VOA标准英语2010年-Landmark to Freedom Stands Above Mean
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(八)月
Cedar 1 Hill, home of Frederick Douglass, in Washington, DC's Anacostia neighborhood, shown here in 1905.
The Anacostia neighborhood - named for the polluted branch of the Potomac River that runs past it - is the poorest, most run-down section of Washington, D.C.
It encompasses 2 most of the city's public-housing projects and burned-out homes.
But among them, in what had been Washington's first suburb, are some beautiful places and significant historical sites.
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Frederick Douglass, once an escaped slave, became one of the most riveting 3 speakers against slavery in the South.
One sits on a high spot called Cedar Hill, from which one gets a magnificent view of the distant U.S. Capitol, Library of Congress, and Supreme 4 Court Building.
A small but elegant mansion 5 was built there in 1852, when that part of Anacostia was for white Protestants only - no Catholics, Jews, or, certainly, African-Americans were welcome.
The owner got into financial trouble, and the property was taken over by an institution called the Freedman's Bank, which was set up after the Civil War to help former southern slaves.
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This is the parlor 6 as Frederick Douglass kept it at Cedar Hill, restored by the National Park Service.
And the Freedman's Bank sold Cedar Hill to a black man who broke the color line in Anacostia. He was the bank's own president, Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who had become the most rapturous speaker in the abolitionist movement.
Douglass, who had learned to read from little white boys to whom he sneaked 7 food when he was a slave, inspired other slaves to learn to read as the path to freedom and a full life.
His home in Anacostia contains hundreds of Douglass artifacts, including his walking sticks, swamp hats, and pens that he used to write his speeches and books in the little, windowless building called a growlery out back.
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Douglass is prominent on this 1881 lithograph 8, Heroes of the Colored Race. The others are U.S. senators Blanche Kelso Bruce (left) and Hiram Revels 9 (right).
The main house looks like a smaller version of his master's old manor 10 home.
That's why he bought it, Frederick Douglass said. He couldn't pass up the opportunity because of the irony 11 of it all.
- The cedar was about five feet high and very shapely.那棵雪松约有五尺高,风姿优美。
- She struck the snow from the branches of an old cedar with gray lichen.她把长有灰色地衣的老雪松树枝上的雪打了下来。
- The job encompasses a wide range of responsibilities. 这项工作涉及的职责范围很广。
- Its conservation law encompasses both its magnitude and its direction. 它的守恒定律包括大小和方向两方面。 来自辞典例句
- I find snooker riveting though I don't play myself.虽然我自己不打斯诺克，但是我觉得它挺令人着迷。
- To my amazement,I found it riveting.但令我惊讶的是，我发现它的吸引人处。
- It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
- He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
- The old mansion was built in 1850.这座古宅建于1850年。
- The mansion has extensive grounds.这大厦四周的庭园广阔。
- She was lying on a small settee in the parlor.她躺在客厅的一张小长椅上。
- Is there a pizza parlor in the neighborhood?附近有没有比萨店？
- I sneaked up the stairs. 我蹑手蹑脚地上了楼。
- She sneaked a surreptitious glance at her watch. 她偷偷看了一眼手表。
- Lithograph was introduced from China to Europe.印刷术是从中国传入欧洲的。
- Cole printed 1,000 of the cards on a lithograph stone before having them hand-colored.科尔随即用石版印刷了1000张，之后又让人给这些卡手工着色。
- Christmas revels with feasting and dancing were common in England. 圣诞节的狂欢歌舞在英国是很常见的。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Dickens openly revels in the book's rich physical detail and high-hearted conflict. 狄更斯对该书中丰富多彩的具体细节描写和勇敢的争斗公开表示欣赏。 来自辞典例句
- The builder of the manor house is a direct ancestor of the present owner.建造这幢庄园的人就是它现在主人的一个直系祖先。
- I am not lord of the manor,but its lady.我并非此地的领主，而是这儿的女主人。