VOA标准英语2012--At 75, New Deal's 'Green Towns' Endure
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(六月)
At 75, New Deal's 'Green Towns' Endure
In an effort to pull the United States out of the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt’s so-called “New Deal” administration created a bevy 1 of government agencies designed to help Americans regain 2 and maintain their economic footing.
The New Deal produced the social-security system, farm subsidies 3 and jobs for struggling workers, who cleared forests, built highways, wrote guidebooks to the states, photographed rural families and dust-blown towns, and created public works of art across the nation.
Roosevelt picked Columbia University economics professor Rexford Tugwell to lead a radical 4 new agency called the Resettlement Administration. The RA moved struggling families into new, utopian communities - planned and built by the federal government; ringed by woodlands; and laced with parks, co-operative gardens, and swimming pools.
The government noted 5 that dirty U.S. cities had become “a hodge-podge of towering offices, mansions 6, slums, warehouses 7, hot-dog stands and decaying residential 8 districts.”
As John Kelly recently wrote in The Washington Post, the byproducts were “illness, not only physical scourges 10 such as [tuberculosis] and rickets 11, but also the societal scourge 9 of crime.”
New, clean, carefully planned cities were to be the antidote 12 to urban blight 13.
The first idyllic 14 new town, called Greenbelt, opened 75 years ago on what had been depleted 15 Maryland tobacco fields. Two other so-called "green towns" - Green Hills near Cincinnati, Ohio, and Greendale near Milwaukee, Wisconsin - were built from scratch as well.
All offered displaced Americans clean, new cinderblock townhouses and single-family cottages. This was paradise to the lucky renters, but conservative critics saw the venture as a socialist 16 menace.
By 1949, the government had sold off all the property to families and private investors 17.
Greenbelt is now a well-worn town of 22,000, engulfed 18 by the sprawling 19 Washington, D.C., metropolis 20. The idea behind it retains its appeal, and developers have built ecologically innovative 21 "green towns" and planned communities elsewhere.
But old Greenbelt, Green Hills and Greendale have retained the art deco touches and tight-knit neighborly feel from their hopeful beginnings in desperate times 75 years ago.
- A bevy of bathing beauties appeared on the beach.沙滩上出现了一群游泳的美女。
- Look,there comes a bevy of ladies.看，一群女人来了。
- He is making a bid to regain his World No.1 ranking.他正为重登世界排名第一位而努力。
- The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.政府急于重新获取公众的信任。
- European agriculture ministers failed to break the deadlock over farm subsidies. 欧洲各国农业部长在农业补贴问题上未能打破僵局。
- Agricultural subsidies absorb about half the EU's income. 农业补贴占去了欧盟收入的大约一半。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
- She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
- The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
- Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
- 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
- The whisky was taken to bonded warehouses at Port Dundee. 威士忌酒已送到邓迪港的保稅仓库。
- Row upon row of newly built warehouses line the waterfront. 江岸新建的仓库鳞次栉比。
- The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
- The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。
- Smallpox was once the scourge of the world.天花曾是世界的大患。
- The new boss was the scourge of the inefficient.新老板来了以后，不称职的人就遭殃了。
- Textile workers suffer from three scourges -- noise, dust and humidity. 纱厂工人的三大威胁，就是音响、尘埃和湿气。 来自汉英文学 - 现代散文
- Believe, if Internet remains great scourges, also won't have present dimensions. 相信，如果互联网仍然是洪水猛兽，也不会有现在的规模。
- A diet deficient in vitamin D may cause the disease rickets.缺少维生素D的饮食可能导致软骨病。
- It also appears to do more than just protect against rickets.除了防止软骨病，它还有更多的功能。
- There is no known antidote for this poison.这种毒药没有解药。
- Chinese physicians used it as an antidote for snake poison.中医师用它来解蛇毒。
- The apple crop was wiped out by blight.枯萎病使苹果全无收成。
- There is a blight on all his efforts.他的一切努力都遭到挫折。
- These scenes had an idyllic air.这种情景多少有点田园气氛。
- Many people living in big cities yearn for an idyllic country life.现在的很多都市人向往那种田园化的生活。
- China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家，也是一个发展中国家。
- His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。
- a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
- a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
- He was engulfed by a crowd of reporters. 他被一群记者团团围住。
- The little boat was engulfed by the waves. 小船被波浪吞没了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV. 他伸开手脚坐在电视机前的一张扶手椅上。
- a modern sprawling town 一座杂乱无序拓展的现代城镇
- Shanghai is a metropolis in China.上海是中国的大都市。
- He was dazzled by the gaiety and splendour of the metropolis.大都市的花花世界使他感到眼花缭乱。
- Discover an innovative way of marketing.发现一个创新的营销方式。
- He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。