时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2008(十)月


英语课
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.

An American named Malcom McLean invented a better box and changed the world. He designed the shipping 1 containers that today carry most of the world's goods. Standardized 2 containers can go on ships, trains or trucks and are easy to load and unload.

Malcom McLean was a truck driver who built a big trucking company. Then he bought a steamship 3 company which he later renamed Sea-Land. He launched his idea in nineteen fifty-six using an old tanker 4.
 






A PFNC Global Communities home made from a shipping container



Malcom McLean died in two thousand one. But his work lives on -- and not just for moving and storing goods. Surplus 5 containers have found use as offices and housing. In recent years, some wealthy people have had homes designed from shipping containers. But containers also are being used for emergency shelters and to shelter the homeless.

A company called PFNC Global Communities has designed a steel container home for poor people. It has thirty square meters of space with a sleeping area, a bathroom and a kitchen. It also has connections for electricity and water, and special paint to help protect against the sun’s heat.

Several years ago, a graduate business student named Brian McCarthy was visiting American companies in Ciudad Juarez, a border city in Mexico. He was there as part of his studies. He saw that many workers lived in shelters made of paper or scrap 6 metal. More than a year later, he read about a house designed from a shipping container.

At the time, his cousin Pablo Nava was in his third year at Notre Dame 7 University in the state of Indiana. Pablo Nava became interested in the project. He suggested that they enter the idea in a competition for business plans at the university. They won.
 






A look inside




With Pablo Nava and two others, Brian McCarthy established PFNC Global Communities to build the container homes. PFNC stands for the Spanish words "Por Fin 8 Nuestra Casa" -- "Finally, a Home of Our Own." The company now operates in the American state of New Mexico but will move to Juarez soon.

The sample home is twelve meters long and about two and a half meters in width and height. The kitchen has a stove to cook meals and a refrigerator to keep foods cold. Children and adults have separate sleeping areas.

The company hopes manufacturers in Ciudad Juarez will buy the homes for workers and their families. PFNC wants to keep the price below ten thousand dollars.

And that’s the VOA Special English Development Report, written by Jerilyn Watson.



n.船运(发货,运输,乘船)
  • We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
  • There's a shipping charge of £5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。
adj.标准化的
  • We use standardized tests to measure scholastic achievement. 我们用标准化考试来衡量学生的学业成绩。
  • The parts of an automobile are standardized. 汽车零件是标准化了的。
n.汽船,轮船
  • The return may be made on the same steamship.可乘同一艘汽船当天回来。
  • It was so foggy that the steamship almost ran down a small boat leaving the port.雾很大,汽艇差点把一只正在离港的小船撞沉。
n.油轮
  • The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
  • Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。
adj.过剩的,多余的;n.过剩,剩余额
  • The manufacturers in some countries dumped their surplus commodities abroad.一些国家的制造商向国外倾销过剩产品。
  • The surplus steam was blown off through the pipes.多余的蒸气通过管道放掉了。
n.碎片;废料;v.废弃,报废
  • A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.有个男人定时来收废品。
  • Sell that car for scrap.把那辆汽车当残品卖了吧。
n.女士
  • The dame tell of her experience as a wife and mother.这位年长妇女讲了她作妻子和母亲的经验。
  • If you stick around,you'll have to marry that dame.如果再逗留多一会,你就要跟那个夫人结婚。
n.鳍;(飞机的)安定翼
  • They swim using a small fin on their back.它们用背上的小鳍游动。
  • The aircraft has a long tail fin.那架飞机有一个长长的尾翼。
标签: voa 慢速英语
学英语单词
Abel heat test
acrodolichomelia
after-lunches
ahead cam
al-bashir
ampere-conductor
androgenetic
arsenic dimethyl
AWDW
Beaufortin
biston perclarus
boiler-turbine coordinated control
Buchner funnel
bumper music
c3 tricentric
childhood disintegrative disorder
coaxial-cylinder magnetron
cokebed
color photo sensors
complete set rice milling equipment
corpn
cranking
cultural documentary
derinder
dindus
disciding
documents of estimate
Dolcental
double track bridge
driver spring clip
enabling count memory
equipment used in traditional Chinese medicine
eradicating
erythema tuberculatum
fenpipalone
Fiber Optic Cables
first point of Aries
foamed polystyrene chaplet
focusing control
genetic programming algorithm
gluco-chloral
highest tender
Hoai Xuan
Ieukoblast
independence in fact
Jonzac
landed quantity
landhoppers
layout of port
line width characteristic
marnee
metropolitan community
misimprints
mixed hardware
naphthenoaromatic
natural infection
non-arrivals
perivascular cuffing
phasor amplitude
photoreduction
place someone on the lookout for
present ice
progressionists
protestable bill
prunifolium
public policy and statistics
Pukchong
radio ecology
regrease
rock-bearing plant
run oneself into the ground
Rzhaksinskiy Rayon
scale ton
Scutellaria sichourensis
selenomercaptan
self-review
shock absorbing stud
shuttle changing automatic
SILOPENTOL
sodium picramate
soft iron armature
splinterss
St.Petersburg Paradox
sultams
Syngachol
takle
The Federal Employers Liability Act
the fine print
the force
third law of thermodynamicss
tie-station
trimethylin
tuba root
typicality effect
van burens
variable potential source
variable quadri-correlator
vocational rehabilitation act
vulcanization accelerator M
windown
with good management
yarn bomber