时间:2019-01-07 作者:英语课 分类:This is America


英语课

THIS IS AMERICA - Artistic 1 Expression in Reaction to 9/11
By Jerilyn Watson


Broadcast: Monday, September 06, 2004


WRITER: "Hey, it's okay. Maybe I can help. I've never written a eulogy 2 before, but I've written some speeches. How many did you say there were?"


FIRE CAPTAIN: "Eight."


WRITER: "Eight!"


FIRE CAPTAIN: "Eight men. I lost eight men."


VOICE TWO:


In Washington, the Library of Congress is showing a collection of posters related to Nine-Eleven. One of these posters is formed from images of the victims. It shows the Twin Towers with a burst of yellow light between the buildings.


The poster by Alex Spektor is called "The Sun." But the light could also represent the fires of Nine-Eleven or a spiritual effect.


VOICE ONE:


Some songs about Nine-Eleven express anger. Other express pride in America. Still others describe conditions during or after the attacks.


Bruce Springsteen wrote "Empty Sky." The name comes from the days immediately after Nine-Eleven when all but military flights were grounded.


((CUT TWO: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, "EMPTY SKY" CDP 25546A, Band Six, beginning at about 0:57 to 1:58))


VOICE TWO:


The New York Philharmonic Orchestra asked the composer John Adams to write a piece in memory of Nine-Eleven. Mister Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for this work. The names of victims, and some of their final words, are heard over the music.


The piece is called "On the Transmigration of Souls."


(MUSIC)


VOICE ONE:


A recording 3 of "On the Transmigration of Souls" by composer John Adams is being released to mark the third anniversary of Nine-Eleven.


(MUSIC)


VOICE TWO:


Our program was written by Jerilyn Watson and produced by Caty Weaver 4. And our e-mail address is special@voanews.com. I'm Steve Ember.


VOICE ONE:


And I'm Gwen Outen. Please join us again next week for THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.



adj.艺术(家)的,美术(家)的;善于艺术创作的
  • The picture on this screen is a good artistic work.这屏风上的画是件很好的艺术品。
  • These artistic handicrafts are very popular with foreign friends.外国朋友很喜欢这些美术工艺品。
n.颂词;颂扬
  • He needs no eulogy from me or from any other man. 他不需要我或者任何一个人来称颂。
  • Mr.Garth gave a long eulogy about their achievements in the research.加思先生对他们的研究成果大大地颂扬了一番。
n.录音,记录
  • How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间?
  • I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
n.织布工;编织者
  • She was a fast weaver and the cloth was very good.她织布织得很快,而且布的质量很好。
  • The eager weaver did not notice my confusion.热心的纺织工人没有注意到我的狼狈相。
学英语单词
a cracker
a crowning victory
acid dipping
active army
air sterilization
ammonium benzoate
arenimonas malthae
assisted place
assumed vertical datum
bakhtins
Bartletts Harb.
betrothing
bridle irons
Broad Haven
celadons
clean-
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deafblindness
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delayed alarm relay
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derivative control ouput
disaster reduction
dower chest
drizzleable
Echovist
El Houbra
electrical goniometer
enterprise information
entripsis
epoching
freak me
gross ceiling
Help Files
henlike
i-hold
in the cold
journeyed
kedlestons
kolossis
Kouklia
La Ferté-Alais
Laennec's pearls
LAMPRIDIDA
lays down
Lombardia
loss of use insurance
lynde
macaco
mail box
main shut-down system
maintenance downtime
Malaya Pechora
masterboard
mechanomyograms
misbah
Mitomi
money's worth
mykiss
myrmecoclepty
nationalising
non-reactive phase
not a bed of rose
NSC-104801
nucleotidases
ocean color imaging
one tail table
onychoprion anaethetus anaethetus
operating systems
over-head travelling crane
plutonium burner
pressure vessels exempted from inspection
pungee
rectal actinomycosis
redecorator
residual pesticide
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roller-crushing mill
serum alkaline phosphatase
short-circuit characteristics
single-hung
solid-beam efficiency
spin-selection rule
Spiraea anomala
spot of bother
storm rack
T-reactive dye
teacher evaluation scale
to re-up
tressing
unexpired term
user mapping mode
war production
wood cell
yellowish eruptions on the gum of the newborn
zero configuration ip networking