时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:2018年NPR美国国家公共电台7月


英语课

 


(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)


AHMED BURHAN MOHAMED: (Speaking Arabic).


LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:


That's Ahmed Burhan Mohamed's award-winning recitation of the Quran, the holy book of Islam. He wowed judges with a nearly perfect oration 1 of the scripture 2 and took home the Dubai International Holy Quran Award in the United Arab Emirates. He's the first American to win the prestigious 3 competition. He's also of Somali descent.


MOHAMED: Oh, I was very proud. It was like a dream come true. I didn't even - five years before that, I didn't even think of myself going to that competition. I was very surprised.


GARCIA-NAVARRO: Many Muslim children learn how to read the Quran at some point in their life, but Ahmed is a hafiz, someone who has not only learned to read the Quran but memorized it - a huge feat 4 for any 17-year-old.


MOHAMED: At first you don't actually want to learn it because you're a little kid who wants to play around most of the times. As you learn more and more, and as you become more mature, you become used to it, and you - it becomes a big part of your life.


GARCIA-NAVARRO: So what does it take to memorize an over-1400-year-old scripture?


MOHAMED: Every single time I got, like, free time, I would be reading the Quran - maybe on the bus, maybe at school, sometimes when I have, like, free periods. So it was very intense. You have to sacrifice a lot of time and put a lot of time into it. You can't be acting 5 like most kids. You have to put more time into the book than you put into, like, other fun stuff.


GARCIA-NAVARRO: Less time for video games and basketball. Ahmed says his whole purpose is to carry out the message of the book.


MOHAMED: So basically, I did all this - my motivation was memorizing my god's holy book and our god's holy book so I can implement 6 it.


(Reciting Quran).


GARCIA-NAVARRO: And his favorite chapter, or surah, of the Quran to recite? Surah Rahman. He loves the rhythm and repetition, but he also loves the meaning, which is about giving back.



n.演说,致辞,叙述法
  • He delivered an oration on the decline of family values.他发表了有关家庭价值观的衰退的演说。
  • He was asked to deliver an oration at the meeting.他被邀请在会议上发表演说。
n.经文,圣书,手稿;Scripture:(常用复数)《圣经》,《圣经》中的一段
  • The scripture states that God did not want us to be alone.圣经指出上帝并不是想让我们独身一人生活。
  • They invoked Hindu scripture to justify their position.他们援引印度教的经文为他们的立场辩护。
adj.有威望的,有声望的,受尊敬的
  • The young man graduated from a prestigious university.这个年轻人毕业于一所名牌大学。
  • You may even join a prestigious magazine as a contributing editor.甚至可能会加入一个知名杂志做编辑。
n.功绩;武艺,技艺;adj.灵巧的,漂亮的,合适的
  • Man's first landing on the moon was a feat of great daring.人类首次登月是一个勇敢的壮举。
  • He received a medal for his heroic feat.他因其英雄业绩而获得一枚勋章。
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
n.(pl.)工具,器具;vt.实行,实施,执行
  • Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划,除非你能完成这项计划。
  • The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。
学英语单词
a barrel of fun
abies concolors
adapter computer system
agricultural seasons
answer-seizure ratio
antimension, antimensia
astrogeologist
astromancy
automatic circuit analyser and verifier
bagging-off chute
bar-rigged drifter
bassets
battery charging station
bin drive belt
braised turnip
bulked up
calandna
cardozoes
catsits
chlorbenzamide
combined cutting and-welding blow-pipe
commodity economy
compression type refrigerating unit
confixing
dark ruby silver
decay of luminescene
delivery guage
directo print
east antarctic craton
eaton (transmessible) agent
electromagnetic oil pressure indicator
end play
ferrouranium
finishing teeth
finnmarks
flared
fuel to fertile material ratio
Harper Brothers
hot-pluggable
imbodied
inherdand
initial infection
insisted
intellectual speculation
khaipudyr b. (khaypudyrskaya guba)
knife-carriers
Kāmyārān
lantern test
laws of rational indices
limited safe
madrigalers
mallardi
Miaotse
mist forest
mony
Muzāfarpur
najmas
neutralized states
non-sellings
ordinary composition series of subgroups
oximino acid
pacific type orogeny
pearl opal
polup
preattached
primum
public morality
pyrosulfuryl
remote source
restratifications
rheocardiographic
rigid plastic finite element method
rotary car tipper
sales proceeds
sausage skin
shelf list sheet
shooting ring
shoujo
slides-in
Sorrento
splender
spring a leak
spring set
spur gear system
staythorpe
stogging
street trading
Sunnaic
suomi
take up to
thoracic pleural bristle
three hop
transistor short-pulse power rating
translation probability matrix
tropto-meter
ultramicro-earthquake
vermitin
watershed ecosystem
xylotrechus chinensis
Yushania andropogonoides
Yuwaaliyaay