时间:2019-02-02 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(一月)


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By Paul Sisco
Washington, DC
12 January 2007
 
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A few American soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan have had an unusual mission lately -- they are starring in a video game for the U.S. Army. 


 
The electronic game teaches and recruits
The U.S. Army has created, and is marketing 1, the computer game 'America's Army.'  And the Army claims that since it first introduced the game in 2002 it has had more than 7.5 million users. The game is part entertainment, part public relations, and also serves as a recruitment tool.


The newest version is called 'America's Army: Real Heroes.'  The action game takes players from training, into battle with various tactical missions to accomplish.  It includes the digital likenesses of eight actual soldiers recognized for heroic action in Iraq or Afghanistan.


One of them is Sergeant 2 Tommy Reiman. “Sergeant Tommy Reiman, Echo, 51st infantry 3 long range surveillance.  I'm from Independence, Kentucky,” we hear in the game.


 
The Army computer program uses characters based on real soldiers
He once played with action figures himself.  Now he is one. "You know as a kid I played with lots of G.I. Joes and action figures, and growing up with Nintendo, Super Nintendo, [and then] Play Station came out and now for me to be in the video game -- that is pretty awesome 4."


Sergeant Rieman has a silver star for having led fellow soldiers to safety after an ambush 5 outside Baghdad.


He also has a son. "You know, he's going to be in first grade for show and tell and saying, ‘Look at my dad. He was an action figure.’  You know for me, that's pretty awesome."


The U.S. Army says production and development costs for the video game program were between $6 and $8 million.


"We just want to educate people in what we do.  We don't want to pull you off and say you need to join the army.  We just want to educate everybody out there for their options for what the Army has to offer."


The majority of users are male,16 to18 years old.  And the Army says it hopes its 'Real Heroes' will inspire young adults to explore the values of the more than 450,000 men and women serving in the U.S. Army.



n.行销,在市场的买卖,买东西
  • They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
  • He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。
n.警官,中士
  • His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
  • How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹?
n.[总称]步兵(部队)
  • The infantry were equipped with flame throwers.步兵都装备有喷火器。
  • We have less infantry than the enemy.我们的步兵比敌人少。
adj.令人惊叹的,难得吓人的,很好的
  • The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
  • That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.
n.埋伏(地点);伏兵;v.埋伏;伏击
  • Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.我方战士埋伏在丛林中等待敌人。
  • Four men led by a sergeant lay in ambush at the crossroads.由一名中士率领的四名士兵埋伏在十字路口。
学英语单词
accruing costs
acrothymion
adaptive optimal control
ambagess
ambulacral leg
Apatfalva
aquatile
arrhythmiograph
automated data
bactoagglutination
base sheet
bede-roll
benthosema pterotum
Better suffer ill than do ill.
between graticule wires
bohoroks
Book of Acts
brom-acetophenone
building-up principle
calender year
cam and ratchet driver
card feeder
carin-
carpal-tunnel
casing collar kick
centering rod
clustered poppy mallows
command-line switch
commonbases
conditional probability of failure
cryptomaterial
deduction from wages
epistatic
Espenberg, Cape
facioscapulohumeral atrophy
ferro-magnetic ceramic
FM-systems
Foraminifera, Foraminiferida
Foroughi
geisella
get something into shape
girella punctata
gMicroinjection
gourder
gratuitous gifts
gunless
gypsyisms
hard limestone
health physics assistant
hernia intrapelvica
inactive station
incisal protrusion
inductive
infantilist
input parameters of linkage mechanism synthesis
isthmolongispora quadricellularia
jasmonic(acid)
KCB,K.C.B
kmag
kobke
lany
lateral costal branch
leave someone
load calculator
low frequency ceramic filter
margin to trip
mean solar clock
merlino
mixed feed
Morse Code light or Morse Code fog signal
nocon
observational equation
on a global scale
out with the tail of one's eye
pearlescing agent
Pescantina
Pfandbriefe
post-feminisms
presanctified
proof of delivery service
refresher course
remanent elongation
roll wave
separate off
show ... head
signal equalization
simultaneous disengaging gear
solitary ulcer of anus
sound transparent rubber
spy upon
St Edmund
stratified cuboidal epithelium
sugar melter
superschemas
sweat pants
tenosteosis
tetrahedral hybridization
to no effect
tropidial
tubular yarn
unless general
variegatus