最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇MP3 Unit5-Part4

[00:00.00]On his return to Canada

[00:02.50]he undertook a new enterprise.

[00:04.47]He became a merchant,

[00:07.31]opening an importexport business

[00:09.94]in the heart of

[00:11.03]Vancouver’s Chinatown.

[00:14.32]Wing Sang Company specialized 1 in

[00:16.72]goods imported from China.

[00:18.91]The company provided Chinese Canadians

[00:21.97] with merchandise not readily available

[00:24.92] in Vancouver and exported

[00:27.99]Canadian foodstuffs 2 to China.

[00:29.52]His formula of pouring as much money

[00:33.57]as he could afford into building

[00:36.30]and expansion couldn’t help

[00:39.69]but succeed. In 1889,

[00:41.67]Yip Sang bought land on Pender Street

[00:45.17]in Chinatown and began

[00:46.81]construction of a complex,

[00:48.01]which still stands today.

[00:51.08]Initiall being a two story building

[00:56.55] with a ground floor storefront

[00:58.51] and a second floor residence,

[01:00.59]it was probably the first

[01:02.45]in Chinatown to be

[01:04.10]built of durable 3 brick.

[01:05.51]Customers of the store walked

[01:08.25]on wooden platforms covering the unpaved

[01:10.98]dirt streets to avoid tracking

[01:13.72]the dust and mud into the building.

[01:16.46]With the tone of success,

[01:19.08]Yip Sang added to his building.

[01:21.71]In 1901, he widened the street to

[01:23.46]accommodate three more shops,

[01:28.05]each with a second story above.

[01:30.24]He also added a third floor

[01:34.29]to the original building in the same year.

[01:37.46] In 1912, to house both his growing  family

[01:42.16] and his business, he built

[01:44.90]a new sixstory brick building

[01:47.31]behind the old one and

[01:49.27]connected to it by

[01:50.81]a narrow corridor at ground level,

[01:52.56]and by an enclosed stairway extension

[01:55.63]on the third floor that

[01:57.59] stretched above the alley 4

[01:59.34]between the two buildings.

[02:01.09]Most of the new building was

[02:03.61]used to warehouse 5 goods

[02:05.91]for the import/export business.

[02:07.98]Yip Sang’s involvement with

[02:13.02]shipping companies and his own business

[02:14.99]demonstrated his understanding of

[02:16.63]the freight industry and his ability

[02:19.36]to work fluently in

[02:20.89]both Chinese and English languages.

[02:23.63]In 1889, the CPR rehired Yip Sang 

[02:29.98]to act as their Chinese Passenger Agent

[02:32.38] for their Canadian Steamship 6 Line,

[02:34.79]a position he held until

[02:37.64]his death in 1927 at the age of 82.

[02:41.02]The demand for salted herring

[02:45.95]in China, in conjunction with

[02:48.46] huge catches being brought in

[02:50.55]by the fishing fleet,

[02:51.85]spurred Yip Sang to build

[02:54.15]a fish packing plant in Nanaimo.

[02:57.54]The success of this plant

[02:59.63]led to the opening of

[03:01.49] a second plant on

[03:02.79]Vancouver Island soon afterward 7.

[03:04.77]Both plants were staffed

[03:07.94]by large numbers of Chinese workers

[03:10.24]and helped establish a

[03:12.43]sizeable Chinese community

[03:14.50]in Nanaimo’s downtown core