VOA标准英语2012--Every Night is Fright Night at Elegant Theater
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十月)
Every Night is Fright Night at Elegant Theater
In many American cities, one can find beautifully restored movie houses from the Golden Age of Motion Pictures in the 1920s and ’30s.
Many boast classical décor, complete with crystal chandeliers, velvet 1 draperies, statues and urns 2, and gilt-leaf molding.
There’s an elegantly restored theater in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but it has quite a different look.
So unusual that throughout New Mexico you can find people who share a stark 3 memory of being scared out of their skulls 4 there - and not by the movie that was showing.
In the early 1900s, a local businessman named Oreste Bachechi was making a fortune selling liquor, some of it to the movie stars whose cross-country trains stopped to refuel outside of Albuquerque.
He fell in love with films and decided 5 to build the city’s first movie palace.
And he wanted something different - something that would reflect the unique influence of New Mexico’s native American culture.
So he built a movie house filled with Indian rugs, light fixtures 6 shaped like war drums, and walls decorated with thunderbirds and backward swastikas - American Indian symbols of happiness, life, and freedom.
But here’s what would later scare his young patrons in particular: He lined the walls with steer 7 skulls, whose empty eye sockets 8 glowed a spooky amber 9 when the auditorium 10 lights went down.
Bachechi called his theater the “KiMo,” which in the Tiwa Indian tongue broadly describes anything that is “king of its kind.”
Like many U.S. movie palaces, the KiMo’s financial fortunes declined with the coming of television.
Its owners even resorted to showing pornographic films for awhile.
But the theater closed in 1968 and remained shuttered for 15 years until a fundraising drive led to its glorious restoration.
Today, the KiMo screens classic movies and offers its stage to regional theatre and musical groups.
And the steer skulls glow eerily 11 once again.
- This material feels like velvet.这料子摸起来像丝绒。
- The new settlers wore the finest silk and velvet clothing.新来的移民穿着最华丽的丝绸和天鹅绒衣服。
- Wine utensils unearthed include jars, urns, pots, bowls and cups. 发掘出的酒器皿有瓶、瓮、罐、壶、碗和杯子。 来自互联网
- Ernie yearned to learn to turn urns. 呕尼渴望学会转咖啡壶。 来自互联网
- The young man is faced with a stark choice.这位年轻人面临严峻的抉择。
- He gave a stark denial to the rumor.他对谣言加以完全的否认。
- One of the women's skulls found exceeds in capacity that of the average man of today. 现已发现的女性颅骨中，其中有一个的脑容量超过了今天的普通男子。
- We could make a whole plain white with skulls in the moonlight! 我们便能令月光下的平原变白，遍布白色的骷髅！
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- The insurance policy covers the building and any fixtures contained therein. 保险单为这座大楼及其中所有的设施保了险。
- The fixtures had already been sold and the sum divided. 固定设备已经卖了，钱也分了。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
- If you push the car, I'll steer it.如果你来推车，我就来驾车。
- It's no use trying to steer the boy into a course of action that suits you.想说服这孩子按你的方式行事是徒劳的。
- All new PCs now have USB sockets. 新的个人计算机现在都有通用串行总线插孔。
- Make sure the sockets in your house are fingerproof. 确保你房中的插座是防触电的。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
- Would you like an amber necklace for your birthday?你过生日想要一条琥珀项链吗？
- This is a piece of little amber stones.这是一块小小的琥珀化石。
- The teacher gathered all the pupils in the auditorium.老师把全体同学集合在礼堂内。
- The stage is thrust forward into the auditorium.舞台向前突出，伸入观众席。