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时间：2019-01-25 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(六)月
There's a lot going on beneath the streets of America
Ted 1 Landphair | Washington, DC 01 June 2010
The United States has an underground movement. It's not a resistance group or a radical 2 organization. It's a trail of hidden historical delights.
One of the most famous examples is the Seattle Underground in Washington State's biggest city. In 1889, just as that seaport 3 was beginning to thrive, a fire started by an overturned glue pot destroyed 25 blocks of wooden buildings. Instead of restoring the town, Seattle's leaders decided 4 to make a new, mostly brick downtown a couple of stories higher than the original street grade.
It's fascinating to walk beneath the streets of Seattle and see remnants of an earlier age that were simply buried and abandoned beneath a whole new streetscape after a fire.
That left a vast assortment 5 of rubble 6 and passageways beneath Seattle's Pioneer Square. And more than a century later, after descending 7 a narrow, dark staircase, one can tour these spooky catacombs.
There's a similar story in Atlanta, Georgia. In the 1920s, the city constructed overhead viaducts to carry train and automobile 8 traffic, and pretty soon the surrounding terrain 9 was raised to meet it.
That left urban caverns 10 that lay empty for decades. In 1960, the city helped fill them with what was envisioned as a row of trendy stores and night spots.
There's a netherworld of sunken storefronts right below Seattle's beautiful Pioneer Square.
But a rash of petty crimes there, and the growth of new entertainment districts elsewhere, doomed 11 the project, and Underground Atlanta closed in 1980.
Since cleaned up and reopened, it is more popular with tourists than locals.
Washington, D.C., touts 12 its underground, too, but the term is meant figuratively.
Historical organizations direct visitors to obscure sites that have archaeological significance.
Washington, D.C.'s poor people eked 13 out an existence in the places like De Frees Alley 14, photographed in 1941. They were underground in the metaphorical 15, not literal, sense.
They include Slate 16 Alley, one of what were once hundreds of alleys 17 in which poor people built makeshift homes and little businesses out of cardboard and tin. In one of them, someone made buttons out of discarded bones.
There are many other surprising destinations in Underground America. Some are so well concealed that many of those who walk above or past them
- The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
- She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。
- The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
- She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
- Ostend is the most important seaport in Belgium.奥斯坦德是比利时最重要的海港。
- A seaport where ships can take on supplies of coal.轮船能够补充煤炭的海港。
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- This shop has a good assortment of goods to choose from.该店各色货物俱全，任君选择。
- She was wearing an odd assortment of clothes.她穿着奇装异服。
- After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
- After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
- He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
- The automobile slowed down to go around the curves in the road.汽车在路上转弯时放慢了速度。
- He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
- He knows the terrain of this locality like the back of his hand.他对这一带的地形了如指掌。
- Within were dark caverns; what was inside them, no one could see. 里面是一个黑洞，这里面有什么东西，谁也望不见。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）
- UNDERGROUND Under water grottos, caverns Filled with apes That eat figs. 在水帘洞里，挤满了猿争吃无花果。
- The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment. 法庭判处被告长期监禁。
- A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer. 被铁腕人物统治的国家定会遭受不幸的。
- Many vouchers are returned for cash, allowing touts and middle men to make a healthy margin. 许多月饼券都被兑换成现金，这让券贩子和中间商赚取了不蜚的利润。 来自互联网
- Spotting prey, the customary crowd of hustlers and touts swarmed around, jostling for my business. 照例有大群的拉客黄牛在寻觅猎物，他们争相过来抢我的生意。 来自互联网
- She eked out the stew to make another meal. 她省出一些钝菜再做一顿饭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- She eked out her small income by washing clothes for other people. 她替人洗衣以贴补微薄的收入。 来自辞典例句
- We live in the same alley.我们住在同一条小巷里。
- The blind alley ended in a brick wall.这条死胡同的尽头是砖墙。
- Here, then, we have a metaphorical substitution on a metonymic axis. 这样，我们在换喻（者翻译为转喻，一种以部分代替整体的修辞方法）上就有了一个隐喻的替代。
- So, in a metaphorical sense, entropy is arrow of time. 所以说，我们可以这样作个比喻：熵像是时间之矢。
- The nominating committee laid its slate before the board.提名委员会把候选人名单提交全体委员会讨论。
- What kind of job uses stained wood and slate? 什么工作会接触木头污浊和石板呢？