英语听力精选进阶版 139

 

13 Nov 2014 Scouts² Harvest, McMordie Scout¹ Hall, Belfast

Thu, 13 Nov 14

Duration:

7 mins

By 1918 - the last year of the war - so many men had left home to fight that farmers faced a struggle to bring in the flax harvest. As a result, the Flax Society asked the Scouting³ movement for help. Fifty boys from Belfast answered the call, heading to the station to catch the train to the country and days of gruelling field work. They set up camp at Tullymurry in County Down and spent two weeks doing what some said was “the hardest work of their lives” – pulling and stooking the flax.

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n.童子军，侦察员；v.侦察，搜索

参考例句：

• He was mistaken for an enemy scout and badly wounded.他被误认为是敌人的侦察兵，受了重伤。
• The scout made a stealthy approach to the enemy position.侦察兵偷偷地靠近敌军阵地。

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侦察员[机，舰]( scout的名词复数 )； 童子军； 搜索； 童子军成员

参考例句：

• to join the Scouts 参加童子军
• The scouts paired off and began to patrol the area. 巡逻人员两个一组，然后开始巡逻这个地区。

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守候活动，童子军的活动

参考例句：

• I have people scouting the hills already. 我已经让人搜过那些山了。
• Perhaps also from the Gospel it passed into the tradition of scouting. 也许又从《福音书》传入守望的传统。 来自演讲部分