NPR边听边练03:特别万圣夜
时间：2018-12-03 作者：英语课 分类：NPR边听边练
英语课
【NPR边听边练】致力于提供新鲜有趣、饶有意味的时讯资料，致力于通过精听的方式促进听力提高，致力于不断开阔眼界和深入了解美国观点。
精听建议：
先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍，争取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精听，力争每句话都听明白。遇到实在不懂的地方，再听写。
下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的词都很简单，不过是一些值得注意的连读或者典型的美式发音哦，有些语速比较快。试试看，你能不能全部写对？
（参考文本，欢迎指出错误^^）
The devastation 1 of hurricane Katrina ___(1)___ some gulf 2 coast residents from marking Halloween last night. New Orleans had always been the perfect backdrop, the home of costumes, graveyards 3 and voodoo. NPR's Loop Banberk ___(2)___ this yearThere was no real point this year in ___(3)___ fake spider webs or cupboard cutouts of witches. Because even two months after Katrina, New Orleans is an eerie 4, eerie place all on its own. Piles of muddy debris 5 are everywhere. ___(4)___ lie in the streets like above ground tombs and the wind whistles to the broken panes 6 of glass. And yet every ___(5)___ you head a street like Pipe Drive, which actually seems pretty normal and comes complete with trick-or-treaters.
答案：
1. did not stop
2. reports on the festivities
3. putting up
4. Rotten refrigerators
5. once in a while
1 devastation
n.毁坏；荒废；极度震惊或悲伤
- The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
- There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 gulf
n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
3 graveyards
墓地( graveyard的名词复数 )； 垃圾场； 废物堆积处； 收容所
- He takes a macabre interest in graveyards. 他那么留意墓地，令人毛骨悚然。
- "And northward there lie, in five graveyards, Calm forever under dewy green grass," 五陵北原上，万古青蒙蒙。 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 文学
4 eerie
adj.怪诞的；奇异的；可怕的；胆怯的
- It's eerie to walk through a dark wood at night.夜晚在漆黑的森林中行走很是恐怖。
- I walked down the eerie dark path.我走在那条漆黑恐怖的小路上。