电视英语口语教材 第十九课

 　　[00:00.00]Lesson 19

　　[00:01.07]第十九课
　　[00:02.14]NIGHTINGALE
　　[00:03.17]南丁格尔
　　[00:04.21]Florence Nightingale came from a rich family and was very pretty.
　　[00:07.60]弗罗伦斯·南丁格尔出身富有家庭，相貌俊俏。
　　[00:11.00]In her family,young girls usually spent their time going to parties until they married rich young men.
　　[00:15.05]在像她这样的家庭里，年轻女子先是把时间打发在舞上，然后嫁给富家子弟。
　　[00:19.10]But Florence found parties boring;she wanted to be a nurse.
　　[00:22.06]但是弗罗伦斯觉得舞会无聊；她想当护士。
　　[00:25.03]Finally,in 1850,when she was 30,her parents accepted her decision.So she went to study in a hospital in Germany.
　　[00:31.49]1850年她三十岁的时候，她父母终于接受了她的抉择。她这才得以到德意志的一所医院里学习。
　　[00:37.96]Then she was in charge of a nursing-home for women in London.
　　[00:40.36]后来她在伦敦负责一家妇女护理院。
　　[00:42.76]Soon she was asked to go to the Crimea to take charge of the wounded soldiers.
　　[00:46.55]不久就被派到克里米亚照顾伤员。
　　[00:50.34]The conditions in the Crimean hospital were terrible.Forty per cent of the patients died.
　　[00:54.56]克里米亚医院的条件非常糟糕。百分之四十的病人在医院里死去。
　　[00:58.78]Certain beds seemed fatal:soldiers died in them after two days.
　　[01:02.62]有些床位似乎是致命的：士兵的在床上呆两天就死去。
　　[01:06.46]Nightingale decided 1 that this was because of bad drains,and insisted that the government do something about it.
　　[01:10.67]南丁格尔认为是由于恶劣的排污状况引起的。她主张政府要设法改变这种状况。
　　[01:14.89]Workmen put in a proper drainage 2 system and supplied pure drinking water.
　　[01:17.82]工人安装了合适的排水装置，提供纯净的饮用水。
　　[01:20.74]The death rate dropped to two per cent.On her return to England people greeted Florence Nightingale as a heroine.
　　[01:25.60]死亡率下降到百分之二。当她返回英国时，人们把弗罗伦斯·南丁格尔作为女英雄来欢迎。
　　[01:30.46]She was an important force in the movement to reform hospitals and nursing in England.
　　[01:33.90]她是英国医院改革及护理运动中一个重要的推动力。
　　[01:37.33]By 1900 unsafe hospitals and ignorant 3 nurses were things of the past.
　　[01:40.69]到1900年，不保险的医院与无知识的护士都不存在了。
　　[01:44.05]AFTER THE TEST
　　[01:45.93]How did you do in yesterday’s test?
　　[01:49.71]Not very well,I’m afraid.I made a mistake in grammar and two spelling mistakes.I wasn’t careful enough.
　　[01:58.75]We all make mistakes.But we can learn from our mistakes,can’t we?
　　[02:04.60]How did you do?Did you get everything right?
　　[02:08.65]I didn’t make any mistakes,but my handwriting was poor.My teacher told me to pay more attention to that.
　　[02:18.29]THE SAHARA
　　[02:19.23]撒哈拉沙漠
　　[02:20.17]The Sahara is the largest desert in the world,1,000 miles from north to south and 3,000 miles from east to west.
　　[02:26.39]撒哈拉是世界上最大的沙漠，南北长100英里，东西长3000英里。
　　[02:32.61]But you mustn’t think of it as a "sea of sand".
　　[02:35.40]不过你可别以为它是一片"沙的海洋"。
　　[02:38.20]There are plains of hard sands and plateaus 4 with driep-up watercourses,the there are mountain ranges.
　　[02:42.76]这里有平坦的戈壁滩，有水道干涸了的高原，还有连绵不断的山岭。
　　[02:47.31]Most of the Sahara receives almost no rain at all,and so there are no trees,no flowers,no grass.
