VOA标准英语2010年-Michigan Means Cars to Most Americans
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(九)月
Recently, we tried one of those word-association games on our colleagues here at VOA. We used the word Indiana and asked for the first thing that came to mind.
Farms, one person said. Notre Dame 1 University football, said someone else. Another blurted 2 out Hoosiers, the obscure nickname for people who come from that Midwest state.
No one said automobiles 5, except the person who mentioned the famous Indianapolis 500 auto 3 race.
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The ad on the left, for a San Francisco auto dealer 6, touts 7 the merits of the 1929 Stutz, one of the classic cars made in Indiana.
But the fact is that the U.S. automobile 4 industry got its start in agrarian 8 Indiana. It was settled largely by German farmers and craftsmen 9, and wheelwrights and woodworkers carved beautiful horse-drawn carriages in lots of small Indiana towns. When horseless carriages came along, these carriage-makers simply switched to making cars.
Soon, classic cars such as Auburns, Cords, and Duesenbergs were rolling out of small factories and garages. In the little town of Auburn today, there's a museum devoted 10 to those three brands.
Before Henry Ford 11 introduced assembly-line manufacturing up in Michigan in 1908, there were dozens of tiny auto companies in Indiana, turning out custom-made but expensive mechanical masterpieces.
The Indiana company Studebaker even made an auto called the Rockne, named for Notre Dame's famous football coach. You can see one at the Studebaker Museum in South Bend today.
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The conestoga wagon 12, sometimes called a prairie schooner 13 in this 1872 The Inn on the Road lithograph 14 was made by the Studebaker Co. before that Indiana firm made automobiles.
Henry Ford could easily have started his assembly-line operation in the Hoosier State, too, but he was a Michigan man, and Detroit was right on Lake Erie, whose shipping 15 lanes provided easy access to iron ore and other industrial ingredients.
Little Indiana auto companies couldn't compete, and so we came to associate Indiana with cows, not cars.
- The dame tell of her experience as a wife and mother.这位年长妇女讲了她作妻子和母亲的经验。
- If you stick around,you'll have to marry that dame.如果再逗留多一会，你就要跟那个夫人结婚。
- She blurted it out before I could stop her. 我还没来得及制止，她已脱口而出。
- He blurted out the truth, that he committed the crime. 他不慎说出了真相，说是他犯了那个罪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
- The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
- He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
- The automobile slowed down to go around the curves in the road.汽车在路上转弯时放慢了速度。
- When automobiles become popular,the use of the horse and buggy passed away. 汽车普及后，就不再使用马和马车了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Automobiles speed in an endless stream along the boulevard. 宽阔的林荫道上，汽车川流不息。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The dealer spent hours bargaining for the painting.那个商人为购买那幅画花了几个小时讨价还价。
- The dealer reduced the price for cash down.这家商店对付现金的人减价优惠。
- Many vouchers are returned for cash, allowing touts and middle men to make a healthy margin. 许多月饼券都被兑换成现金，这让券贩子和中间商赚取了不蜚的利润。 来自互联网
- Spotting prey, the customary crowd of hustlers and touts swarmed around, jostling for my business. 照例有大群的拉客黄牛在寻觅猎物，他们争相过来抢我的生意。 来自互联网
- People are leaving an agrarian way of life to go to the city.人们正在放弃农业生活方式而转向城市。
- This was a feature of agrarian development in Britain.这是大不列颠土地所有制发展的一个特征。
- 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。
- He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
- We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
- They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
- If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。
- We have to fork the hay into the wagon.我们得把干草用叉子挑进马车里去。
- The muddy road bemired the wagon.马车陷入了泥泞的道路。
- The schooner was driven ashore.那条帆船被冲上了岸。
- The current was bearing coracle and schooner southward at an equal rate.急流正以同样的速度将小筏子和帆船一起冲向南方。
- 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。