电视英语口语教材 19

[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 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 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 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 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.

[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 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 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