　　[02:52.17]撒哈拉大部分地区终年没有什么雨水，不生树木，不长花草。
　　[02:57.03]But there are places with plenty of underground water.
　　[02:59.49]不过有些地方地下水丰富。
　　[03:01.94]Where underground water comes to the surface,there are oases 5.
　　[03:04.91]地下水涌出的地方，就是片片绿洲。
　　[03:07.87]There you will find lots of date-palms,and people also grow millet 6 and vegetables.
　　[03:12.00]这里可以看到许多椰枣树，人们栽种小米和各种蔬菜。
　　[03:16.13]There the tired traveller takes a rest under the shady 7 trees and has a good drink of its clear well water.
　　[03:21.38]疲乏的旅游者可以在荫凉的树下休息，畅饮清澈的井水。
　　[03:26.63]The Sahara has a very important mineral-oil.This makes the Sahara rich and important.
　　[03:31.32]撒哈拉沙漠还蕴藏一种十分重要的矿产----石油----撒哈拉因此变得富饶，也变得重要了。
　　[03:36.01]rich
　　[03:37.13]富有的
　　[03:38.25]pretty
　　[03:39.79]美丽的
　　[03:41.34]marry
　　[03:43.10]结婚
　　[03:44.86]boring
　　[03:46.49]使人厌倦的
　　[03:48.13]accept
　　[03:49.50]接受
　　[03:50.87]decision
　　[03:52.50]决定
　　[03:54.14]Germany
　　[03:55.17]德国
　　[03:56.20]charge
　　[03:57.53]负责
　　[03:58.86]in charge of
　　[04:00.37]负责……
　　[04:01.87]Crimea
　　[04:03.07]克里米亚
　　[04:04.27]wounded
　　[04:06.47]受伤的
　　[04:08.66]soldier
　　[04:09.78]士兵
　　[04:10.91]condition
　　[04:12.75]条件
　　[04:14.59]terrible
　　[04:16.09]可怕的
　　[04:17.59]patient
　　[04:19.23]病人
　　[04:20.86]fatal
　　[04:22.28]致命的
　　[04:23.71]drain
　　[04:25.34]排水
　　[04:26.97]insist
　　[04:28.70]坚持认为
　　[04:30.42]government
　　[04:31.88]政府
　　[04:33.35]proper
　　[04:34.25]适当的
　　[04:35.15]drainage
　　[04:36.74]排水
　　[04:38.33]system
　　[04:39.71]系统
　　[04:41.08]supply
　　[04:42.32]供给
　　[04:43.56]pure
　　[04:45.28]纯净的
　　[04:47.01]drink
　　[04:48.51]喝
　　[04:50.01]death
　　[04:51.38]死亡
　　[04:52.75]rate
　　[04:54.35]率，比率
　　[04:55.94]drop
　　[04:57.40]降低
　　[04:58.87]greet
　　[05:00.16]接
　　[05:01.45]heroine
　　[05:02.88]女英雄
　　[05:04.30]force
　　[05:05.89]力量
　　[05:07.49]reform
　　[05:09.21]改革
　　[05:10.94]unsafe
　　[05:12.80]危险的
　　[05:14.67]ignorant
　　[05:16.47]无知的
　　[05:18.28]test
　　[05:19.61]测验
　　[05:20.94]well
　　[05:22.08]好
　　[05:23.21]mistake
　　[05:25.02]错误
　　[05:26.82]spelling
　　[05:28.41]拼法
　　[05:30.00]careful
　　[05:31.64]细心
　　[05:33.27]enough
　　[05:34.34]足够
　　[05:35.41]better
　　[05:36.31]较好
　　[05:37.21]than
　　[05:38.68]比
　　[05:40.14]before
　　[05:41.77]在…前
　　[05:43.41]progress
　　[05:44.78]进步
　　[05:46.15]to make progress
　　[05:48.55]有进步
　　[05:50.96]right
　　[05:52.42]正确的
　　[05:53.88]handwriting
　　[05:55.38]书法
　　[05:56.88]poor
　　[05:58.05]差
　　[05:59.21]attention
　　[06:01.10]注意
　　[06:03.00]to pay attention (to)
　　[06:05.62]注意