时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:2017年NPR美国国家公共电台10月


英语课

 


MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:


It's that time of year - time for ghosts and goblins and other creatures that go bump in the night.


And if those sorts of things give you the heebie-jeebies, maybe you'll take comfort in knowing that 4 percent of Americans say that ghosts - and by that, we mean the real kind, not the cute little ones who knock on your door with a plastic pumpkin 1 and a sheet over their head - 4 percent of Americans say that ghosts make them afraid or very afraid. Five percent of us say the same about zombies. Seven percent are freaked out by clowns.


Those numbers come to us from the fourth annual Survey of American Fears, conducted by Chapman University. The No. 1 U.S. fear according to this survey? Corrupt 2 government officials. Nearly three quarters of Americans say that government corruption 3 makes them afraid or very afraid. That's by far the top concern of those surveyed, and it's shown a nearly 17 percentage-point jump from three years ago.


Also ranking among this year's top 10 list of U.S. fears - here we go - Trumpcare; pollution of oceans, rivers and lakes; not having enough money for the future, the prospect 4 that the U.S. will be involved in another world war; and climate change.


Scoot further down the list of what keeps us up at night in 2017, and you'll find, in descending 5 order of concern, everything from terrorist attacks and identity theft to public speaking and technology I don't understand.


According to this survey, twice as many of us fear that someone we love will die than we fear dying ourselves. We are collectively far more afraid of heights than we are of needles or flying, and we're apparently 6 equally fearful of sharks and of computers replacing people in the workforce 7.


Also on equal fear footing, the fear of others talking about you behind your back and the fear of your significant other cheating on you. Make of that what you will.


So what's not included in this survey? Well, the fear of Friday the 13 - that's paraskevidekatriaphobia. We're left to wonder where that would rank.


Also not on the list - the fear of rain, ombrophobia; pogonophobia, the fear of beards; my personal fear, the fear of forgetting to set my alarm so I can wake up to host WEEKEND EDITION; and - sorry, Franklin D. Roosevelt - nowhere on the list of America's top fears of 2017 can we find phobophobia, the fear of fear itself.


(SOUNDBITE OF MELODIUM'S "SATURDAY MORNING")



n.南瓜
  • They ate turkey and pumpkin pie.他们吃了火鸡和南瓜馅饼。
  • It looks like there is a person looking out of the pumpkin!看起来就像南瓜里有人在看着你!
v.贿赂,收买;adj.腐败的,贪污的
  • The newspaper alleged the mayor's corrupt practices.那家报纸断言市长有舞弊行为。
  • This judge is corrupt.这个法官贪污。
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
n.前景,前途;景色,视野
  • This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
  • The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
n.劳动大军,劳动力
  • A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
  • A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。
学英语单词
a sea of
aceperinaphthane
acute brain disorder
aeromagnetic circuit
AFFIS
arguer
axle-pin
baumert
Bonus Eventus
boy scoutss
Br. & B.
bursiform
butnt plaster
cape jasmine
chime rings
clocking
cognitive personality
color-hearing
colpack
coming-back
complete conductivity
congenital salt diarrhea
Cruciferae
Cryptomys
cupellation process
curved jaw
cut ting edge
decarburize
deep sea trawl winch
demirep
domain specification
Drude, Paul
dynamically redefinable character set
EeV
elytropolypus
Erongo Mountains
ethanols
exchange at discount
feed ratchet wheel
fever due to yin deficiency
fluoroethylene resin
fossil pteridophytes
French franc zone
gangway for transhipment
genus elaphes
geo-synchronous satellite
geographical zoology
glyphostoma lyuhrurngae
hidrotic ectodermal dysplasia
hybrid servo
hyperbolism
inspection manhole
knaggiest
lay down arms
leaderfag
length of residence
long range tracking mode
magnetic strip accounting
maintainability
mared
marine optics
membrane ion exchange
mineral zone
nonsave
Nästansjö
one pass machine
patent rules
potassium depletion
potassium metatitanate
Potato Trap
pre-assembled
preprogrammed
pressure controlled valve
primunition
psycho-analysts
Pterograptus
rare-earth element thermo-heat treatment
refeedings
remote diagnosis
retendering
saginary
scuppie
shway
simulation error statistic
single strand casting machine
stakeholder involvement
standards for public libraries
Stanley Matthews
stigmatics
stoichactis
straight-braced frame
sycolin
Tehuantepec, Istmo de
test harness
TKP
Tricyrtis latifolia
truscottite
upper-storey
vacuum transfer
Woodhead
woolerts
zahl