VOA标准英语2012--South Dakota Retains Unique Vintage Charm
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(一月)
South Dakota Retains Unique Vintage Charm
If you’re into time travel, time warps 1, time capsules, that sort of thing, you should take a trip to the high-plains state of South Dakota. You’ll feel like you’re back in the 1940s.
That was long before high-speed Interstate highways, and there was no easy way to bypass the little towns that dot the 600 kilometers from the Minnesota border on the east to the Wyoming line out west.
Humble 2 motor-court motels and snake farms, family zoos, gemstone and dinosaur-bone collections broke the tedium 3 for families heading to Yellowstone National Park.
And many roadside oddities have survived to this day. In Mitchell, South Dakota, there’s the Corn Palace - a building covered in 275,000 ears of corn. No, we’re not kidding.
In the town of Lemmon, you’ll encounter a petrified-wood park, which someone described as a “forest of frozen fossils.” In Rapid City, a park filled with concrete dinosaurs 4. No admission fee for that.
Elsewhere across the desolate 5 prairie, you’ll find the skull 6 and bones of a circus elephant; a house in the shape of a shoe; and museums devoted 7 to vinegar, the walleye fish, and those relics 8 of the days before indoor toilets: outhouses.
And you still see hundreds of billboards 9 promoting Wall Drug. Beginning in the 1930s, that little store drew a crowd simply by promoting “free ice water” at a time when a cold drink was hard to find on the prairie.
Today, hundreds of Wall Drug billboards still tout 10 that free water and a five-cent cup of coffee, though the store - now a block-long superstore - makes its fortune on cowboy gear, Indian souvenirs and buffalo 11 burgers.
And the Coyote State’s allure 12 reaches far beyond little Wall, South Dakota. Hammered into the ice at the South Pole is a sign that reads, “Wall Drug. Free Ice Water, 9,333 miles.” That puts it about 15,000 kilometers away, a long way to go for a refreshing 13 glass of water.
- This wood warps easily in damp conditions. 这种木料受潮容易变形。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Matt Lauer: Renewable biofuels. Park Ranger Rick Marshall Close. Time warps. 马特·劳尔：“可再生生物燃料。”瑞克：“不说了，时间都扭曲了。” 来自互联网
- In my humble opinion,he will win the election.依我拙见，他将在选举中获胜。
- Defeat and failure make people humble.挫折与失败会使人谦卑。
- We played games to relieve the tedium of the journey.我们玩游戏，来解除旅行的沉闷。
- In myself I could observe the following sources of tedium. 从我自己身上，我所观察到的烦闷的根源有下列一些。
- The brontosaurus was one of the largest of all dinosaurs. 雷龙是所有恐龙中最大的一种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. 恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The city was burned into a desolate waste.那座城市被烧成一片废墟。
- We all felt absolutely desolate when she left.她走后，我们都觉得万分孤寂。
- The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
- He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去，跌裂了颅骨。
- He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
- We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
- The area is a treasure house of archaeological relics. 这个地区是古文物遗迹的宝库。
- Xi'an is an ancient city full of treasures and saintly relics. 西安是一个有很多宝藏和神圣的遗物的古老城市。
- Large billboards have disfigured the scenery. 大型告示板已破坏了景色。 来自辞典例句
- Then, put the logo in magazines and on billboards without telling anyone what it means. 接着我们把这个商标刊在杂志和广告看板上，却不跟任何人透漏它的涵意。 来自常春藤生活英语杂志-2006年4月号
- They say it will let them tout progress in the war.他们称这将有助于鼓吹他们在战争中的成果。
- If your case studies just tout results,don't bother requiring registration to view them.如果你的案例研究只是吹捧结果，就别烦扰别人来注册访问了。
- Asian buffalo isn't as wild as that of America's. 亚洲水牛比美洲水牛温顺些。
- The boots are made of buffalo hide. 这双靴子是由水牛皮制成的。
- The window displays allure customers to buy goods.橱窗陈列品吸引顾客购买货物。
- The book has a certain allure for which it is hard to find a reason.这本书有一种难以解释的魅力。
- I find it'so refreshing to work with young people in this department.我发现和这一部门的青年一起工作令人精神振奋。
- The water was cold and wonderfully refreshing.水很涼，特别解乏提神。