letters to his family members and friends.
History experts say John Adams has not been remembered as widely as President Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the famous American (2)Declaration of (3)Independence. Yet the experts say it was John Adams who was greatly (4)responsible for the (5)approval of the Declaration of Independence. It was also John Adams who worked to have George Washington lead the army. And it was John Adams who demanded a fair legal system for the new country.
He made sure that all court systems of the United States are separate from other parts of the government.
David McCullough's new book (6)describes John Adams' personal and political life. It tells of the events that took place around him. It tells of the thousands of kilometers he traveled and the dangers he faced.
Mister McCullough's book is also a love story. Abigail Adams was the second president's wife and friend. She was also a political advisor to whom he always listened. During their long marriage they wrote thousands of letters to each other about their ideas and feelings.
Recently, Mister McCullough appeared before (7)Congress to support (8)legislation to build a memorial to John Adams in Washington. Mister McCullough said no one except George Washington was more important in winning our independence and (9)establishing our government than John Adams. He never failed to answer the call to serve his country.
Congress is now preparing the legislation needed to (10)provide land in Washington for a memorial to John Adams. The memorial will be built with money given by (11)private citizens.
比萨饼的由来与做法
DATE=7-20-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #827 - Pizza
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 4'10") Our VOA listener question this week comes from (1)Burma. Aye Ayethwe asks how to prepare the Italian food known as (2)pizza.
Pizza has a bread-like (3)crust that is covered with tomato (4)sauce, (5)cheese and vegetables or meat.History experts say the idea of using bread to hold other foods began with the Greeks. They ate flat breads (6)baked with oil, (7)garlic and (8)onions. The Romans also made a similar food. By the eighteenth century, the word "pizza" had developed from the Latin word "picea."
Experts say Raffaele Esposito of Naples, Italy baked the first modern pizza in Eighteen-Eighty-Nine. The stories say he baked pizza especially for the visit of the Italian King and Queen. He made his pizza in the colors of the Italian flag - green (9)herbs, white (10)mozzarella cheese and red tomatoes. The (11)popularity of the food soon spread to Northern Italy and Europe.
People from Italy brought pizza to the United States in the last half of the nineteenth century. Gennaro Lombardi opened the first American pizza shop in New York City in Nineteen-Oh-Five. But it was not until after World War Two that pizza became popular in America. That was when American soldiers demanded pizza they had eaten in Italy.
Experts say the best pizza in the world is still made in Naples. Today, people all over the world make and love pizza. Why? Because it is fun to eat and tastes great. Pizza makers (12)mix (13)flour, (14)yeast, salt and water for the crust. They form it into a large circular pie. They put tomato sauce and cheese on the crust. They may add onions, (15)mushrooms, (16)peppers or meat. Then they bake it in an extremely hot oven.
Many Americans do not make their own pizza. They go to a pizza restaurant. Or they send out for it. This means they telephone a local pizza shop, order their favorite kind of pizza and wait for a store worker to bring it to their house.
All this talk about pizza has made me hungry. Maybe I will send out for some pizza for lunch!
第一届说唱乐年会上月在纽约举行
DATE=7-20-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #827- Hip-Hop Music Conference
BYLINE=Cynthia Kirk
((MUSIC: I JUST WANNA LOVE YOU))
HOST:
(Start at 7'28") The first yearly (1)conference on hip-hop music took place in New York City last month. More than three-hundred rap music artists, producers, reporters, (2)politicians, and (3)spiritual leaders gathered for three days of (4)discussions. They talked about the (5)influence of hip-hop music on America's young people and its future. Shirley Griffith tells us about hip-hop.
ANNCR:
Hip-hop music is also known as rap. It began about thirty years ago in the streets of New York City. Since then, the music has become a two-thousand-million dollar (6)cultural force. Its (7)popularity has spread beyond the black youth culture that created it. Now, seventy-five percent of hip-hop records are bought by white people. And the worldwide market continues to (8)expand. Here is popular rap artist Eminem with the song, "The Real Slim Shady."
((CUT 1: THE REAL SLIM SHADY))
Political leaders, (9)religious leaders and even some fans have (10)denounced rap music for using bad words and (11)describing (12)violent acts in songs. Rap singers have been (13)criticized for spreading messages of hate against women and (14)homosexuals in some of their songs.
The main idea of the hip-hop conference was "taking back (15)responsibility." The rap industry is fighting to prevent the government from (16)establishing laws to control hip-hop music. The people at the meeting agreed on a plan of action. They promised to create (17)coalitions among people in the music industry and social organizations. They agreed to establish more programs to help young people. They promised to protect young people from adult material in their songs. They also agreed to work to protect rap music from what they consider attacks on freedom of speech.
