时间:2019-03-06 作者:英语课 分类:英语播客-EnglishPod


英语课

 A:    Alright everyone settle down.  Let’s get started.

       As you know, an important aspect of becoming a

       good citizen is understanding the genesis of our

       legal system. It is not enough to simply memo-

       rize our laws, it is necessary that we comprehend

       why and how they were formed. This brings me

       to our topic for today. Does anyone know what we

       celebrate on May first?


 B:    Cinco de mayo?


 A:    No, that’s May fifth in Spanish, James, no wonder

       you are failing my Spanish class. No, May first is

       International Workers’Day.


 B:     Do we get a day off from school then?


 A:    No! It is not considered to be a national holiday

       here in the US, but in other countries it is.

 B:    Aww, man!


 A:    In the nineteenth century, working conditions

       were appalling 1, with workers being forced to work

       ten, twelve, and fourteen hours a day. Support

       for the eight-hour work day movement was grow-

       ing rapidly, despite the indifference 2 and hostility 3 of

       many union leaders, and by April 1886, 250,000

       workers were involved in the May Day movement.

       Previous  legislative 4 attempts  to  improve  working

       conditions had failed, so labor 5 organizers took

       drastic measures. They passed a resolution stat-

       ing that eight hours would constitute a legal day’s

       work. And, on May First 1886, the resolution took

       effect.


 B:    Cool! Is that why we only work eight hours now?


 A:    Yes!  But the happy ending came at a high price.

       On May third, 1886, police fired into a crowd of

       strikers at the McCormick Reaper 6 Works Factory,

       killing 7 four and wounding many. A mass meeting

       was called for the next day to protest the brutality 8.

 B:    And then what happened?


 A:    Well, as we say, the rest is history...



adj.骇人听闻的,令人震惊的,可怕的
  • The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions.恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
  • Nothing can extenuate such appalling behaviour.这种骇人听闻的行径罪无可恕。
n.不感兴趣,不关心,冷淡,不在乎
  • I was disappointed by his indifference more than somewhat.他的漠不关心使我很失望。
  • He feigned indifference to criticism of his work.他假装毫不在意别人批评他的作品。
n.敌对,敌意;抵制[pl.]交战,战争
  • There is open hostility between the two leaders.两位领导人表现出公开的敌意。
  • His hostility to your plan is well known.他对你的计划所持的敌意是众所周知的。
n.立法机构,立法权;adj.立法的,有立法权的
  • Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.国会是美国政府的立法部门。
  • Today's hearing was just the first step in the legislative process.今天的听证会只是展开立法程序的第一步。
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
n.收割者,收割机
  • The painting is organized about a young reaper enjoying his noonday rest.这幅画的画面设计成一个年轻的割禾人在午间休息。
  • A rabbit got caught in the blades of the reaper.一只兔子被卷到收割机的刀刃中去了。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
n.野蛮的行为,残忍,野蛮
  • The brutality of the crime has appalled the public. 罪行之残暴使公众大为震惊。
  • a general who was infamous for his brutality 因残忍而恶名昭彰的将军
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adsorption chromatography
Aguas Zarcas
Aimargues
air feeder
Alleppey
Almen extreme pressure lubricant testing machine
annuniciator
ASCB
barley sugar
beddy-bye(s)
Bethnal Green
blueing process
body-snatcher
broad-brim
Bulbophyllum reptans
carcelle
celery leaf spot
certificate of bank balances
charge position
Computing Surface
curriculums
Dali City
dress-coated
eight-year study
Eun.
extramaster
follow ... inclinations
free-electron laser
fringe setae
frontierlands
gauze kerchief
girals
graverobbers
griddlecakes
higher-ranked
index of scanning helix
keel clearance
Korean Strait
Lented
LF reject
lienomycin
llano
low potential metal
lumped parameter circulator
macroamylasemic
melting speed ratio
mode of deformation
mother-of-thousands
Mount's Bay
non riparian
nonrefugee
north-easterners
Old Pretender
oligodotia
Oloiserri
organouranium compound
passive incontinence
ping-pong buffer
plain module board
planimetric line
plate cylinder
poker coordinates
prefacive
pulpitis
rairoad engineering
range span
record-collector
Rhododendron hukwangense
salween r.
segled card
Selma chalk
shock position
sounding device
stauntonin
stores fund
supernutrition
surirella voigtii
surplus
Suzuka-tōge
swr indicator
syndrome of stagnated gallbladder qi with disturbing phlegm
Sāngla
tetrahedral angle
thermoperiodicity
transverse occipital sulcus
trond
tub-fast
tummy crunch
Turbellaria
two-pence piece
ultra-high-speed lift
unhele
unobservable quantity
unsety
variable quadri-correlator
vicchio
wavefront advance
wet-bulbs
Wohlhynian fever
wtnh
Xuan Duong
zonary placentation