英语听力：探索发现 2014-04-18 Sex for Sale -14

 In Story ville, it didn't matter what you *, as long as you had cold hard cash. Luckily, there was a price point for everyone. -The business in New Orleans, we stratified and had a range of levels. There were low cripes where people might charge fifty cents. -And then you started to go up the levels of higher and higher an higher to the most fantastic, fantastic brothels where you can pay up awkward¹ 250 dollars range. 

 

And remarkably², decades before the civil rights movement, all of the members of these integrated³ neighborhood profited from business. -It wasn't other people in the city profiting of what was having in Story ville, the people out of Story-ville profiting of the Story ville. So there was a lot of money pouring in and there was a great delight in celebration and showing off the fruits of their wealth. So there's * in beautiful guns, different friends, shander lears, men and fancy heads. It was the show place of the world. 

 

A sight from embracing integration⁴ and legalized prostitution, Story ville gives birth to some of the key innovators of the most important and uniquely American type of music, jazz. -It is that important time when most houses, not just brothels but houses in which families live were expected to make their own entertainment. The brothels did the same, but they would have different music and Jelly⁵ Row Morton worked in the brothels in Story ville, other people who got their start in brothels in New Orleans included Louie Armstrong who we think of is the American icon⁶ of jazz.

 

1 awkward   

adj.笨拙的，尴尬的，使用不便的，难处理的

参考例句：

• John is so shy and awkward that everyone notices him.约翰如此害羞狼狈，以至于大家都注意到了他。
• I was the only man among the guests and felt rather awkward.作为客人中的唯一男性，我有些窘迫。

2 remarkably   

ad.不同寻常地，相当地

参考例句：

• I thought she was remarkably restrained in the circumstances. 我认为她在那种情况下非常克制。
• He made a remarkably swift recovery. 他康复得相当快。

3 integrated   

a.整合的，完整的

参考例句：

• A fully integrated low phase noise LC voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is presented.介绍了一种全集成的LC压控振荡器(VCO)的设计。

4 integration   

n.一体化，联合，结合

参考例句：

• We are working to bring about closer political integration in the EU.我们正在努力实现欧盟內部更加紧密的政治一体化。
• This was the greatest event in the annals of European integration.这是欧洲统一史上最重大的事件。

5 jelly   

n.冻，果子冻，胶状物

参考例句：

• We had toast and jelly at breakfast.我们早餐吃的是烤面包和果冻。
• The medicine was a clear jelly.这种药是透明的胶状物。

6 icon   

n.偶像，崇拜的对象，画像

参考例句：

• They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
• Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。