时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2013年(六月)


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New York Speaks Your Language, No Matter What It Is



With hundreds of languages and dialects spoken from around the world, few cities are as diverse as New York.


"New York is the capital of the world, where we live together in peace," said Ernesto Arias 1.


Ernesto Arias, from Bolivia, says this is all possible without loss of tradition or the mother language. He speaks in his native Spanish.


 “There are people from every background, so you’ll hear a variety of languages and dialects.  For example, in my country, they speak Aymara and Quechua.  Of course, here we’re starting to lose that.  But we are making an effort to maintain our community in some form so that we don’t lose it," he said.


According to the 2010 census 2,  51 percent of New Yorkers speak only English. The remaining 49 percent, according to experts, speak hundreds of other languages.


For many local residents, it probably comes as no surprise that the second-most spoken language in New York is Spanish, representing 25 percent of the population.


“It’s a very cosmopolitan 3 city where you see people from around the world and listen to every language possible in the elevators, on the street, doing business.  I don’t know about 800 languages, but they all sound very different," said Gabriela Pisterna, Argentinian tourist.


Historically, the Big Apple has been known for welcoming immigrants, earning it the unofficial title of “Capital of the World.”


“Every place is represented here, at least from Latin America, there are so many," said Edmundo Datri, another Argentinian Tourist. 




n.咏叹调( aria的名词复数 )
  • Can you pick out the operatic arias quoted in this orchestral passage? 你能听出这段管弦乐曲里有歌剧式的咏叹调吗? 来自辞典例句
  • The actions are large and colour, there are arias and recitatives. 动作夸张而华美,有唱段也有宣叙部。 来自辞典例句
n.(官方的)人口调查,人口普查
  • A census of population is taken every ten years.人口普查每10年进行一次。
  • The census is taken one time every four years in our country.我国每四年一次人口普查。
adj.世界性的,全世界的,四海为家的,全球的
  • New York is a highly cosmopolitan city.纽约是一个高度世界性的城市。
  • She has a very cosmopolitan outlook on life.她有四海一家的人生观。
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a.c.bridge
abrasive cutting off
Accounting Methods
accouplements
Aelosoma
anaerogen
anti-macassars
antiscorch(ing)
arthritis deformans neoplastica
astrosphaera hexagonalis
auxinic
Batalha
blue agate
Blåhφj
burriller
certificate devaluation
cesium pentasulfide
chenia leptophylla
column void volume
common market countries
complementary parameter
constant-energy
continuity correction
coralli-
corona starting voltage
cost accounts code
Cost Recovery Period
Culex pallidothorax
cycloalkyl
degloss
desectionalize
Diuranthera
diver's ladder
eco-tourism
elasticities
elective
employer's surplus
energysolutions
FAGO
fit-shaced
formaldehyde molecule
Frei-Hoffman reaction
frotz
global society
grey catbirds
gum turpentine oil
hamsell
hand-poked producer
hinokiresinol
home stability
hydraulic blasting
intralimbs
isoprofit curves
isotony
italies
jelly donut
kertoglossus
komarov lilac
latent mosaic
life nurturing
liposolubility
liquid sustainer
lucassen
Marshallagla
mitodepression
mitsubaene
molecular systematics
monoband
n. interosseus antebrachii volaris
nanoresistor
nonexercisable
nonlinear feedback relay servomechanism
NUDP-SUGAR
on-line retailer
operational beacon
paraelectricity
peptic juice
plow carrier
pseudocercospora salicina
quartermaster demand
radar calibration
Remak's fibers
robert fultons
Robledal
rollpin
sagarese
schizocytes
slag-hammer
slocking-stone
sludge bulking
somatic delusion
sufflamen fraenatum
terrorising
theoretical tray
tiphad
trial full load operation
tympanic cells
vacuum press
with exchange
worm hole
zinc anode cathodic protection system
zis