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Old Salem in North Carolina revisits simple Moravian ways


Ted 1 Landphair | Washington DC 18 March 2010




This is a pleasant part of downtown Winston-Salem in the Winston part of town.




Across the United States, there are several places where two independent towns grew together to become one city — but kept both their names.


Winston-Salem is one of them. It's a mid-sized city in what's called the Piedmont, or plateau, between the Atlantic Coast and the inland mountains in the state of North Carolina.


The Winston part is a relatively 2 new place, founded early this century. It's a textile center and home to the nation's biggest open-air tobacco market.


The giant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's headquarters is in Winston-Salem, and Winston is the name of one of Reynolds' best-known cigarette brands. Fast-growing Winston soon surrounded the much older town of Salem, so in 1913, people in the area voted to combine them into a single place.


From a historical and tourist point of view, Salem, or Old Salem, as it's called today, is the interesting and unusual part of town.




The Single Brothers' House was the Moravians' dormitory for young, unmarried men.


Salem was founded in the 1700s by the Moravians, a strict Protestant sect 3 originally from what is now the Czech Republic and eastern Germany. The Moravians spoke 4 German, and their community was religiously based, with single men and single women living apart in what were called choirs 5 or separate dormitories.


The Moravians greatly valued women's work and brainpower. In fact, one of the nation's oldest boarding schools for young women — the Moravians' Salem Academy founded in 1772 — is still in operation. But Salem became so worldly that, except for the academy, a beautiful church and a graveyard 6 called God's Acre, Salem lost its Moravian character.




Old Salem has not only preserved historic houses but also re-created the kinds of gardens that were an extension of every household.


Over the years, Salem deteriorated 7 and, by the 1950s, it was a slum. That all changed, though, when a nonprofit group began to rehabilitate 8 the historic area. These days Old Salem is what's called a living history museum, with exhibits, music, and tours of 18th-Century houses, taverns 9 and Moravian dormitory buildings just seven blocks from the tallest skyscraper 10 in Winston-Salem.


The historic community is thriving again. Just as R. J. Reynolds is taking in millions of dollars making cigarettes across town, Old Salem is generating about $15 million a year in tourism revenue and donations.

 



vt.翻晒,撒,撒开
  • 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。
adv.比较...地,相对地
  • The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
  • The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。
n.派别,宗教,学派,派系
  • When he was sixteen he joined a religious sect.他16岁的时候加入了一个宗教教派。
  • Each religious sect in the town had its own church.该城每一个宗教教派都有自己的教堂。
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
n.教堂的唱诗班( choir的名词复数 );唱诗队;公开表演的合唱团;(教堂)唱经楼
  • They ran the three churches to which they belonged, the clergy, the choirs and the parishioners. 她们管理着自己所属的那三家教堂、牧师、唱诗班和教区居民。 来自飘(部分)
  • Since 1935, several village choirs skilled in this music have been created. 1935以来,数支熟练掌握这种音乐的乡村唱诗班相继建立起来。 来自互联网
n.坟场
  • All the town was drifting toward the graveyard.全镇的人都象流水似地向那坟场涌过去。
  • Living next to a graveyard would give me the creeps.居住在墓地旁边会使我毛骨悚然。
恶化,变坏( deteriorate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she died shortly afterwards. 她的健康状况急剧恶化,不久便去世了。
  • His condition steadily deteriorated. 他的病情恶化,日甚一日。
vt.改造(罪犯),修复;vi.复兴,(罪犯)经受改造
  • There was no money to rehabilitate the tower.没有资金修复那座塔。
  • He used exercise programmes to rehabilitate the patients.他采用体育锻炼疗法使患者恢复健康。
n.小旅馆,客栈,酒馆( tavern的名词复数 )
  • They ain't only two taverns. We can find out quick." 这儿只有两家客栈,会弄明白的。” 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
  • Maybe ALL the Temperance Taverns have got a ha'nted room, hey, Huck?" 也许所有的禁酒客栈都有个闹鬼的房间,喂,哈克,你说是不是?” 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
n.摩天大楼
  • The skyscraper towers into the clouds.那幢摩天大楼高耸入云。
  • The skyscraper was wrapped in fog.摩天楼为雾所笼罩。
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a balancing act
airborne emergency medical center
anonymity
anvil roller
bandiness
best screenplay
Botnaheidhi
brown clay ironstone
bursae trochanterica subfascialis
cettiid
chaetophobia
Chromiferous-Clinochlore
chuck spindle
circuit of the cells
cleyff
collyrium hydrargyi oxycyanidi
columnar stem
combined drill abd mill machine
come back
congregate
cost of depreciation
dangereux
delivery-stroke
dibutyl tin laurate
dilemma
dimethyldichlorosilance
dock leveler
dropped-scone
dynamic coefficient subgrade reaction
East Langton
east-northeast
explosive mixture
Fanning's equation
faulknor
fibreglass-reinforced metal
forced expiratory volume in one second
gas cycling
global irradiation
grewelle
Grt.
guggulipid
Gwaram
hastatest
Hebeloma
higher than Gilderoy's kite
Hitcham
holford
i-gastliche
isoentropic compression
isopterygium minutifolium
james scott connorss
Japan Machinery Federation
latex finger cot
leggatts
lever-and-screw coupling
liberomotor
Loquilocon
luxur
machoistic
moulding-sand mixture
national enquires
New England press ham
non-tacky toner
nonregulated discharge
offset section
outer circumferential lamella
oviculated
pentalenyl
plastic lining
Pomme de Terre R.
portwood
product detector
read write
record amplifier
relief-map
reserve ratio requirement
roark
s-method of multiple comparisons
scombroid
screen function
secondary calcining
shape element
slope break
Streettalk
sun parlour
super-refractory
supplementary unemployment benefit
synovial(fluid)
tenth Muse
timber cage
timber cofferdam
total power system
unconscious neglect
unimpugned
unsensationalised
up someone's street
Vinylite
warbey
Windows Powered NAS
wireimage.com
wireless operators
yellow-weed