美国著名飞行员兼作家安·林伯格

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DATE=4-29-01
TITLE=PEOPLE IN AMERICA #1819 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
BYLINE=Shelley Gollust

VOICE ONE:
I'm Shirley Griffith.
VOICE TWO:
And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program People in America.  Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States.  Today, we tell about Anne Morrow Lindbergh.  She was a famous （1）pilot and writer. 
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VOICE ONE:
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was the wife of the famous pilot Charles Lindbergh.  She flew airplanes with him as his co-pilot.  She wrote more than ten books of memories, fiction, poetry and （2）essays.  Critics have called her books "small works 1 of art."
Anne Spencer Morrow was born in Nineteen-Oh-Six in Englewood, New Jersey 2.  Her father was a very rich banker.  He later became the American （3）ambassador to Mexico.  Her mother was an educator and poet.  Anne went to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.  She wanted to become a writer.  She won two major (4) prizes from the college for her writing.
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Anne Morrow wes a quiet, shy and small young woman when she met Charles Lindbergh in Nineteen-Twenty-Seven.  He was staying with her family in Mexico City.  The twenty-five year old man was tall and good-looking.  Charles Lindbergh was one of the most famous people in the world.  He had just become the first person to fly a plane alone across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Paris.  Two years later, Anne and Charles Lindbergh were married.  Reports about their (5) marriage were on the front pages of newspapers around the world.
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After her marriage to Charles Lindbergh, Anne became a pilot.  She learned 3 to plan an airplane flight as a (6) navigator, operate a radio and fly a plane.  She began making many long airplane flights with her husband  
In Nineteen-Thirty, she became the first woman in the United States to get a pilot's (7) license 4 to fly a glider 5, which does not have an engine.  That same year, the Lindberghs set a speed record for flying across the United States. They flew from Los Angeles, California to New York City in fourteen hours and forty-five minutes.  Anne Lindbergh was seven months (8) pregnant 6 at the time. 
The Lindberghs (9) explored new ways to fly around the world.  They flew almost fifty- thousand kilometers over five continents.  Anne and Charles Lindbergh were famous around the world.  They seemed to enjoy the greatest luck that any young people could have. 
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Then in Nineteen-Thirty-Two something terrible happened.  The Lindbergh's first baby, twenty-month-old Charles, was (10) kidnapped from their home in New Jersey.  The body of the baby was discovered more than ten weeks later. 
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was (11) arrested, tried, found guilty and (12) executed 7 for the crime.  There were a huge number of press reports about the case.  Newspapers called it "The Crime of the Century."  
After the trial, the Lindberghs found it difficult to live in the United States.  There were threats on the life of their second child.  And there were too many newspaper stories about them.  So Anne and Charles Lindbergh moved to Europe in Nineteen-Thirty-Five.  Four years later they moved back to the United States. 
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh never fully 8 (13) recovered from the death of her first child.  Yet, she and her husband had five more children.  She continued flying.  In Nineteen-Thirty-Four, she became the first woman to win the National Geographic 9 Society's Hubbard Gold Medal.  She was honored 10 for her exploration, research and discovery. 
Anne Lindbergh began writing to ease 11 her (14) sadness.  She wrote several books about the flights with her husband.  Her first book was "North to the Orient 12" in Nineteen-Thirty-Five.  She wrote about their flight in a single-engine airplane over Canada and Alaska to Japan and China.  This is what she wrote about landing 13 in northern Canada and jumping out of the plane: 
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"Then two little Eskimo boys came up shyly and followed me about.  Their bright eyes shone under their caps as they searched my face and costume (15) curiously 14.  'You see,' said one of the traders, ‘you're the first white woman they've ever seen.  There's never been one here before.' " 
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Three years later Anne Lindbergh wrote, "Listen! The Wind."  It was about the Lindberghs' fifty- thousand kilometer flight.  It became very popular.  One critic said it described the poetry of flight as no other book on flying had ever done. 
In Nineteen-Forty, Anne Lindbergh wrote a book called "The Wave of the Future."  She wrote it while Europe was fighting World War Two.  She wrote that she did not support (16) communism or fascism.  But she said they were unavoidable.  She wrote that she hoped the United States could avoid entering the conflict.  And, in a letter, she wrote that she was beginning to feel that the German Nazi 15 dictator 16 Adolf Hitler was a very great man.  Her husband had become unpopular for expressing similar beliefs. 
Many people criticized 17 the book.  Missus Lindbergh later admitted that both she and her husband failed to see the worst evils 18 of the (17) Nazi system.  She stopped writing for many years. 
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VOICE ONE:
Anne Morrow Lindbergh began writing again in Nineteen-Fifty-Five.  She wrote a book called "Gift from the Sea." It was about women's search for meaning in their lives.  
"Gift from the Sea" was one of the most popular books in America.  It has sold more than one million copies and has influenced many women.  In "Gift from the Sea", Missus Lindbergh wrote about the many different kinds of pressures that women face.
She wrote that women who are wives and mothers have many different interests and duties.  They must be able to deal with their husband, children, friends, home and community.  She found it difficult for women to balance all these duties and still make a place for themselves.  Yet she said that women must try to find a (18) balance in their lives.
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In "Gift from the Sea," Anne Lindbergh described how women had to perform many jobs that pulled them in different directions like a circus performer. 
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"What circus act we women perform every day of our lives.  It puts the trapeze artist to shame.  Look at us.  We run a tight rope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head, baby carriage, parasol, and kitchen chair, still under control.  Steady now!  This is not the life of (19) simplicity 19 but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.  It leads not to unification but to fragmentation.  It does not bring grace 20; it destroys the soul."
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Anne Lindbergh found that one answer to this problem was to be alone.  The book described how she spent time by herself on an island by the sea.  She studied the (20) seashells she found.  And she made her life simpler.  
During the Nineteen-Seventies, Anne Lindbergh wrote several more books about the happy and sad events of her life.  One of these is called "Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead."  She wrote about the joy of flying.  She also wrote about the pain she and her husband felt after the body of their baby son was discovered.
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"We sleep badly and wake up and talk.  I dreamed right along as I was thinking - all of one piece, no relief.  I was walking down a suburban 21 street seeing other people's children and I stopped to see one in a carriage and I thought it was a sweet child, but I was looking for my child in his face.  And I realized, in the dream, that I would do that forever." 
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Charles Lindbergh died in Nineteen-Seventy-Four at the age of seventy-two.  The next year, the readers of Good Housekeeping magazine voted Anne Morrow Lindbergh one of the ten women in the world they liked the most.  In Nineteen-Ninety-Six, Missus Lindbergh was invited to join the National Women's Hall of Fame.  She was honored for her success as a pilot.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh died at her home in Vermont in Two-Thousand-One.  She was ninety-four years old.  Many people have been (21) influenced by the way she dealt with both happiness and sadness.  They respect the way she lived life to the fullest.  And they like the advice about living that they find in her books. 
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"If you surrender 22 completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly in those moments."
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VOICE ONE:
 This Special English program was written by Shelley Gollust.  Our reader was Sarah Long.  And our producer was Caty Weaver 23.  I'm Shirley Griffith.
VOICE TWO:
And I'm Steve Ember.  Join us again next week for another People in America program on the Voice of America.

