VOA标准英语2010年-There's Still Gold in Them Thar Black
时间：2019-02-03 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(六)月
Or at least plenty of money wagered 1 in Deadwood's gambling 2 halls
Ted 3 Landphair | Washington, DC 03 June 2010
In the 1980s, town commissioners 4 decided 5 to fix up Deadwood and make it a genuine historic attraction. About one million people visit each year.
Every year, about one million people visit the town of Deadwood in the Black Hills of South Dakota — once one of the wildest and most lawless towns of America's Old West.
Wild Bill Hickok, for instance, was a celebrated 6 Deadwood gambler and gunman who was shot dead while dealing 7 cards in a poker 8 game.
Deadwood Dick, a black man, was one of the most accurate shots in the West. He could shoot a wart 9 off your nose.
And Calamity 10 Jane Burke was a hard-drinking harlot with a heart of gold.
Wild Bill Hickok was holding the dead man's hand - two aces 11 and two eights - when Jack 12 McCall walked up and shot him dead to avenge 13, he said, Hickok's murder of McCall's brother.
So Deadwood was quite the rip-roaring town. And it's no ghost town today. It's thriving, thanks to historic attractions, games of chance, and an unusual commitment to preservation 14.
Many citizens of Deadwood — which got its name from a stand of trees burned in a forest fire — got rich in 1876 as the cry of gold!! filled Deadwood Gulch 15 in the Black Hills.
For a while, Deadwood was a sumptuous 16 Victorian showplace of 25,000 people, with fine hotels and restaurants and electricity.
But it deteriorated 17 over the decades, and by the 1980s, tourists were demanding better than Wild West joints 18 with neon signs and fake knotty-pine facades 19.
This is Deadwood City Hall, pretty fancy digs for the frontier, in 1890, less than a year after South Dakota became a state.
It was then that the town commissioners decided to fix up Deadwood and make it a genuine historic attraction rather than a phony one.
A South Dakota architect came in and restored the historic Bodega Saloon and several other Deadwood buildings.
And the town commissioners proposed a neat way to pay for all these improvements.
Voters all across South Dakota approved a measure allowing low-stakes gambling in Deadwood.
All fixed 20 up, Deadwood looks nothing like most dusty, ramshackle frontier towns.
Low stakes, meaning inexpensive slot machines and maximum $25 bets on poker.
More than half of the gaming profits would go directly to the town for architectural restoration. That turned into millions of dollars a year, and the gaming parlors 21 now employ more people than live in Deadwood.
So gambling and historic preservation became, in the words of one preservationist, Deadwood's Siamese twins. You cannot separate them.
- She always wagered on an outsider. 她总是把赌注押在不大可能获胜的马上。
- They wagered on the flesh, but knowing they were to lose. 他们把赌注下在肉体上，心里却明白必输无疑。 来自互联网
- They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
- The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。
- 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 Commissioners of Inland Revenue control British national taxes. 国家税收委员管理英国全国的税收。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The SEC has five commissioners who are appointed by the president. 证券交易委员会有５名委员，是由总统任命的。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
- 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。
- He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
- The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
- This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
- His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
- He was cleared out in the poker game.他打扑克牌，把钱都输光了。
- I'm old enough to play poker and do something with it.我打扑克是老手了，可以玩些花样。
- What does the medicaments with remedial acuteness wet best wart have?治疗尖锐湿疣最好的药物有什么？
- Flat wart is generally superficial,or sometimes a slight itching.扁平疣一般是不痛不痒的，或偶有轻微痒感。
- Even a greater natural calamity cannot daunt us. 再大的自然灾害也压不垮我们。
- The attack on Pearl Harbor was a crushing calamity.偷袭珍珠港(对美军来说)是一场毁灭性的灾难。
- The local representative of ACES will define the local area. ACES的当地代表将划定当地的范围。 来自互联网
- Any medical expenses not covered by ACES insurance are the sole responsibility of the parents. 任何ACES保险未包括的医疗费用一律是父母的责任。 来自互联网
- I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
- He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
- He swore to avenge himself on the mafia.他发誓说要向黑手党报仇。
- He will avenge the people on their oppressor.他将为人民向压迫者报仇。
- The police are responsible for the preservation of law and order.警察负责维持法律与秩序。
- The picture is in an excellent state of preservation.这幅画保存得极为完好。
- The trail ducks into a narrow gulch.这条羊肠小道突然下到一个狭窄的峡谷里。
- This is a picture of California Gulch.这是加利福尼亚峡谷的图片。
- The guests turned up dressed in sumptuous evening gowns.客人们身着华丽的夜礼服出现了。
- We were ushered into a sumptuous dining hall.我们被领进一个豪华的餐厅。
- Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she died shortly afterwards. 她的健康状况急剧恶化，不久便去世了。
- His condition steadily deteriorated. 他的病情恶化，日甚一日。
- Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on gas mains. 各种各样的伸缩接头被安装在煤气的总管道上了。
- Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on steam pipes. 各种各样的伸缩接头被安装在蒸气管道上了。
- Terraces of asphalt are placed by the building's south and west facades. 沥青露台位于建筑的南面和西面。 来自互联网
- Preserving historic buildings or keeping only their facades (or fronts) grew common. 保存历史建筑或是保持它们普通的正面增长。 来自互联网
- Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
- Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。