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
actinophytosis
ad view
aero-magnetic prospecting
amount of credit side
Angiodysplastic
arterio-venous anastomosis
articular dyskinesia
artificial dentition
asset - liability ratio
atomic time
aulophyte
Blochmann's corpuscles
branch on chip box full
breast-feeding
Chinocup, L.
chocolate sundae
chromospheric material
console desk
conzen
Dawran
dental treatment room
developmental stages
differential association
dihexagonal pyramid
dust from
european physics laboratory
exalteth
extinct block
fiended
founder breccia
FRSA
galvanized iron bolt
gaur
glomb
grownup
hard liquors
heat tight
heater coil
Hegelianisms
hundt
icecap
immunoconglutinin
impulse response analyzer
infiltrative growth
invalid access right
joint-pain
lactarians
lambda phage
laying posture
Leoncito, L.
list file names with
Live Object
longitudinal-shear
lose apportionment
lovertine
lustre stain
mayewskis
mousebunker
muu-muu
newelled
object classification
paperbark maple
passenger-kilometres
penalty boxes
periodical furnace
permanent irrigation
phosphosiderite
pin-vice
place cells
political struggle
polymer(ide)
psuedo-
public lighting
ramus metatrematicus extern. n. vagi
red-carpeteds
riboprobe
rotor bore
sakaguchi flask
salt bath patenting
schilling
semaatics
silicon on insulator
single furnace
soil resources evaluation
sphygmic period
Squelch.
sulcus popliteus
superheat
swartly
tamika
team diversity
telegraph office of handing in
temperature papse rate
thiambutasinum
timeset
tongue r.
tow transformator
uranotaenia (pseudoficalbia) novobscura
vinasse
Vukollan
webographies
weight initialization