时间:2019-02-19 作者:英语课 分类:2019年NPR美国国家公共电台1月


英语课

 


STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:


Today's StoryCorps is a love letter to the written word. Alagappa Rammohan has amassed 1 thousands of books. Rammohan immigrated 2 from India to the United States in 1962. He came to StoryCorps in Chicago with his daughter.


PARU VENKAT: When I think of my earliest memories, I think of asking you homework assignments and you looking at my textbooks and falling in love with the textbook, and reading it almost from cover to cover and only answering my question hours later. So where does that come from?


ALAGAPPA RAMMOHAN: When I was young - I'll give you an incident, how I am hooked 3 into this book business. When I am 9 or 8, when my parents give me one rupee - which is, like, $1 - you know what I do with that? I don't buy candy or anything. I just go to a stall 4 where they sell children books. And I like all of them. So I asked what this one rupee can buy. So once I get eight books then I would come home. You know what I'd do? Even today I do this. I don't start reading the first page. I smell it.


VENKAT: I know you do. I remember that.


RAMMOHAN: You've seen it many times.


VENKAT: I've seen you do that many, many times.


RAMMOHAN: The fresh book, printed from the press, untouched, unopened. (Sniffing). I smell it.


VENKAT: Right.


RAMMOHAN: That's my connection with the book. The book became my friend. Better than my friends. You know, human friends. I feel that the author is talking to me, in person. Now, if I go and ask him for wisdom, he's a big guy. He might not talk to me. But now he's coming to me. And he says, I'm here. I'm talking. Listen to me. The book could be written in any language. It can say anything. It's a transfer 5 of knowledge from one person to the other. It doesn't force you to read, but it is there. That book, in my point of view, is very sacred. You have to read all books...


VENKAT: Keeping an open mind.


RAMMOHAN: Open mind. Next time, you'll think, wait a minute. There is another viewpoint 6 there. If you want to give anybody something, the very best, give a book. It opened, for me, how to live.


(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)


INSKEEP: Alagappa Rammohan and his daughter, Paru Venkat. Plans are underway to build a library in his hometown, where his 10,000 books will go when he dies. Their conversation is archived at the Library of Congress 7.



v.积累,积聚( amass的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He amassed a fortune from silver mining. 他靠开采银矿积累了一笔财富。
  • They have amassed a fortune in just a few years. 他们在几年的时间里就聚集了一笔财富。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.移入( immigrate的过去式和过去分词 );移民
  • He immigrated from Ulster in 1848. 他1848年从阿尔斯特移民到这里。 来自辞典例句
  • Many Pakistanis have immigrated to Britain. 许多巴基斯坦人移居到了英国。 来自辞典例句
adj.钩状的,弯曲的
  • I first got hooked on scuba diving when I was twelve. 12 岁时我开始迷上了带水肺潜水。
  • He hooked his arm round her neck and pulled her head down. 他一只胳膊钩在她的脖子上,把她的头拉低。
n.摊位,铺子,售货亭
  • She sells fruits at a market stall.她在市场的货摊上卖水果。
  • He has a stall that sells designer ripoffs.他开了个铺子卖仿冒设计师品牌衣服。
n. 迁移, 移动, 换车; v. 转移, 调转, 调任
  • He has been kicking against this transfer for weeks. 几周以来他一直反对这次调动。
  • I intend to transfer the property to my son. 我想把这笔财产转给我儿子。
n.观点,看法,见解
  • He explained his viewpoint that taxes should be increased.他解释了他认为应该增加税收的观点。
  • My viewpoint is in coincidence with you.我的观点与你的一致。
n.(代表)大会;(C-:美国等国的)国会,议会
  • There were some days to wait before the Congress.大会的召开还有几天时间。
  • After 18 years in Congress,he intented to return to private life.在国会供职18年后,他打算告老还乡。
学英语单词
12-Lipoxygenase
Adams method
alphettes
ameland i.
annular saw
anuclear
avena fatus
averoff
ballizing
bead-and-batten work
Bila Tserkva
bornyl formate
buy and write
CALCICHORDATA
Calyx seu Fructus Physalis
carbon sink
Caspian tigers
Cctv, closed-circuit television.
centrifuge rotating blade
chapping sore
chloroacetates
class B telephone
commendams
constant ratio frequency convertor
constant voltage/constant current power supply
coordinatior
cyberbreaches
cystideans
Day Seamount
deepetching
devil's dung
digital videotape recorder
discrete fourier series
doodle-e-squat
downsweep
electrostatic-precipitator
emergent year
encode control
end entity
evaporation ratio
feros
ffag synchrotron
fore-announce
genus Francisella
gross money supply
hairedness
heavy chain class
hereditary neutropenia
Herschel, Sir William
in the depth of night
Isocarbamid
laser microanalysis
legal ouster
legalizers
local-elections
loncars
longitudinal clinometer
lysitol
magnon side band
male force
mislevy
money shop
Mīr Hasan
optical projection reading device
parameter learning
pastey
peccaries
perming
plant-cane
pleomorphous bacteria
posthistory
Pseudosasa yuelushanensis
RDO
reincubation
root diameter of thread
rotational diffusion
saarlands
saccharide
see someone further
ship radio silence
shore end of submarine cable
special equipment for locomotive operation
split(-film) fibre
stored database
Strangeways
stud driver
superhelixes
Syntetrex
tank monitoring system
taunter
Teocelo
Tina, Mt.
torchet
transglottic
Trichobilharzia jianensis
tropical gal
two generations
ustilago eleocharidis
USW (ultra-short wave)
vehicle clearance circle
washing agent
zealotisms