时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:2017年NPR美国国家公共电台10月


英语课

 


MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:


It's that time of year - time for ghosts and goblins and other creatures that go bump in the night.


And if those sorts of things give you the heebie-jeebies, maybe you'll take comfort in knowing that 4 percent of Americans say that ghosts - and by that, we mean the real kind, not the cute little ones who knock on your door with a plastic pumpkin 1 and a sheet over their head - 4 percent of Americans say that ghosts make them afraid or very afraid. Five percent of us say the same about zombies. Seven percent are freaked out by clowns.


Those numbers come to us from the fourth annual Survey of American Fears, conducted by Chapman University. The No. 1 U.S. fear according to this survey? Corrupt 2 government officials. Nearly three quarters of Americans say that government corruption 3 makes them afraid or very afraid. That's by far the top concern of those surveyed, and it's shown a nearly 17 percentage-point jump from three years ago.


Also ranking among this year's top 10 list of U.S. fears - here we go - Trumpcare; pollution of oceans, rivers and lakes; not having enough money for the future, the prospect 4 that the U.S. will be involved in another world war; and climate change.


Scoot further down the list of what keeps us up at night in 2017, and you'll find, in descending 5 order of concern, everything from terrorist attacks and identity theft to public speaking and technology I don't understand.


According to this survey, twice as many of us fear that someone we love will die than we fear dying ourselves. We are collectively far more afraid of heights than we are of needles or flying, and we're apparently 6 equally fearful of sharks and of computers replacing people in the workforce 7.


Also on equal fear footing, the fear of others talking about you behind your back and the fear of your significant other cheating on you. Make of that what you will.


So what's not included in this survey? Well, the fear of Friday the 13 - that's paraskevidekatriaphobia. We're left to wonder where that would rank.


Also not on the list - the fear of rain, ombrophobia; pogonophobia, the fear of beards; my personal fear, the fear of forgetting to set my alarm so I can wake up to host WEEKEND EDITION; and - sorry, Franklin D. Roosevelt - nowhere on the list of America's top fears of 2017 can we find phobophobia, the fear of fear itself.


(SOUNDBITE OF MELODIUM'S "SATURDAY MORNING")



n.南瓜
  • They ate turkey and pumpkin pie.他们吃了火鸡和南瓜馅饼。
  • It looks like there is a person looking out of the pumpkin!看起来就像南瓜里有人在看着你!
v.贿赂,收买;adj.腐败的,贪污的
  • The newspaper alleged the mayor's corrupt practices.那家报纸断言市长有舞弊行为。
  • This judge is corrupt.这个法官贪污。
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
n.前景,前途;景色,视野
  • This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
  • The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
n.劳动大军,劳动力
  • A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
  • A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。
学英语单词
administrative readjustment
alaudidaes
arshile gorky
Balagne
Biver
Bulzi
buzzes in
cardmember
castlemaine
certified instrument
colletotrichum rhoinum tassi
complection
concentrate feed
configuration data control
constrained kinematic chain
consummateth
continuous casting
curly-haired
cutaway dive
depth-chargeds
Dictyoclostus
Domodossola
doxing
El Higuerón
electrically-operated platform truck
erosion mountains
erythroblastotic
erythropoeisis
feeler spring pin
Finucane Ra.
fix point
garment leather
generator unit stator
gourlie
greywacke schist
H.D.L.W.
hartnell
herdmate comparison
high volume sampler
hollow packing
hoogenband
humetted
incisiver suture
inviters
language data
line frequency generator
link-local address
long-term government bonds
Länsi-Suomen Lääni
marine atmosphere corrosion-resisting structural steel
maritime buoyage system agreement
methylone
middleburgh
mindelo
Mošnov
nanningensis
non-pensionable supplements
nondeterministic finite automation
Orthosiphon spicatus
overrunner
Parophidion
perfumes
pilosis
plaster jeckets
Podkarpackie
posthabit
power-downs
presidentiables
proportional intensifier
pyridizin
pyrometric cone equivalent value
rail cambering machine
regular surface gauge
Roundwood Res.
scarlatina latens
shanghaiing
skin irritation assay
spaghetti strap
St. Gervasius' disease
stantly
steam turbine rotor
strong gluten
subfamily Triglinae
Sud, Pte.
thalamic medullary stria
the shakes
thermometer dial
thoracispinal
three-dimensional model
timeframes
tractor mounted
transposition pin
Tyssedal
u-tube hydrometer
ulcerable
vault money
Wanner optical pyrometer
water-carrying
wavelength spectrometer
whelping
yekke
yellow globe lily