时间:2019-03-04 作者:英语课 分类:2019年NPR美国国家公共电台1月


英语课

 


LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:


In the town of Portishead, England, a small bridal shop made a big statement with their window display.


SARAH PARKER: We didn't feel we were doing anything that was really outside of the norm. But obviously, it is.


GARCIA-NAVARRO: Sarah Parker is the co-owner of a boutique called The White Collection. Earlier this month, Sarah and her sister Laura Allen rearranged the mannequins.


PARKER: One side, a model stood in quite a big, traditional wedding dress. And the other window, we have a mannequin sat down in a wheel chair.


GARCIA-NAVARRO: They didn't think it was that big a deal. That's until artist Beth Wilson, who uses a wheelchair, tweeted a photo of the display she wrote. It shouldn't be exciting, but it's the first time I've ever seen disability portrayed 1 in a shop window. Her post got a lot of attention.


PARKER: That's created this absolute frenzy 2 and this outpouring of messages on this debate that this shouldn't be an unusual thing to see in a shop window.


GARCIA-NAVARRO: Maria Coehlo called the store to tell them how much it meant to her.


MARIA COEHLO: I thought, good grief. Someone has just normalized that wheelchair, and that normalizes my daughter.


GARCIA-NAVARRO: Coehlo's daughter has juvenile 3 arthritis 4 and at 17 began using a wheelchair.


COEHLO: People's perception of her has changed because the mobility 5 aid is what they perceive. They don't see the vibrant 6, beautiful, intelligent, incredible human being that uses the tool as a way of getting around.


GARCIA-NAVARRO: Coehlo hopes that stores everywhere follow suit. In the meantime, shop owner Sarah Parker says a stream of visitors have taken pictures with the display, including at least one little girl who also uses a wheelchair.



v.画像( portray的过去式和过去分词 );描述;描绘;描画
  • Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim. 在审讯过程中,他始终把自己说成是受害者。
  • The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard. 作者把他父亲描绘成一个可恶的酒鬼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
n.疯狂,狂热,极度的激动
  • He was able to work the young students up into a frenzy.他能激起青年学生的狂热。
  • They were singing in a frenzy of joy.他们欣喜若狂地高声歌唱。
n.青少年,少年读物;adj.青少年的,幼稚的
  • For a grown man he acted in a very juvenile manner.身为成年人,他的行为举止显得十分幼稚。
  • Juvenile crime is increasing at a terrifying rate.青少年犯罪正在以惊人的速度增长。
n.关节炎
  • Rheumatoid arthritis has also been linked with the virus.风湿性关节炎也与这种病毒有关。
  • He spent three months in the hospital with acute rheumatic arthritis.他患急性风湿性关节炎,在医院住了三个月。
n.可动性,变动性,情感不定
  • The difference in regional house prices acts as an obstacle to mobility of labour.不同地区房价的差异阻碍了劳动力的流动。
  • Mobility is very important in guerrilla warfare.机动性在游击战中至关重要。
adj.震颤的,响亮的,充满活力的,精力充沛的,(色彩)鲜明的
  • He always uses vibrant colours in his paintings. 他在画中总是使用鲜明的色彩。
  • She gave a vibrant performance in the leading role in the school play.她在学校表演中生气盎然地扮演了主角。
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age replacement policy
American Standard of Testing Materials
Ancy
antiresonant frequency
appreciative criticism
automatic program verification system
bone healing
bottle creek
breaker's
BSW (bus switch unit)
butafosfan
cadwal aderite
central booking
chemical poisoning
clustering free
composition of concurrent forces
cotillon (france)
counting-houses
CVAH
daylight lamp holder
decumbens
degenerate nodal point
degreasomg
degressively
Dewar type container
discrete automaton
electron micrographs
emission modulation
Endovesical
esna
factory ledger
floor drainage pit
following-wake
game theorists
gas-dynamic lubrication
Glechoma sinograndis
graphics digitizer
hang by
harben
hardy's formula
Hausdorff, Felix
hexacosanols
His Majesty's Ship
holvi glasses
horney
iner perianth
insewe
interirrigation
intravesicular
kamiya
Kvisvik
Lecco, L.di
letuary
local irregularity
long - tailed tit
lucretia coffin motts
malduin
Massawa, Massaua
meandric number
microwave relay
Milford Sound
mladenka
multi-machine system
multiple antenna
neutral tone
neutron flux monitoring system
noise reduction barrier
non-market-making transaction
nxm
observance of good seamanship
oil-supply head
Pacatol
person without title
pettee
port of despatch
pseudopodzolization
quella
quinazolone
rhodotorulin
saw-tooth waveform
scouse kettle
select-low
sfdes
Sidi Mohammed Ben Ali
singing record
slabwood
social hierarchy
software compatiblity
spanishing
spring felling
supercomputings
superficial layer of myocardium
suprafoliar
surface activation
sus (suspend message)
throw the helve after the hatchet
Tinskoy
transdermal technology
txtspeak
vemon
wax-plate
wing-base