时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:美国英语听力80篇


英语课

[00:05.36]Some people depend on the calendar to tell them when spring has arrived.

[00:11.00]But many others know spring is here because it is time to celebrate the religious holidays of Passover and Easter.

[00:21.00]Jewish 1 people observe Passover to remember the time when Moses led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.

[00:30.48]The holiday also celebrates the real beginning of the Jewish nation.

[00:36.18]And it represents the first for freedom by an oppressed 2 group of people.

[00:42.24]Easter is the day when Christians 4 believe that Jesus Christ 3 rose from the dead.

[00:48.67]Most Christians believe Jesus was sent to earth to save humans from wrongdoing, and to give them everlasting 5 life.

[00:58.17]Passover is one of the oldest holidays in the world.

[01:02.77]It started more than 3,000 years ago.

[01:06.74]It begins at sundown on the fourteenth day of the Jewish month of Nisan.

[01:13.51]This year, Jews begin celebrating the holiday on April Nineteenth.

[01:19.78]The book of Exodus 6 in the Hebrew Bible--the Jewish holy book--tells the Passover story.

[01:27.82]The Israelites were slaves in Egypt.

[01:32.68]The ruler of Egypt would not release 7 them.

[01:36.26]Moses was the leader of the Israelites.

[01:40.10]God gave Moses the power to force the Pharaoh to let the Israelites leave.

[01:46.16]God gave Moses the power to strike the Egyptians with terrible events to kill their animals and crops.

[01:54.21]The first Passover took place when Moses warned that God would killthe first-born children of Egypt.

[02:02.80]On that night, the Israelites remained inside their houses.

[02:08.76]They ateflat bread that did not rise, called matzoh.

[02:13.20]And they ate lamb.

[02:14.95]Moses told his people to mark the doors of their houses with the blood of lambs.

[02:22.18]That night, God killed the firstborn Egyptian children.

[02:27.12]But He did not kill the children of the Israelites.

[02:31.72]He passed over their houses.

[02:34.46]The Egyptian ruler was afraid.

[02:37.49]He told Moses to lead his people out of Egypt'immediately.

[02:42.80]Later, however, Egyptian forces tried to recapture the Israelites.

[02:48.86]But Moses separated the waters of the Red Sea so his people could escape.

[02:55.88]The Egyptian forces drowned in the sea.

[02:59.41]Today, Jewish families still retell the story of being saved from death in Egypt.

[03:08.24]They attend Passover services in religious centers.

[03:12.47]And, they hold a Passover ceremonial meal called a Seder in their homes.

[03:18.61]Family members and friends gather to read the story of the Israelites' freedom from slavery.

[03:26.68]They read the story from a special book called The Hagaddah,

[03:31.59]and they eat several special foods that help them remember their ancestors in Egypt.

[03:38.41]The Seder foods include the traditional matzoh.

[03:43.29]This represents the time when their ancestors left Egypt so quickly they did not have time to let their bread rise.

[03:52.65]A lamb bone represents the blood used to mark their doors.

[03:58.08]Bitter herbs recall 8 the hard life of slavery.

[04:02.49]A mixture of apples, nuts,spices and wine is called haroseth.

[04:08.79]It represents the bricks 9 and building materials the slaves used in Egypt.

[04:14.77]Each person at the Seder drinks four cups of wine.

[04:19.84]Another cup of wine on the table is for Elijah.



1 Jewish
adj.犹太人的,犹太民族的
  • The coin bears a Jewish symbol.硬币上有犹太标记。
  • They were two Jewish kids;I was friendly with both of them.他们是两个犹太小孩;我同他们都很要好。
2 oppressed
n.基督,救世主,耶稣
  • I regarded him as the Christ.我把他当作救世主。
  • Christ preached that we should love each other.基督在布道中说人们应该互爱。
3 Christians
n.基督教徒( Christian的名词复数 )
  • Christians of all denominations attended the conference. 基督教所有教派的人都出席了这次会议。
  • His novel about Jesus caused a furore among Christians. 他关于耶稣的小说激起了基督教徒的公愤。
4 everlasting
adj.永恒的,持久的,无止境的
  • These tyres are advertised as being everlasting.广告上说轮胎持久耐用。
  • He believes in everlasting life after death.他相信死后有不朽的生命。
5 exodus
v.大批离去,成群外出
  • The medical system is facing collapse because of an exodus of doctors.由于医生大批离去,医疗系统面临崩溃。
  • Man's great challenge at this moment is to prevent his exodus from this planet.人在当前所遇到的最大挑战,就是要防止人从这个星球上消失。
6 release
vt.发布,发表,发行;释放,放开
  • After my examination I had a feeling of release.考完试后我有如释重负之感。
  • This medicine will give you release from pain.这药吃后会解除你的疼痛。
7 recall
n.回忆,召回,取消;vt.回想起,召回,与...相似,恢复
  • As you may recall, he was in the army then.你可能记得当时他正在从军。
  • We demand that you recall your army from our border.我们要求你们撤回在我们边境的部队。
8 bricks
n.砖( brick的名词复数 );砖块;积木;可靠的朋友
  • He compounded water, sand and soil and formed bricks. 他用水拌和沙和泥土做成砖块。
  • The United Auto Workers hit the bricks against General Motors. 联合汽车工人工会举行罢工,反对通用汽车公司。
学英语单词
abbreviated argument
ability to harden
absorbed manufacturing expense
acid-fast nonphotochromogen
aerial transparency
an Antarctic expedition
Anamniota
aposteme
as-yet-unknowns
badly-designeds
badmouthed
ball socket adjuster
bopeep
C.I.G.S.
cheer
chlodwig
christmas pyramid
chromidium
cobblestone
compound tide
concurrently-shared resource
crushed zone
culpable homicide
cyclophorus formosaensis
daily traffic flow
dame barbara hepworths
desulfurases
developpes
Diemel
EABV
fiducial point
financial-service
fishing basket
floribundas
fourty equivalent unit
front vertex focal distance
fuel lifetime
General Foods Co.
genus cronartiums
global schema
gnawing at
golden clematiss
gotten cracking
grave's
half duty
hannemann
hide sorter
high volume account
homeappliance
homoveratric acid
humanas
husbands
hypabyssally
i-swowen
immunological unresponsiveness
index servo
integrative
inter-bourse
interabangs
joint cummulative distribution function
knob gobblers
Kyamepromazine
land use capability survey
Lutefium
marchia barclayana
mathematical modeling
metromalacia
mishent
movement picture
orthogonality conditions
painted sandgrouse
pallidoidosis
pandurata
pharmacons
pomatuming
profit ratio of paid-in capital
pseudomones sp.
pulsus
QBE
recovered solvent
roller comnveyor
rotation of the Earth
scolopendrium
side-draw
silvertipped
songfully
spallanzani
Still water runs deep
supported type abutment
sync non-linearity
thiomerin
Tukulan
two-liter
undefined
unexpended ammunition
Unified Threat Management
vacuum tube modulator
ventriculus mesencephalicus
waterslides
whatsernames
whrinny
Yalutsangpu River