注释：
(1)　 pilot[ 5pailEt ]n.飞行员, 领航员v.驾驶
(2) essay[ 5esei, 5esi ]v.企图, 尝试n.企图, 散文
(3) ambassador[ Am5bAsEdE ]n.大使
(4) prize[ praiz ]n.奖赏, 奖金, 奖品adj.得奖的v.珍视, 估价
(5) marriage[ 5mAridV ]n.结婚, 婚姻
(6) navigate[ 5nAvi^eit ]vi.航行, 航海v.航行于, 驾驶
(7) license[5laIsEns]n.许可(证), 执照v.许可v.许可
(8) pregnant[ 5pre^nEnt ]adj.怀孕的, 重要的
(9) explore[ iks5plC: ]v.探险, 探测
(10) kidnap[ 5kidnAp ]v.诱拐(小孩), 绑架
(11) arrest[ E5rest ]v.逮捕, 拘留n.逮捕, 拘留
(12) execute[ 5eksikju:t ]v.执行, 实行
(13) recover[ ri5kQvE ]v.重新获得, 恢复
(14) sadness[ 5sAdnis ]n.悲哀, 悲伤
(15) curious[ 5kjuEriEs ]adj.好奇的, 求知的
(16) communism[ 5kCmjunizEm ]n.共产主义
(17) Nazi[ 5nB:tsi: ]n.纳粹党人adj.纳粹党的
(18) balance[5bAlEns] n.秤, 天平, 平衡,
(19) simplicity[ sim5plisiti ]n.简单, 简易
(20) seashell[5si:Fel]n.海贝壳
(21) influence[ 5influEns ]n.影响, 感化