时间:2019-02-21 作者:英语课 分类:名人认知系列 Who Was


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In 1800, the census 1 counted 5.3 million people in the United States. Pennsylvania was getting too crowded to suit Johnny.



When he was twenty-six, he led a horse across the Pennsylvania border into Ohio. It was carrying a load of apple seeds. He planted his first Ohio orchard 2 near the town of Carrollton. He would plant many more orchards 3 in north and central Ohio.



At this time, most of Ohio was still a forested wilderness 4 full of bears and other wild animals. Not many people lived there, and the ones who did were rough and wild. Johnny had grown up in the colonies, so he stood out among these men. Even though he wasn’t like them, he seemed to enjoy their company.



Johnny still went back to Pennsylvania cider mills to get seeds in the following years. Once, he tied two canoes together and filled them with apple seeds and supplies and traveled home by river.



Many stories of this time involve Johnny surprising settlers by suddenly popping out of the woods. Sometimes he seemed to appear out of nowhere to say hello. At other times, he warned them of hostile Native Americans nearby.



The new United States government had decided 5 that an area could become a state when its population reached sixty thousand. In 1803 Ohio became the seventeenth state. Johnny realized that central Ohio would become a major pathway for pioneers settling in the area and farther west. He began to focus on his Ohio orchards.



This ability to envision the future is what made Johnny so important in the history of American settlement. He had a knack 6 for figuring out where people were going to move to next. Before a big rush of people went to a new area, he somehow got there first and planted apple trees.



Other farmers gathered apple seeds from cider mills just as Johnny did. They planted orchards in the frontier, too. But most of them settled down next to their orchards. They built homes and began families. Johnny stayed on the move, planting as he went. Over the years, he planted many orchards spread over three states. No one else did that.



The new Ohio state government began offering small areas of land for sale. When Johnny turned thirty-five, he had saved enough money to buy some. This was the first land he ever bought.



Johnny told his father about the rich farmland in Ohio. In 1805 his father moved the family to Ohio, settling near Marietta. Johnny didn’t live with them. Marietta had been around for a while and already had enough orchards.



The Ohio Company wanted settlers to buy land in Ohio and stay there. So they made a rule. Settlers had to plant fifty apple trees and twenty peach trees on every one hundred acres of land they bought. The company believed that settlers would be likely to stay once they had done so much work on a piece of land.



This rule was a lucky break for Johnny Appleseed. Ohio settlers were in a hurry to plant orchards. They were anxious to buy his seedlings 7.



n.(官方的)人口调查,人口普查
  • A census of population is taken every ten years.人口普查每10年进行一次。
  • The census is taken one time every four years in our country.我国每四年一次人口普查。
n.果园,果园里的全部果树,(美俚)棒球场
  • My orchard is bearing well this year.今年我的果园果实累累。
  • Each bamboo house was surrounded by a thriving orchard.每座竹楼周围都是茂密的果园。
(通常指围起来的)果园( orchard的名词复数 )
  • They turned the hills into orchards and plains into granaries. 他们把山坡变成了果园,把平地变成了粮仓。
  • Some of the new planted apple orchards have also begun to bear. 有些新开的苹果园也开始结苹果了。
n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等,荒漠
  • She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
  • Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • 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。
n.诀窍,做事情的灵巧的,便利的方法
  • He has a knack of teaching arithmetic.他教算术有诀窍。
  • Making omelettes isn't difficult,but there's a knack to it.做煎蛋饼并不难,但有窍门。
n.刚出芽的幼苗( seedling的名词复数 )
  • Ninety-five per cent of the new seedlings have survived. 新栽的树苗95%都已成活。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • In such wet weather we must prevent the seedlings from rotting. 这样的阴雨天要防止烂秧。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
学英语单词
acetamidoeugenol
acrylic resin crown
aeroplane insulator
all things come to those who wait
annular cartilage
antineutrality
arctic constellations
area variable
atrophodermas
automatic sieving machine
azelscope
backtick
ballet-dancer
batch variation
bettered
biodiversities
bosschaert
brearley
brown humic acid
brown-field
Burt
BVIN
calcium carbide structure
cam-river
card storage
cat's hair
charge of murder
chorea semilateralis
coast tower
composite class
Connector.
Cratecil
cross shake
custom power
database oriented tool generator
deniggerized
dish-washings
disk feeder
drift-back
duct-carcinoma of salivary gland
ego-center
electromagnetic cathoderay tube
encroach on/upon
Enneapogon
fancy woman
female prostate
fiber break
file id
forgetness
frost soil
galleting tile
gempyluss
grid drum
haftarah
haftmann
hasheem
hassayampa
head design
highly-specialiseds
interpreter used in macro processing
Kil'gana
lassas
lifestance
likenesses
Lonicera pampaninii
Michelia kachirachirai
moderization of productive equipment
moringa oleifera lam.
muffing
nonjunctional
nonspecificity
o/p
OXC
parametric measurement
phono jack
photoluminesce
preemzyme
proscription
rainwater junction pipe
recess of thread portion
remote input units
rotary draw bending
schematization
semantic routine notation
semi-choric
shear-type rubber mount
ship collision force
side spacing
skin disease of foot
soluble bougie
sunchoke
syntactic construct
tensile fatigue test
texture pile
TROGIDAE
tuberculoanaphylaxis
UI
unequal stereoblastula
unspecifiability
wet strength agent
yeast growing