VOA标准英语2012--Cheaters Prospered in Historic US Land Rush
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(九月)
Cheaters Prospered 1 in Historic US Land Rush
A couple of boundaries between U.S. states have special historical significance.
The “Mason Dixon Line” between Pennsylvania and Maryland, for instance, informally divided the slaveholding South from the anti-slavery North.
And the border between two Great Plains states - Kansas and Oklahoma - is famous for mad scrambles 2 for land that are remembered at a little museum.
By 1893, what white Americans called the “Indian Territory” - to which the U.S. government had forced one tribe after another to move - had shrunk to what is now the eastern half of the state of Oklahoma.
Cattle ranchers leased much of it, though, and westward 3 migration 4 by other whites prompted the government to buy huge tracts 5 of that land for settlement.
It organized a series of chaotic 6 “land rushes” as a way of deciding where “homesteaders,” as they were called, would get parcels of land.
The last and most dramatic rush took place on Sept. 16, 1893, into a strip called the “Cherokee Outlet 7,” which was larger than three small U.S. states put together.
The land was used by the Cherokee Tribe as a pathway to hunting grounds in the Rocky Mountains.
That last great race for land - the largest single competitive event in world history - is remembered at the Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum located on the Oklahoma border in Arkansas City, Kansas.
A display tells the story of that event, when more than 100,000 people walked, rode horses or bicycles, drove wagons 8, or took a special train into the Cherokee Outlet in the frantic 9 rush for land.
One man even put his little house on wheels, pulled it across the border, and staked a claim.
More than a few cheaters snuck in sooner than the official opening and claimed some of the prime homesteading locations.
It was they who would give the new State of Oklahoma its nickname.
It’s the “Sooner State.”
The players on the powerful University of Oklahoma’s football team are called “Sooners” to this day.
- The organization certainly prospered under his stewardship. 不可否认，这个组织在他的管理下兴旺了起来。
- Mr. Black prospered from his wise investments. 布莱克先生由于巧妙的投资赚了不少钱。
- The breaking of symmetry scrambles the underlying order of nature. 对称性的破坏会打乱自然界的根本秩序。 来自互联网
- The move comes as Japan scrambles for ways to persuade women to have more babies. 这一行动的出现正值日本政府想尽各种办法鼓励妇女多生育孩子。 来自互联网
- We live on the westward slope of the hill.我们住在这座山的西山坡。
- Explore westward or wherever.向西或到什么别的地方去勘探。
- Swallows begin their migration south in autumn.燕子在秋季开始向南方迁移。
- He described the vernal migration of birds in detail.他详细地描述了鸟的春季移居。
- vast tracts of forest 大片大片的森林
- There are tracts of desert in Australia. 澳大利亚有大片沙漠。
- Things have been getting chaotic in the office recently.最近办公室的情况越来越乱了。
- The traffic in the city was chaotic.这城市的交通糟透了。
- The outlet of a water pipe was blocked.水管的出水口堵住了。
- Running is a good outlet for his energy.跑步是他发泄过剩精力的好方法。
- The wagons were hauled by horses. 那些货车是马拉的。
- They drew their wagons into a laager and set up camp. 他们把马车围成一圈扎起营地。