时间:2019-01-07 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(六月)


英语课

By Zuli Palacio
Washington, D.C.
13 June 2006
 
Watch Exhibit Report



World Cup live broadcasts are part of the exhibit  
  


To celebrate the popularity of football, or soccer as it is called in the United States, and to coincide with the World Cup, the National Geographic 1 Museum in Washington D.C. organized an exhibit of pictures of people of all ages and cultures, playing soccer. This report is narrated 2 by Carolyn Weaver 3.


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Museum Director Susan Norton 
  


There are images we have all seen, around the world. What makes the particular 52 pictures different is that they were taken by some of the best photographers in the world, says Susan Norton, director of the National Geographic Museum.


"We know that on the news every night and in the sports channels you will be seeing professional soccer. But because soccer is everywhere, we wanted to show people playing soccer everywhere, normal people like you and me, even animals in the exhibition playing soccer," she told us.


 
Cheetah 4 at play
  
The animal pictures are among the favorites in the exhibition, which runs through the end of October. They include a cheetah, a dolphin and an elephant, playing with a soccer ball. And they were one of the reasons the exhibit is called "Soccer: planet at play."


  
  
"Also we have a mini stadium set up so that you can actually view some World Cup footage from the past," said Ms. Norton, "but as of today at 11:55 we'll be showing live soccer from the World Cup."


The exhibit is a celebration of the joy and the passion for the most popular sport on the planet, one that does not know racial, cultural or age differences.



adj.地理学的,地理的
  • The city's success owes much to its geographic position. 这座城市的成功很大程度上归功于它的地理位置。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Environmental problems pay no heed to these geographic lines. 环境问题并不理会这些地理界限。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
v.故事( narrate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Some of the story was narrated in the film. 该电影叙述了这个故事的部分情节。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Defoe skilfully narrated the adventures of Robinson Crusoe on his desert island. 笛福生动地叙述了鲁滨逊·克鲁索在荒岛上的冒险故事。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
n.织布工;编织者
  • She was a fast weaver and the cloth was very good.她织布织得很快,而且布的质量很好。
  • The eager weaver did not notice my confusion.热心的纺织工人没有注意到我的狼狈相。
n.(动物)猎豹
  • The cheetah is generally credited as the world's fastest animal.猎豹被公认是世界上跑得最快的动物。
  • The distribution of the cheetah ranges from Africa to Central Asia.印度豹的足迹遍及从非洲到中亚的广大地区。
学英语单词
a jack of all trades
abdominal sursery
accidentally convergent
APAD
artificial withering
ascoli
Atislav
backcourt
barlach
base run behavior
bitter pignut
black box approach
bronchitises
by chute
canvass for
commutating machine
complex velocity function
dahlkemper
dither
dodrat
double self fleeting type capstan
east african development bank
elctro-dialysis
Emtsé
eyring
false egg
Fati, L.
frictional characteristics of lubricants
gazehounds
Gbatosso
gorgonised
groveler
He is no lawyer.
Helotium
hydrophobization
ice cream cone
important-looking
in the following
inhomogeneous plane wave
irreular
isolative
Kafr Shibīn
Kiyāt
KTV girls
kushitani
loading ports
main raw materials
makler
Manx cat
melusine finish
Midland County
miraculousness
mohs'scale of hardness
more than the sum of
mutawakil
not forbidden by law
oblique case
oil string casing
olfactory system
Opponent-colors theory
Pellaro
piss-elegance
pluripara
pohutukawas
precipitation index
principal indication
Pym, John
pyrotags
quasi-particle number operator
quinoplasmine
railmotor
raw red fox skin
realia
resediments
respidering
resurrected erosion surface
rigid caster
roquefort
sado-fascist
San Remo
sauroid cells
semi-Thue system
Shahjahanpur
shipboard instrument
shops
soaplessness
Sorokin, Pitirim Alexandrovitch
Sosa, Cerro
spermospora taiwanensis
start-stop network
super search mode
supraorbitally
teloi
tenter drying
teratogenic effect
tricyclopentadienyl-methoxyuranium
triptraps
triquark
typical profile
vaidyas
variable end point
water sample bottle