时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(八月)


英语课

By Paul Burge
Chelmsford, England
01 August 2007
 
Scouts 1 from all over the world have descended 2 on Britain to celebrate the 100th anniversary (August 1st) of the scouting 3 movement. At the 21st Jamboree in the British town of Chelmsford, 40 thousand scouts created their own town made entirely 4 of tents for 12 days of adventure and friendship. Paul Burge reports for VOA News.





Scouts from 216 countries are attending the World Jamboree in Britain, not far from the founding location of the Boy Scouts 100 years ago


Scouts from 216 countries are attending the World Jamboree in Britain, not far from the founding location of the Boy Scouts 100 years ago



Scouting communities from 216 countries and territories have pitched their tents at the World Jamboree in southeast Britain to celebrate a century of scouting around the globe.

Forty thousand scouts from all corners of the world are bringing what has become a global movement back home to Britain, where Robert Baden-Powell first began scouting for boys in 1907.

The Jamboree in Chelmsford is designed to promote the values, benefits and achievements of the scouting community. It is also an opportunity for the scouts to learn from each other's different backgrounds and cultures.






Bill Cockroft


Bill Cockroft



Bill Cockroft is the Jamboree's director. "They have to live with scouts from all over the world, they have to work with scouts from all over the world,” he says. “They learn about global issues, we've got a lot of non-governmental organizations here and they learn about all the issues and challenges facing the world, from global warming to AIDS."

Based on his military experience, Robert Baden-Powell created the first scouting group as a social experiment. It all began at a camp on Brownsea Island in the south of Britain where he brought together 20 boys from different backgrounds and taught them basic survival 5 and team-building skills.





Robert Baden-Powell


Robert Baden-Powell



The experience formed the basis of the modern-day Scouting movement, which now numbers more than 28 million scouts in all but six of the world's countries.

Mario Sica, who has written extensively about Robert Baden-Powell, says today's message has not changed. "Strengthening what he had dedicated 6 his life to -- the second part of his life to -- and that is the education, the training of the citizens of the world towards mutual 7 understanding and peace."

But scouting skills have come a long way since the early days of tent pitching, using a map and compass and wood-fire cooking. Today's 21st century scouts learn skills that reflect Robert Baden-Powell's original mission to encourage young people to volunteer to support others and to spread goodwill 8.


At the Centenary Jamboree that means learning about current global issues like the environment, health and poverty, as well as music, dance and more traditional scouting skills.



侦察员[机,舰]( scout的名词复数 ); 童子军; 搜索; 童子军成员
  • to join the Scouts 参加童子军
  • The scouts paired off and began to patrol the area. 巡逻人员两个一组,然后开始巡逻这个地区。
a.为...后裔的,出身于...的
  • A mood of melancholy descended on us. 一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。
  • The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。
守候活动,童子军的活动
  • I have people scouting the hills already. 我已经让人搜过那些山了。
  • Perhaps also from the Gospel it passed into the tradition of scouting. 也许又从《福音书》传入守望的传统。 来自演讲部分
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
n.留住生命,生存,残存,幸存者
  • The doctor told my wife I had a fifty-fifty chance of survival.医生告诉我的妻子,说我活下去的可能性只有50%。
  • The old man was a survival of a past age.这位老人是上一代的遗老。
adj.一心一意的;献身的;热诚的
  • He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
  • His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。
adj.相互的,彼此的;共同的,共有的
  • We must pull together for mutual interest.我们必须为相互的利益而通力合作。
  • Mutual interests tied us together.相互的利害关系把我们联系在一起。
n.善意,亲善,信誉,声誉
  • His heart is full of goodwill to all men.他心里对所有人都充满着爱心。
  • We paid £10,000 for the shop,and £2000 for its goodwill.我们用一万英镑买下了这家商店,两千英镑买下了它的信誉。
学英语单词
a passing grade
a ready position
acetylenediol
active pixel sensors
adherent water
aerobic spore forming bacillus
afoor
alongships
alpheus collumianus
amaknak
ash fusibility temperature
Austinella
Bastarnae
bathroom layout
benisa (benissa)
biofumigants
bishops of rome
brown-bagger
building equipment
capital grant
colope
concrete transfer car
congelifluction
corporate borrowing
croissants
cross keys
cutting strokes per minute
data scientist
disranged
draba nemorosa l. var hebecarpa ledeb.
drift factor
dyslochia
early start
electro-hydraulic valve train
empty load
error pulse
ethnoecology
etymemazin
favic
flies by
fundatrigenia
Ghubayshāb
glass for ultraviolet rays
heptamethylnonane
heta
house-dust mites
house-mistress
humanitarian activities
i-wroht
impact tolerance
increase rate of population
induction tube of magnetic
inert-gas carbon arc welding
korbel
lacoste sea gravimeter
late water flooding
latent acid
lawrence durrells
lead in spiral
leave someone to himself
left-hand twine
light-beam recording oscillograph
linear elastic theory
lymphoid reticulum cell
magnesia whisker
no-load and short-circuit method
nonwrapped
Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank,Ltd.
one-commodity model
pathomorphology
person-s
pes malleus valgus
photogrammetric pyramid
plastic induration
Randia cochinchinensis
resverie
rhizocephala
roamer
rose-malloes
secondary sizing operation
semoleon
short-changings
slip-rings
somnifery
stea
sthenias
sub-soils
succus taraxaci
table of weights and measures
telangictasis
transient instrument
triturate tablet
tumor-specific
undulated series winding
unoccupied time
Ursae Majoris
use clause
waterproof varnish
well ordered set
Zabrze
zero-potential surface
zone of scatter