时间:2018-11-27 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2008年(十二)月


英语课
Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember, and today we bring you music for the New Year.

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T.J. MacDonald, left, and Stacey Fox, both of Syracuse, New York, welcoming 2008 in Times Square in New York City



In the United States and other countries, this old Scottish song, "Auld 1 Lang Syne 2" is played when a new year begins. It is about remembering old friends.

New Year's is a holiday for memories and for hopes. The past and the future come together at midnight. Not surprisingly, emotions are as much a part of New Year's Eve as noisemakers and fireworks. After all, a traditional way to welcome the New Year is to kiss the person you love.

"Old Lang Syne" lends its name to a modern song about a man and a woman who once were lovers 4. One day, a week before New Year's, they meet again by chance. The singer is Dan Fogelberg and the song is called "Same Old Lang Syne."

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On December sixteenth, two thousand seven, fans of Dan Fogelberg lost an old friend. The American singer and songwriter died of prostate cancer at the age of fifty-six.
He was known for the kind of soft rock popular in the nineteen seventies and eighties. "Same Old Lang Syne" was one of the hits from his nineteen eighty-one album "The Innocent 5 Age."

The idea of meeting an old lover 3 by chance is also at the heart of a Paul Simon song. Here is the title song from Paul Simon's nineteen seventy-five album "Still Crazy After All These Years."

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Chance meetings are one of life's little surprises. They can happen anywhere -- in a market, on the street, even in a taxicab. This song by Harry 6 Chapin is called "Taxi."

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Harry Chapin was a popular folk singer and songwriter. In nineteen eighty-one, at the age of thirty-eight, he died in a car crash on his way to a performance.

Music and emotions go hand in hand. Songs can make us feel the heartbreak of a lost love, or the excitement of finding 7 a new love. Songs can also capture 8 the pain of a wish that a person knows will never come true. Here is James Blunt 9 with "You're Beautiful."

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The nineteen eighty-nine movie "When Harry Met Sally" was about a relationship. Billy Crystal 10 plays Harry and Meg Ryan is Sally. They meet and become friends, though not at first. Later, they fall in love, though not for very long. Then, on New Year's Eve, Harry comes to his senses and finds Sally at a party.

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From New Year's Day, we turn to "A New Day." That was the name of Celine Dion's music and dance show at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. It closed on December fifteenth, two thousand seven, after almost five years. It earned a reported four hundred million dollars in ticket sales.

The show's run ended two months before the start of a worldwide tour for a new album by the Canadian singer. But some fans came to the show again and again, so closing night was like an emotional 11 goodbye to an old friend.

We leave you with Celine Dion and a song that some of you will probably sing along with. From the nineteen ninety-seven movie "Titanic," here is "My Heart Will Go On."

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We hope you will join us again next week for THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English, on the radio or online at voaspecialenglish.com. Wishing you a happy New Year from all of us, I'm Steve Ember.



1 auld
adj.老的,旧的
  • Should auld acquaintance be forgot,and never brought to mind?怎能忘记旧日朋友,心中能不怀念?
  • The party ended up with the singing of Auld Lang Sync.宴会以《友谊地久天长》的歌声而告终。
2 syne
adv.自彼时至此时,曾经
  • The meeting ended up with the singing of Auld Lang Syne.大会以唱《友谊地久天长》结束。
  • We will take a cup of kindness yet for auld lang syne.让我们为了过去的好时光干一杯友谊的酒。
3 lover
n.情人,恋人;爱好者
  • Every lover sees a thousand graces in the beloved object.情人眼里出西施。
  • Mr.Smith was a lover of poetry.史密斯先生是一名诗歌爱好者。
4 lovers
爱好者( lover的名词复数 ); 情人; 情夫; 情侣
  • They were off-screen lovers. 他们是真实生活中的情侣。
  • Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet 罗密欧和朱丽叶这一对莎士比亚笔下命运多舛的恋人
5 innocent
adj.无罪的,清白的;无害的;天真的,单纯的
  • I'm not quite so innocent as to believe that.我还不至于简单到相信那种事的地步。
  • I was very young,and very innocent.我那时非常年轻,幼稚无知。
6 harry
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
7 finding
n.发现,发现物;调查的结果
  • The finding makes some sense.该发现具有一定的意义。
  • That's an encouraging finding.这是一个鼓舞人心的发现。
8 capture
vt.捕获,俘获;占领,夺得;n.抓住,捕获
  • The company is out to capture the European market.这家公司希望占据欧洲市场。
  • With the capture of the escaped tiger,everyone felt relieved.逃出来的老虎被捕获后,大家都松了一口气。
9 blunt
adj.(刀子)钝的,不锋利的,迟钝的,直率的
  • The axe is too blunt to cut down the tree.斧头太钝,砍不倒树。
  • She is rather blunt in speech.她说话很直率。
10 crystal
n.水晶,水晶饰品,结晶体;最好的玻璃器皿
  • It used to be a crystal stream.那曾是条清澈见底的小溪。
  • Those fine wine glasses are made of crystal.那些漂亮的酒杯是用水晶做的。
11 emotional
adj.令人动情的;易动感情的;感情(上)的
  • Emotional people don't stop to calculate.感情容易冲动的人做事往往不加考虑。
  • This is an emotional scene in the play.这是剧中动人的一幕。
学英语单词
a strake
activated sludge filamentation bulking
adder accumulator
al faw (fao)
alkaline incrusted cystitis
apple jellies
B. & T.
bar disintegrator
baseball-card
be in favour
be no end fine
big-endian and little-endian
bolivian monetary units
boyis
camshaft gear drive
cap flashing
Cardium
cavetti
chinese calligraphy
claimants ledger
conversational report
crab winch
cutting over
delay mixing
deletes
demeurer
dhoruba
diatomaceous chert
double counterpoint in the twelfth
Dove Dale
energy-intensive technology
esc.
Ethershare
evaporable waste
Evenk
expendient
false reed
flour
forward current rating
genuflect
guardaba
hand driven generator
hattrick
heat exchange in sea
ice cream slab
indicine
individual cylinder
inhabited building distance
inherent opening time
ioderma
ko gaku (japan)
Kǒmdǒksan
mace butter
Madison River
mat matter
matrix gate
micro-code
monosyaptic reflex
multiple terminal
N-dimethylcyclohexaneethylamine
Nafrine
nuclear magnetic resonance computerized tomography
ordinal indicator
ordinary budget
Paleo-Siberian languages
Paneth and Hevesy method
passing shot
physik
pilot light burner
polyphenol-aldehyde fibre reinforcement
precompute
preferee
pry bars
Puricama
raphe of scrotum
rejoindure
roller cone
run-up brake
Salix microphyta
salmorejo
salvage group
scammoniae resina
scummers
semibatch selectivity
Serangoon, Pulau
Sitosterln
slamkins
sphinx-likest
sulfhydryl compound
super typhoon
taxable base
transfrontal orbitotomy
trial at nisi prius
triphenylguanidine
ultraviolet absorber fixative
unique array
unsupportively
vertical sliding window
vessel detection
virusin
yellow-orange leaf