州庆典将怀旧之情融入教育

State Fairs Combine Nostalgia¹ and Education

州庆典将怀旧之情融入教育

 

Mechanized carnival² attractions draw big crowds at the Maryland State Fair. But there is another side to this event. It is a scene that looks like it is right off the farm.

 

But it is actually part of a barnyard display at the Maryland State Fair, a yearly event that helps America's largely urban-dwelling population reconnect with its agrarian³ roots.

 

Guy Hohenhaus (a veterinarian working at the fair): "I think Fairs were originated⁴ hundreds of years ago in various forms and certainly the fair as we know it is about a hundred years old. It was a place for the agricultural community to get together and show off what they had done over the past year.

 

Dr. Hohenhaus is on duty at the fair's "Birth Center," a type of exhibit that has caught on at state fairs across the country in recent years.

 

Hohenhaus: It is something that has been going on nationally and at the state fairs and also at quite a few local fairs around the country and it's a way to bring people a little bit closer to the source of the food and the fiber⁵ products that we use every day and take for granted.

 

The veterinarian: They have it really tough. Not only are they the smallest when they are born, but a lot of times they lose out on the battle for a good teat at the udder. And they'll stay with their mom three or four weeks before they are weaned.

 

The hard facts of life on a farm are brought home at the birthing center, like the case of this piglet, too small to feed itself.

 

An attendant⁶: What we'll probably try to do with this one is maybe bottle feed it or bucket train it and see if we can help it out.

 

Farmland scenes like this have become ever less common across the United State. But it seems they will always be preserved at America's state fairs.

 

George Dwyer, VOA news, Maryland.

1 nostalgia   

n.怀乡病，留恋过去，怀旧

参考例句：

• He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth.也许是对年轻时幸福时光的怀恋影响了他。
• I was filled with nostalgia by hearing my favourite old song.我听到这首喜爱的旧歌，心中充满了怀旧之情。

2 carnival   

n.嘉年华会，狂欢，狂欢节，巡回表演

参考例句：

• I got some good shots of the carnival.我有几个狂欢节的精彩镜头。
• Our street puts on a carnival every year.我们街的居民每年举行一次嘉年华会。

3 agrarian   

adj.土地的，农村的，农业的

参考例句：

• People are leaving an agrarian way of life to go to the city.人们正在放弃农业生活方式而转向城市。
• This was a feature of agrarian development in Britain.这是大不列颠土地所有制发展的一个特征。

4 originated   

v.起源于，来自，产生( originate的过去式和过去分词 )；创造；创始；开创

参考例句：

• The disease is thought to have originated in the tropics. 这种疾病据说起源于热带地区。
• The art of portrait miniatures was originated in England. 微型画像艺术创始于英国。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 fiber   

n.纤维，纤维质

参考例句：

• The basic structural unit of yarn is the fiber.纤维是纱的基本结构单元。
• The material must be free of fiber clumps.这种材料必须无纤维块。

6 attendant   

n.随从，跟班，出席者，服务员；adj.伴随的，出席的，注意的，在场的

参考例句：

• She was interrupted by the entrance of an attendant.服务员进来，打断了她的话。
• We met the officer attendant on the general.我们见到了随从将军的副官。