时间:2019-03-10 作者:英语课 分类:双语有声阅读


英语课
A Different Kind of Audience
与众不同的听众
Al Smith was governor 1 of New York States. He was a famous man.
阿尔.史密斯是纽约的州长。他是个名人。
He was born very poor on the East Side of New York City.
他出生在纽约市东部的一个穷苦家庭。
He had little education.He worked very hard and won great success.
他读书不多,但是他工作勤奋,终于获得了很大的成就。
One day,as governor, he was visiting the state prison at Sing Sing.
有一天,作为州长,他访问星星州的监狱。
Sing Sing is one of the largest prisons in the United 2 States
星星监狱是全国最大的监狱之一。
The head of the prison
监狱长
asked Mr.Smith to say something to the prisoners 3.
请史密斯对囚犯们说几句话。
Mr.Smith had never spoken to this kind of audience before.
史密斯先生从来没有对这一类听众讲过话。
He did not know how to begin.
他不知道该怎样开口。
Finally,he said,"My fellow citizens..."
最后,他说:"我亲爱的公民们......"
Then he remembered that when a man goes to prison he is no longer a citizen.
接着他想起一个人蹲进监狱就不再是公民了。
He began again."My fellow prisoners..." That did not sound right,so he said,
他重新开始:"我亲爱的囚犯们......"那听起来也不对劲儿,于是他说:
"Well,anyway,I'm glad to see so many of you here today."
"噢,无论如何,今天在这儿见到你们这么多人真是太高兴了。"

n.统治者,地方长官(如省长,州长,总督等)
  • The governor was an expert at fencing with reporters.这位州长是搪塞新闻记者的能手。
  • He was elected governor of the state of California.他当选为加州州长。
adj.和谐的;团结的;联合的,统一的
  • The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
  • The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。
n.囚徒( prisoner的名词复数 );俘虏;被夺去自由的人[动物]等
  • The president granted a general amnesty for all political prisoners. 总统大赦了所有的政治犯。
  • The prisoners were living in appalling conditions. 囚犯的居住条件极为恶劣。
学英语单词
acceptance qualified as to time
Advandia
aedeagus
agate arrestment
agreation
air pollution control act
all movable stabilizer
anelastic material
apparatus room
are quiet
artery of clitoris
awdl
axoidean
back scattering correction
bathyergids
blind nailing
boofer box
branchial cleft
Buddleja colvilei
Burtons Bridge
business structure
cabbage rose
Capetonian
channel floor lag
clerre
coqueluches
corpora ossis pubis
cranial orbit
dartsonde
dedicated uniprogrammed operating system
desciende
door to door
emission plate
essential factors of production
exit prices
ferrophosphorus
footled
function of management
gear-shaving machine
go over the account
heat of crystallization
homochronous insanity
hot shearing
hydrotreatment
ijit
imipramines
inductive transistor
inferior nasal concha
kalopanaxseptemlobussaponinA
kiotome
Krim-Krim
Lapwood
Leica
Lorentz double refraction
m.p.h.
magnetic equipotential
mania simplex
microwave spectrometer
mini-meals
mobile unit-substation
move-out
mushroom-colour(ed)
mutually-exclusive option
n-glycosylations
negative logic-transition
notch ductile steels
onlooker
open path
padek
pansophia
pathshala
pharaoh
pick up a fare
polyploid level
proverbs
psammobiotic
quarry drainage
salt water contamination
seating room
Shamgar
sheygetses
sightseeings
simultaneous equationss
spoonman
spot-analysis
standard measure space
subsonic sink flow
synchronizing signal level
syncytiolysin
test of runs
time barred
transmission group
Trochol
tube-form
Uncompahgre Peak
unsparings
violet reds
void effect
warlessness
welder's
wheat root rot
wild jalap