英语听力精选进阶版 6942

Wang Fei: 大家好。欢迎收听都市掠影节目。我是王飞。

Rob: And I'm Rob Carter.

Music

Rob: Hold on a minute, Wang Fei. That piece of music is so familiar… What is it? I can't quiet remember.

Wang Fei: I'll give you a clue.

Music

Rob: Oh yes! A History of the World in 100 Objects, a very popular radio programme on BBC Radio 4. But are you stealing its music Wang Fei?

Wang Fei: No. I'm not stealing its music. I want to introduce this programme to our listeners. 今天我们就来说一说一档英国人喜爱听的广播节目，BBC Radio 4 的 a History of the World in 100 Objects，它通过100件大英博物馆的展品来讲述世界的历史，并且由大英博物馆的馆长 Neil MacGregor 来亲自讲述。

Rob: It's innovative¹, isn't it?

Wang Fei: 确实很有创意，very innovative.

Rob: Yes definitely, let's hear from Neil MacGregor and find out how he will tell the stories and what objects they will choose.

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In these programmes, I am travelling back in time and across the globe to see how we humans over two million years have shaped our world and been shaped by it. And I am going to tell this story exclusively through the things that humans have made. I've chosen just 100 objects from different points of our journey, from a cooking pot to a golden galleon², from a Stone Age tool to a credit card. And in each programme, I am going to be talking about one object from the British Museum's collection.

Rob: Neil said he is going to tell these stories exclusively through things that humans have made.

Wang Fei: exclusively 全部地、专门地。 他的故事全部都是通过人类制造的东西来讲述的。

Rob: From a cooking pot to a golden galleon, from a Stone Age tool to a credit card.

Wang Fei: 从一个 cooking pot 做饭用的陶罐，到一个 golden galleon 金子做的帆船模型，从一个 Stone Age tool 石器时代的工具，到 credit card 信用卡。真是无所不包。

Rob: But the most difficult thing might be which objects to actually choose, especially for the last object, the 100th object, which will be a symbol of 21st century life.

Wang Fei: 对，第100件物品是代表21世纪的，那大英博物馆会选择哪件物品来代表21世纪人类进步的历史呢？

Rob: Wang Fei, the British Museum shortlisted 5 objects chosen from a public survey.

Wang Fei: What are they?

Rob: The first one is a Chelsea football shirt.

Wang Fei: 第一件是一件切尔西足球队的队服

Rob: a mobile phone

Wang Fei: 手机

Rob: a solar powered lamp

Wang Fei: 太阳能灯

Rob: an Antarctic suit

Wang Fei: 南极服装

Rob: and a mortar³ and pestle⁴.

Wang Fei: 做饭用的石杵和石臼

Rob: Which one would you choose Wang Fei?

Wang Fei: I think I would probably choose the mobile phone.

Rob: Good Choice, well, Neil MacGregor unveiled the 100th object last week. Let's listen to a BBC journalist interviewing him and see if you can hear why he chooses it.

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Neil MacGregor: It is the solar powered lamp with charger.

Journalist: But complicating⁵ it, there is a mobile phone in there too.

Neil MacGregor: There is a mobile phone inside it because in a way we wanted to cheat. And we wanted - you will not be surprised – we wanted to have the solar power for the lamp, which we're going to talk about in a moment, but also the charger that gives mobile phones to the world. What the solar power does is give a whole range of people power over their lives. In a way that the tool gave us all power over our lives two million years ago.

Rob: So the answer is …

Wang Fei: A solar powered lamp with charger 太阳能灯和充电器

Rob: Many people might have chosen the mobile phone which is very important, but without power it can't work.

Wang Fei: So the charger can charge the lamp and the mobile phone with solar energy.

Rob: And more importantly solar energy is clean and sustainable. Our ancestors used tools to get extra power and now in the 21st century humans are still trying to use natural solar energy to get power around the world. It's a very good choice, isn't it?

Wang Fei: 我们的祖先学会使用工具从而找到了生活的力量，在21世纪，人类还在努力把清洁的太阳能作为一种生活的工具，所以从这个程度上来讲，大英博物馆选择了solar powered lamp 作为第100件物品，代表21世纪的人类发展。

Rob: Yes. I hope you like the programme a History of the World in 100 Objects. that I recommended. Bye bye for now!

Wang Fei: Bye.

1 innovative   

adj.革新的，新颖的，富有革新精神的

参考例句：

• 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。

2 galleon   

n.大帆船

参考例句：

• The story of a galleon that sank at the start of her maiden voyage in 1628 must be one of the strangest tales of the sea.在1628年，有一艘大帆船在处女航开始时就沉没了，这个沉船故事一定是最神奇的海上轶事之一。
• In 1620 the English galleon Mayfolwer set out from the port of Southampton with 102 pilgrims on board.1620年，英国的“五月花”号西班牙式大帆船载着102名

3 mortar   

n.灰浆，灰泥；迫击炮；v.把…用灰浆涂接合

参考例句：

• The mason flushed the joint with mortar.泥工用灰浆把接缝处嵌平。
• The sound of mortar fire seemed to be closing in.迫击炮的吼声似乎正在逼近。

4 pestle   

n.杵

参考例句：

• He ground the rock candy with a mortar and pestle.他自己动手用研钵和杵把冰糖研成粉。
• An iron pestle can be ground down to a needle.只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针。

5 complicating   

使复杂化( complicate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• High spiking fever with chills is suggestive of a complicating pylephlebitis. 伴有寒战的高热，暗示合并门静脉炎。
• In America these actions become executive puberty rites, complicating relationships that are already complicated enough. 在美国，这些行动成了行政青春期的惯例，使本来已经够复杂的关系变得更复杂了。