VOA标准英语2010-Want a Short Course in Cuban Culture?
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(四)月
It's all around you along a single street in Miami
Ted 1 Landphair | Washington, DC 19 April 2010
The food is fresh, Cuban-influenced and not as spicy 2 as one might expect along Calle Ocho.
The city of Miami, Florida, is an oasis 3 of swaying palm trees, white beaches, yachts and gigantic tour ships in the harbor, a handy monorail transit 4 system that winds all through downtown, and boutiques and clubs in a trendy shopping plaza 5 called Coconut 6 Grove 7.
And several times a year, a generally quiet part of town with no big buildings or yachts comes alive with a flourish.
It's an old, crowded neighborhood of modest stucco homes and tiny shops that stretches for about 30 blocks along Eighth Street.
Little Havana lies, literally 8, in the shadow of a much more modern Miami landmark 9: Metromover, the free monorail transit.
Only the people here call it Calle Ocho, and even the signs at the McDonald's fast-food restaurant are in Spanish.
This is Miami's Little Havana, where Cuban immigrants and their children have lived, worked, and shopped since the early 1960s. Communist leader Fidel Castro's overthrow 10 of the Cuban government in 1959 triggered a huge exodus 11 of Cubans to the west Miami neighborhood.
And Little Havana's population swelled 12 again during six months in 1980, when more than 100,000 Cubans were permitted to leave Castro's island en masse in what came to be called the Mariel Boatlift.
To this day in Little Havana, the food, including black beans and rice and frita cubanas — hamburgers of a sort, topped with grated fried potatoes — is Cuban. Street murals depict 13 Latin leaders.
Men play dominoes next to a mural depicting 14 the first Summit of the Americas, at which leaders of 34 North, Central and South American nations gathered in Miami in 1994.
The games of dominoes that old men play in Maximo Gomez Park are straight out of Havana.
The music is exuberantly 15 Cuban at street festivals along Calle Ocho. And many of the cigars that the men smoke are hand-rolled right in Little Havana by craftsmen 16 who brought their trade with them from the Cuban capital.
But all around this pocket of Cuban culture, things are changing. Ten years ago, almost all of Miami's top 10 radio stations broadcast in Spanish. Now, just two do.
That's because — while Spanish is still the language in many homes — the children of immigrants from Cuba and other Latin nations speak English in school and on the street, wear American clothes and prefer upbeat Anglo rock music to their parents' dreamy, old Spanish ballads 17.
- The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
- She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。
- The soup tasted mildly spicy.汤尝起来略有点辣。
- Very spicy food doesn't suit her stomach.太辣的东西她吃了胃不舒服。
- They stopped for the night at an oasis.他们在沙漠中的绿洲停下来过夜。
- The town was an oasis of prosperity in a desert of poverty.该镇是贫穷荒漠中的一块繁荣的“绿洲”。
- His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
- The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。
- They designated the new shopping centre York Plaza.他们给这个新购物中心定名为约克购物中心。
- The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen.这个广场上布满了便衣警察。
- The husk of this coconut is particularly strong.椰子的外壳很明显非常坚固。
- The falling coconut gave him a terrific bang on the head.那只掉下的椰子砰地击中他的脑袋。
- On top of the hill was a grove of tall trees.山顶上一片高大的树林。
- The scent of lemons filled the grove.柠檬香味充满了小树林。
- He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
- Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。
- The Russian Revolution represents a landmark in world history.俄国革命是世界历史上的一个里程碑。
- The tower was once a landmark for ships.这座塔曾是船只的陆标。
- After the overthrow of the government,the country was in chaos.政府被推翻后，这个国家处于混乱中。
- The overthrow of his plans left him much discouraged.他的计划的失败使得他很气馁。
- The medical system is facing collapse because of an exodus of doctors.由于医生大批离去，医疗系统面临崩溃。
- Man's great challenge at this moment is to prevent his exodus from this planet.人在当前所遇到的最大挑战，就是要防止人从这个星球上消失。
- The infection swelled his hand. 由于感染，他的手肿了起来。
- After the heavy rain the river swelled. 大雨过后，河水猛涨。
- I don't care to see plays or films that depict murders or violence.我不喜欢看描写谋杀或暴力的戏剧或电影。
- Children's books often depict farmyard animals as gentle,lovable creatures.儿童图书常常把农场的动物描写得温和而可爱。
- a painting depicting the Virgin and Child 一幅描绘童贞马利亚和圣子耶稣的画
- The movie depicting the battles and bloodshed is bound to strike home. 这部描写战斗和流血牺牲的影片一定会取得预期效果。
- Pooch was clumsy as an ox and exuberantly affectionate. 普茨笨拙如一头公牛，可又极富于感情。 来自百科语句
- They exuberantly reclaimed a national indentity. 他们坚持不懈地要求恢复民族尊严。 来自辞典例句
- rugs handmade by local craftsmen 由当地工艺师手工制作的小地毯
- The craftsmen have ensured faithful reproduction of the original painting. 工匠保证要复制一幅最接近原作的画。