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54 "历史之眼"--白宫摄影作品展
DATE=6-22-01
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #823 - White House Photographers' Exhibit
BYLINE= Jerilyn Watson
HOST:
(Start at 0'53") The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., recently showed one-hundred-seventy-three news photographs. Some of America's best news photographers took the pictures. These men and women work for news services, magazines and newspapers. They belong to the White House News Photographers' Association. Their exhibit was called "The Eyes of History." Shirley Griffith tells us more.
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The Corcoran Gallery exhibit showed some of the top news photographs of the year. These (1) images were made both in and out of the White House.
Time Magazine (2) photojournalist Diana Walker says photographers in the president's house are (3) restricted from some areas. But she had more freedom than many other photographers.
For example, she took photographs of former President Bill Clinton during his final hours in the White House. She was in the (4) Oval Office as Mister Clinton finished working on some papers. Soon the only paper on his desk was a letter to the new president. She took a picture as Mister Clinton looked out the Oval Office windows for the last time. Her picture (5) captured the feelings of America's forty-second president on an important day in his life.
Other photos in the exhibit showed very different events. For example, Doug Mills of the (6) Associated Press photographed a sailor wounded in the bombing of the Navy ship U-S-S Cole. The ship was attacked last October in Yemen. The wounded man is shown attending a memorial service for the seventeen (7) bombing (8) victims. He sits in a (9) wheelchair, receiving oxygen through a tube. The sailor and his wife press their heads together as they (10) mourn.
Washington Times photographer Gerald Herbert also took an emotional picture. He photographed an (11) emergency medical worker in Maryland. This man is holding the hand of an old woman patient as she dies. (12) Tension and loss show clearly on his young face.
A photo by Dudley Brooks of the Washington Post caught a happier moment. His photograph shows the great basketball player Michael Jordan laughing. The picture was taken during a (13) press conference announcing his new job as an official of the Washington Wizards basketball team.
Exhibit visitors say the White House news photographers' pictures will continue to live in their memories. And reports say the photographs may be published in a book. Then many more people will be able to enjoy "The Eyes of History."
潜水艇的发展史
DATE=6-22-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #823 - Submarines
BYLINE=Paul Thompson
HOST:
(Start at 4'33") Our VOA listener question this week comes from Niger. Igbuan Benson Bamidele asks about a kind of ship called a (1) submarine.
The idea of a boat or ship that can travel under water is extremely old. No one knows who first had the idea. However, the first boat that could travel under water was built by a (2) Dutch inventor named Cornelius van Drebbel. He (3) demonstrated his invention in England in about Sixteen-Twenty. It was a small boat that was covered in animal skins. However, no one at that time could think of a good use for a submarine.
A young inventor named David Bushnell built the first American submarine in Seventeen-Seventy-Six. Mister Bushnell designed a (4) craft he called the Turtle. It was used during the (5) American Revolutionary War. Mister Bushnell's submarine attacked the British warship H-M-S Eagle in New York harbor. He tried to attach a (6) bomb to the side of the ship. He was not successful. However, reports of the event said he (7) severely frightened the (8) crew of the Eagle.
The submarine was first used successfully as a weapon during (9) America's Civil War in the Eighteen-Sixties. A submarine built by the (10) Confederate States sank the Union ship U-S-S Housatonic near Charleston, (11) South Carolina. The little submarine was named the Hunley. It pushed a bomb into the side of the Housatonic. However, the small submarine and its crew were lost after the attack.
The United States Navy bought its first submarine in Nineteen-Hundred. (12) Nuclear powered submarines were built fifty years later. The world's first nuclear submarine was the U-S-S Nautilus. It was (13) launched in Nineteen-Fifty-Four. The U-S-S Nautilus is no longer an active submarine. It is a museum open to the public in the harbor in Groton, (14) Connecticut. Anyone who visits can walk through and examine the submarine.
Today, submarines carry a crew of about one-hundred fifty members. Some are huge -- more than one-hundred-sixty-eight meters long.
Recently, the Confederate submarine Hunley was found on the bottom of Charleston Bay. It was brought to the surface for study.
If you have a computer, you can find more information about the Hunley and other submarines. Have your computer search for H-U-N-L-E-Y or the word "submarine."
当红爵士乐手简·梦海特
DATE=6-22-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #823 - Jane Monheit
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 8'15") Jane Monheit (MON-hite) is being praised as the best young jazz singer performing today. She is twenty-three years old, and has just (1) released her second album. Shep O'Neal tells us about her.
ANNCR:
Jane Monheit grew up near New York City. Her parents were (2) professional musicians.
Jane Monheit studied voice at the Manhattan School of Music and won second place in the Thelonius Monk Vocal Competition. That led to her first album, "Never Never Land." It was released last year and sold more than sixty-thousand copies.
Jane Monheit says she included songs in the album that she loved as a child. The title song is from the show "Peter Pan."
((CUT 1: NEVER NEVER LAND))
(3) Critics say Mizz Monheit's voice is clear, smooth and controlled. They especially like her new album, "Come Dream With Me." They say her singing now (4) demonstrates great feeling. Here is an example, "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most."
((CUT 2: SPRING CAN REALLY HANG YOU UP THE MOST))
Now Jane Monheit is traveling across the United States performing her songs. She says that singing good songs makes her happy. We leave you now with another good song from Jane Monheit's new album, "Hit The Road To (5) Dreamland."
((CUT 3: HIT THE ROAD TO DREAMLAND))
(1) image [`imidV] n.图象, 肖像
(2) photojournalist [`fEUtEU`dVE:n[list] n.摄影记者
(3) restricted [ris`triktid] adj.受限制的, 有限的
(4) Oval Office 美国总统办公室
(5) capture [`kAptFE] vt.俘获, 捕获, 夺取
(6) Associated Press [美]美联社
(7) bombing [`bRmiN] adj.轰炸, 投弹
(8) victim [`viktim] n.受害人, 牺牲者
(9) wheelchair [`wi:ltFeE] n.轮椅
(10) mourn [mR:n] v.哀悼, 忧伤
(11) emergency [i`m[:dVEnsi] n.紧急情况, 突然事件, 紧急事件
(12) tension [`tenFEn] n.紧张(状态), 不安
(13) press conference n.记者招待会
(1) submarine [`sQbmEri:n] n.潜水艇, 潜艇 adj.水下的, 海底的
(2) Dutch [`dQtF] adj.荷兰的
(3) demonstrate [`dem[nstreit] vt.示范, 证明, 论证
(4) craft [krB:ft] n.工艺, 手艺
(5) American Revolutionary War n.美国独立战争
(6) bomb [bCm] n.炸弹
(7) severely [si`vi[li] adv.严格地, 激烈地
(8) crew [krU:] n.全体人员, (工作)队
(9) America's Civil War n. 美国内战
(10) Confederate States n.（美国南北战争时的）南部邦联
(11) South Carolina n. 南卡罗来纳（美国）
(12) nuclear [`njU:kli[] adj.[核]核子的, 原子能的, 核的
(13) launch [lC:ntF] vt.使(船)下水
(14) Connecticut [kE`netik[t] n.（美国）康涅狄格
(1) release [ri`li:s] vt. 发表，发行
(2) professional [prE`feFEnl] adj.专业的, 职业的
(3) critic [`kritik] n.批评家, 评论家
(4) demonstrate [`demEnstreit] vt.示范, 证明, 论证
(5) dreamland [`dri:mlAnd] n.梦境, 睡觉, 梦乡
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