We leave you now with another popular rap song. Doctor Dre and Snoop Dogg perform "The Next Episode." (Stop at 13'05")
(1)renew [ ??????? ]vt.使更新
(2)declaration [ ????????????? ]n. 宣言
(3)independence [ ????????????? ]n.独立, 自主
(4)responsible [???????????? ]adj.有责任的
(5)approval [ ????????? ]n.正式批准
(6)describe [ ??????????]vt.描写
(7)congress [ ???????? ]n.(代表)大会, [C～] (美国等国的)国会, 议会
(8)legislation [??????????????? ]n.立法, 法律的制定(或通过)
(9)establish [ ????????? ] v.建立
(10)provide [ ???????? ]v.提供
(11)private [ ?????????]adj.私人的
(1)Burma [ ?????? ]n.缅甸(东南亚国家)
(2)pizza [ ??????? ]n.比萨饼（一种涂有乳酪核番茄酱的意大利式有馅烘饼）
(3)crust [ ????? ]n.面包皮
(4)sauce [ ???? ]n.沙司
(5)cheese [ ????? ]n.干酪
(6)baked [ ?????]v.烘焙
(7)garlic [ ??????? ]n.[植]大蒜
(8)onion [ ?????? ] n.洋葱
(9)herb [ ???? ]n.药草, 香草
(10)mozzarella [??????????]n.一种意大利干酪, 色白味淡的
(11)popularity [?????????????? ]n. 流行
(12)mix [ ?????]v.混合
(13)flour [ ?????? ]n.面粉
(14)yeast [???????]n.酵母, 发酵粉
(15)mushroom [???????? ]n.蘑菇
(16)pepper [ ????? ]n.胡椒粉
(1)conference [ ?????????? ]n.协商会
(2)politician [ ?????????? ]n.政治家, 政客
(3)spiritual [ ??????????? ]adj.精神上的
(4)discussion [ ????????? ]n.讨论
(5)influence [ ????????? ]n.影响
(6)cultural [????????????]adj.文化的
(7)popularity [ ??????????????]n. 流行
(8)expand [????????? ] vi.发展
(9)religious [ ????????? ]adj.宗教的
(10)denounce [ ???????? ]vt.公开指责, 公然抨击, 谴责
(11)describe [ ????????? ]vt.描写
(12)violent [ ????????? ]adj.暴力的
(13)criticize [ ?????????? ]v.批评, 责备
(14)homosexual [ ???????????????? ] n.同性恋
(15)responsibility [??????????????????]n.责任
(16)establish [ ????????? ] v.建立
(17)coalition [ ??????????? ]n.合并, 接合, 联合
72 罗格当选奥委会主席
DATE=7-21-01
TITLE=IN THE NEWS #490 - Olympics
BYLINE=Jerilyn Watson
(Start at 01'06") This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.
The (1)International Olympic Committee this week chose a doctor from (2)Belgium as its president. Jacques Rogge (RAWG) will serve at least eight years. He replaced Juan Antonio Samaranch of Spain who served as president for twenty-one years.
Doctor Rogge received support from more than half the (3)delegates in a second vote during a meeting in (4)Moscow. He has worked for many years with the International Olympic Committee, known as the I-O-C. He is fifty-nine years old.
Kim Un-yong of South Korea placed second in the secret voting for president of the committee. Other (5)candidates were Dick Pound of Canada, Pal Schmitt of Hungary and Anita DeFrantz of the United States.
Last week, the I-O-C chose Beijing, China, to hold the summer Olympic Games of Two-Thousand-Eight. Doctor Rogge will be the chief advisor to Beijing officials as they prepare for Olympic events. The city received more than two times as many votes as Toronto, Canada, its closest (6)opponent. Paris, France, Istanbul, Turkey, and Osaka, Japan also were competing to hold the Olympic Games in Two-Thousand-Eight.
Committee delegates said they hope the Chinese government will become more open as it prepares for the games. The delegates said they also hoped China's human-rights and (7)environmental (8)policies will improve. China plans to begin its most important building project for the Olympics since the Great Wall was built. It has also announced plans for a costly program to reduce pollution.
Observers called the election of Doctor Rogge a move to reform the worldwide sports (9)organization. The new president says he will place great importance on preventing Olympic competitors from using (10)banned drugs. Experts say his long record of honesty may help the Olympics recover from charges of (11)illegal actions.
The (12)accusations are linked to the winter games of Two-Thousand-Two. Ten Olympic Committee members reportedly accepted gifts and large amounts of money to choose Salt Lake City, Utah, to hold the events. The American government charged five people in connection with these gifts. Earlier this week, a (13)federal judge (14)dismissed four of fifteen charges against two men who led Salt Lake City's campaign to get the Olympics. The judge also (15)postponed their trial.
The new president of the International Olympic Committee has been active in the Olympics since he was a young man. Jacques Rogge is a champion sailor who (16)competed in three Olympic sailing events, the last in Nineteen-Seventy-Six. He has been a member of the International Olympic Committee for ten years. Doctor Rogge had a major (17)responsibility for plans for the Two-Thousand Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Those games were highly successful.
This VOA Special English IN THE NEWS was written by Jerilyn Watson. I'm Steve Ember.
(1)International Olympic Committee 国际奥委会
(2)Belgium [ ???????? ]n.比利时(西欧国家,首都布鲁塞尔Brussels)
(3)delegate [ ?????????]n.代表
(4)Moscow [ ????????]n.莫斯科(俄罗斯首都)
(5)candidate [ ????????? ]n.候选人
(6)opponent [ ??????????] n.对手
(7)environmental [ ???????????????? ]adj.环境的
(8)policy [ ????????]n.政策
(9)organization [ ????????????????]n.组织
(10)banned drug 违禁药物
(11)illegal [ ???????? ]adj.违法的
(12)accusation [ ?????????????? ]n. [律]指控
(13)federal [????????? ]adj.联邦的
(14)dismiss [ ??????? ]vt.开除, 解职
(15)postpone [ ?????????? ]vt.推迟
(16)compete [????????? ]vi.比赛
(17)responsibility [????????????????? ]n.责任, 职责
