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
Adequacy of coverage
airborne communicator
Alcatel
almora
ambiquity
apoptosis-inducing
avail yourself of sth
awgn(additive white gaussian noise)
Bacillus lactis cyanogenes
beta thickness gauge
betula platyphylla sukatchev var. japonica hara
blood-serum agar
box-fish
brace (bracing)
bullet bait
caco-zyme
calotypists
campling
chinawares
Chupyra
circuit breaker with shunt resistance
city planning outline
co-executor
construction equipment
Cont.
controllable starting air valve
convectings
corkies
corozo nuts
davering
deversary
distal turbidite sand
eddy friction
epithelial mass
fermentation inhibitor
foreign odor
Gaenslen's sig
Gossypium hirsutum L.
gunwhale
haematogenetic
hawser port
herring bone planking
higher order phase transition
hoof-prints
horizontal application
hypnodendron reinwardfii (weinw.et hormch) lindb
I disk
isogenome
jwkb method
kala-azar
kelvin thermodynamic scale of temperature
kutubus
labyrinthine symptom
leader strap
least mean square (lms) algorithm
left hand side
live in sin
malignant teratoma
master key
mechanographic
meets a demand for
mis-diagnoses
mis-sway
normalization (in database)
offerers
operating shaft
pastorages
peer-based
pinna pectoralis
Pittacus Of Mytilene
Pollution Abstracts
poor relief
positive-to-negative
postextrasystoles
protosteles
record-industry
resolutive condition
restrict a road
Rome wasn't built in a day
Russianist
sackt
secondary anemia
semi-competitive
servicing placard
Siasi
single place shift
singular automorphism
sirota
spamblocked
spumantes
steel reinforced aluminium cable
Sǒnch'ǒn-gun
tail spar
tien-paos
tonino
tricherie
trust corporation
vaxjoes
ways and means of finance fund
Wegener-Bergeron process
wheelrace
witchiness