时间:2019-02-13 作者:英语课 分类:2017年NPR美国国家公共电台7月


英语课

 


STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:


You know, when I was a kid, I watched pro 1 wrestling on TV. The matches often featured a good guy, like Hulk Hogan, against a bad guy, a bad guy like the Iron Sheik, a cartoonish Middle Eastern evil dude. Pro wrestling played off the news, you see, and still does. Consider a wrestling circuit in eastern Kentucky - big Donald Trump 2 territory.


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UNIDENTIFIED MAN: And here he is, The Progressive Liberal, Daniel Richards, possibly the most controversial figure in the Appalachian Mountain Wrestling world. As we get things kicked off...


INSKEEP: The Progressive Liberal is Daniel Harnsberger. He, too, grew up watching pro wrestling and admired the bad guys known as heels. He became a wrestler 3 when he grew up.


DANIEL HARNSBERGER: I was wrestling for $5 and a hotdog and a soda 4. There were times I didn't get paid at all.


INSKEEP: Around 2015, he discovered a character to play. He was wrestling before a tiny crowd in West Virginia. Trump had just started running for president.


HARNSBERGER: I said, I hope Trump doesn't build a wall around Mexico and said I hope he builds around this town so you people can't infiltrate 5 the population. And that got a, you know, heated reaction.


INSKEEP: (Laughter) I imagine so.


HARNSBERGER: That reaction, pound for pound for that small group, was palpable.


INSKEEP: That's the job of a heel - to outrage 6 the crowd. So he started wearing Hillary Clinton T-shirts and wrestling trunks with the words, progressive liberal, and acting 7 like a coastal 8 elitist.


HARNSBERGER: A great heel is someone who believes what they're saying and feels justified 9 in their actions and in what they say.


INSKEEP: He's not really acting.


HARNSBERGER: I'm a progressive liberal in real life. So I'd think this would generate a reaction from fans - you know, especially the places I was going.


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HARNSBERGER: I know how you stupid Trump voters think. Allow me to illustrate 10. Der-der-der (ph) I love coal. Der-der-der, I love mountains.


INSKEEP: Between matches, Harnsberger returns home to the Democratic city of Richmond, Va. We asked if his travels in Appalachia gave him a better understanding of the other side.


HARNSBERGER: I don't stand up for them.


INSKEEP: (Laughter) Not even a little bit?


HARNSBERGER: No.


INSKEEP: Although, his role as The Progressive Liberal gives us a better understanding of this divided national moment.



n.赞成,赞成的意见,赞成者
  • The two debating teams argued the question pro and con.辩论的两组从赞成与反对两方面辩这一问题。
  • Are you pro or con nuclear disarmament?你是赞成还是反对核裁军?
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
n.摔角选手,扭
  • The wrestler tripped up his opponent.那个摔跤运动员把对手绊倒在地。
  • The stronger wrestler won the first throw.较壮的那个摔跤手第一跤就赢了。
n.苏打水;汽水
  • She doesn't enjoy drinking chocolate soda.她不喜欢喝巧克力汽水。
  • I will freshen your drink with more soda and ice cubes.我给你的饮料重加一些苏打水和冰块。
vt./vi.渗入,透过;浸润
  • The teacher tried to infiltrate her ideas into the children's minds.老师设法把她的思想渗透到孩子们的心中。
  • It can infiltrate as much as 100 kilometers into enemy territory at night.可以在夜间深入敌领土100千米。
n.暴行,侮辱,愤怒;vt.凌辱,激怒
  • When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
  • We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的
  • The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
  • This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
a.正当的,有理的
  • She felt fully justified in asking for her money back. 她认为有充分的理由要求退款。
  • The prisoner has certainly justified his claims by his actions. 那个囚犯确实已用自己的行动表明他的要求是正当的。
v.举例说明,阐明;图解,加插图
  • The company's bank statements illustrate its success.这家公司的银行报表说明了它的成功。
  • This diagram will illustrate what I mean.这个图表可说明我的意思。
学英语单词
after-baking
airbag dermatitis
Amorgos
Apricena
aquilegias
arithmetic exception
asprellas
attenuated
avalanche diode microwave oscillators
bhoy
black ring
bone fan
boorn
breathable
bromoacrylic acid
burnup analysis
by car
Cant.
cartographical representation
celiac trunk
characteristic design
chocolate-coloureds
coherence-beam guidance
communication liaison role
composite coefficient
crumb cakes
dextrose agar
dirt-bed
duodeocholangeitis
electrocochleographic
electrospray ionization
endothal
epiorogenic
facing materials
ficus-indica
fidhs
field-grown soybean
film type electret
fixed rate flow
for a fact
geico
gerzberg
grade ability
high cost
horizontal beard cutting machine
i.f
industrial-accountant
inward generation
iridium(vi) fluoride
kirnbergers
laminated-brush switch
laryngocamera
legal appointment
linear-optimal
lixiviation zone
massachussetts
maximum circular saw blade diameter
microvoid coalescence fracture
mimicks
mixed shop
molony
monadically
naer
North Fairfield
numeric display
open center hydraulic system
pack up one's traps
pallotta
pars pteryg. musculus adductor arcuum palat.
poison the fountains of trust
post-metal
postmentums
preanal plate
primary effect of gene
public investment
public open space
purantix
rapunzels
reteeing
sectional makeup of national economy
see the back of
serpentine rock
skalled
Slieve-na-Calliagh
smithkline
Soprontin
space of circles
St David's Day
stellatus
strong-boxes
tail-wagging mode
ultraviolets
upitis
Urofinil
variation in testing temperature
walk-round
Warwick, Richard Neville
waterproof instrument
waxy flexibility
within delta of
wolframi steel
wrear