英语单词大师：No Gunplay
时间：2019-01-18 作者：英语课 分类：英语单词大师-Word Master
英语课
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: palindromes aplenty!
RS: A palindrome is something that reads the same backwards 1 or forwards. Palindromes make us think of Janus, the Roman god with one face looking forward, another looking backward.
AA: And from Janus we get January. And from that we get the idea to rerun "The Ballad 2 of Palindrome" each New Year.
RS: It features a skit 3 that spoofs 4 a cowboy show on television in the 1950s called "Paladin." Here now is the group Riders in the Sky joined by singer and songwriter Johnny Western.
AUDIO: "The Ballad of Palindrome/Palindrome: The Scene with Johnny Western"RS: That's Riders in the Sky, from their 1998 album "A Great Big Western HOWDY!" on the Rounder Records label.
AA: And that's Wordmaster for this week. Our e-mail address is word@voanews.com. And our segments are all online at voanews.com/wordmaster.
adv.往回地，向原处，倒，相反，前后倒置地
- He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.他打开电灯并开始走来走去。
- All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.姑娘们迫不及待地为聚会做准备。
n.歌谣，民谣，流行爱情歌曲
- This poem has the distinctive flavour of a ballad.这首诗有民歌风味。
- This is a romantic ballad that is pure corn.这是一首极为伤感的浪漫小曲。
n.滑稽短剧；一群
- The comic skIt sent up the foolishness of young men in love.那幅画把沉溺于热恋中的青年男子的痴态勾勒得滑稽可笑。
- They performed a skit to amuse the crowd.他们表演了一个幽默小品来娱乐观众。