英语听力：探索发现 2014-02-02 America's Sex Pioneers 美国的性爱先锋-4

 But not everyone was interested in following their puritans' strict rules, especially when it came to sex.

-Amist of these puritans' colonies¹, along came a very charismatic and interesting libertarian by the name of Thomas Morton, who started up a colony² of very different kind. Thomas Morton travelled to United States with the interest of starting a fur trade company, and he's from Devon in England, and Devon is known as one of that sort of last uncla** pagan celebrations and pagan thinking.

Unlike Puritans, Pagans didn't follow strict rules about sex. For them, sex outside marriage was a holy act that brought you closer to God. Religious celebrations included consumption³ of alcohol⁴ and group sex. So for Morton, the new world had a different set of rules.

-The guy came over to get lucky, calling every sense of world. He wanted to get rich quick, and he sets up his colony right down the roads from Puritans. And he says, "Dude, where's the party?" So Morton sets himself up as a Lord⁵ of Misrule.

Morton's pagan background allows him to easily connect with the native Americans. He begins in co-opearating them into his fur trade, selling them weapons and even has sex with their women.

1 colonies   

n.殖民地( colony的名词复数 )；（侨民等）聚居区；（动植物的）群体；（来自同一地方，职业或兴趣相同的）聚居人群

参考例句：

• They amassed huge wealth by plundering the colonies. 他们通过掠夺殖民地聚敛了大笔的财富。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• But throughout the colonies, people relied primarily on small farms and self-sufficiency. 但就整个殖民地来说，人们主要依靠小型农场，过着自给自足的生活。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件

2 colony   

n.殖民地；(同类人的)聚居地

参考例句：

• There lived a colony of bees on the tree.树上生活着一群蜜蜂。
• They live in an artists'colony.他们住在艺术家聚居区。

3 consumption   

n.消费，消耗，消费额，消耗量，结核病

参考例句：

• Consumption of oil has declined in recent years.石油消耗量在最近几年下降了。
• The meat was condemned as unfit for human consumption.这种肉已被宣布不适宜人们食用。

4 alcohol   

n.酒精，乙醇；含酒精的饮料

参考例句：

• The law forbids shops to sell alcohol to minors.法律禁止商店向未成年者出售含酒精的饮料。
• The alcohol is industrial.这些酒精是供工业用的。

5 lord   

n.上帝，主；主人，长官；君主，贵族

参考例句：

• I know the Lord will look after him.我知道上帝会眷顾他的。
• How good of the Lord not to level it beyond repair!上帝多么仁慈啊，竟没有让这所房子损毁得不可收拾！