2007年VOA标准英语-American Figure-Skating Champion Michelle Kwan
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Moscow
19 June 2007
This year marks 200 years since the United States and Russia established diplomatic relations. The U.S. Embassy is coordinating 1 several events to mark the anniversary. VOA Correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports from the Russian capital as part of the program, American figure-skating champion Michelle Kwan engaged in some people to people diplomacy 2 with a visit to a Moscow orphanage 3.
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"I am afraid to sleep on the top so that I do not fall. I think I am afraid of heights, or something."
Michelle Kwan, Olympian and five time world figure skating champion, visited a bedroom at Moscow's Orphanage Number 23. Kwan engaged the children in their classrooms, playground, and basketball court, which is flooded in the winter to serve as a skating rink.
Speaking in a small auditorium 4, Kwan spoke 5 about the importance of hard work and perseverance 6
Kwan autographs and gives children t-shirts marking 200 years of relations between the US and Russia
"When I first started skating, I was five years old and I remember the teacher telling me, 'this is how you fall.' And I looked at her and said, 'why are you teaching me how to fall? Shouldn't you teach me how to skate first? Then I soon realized that you do a lot of falling, but it is how you come up after a fall and keep on going," she recalled.
Kwan said making connections with children, trying to inspire them, is her form of public diplomacy.
Commenting on 200 years of U.S.-Russian relations, orphanage director Vlada Volokhatova said there is no direct connection between traditional diplomacy and Michelle Kwan's visit.
Nonetheless, Volokhatova says diplomacy is not just about diplomats 7. She notes that communication between ordinary Americans and Russians is also part of good relations.
Throughout this bicentennial year, U.S. diplomats in Russia will be celebrating other areas of Russian-American cooperation since 1807, including health, philanthropy, space, business, and rule of law.
- He abolished the Operations Coordinating Board and the Planning Board. 他废除了行动协调委员会和计划委员会。 来自辞典例句
- He's coordinating the wedding, and then we're not going to invite him? 他是来协调婚礼的，难道我们不去请他？ 来自电影对白
- The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
- This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。
- They dispensed new clothes to the children in the orphanage.他们把新衣服发给孤儿院的小孩们。
- They gave the proceeds of the sale to the orphanage.他们把销售的收入给了这家孤儿院。
- The teacher gathered all the pupils in the auditorium.老师把全体同学集合在礼堂内。
- The stage is thrust forward into the auditorium.舞台向前突出，伸入观众席。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- It may take some perseverance to find the right people.要找到合适的人也许需要有点锲而不舍的精神。
- Perseverance leads to success.有恒心就能胜利。