时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:2016年VOA慢速英语(八)月


英语课

AS IT IS 2016-08-30 Obama Names New National Monument in Maine 奥巴马命名缅甸新纪念碑


President Barack Obama has named a new national monument in the northeastern state of Maine. Businesswoman Roxanne Quimby gave the 35,000 hectares of land to the government. The gift honored the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service.


National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis said “I can’t think of a better way to celebrate” the anniversary. He called the land in Maine’s North Woods “extraordinary.”


The Katahdin Woods and Waters monument includes the East Branch of the Penobscot River. From the land, Maine’s tallest mountain -- Katahdin -- can be seen. Many animals live on the land, including moose, black bears, coyotes, deer and bald eagles.


Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said the gift would permit the area to “remain accessible to current and future generations of Americans, ensuring the rich history of Maine’s hunting, fishing and recreation heritage will forever be preserved.”


Supporters of the monument say it will create hundreds of jobs in an area affected 1 by the closing of paper factories. But opponents fear it will hurt efforts to rebuild a forest-based economy in the area.


Earlier this year, the Maine state legislature said it opposed federal ownership of the land. Governor Paul LePage also opposed the creation of the monument.


Lucas St. Clair is Roxanne Quimby’s son. He has led the efforts in recent years to create the monument.


“Many parks over the history of the park system have been criticized upon creation,” he said. “But when we look to the future, we see huge amounts of success.”'


Quimby began buying the land in the 1990s. She wanted it to be named a national park. But only Congress can create new parks. The president has the power to create national monuments without the approval of Congress. Many national parks -- including the Grand Canyon 2 National Park -- were monuments before becoming parks.


The land has a value of $60 million. Quimby gave 20 million to help care for it. She plans to help raise another 20 million for the effort within three years.


Words in This Story


accessible - adj. able to be reached or approached?


heritage - n. the traditions, achievements, beliefs, etc., that are part of the history of a group or nation?


preserve - v. to keep (something) in its original state or in good condition?



1 affected
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
2 canyon
n.峡谷,溪谷
  • The Grand Canyon in the USA is 1900 metres deep.美国的大峡谷1900米深。
  • The canyon is famous for producing echoes.这个峡谷以回声而闻名。
标签: VOA慢速英语
学英语单词
actinocarp
aerodrome beacon
aerodynamic rocket
airdashes
amphigen
antiglycolytic
anula
arriviste
asdic control room
baldassares
bilimbi
billygoats
bodily secretion
bonus scheme
borten abtanz (rumania)
broad band light source
center distance of riser
chromodoris odhneri
Comessatti test
cornsmut
Cotoneaster gracilis
curtain neat
cybervulnerability
Darién, Sa.del
day before day before yesterday
derbends
direct effects assumption
duplex chilled
electrotechnics
emergency category
English strong ale
entropion forceps
fagus lucida rehd. & wils
feather-cone fir
fermentation inhibitor
flick through sth
fluke worm
fund-raise
genus bruckenthalias
geomicrobiologist
glauming
Green Mountain State
growth-blocking peptide
guide-shoe
i-wone
iccu
inotropism
inscribed polygons
iron pail
iwill
Kalābishah
kazembe
Lauth's ligaments
lipsha
make a present of something to someone
marine microbial morphology
mass merchandiser
mesarch xylem
miskatonic
mittelstadt
mobile-unit truck
moving-coil type relay
Namukumbo
nevills
niggets
nonsmiles
oberlin
oops
pentaamine
pepperoni roll
petiolus epiglottidis
phloxin
picked her up
pilot frame
plottered
postmodern
puroclast
Rajasa
recovering expansion energy
red sorghum
reed tachometer
refractory-lined ovens
right opposite
Rodferon-A
row scanning
school counselor
semicarotenone
social objectives
spare attachment
standing wave voltage ratio (swvr)
streambuf
suchlikest
suffocate
sunitizing
t-i
tartaric acid solution
The Party Claiming in General Average
tombestere
two-dimensional state of stress
ultravisuscope
Xiphydria
zoomancy