VOA标准英语2012--Magnificent Mansions Abound in Tiny US State
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(七月)
Magnificent Mansions 1 Abound 2 in Tiny US State
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1926 short story "The Rich Boy," a character famously remarked, “The rich are different from you and me.” To this day, Americans love to peek 3 into the lives - and enclaves - of the very rich.
They include one of the greatest concentrations of magnificent homes in the world, on an island in America’s smallest state.
It’s Newport, Rhode Island, the nation’s first summer resort.
Newport was founded in 1639 by settlers seeking religious freedom and soon prospered 4 as a seaport 5.
Gradually, wealthy landowners from the American South sought relief from the summertime heat and built grand homes there, on bluffs 6 overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
But these were mere 7 huts compared with what was to come. In the 1880s and ’90s, wealthy industrialists 8 began creating what they called “summer cottages” in Newport. Cottages on the scale of European castles.
Most famous was The Breakers, built by Cornelius Vanderbilt in the style of an Italian palace. And as a wedding present to his bride, Vanderbilt’s brother, William, erected 9 an even more lavish 10 home out of marble. Gold leaf, fine tapestries 11, and elaborate silver service adorned 12 the modern palaces that were built all across town.
Each May, “the 400,” as Newport’s elite 13 called each other, would arrive by yacht or private railroad car, bringing their servants with them.
But the advent 14 of the income tax, the stock market crash of 1929, and the Great Depression that followed made it difficult for many of the multi-millionaires to maintain their “cottages” in the style to which they had become accustomed. Many lost interest in Newport and began to summer elsewhere around the world.
Some of the 200 or so grand mansions on Bellevue Avenue and Ocean Drive were converted into apartments. More than 40 burned down. But seven of the greatest homes, including The Breakers, landed in the hands of the local preservation 15 society and today are open for public tours.
Combined with the city’s famous yacht races and jazz festival, the surviving great homes - rising like fortresses 16 along the Newport cliffs - remain alluring 17 for those who want to see just how differently from you and me the very rich can live.
- Fifth Avenue was boarded up where the rich had deserted their mansions. 第五大道上的富翁们已经出去避暑，空出的宅第都已锁好了门窗，钉上了木板。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
- Oh, the mansions, the lights, the perfume, the loaded boudoirs and tables! 啊，那些高楼大厦、华灯、香水、藏金收银的闺房还有摆满山珍海味的餐桌！ 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
- Oranges abound here all the year round.这里一年到头都有很多橙子。
- But problems abound in the management of State-owned companies.但是在国有企业的管理中仍然存在不少问题。
- Larry takes a peek out of the window.赖瑞往窗外偷看了一下。
- Cover your eyes and don't peek.捂上眼睛，别偷看。
- The organization certainly prospered under his stewardship. 不可否认，这个组织在他的管理下兴旺了起来。
- Mr. Black prospered from his wise investments. 布莱克先生由于巧妙的投资赚了不少钱。
- Ostend is the most important seaport in Belgium.奥斯坦德是比利时最重要的海港。
- A seaport where ships can take on supplies of coal.轮船能够补充煤炭的海港。
- Two steep limestone bluffs rise up each side of the narrow inlet. 两座陡峭的石灰石断崖耸立在狭窄的入口两侧。
- He bluffs his way in, pretending initially to be a dishwasher and then later a chef. 他虚张声势的方式，假装最初是一个洗碗机，然后厨师。
- That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
- It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
- This deal will offer major benefits to industrialists and investors. 这笔交易将会让实业家和投资者受益匪浅。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The government has set up a committee of industrialists and academics to advise it. 政府已成立了一个实业家和学者的委员会来为其提供建议。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He despised people who were lavish with their praises.他看不起那些阿谀奉承的人。
- The sets and costumes are lavish.布景和服装极尽奢华。
- The wall of the banqueting hall were hung with tapestries. 宴会厅的墙上挂有壁毯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The rooms were hung with tapestries. 房间里都装饰着挂毯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The walls were adorned with paintings. 墙上装饰了绘画。
- And his coat was adorned with a flamboyant bunch of flowers. 他的外套上面装饰着一束艳丽刺目的鲜花。
- The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
- We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。
- Swallows come by groups at the advent of spring. 春天来临时燕子成群飞来。
- The advent of the Euro will redefine Europe.欧元的出现将重新定义欧洲。
- The police are responsible for the preservation of law and order.警察负责维持法律与秩序。
- The picture is in an excellent state of preservation.这幅画保存得极为完好。
- They will establish impregnable fortresses. 他们将建造坚不可摧的城堡。
- Indra smashed through Vritra ninety-nine fortresses, and then came upon the dragon. 因陀罗摧毁了维他的九十九座城堡，然后与维他交手。 来自神话部分