[VOA听写] 2008-03-12

作者: Hugh 在三月 12th, 2008 发表

欢迎来到“杂乱的书桌”每天准时为你带来的VOA听写，本期的慢速VOA是垃圾堆变葡萄园这一新闻的第一部分，标准VOA则是关于不发达地区的音乐教育的新闻的第二部分。还犹豫什么，赶紧和Hugh一起加入到学习英语，锻炼听写的队伍中来吧！

今天是听写的第10天。今天的慢速VOA中，整体意思的理解比较容易，相信听过一遍或者两遍就没什么问题了。里面主要的问题在于纽约州的很多地名，大家有心的话可以专门记一下，同时还有几个和葡萄酒相关的单词，也是不错的。今天的标准VOA当中，口音依然是一个和问题，和昨天的内容一样。不过今天的文章当中出现了不少的乐器名称，如果你以前没有专门学过，这次不妨记住几个。今天听写最大的感觉是，如果人名地名出现的多的话，或者乐器名称也包括在内，会打乱原本听写的节奏，这个问题是需要解决的，大不了先标记出来。

第10天的任务完成，相信看到这篇文章的时候，国内的朋友已经是在下午了，大家赶紧行动起来，开始今天的听写吧!

Title: Home of Closed Landfill Now Aims for Smell of Fine Wine (1 of 2)

Hints: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Tuscan Garden Vineyard Project,James Molinaro, Finger Lakes, Long Island

Key Points: borough, vineyard

Source: 下载地址（来自沪江论坛）

For years, most of the household waste collected in America's largest city went to a landfill on Stet island. Staten island is one of the five boroughs that form the city of New York. The others are the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. The landfill closed in 2001. Now local leaders hope Staten island will be known for something else – fine wines. Officials expect to break ground before summer for the Tuscan Gargen Vineyard Project. Wine grapes will be planted on most of one hectare in the Staten Island Botanical Garden. Borough president James Molinaro has set aside one and one half million dollars for the vineyard. Officials say the project will be educational and non-profit. It will demonstrate the process of growing grapes and making wine. It could bring visitors who now ride the Staten Island ferry from Manhattan just to see the Statue of Liberty in New York harbour. Organizer say the climate is similar to other wine making areas of New York State, like the Finger Lakes area and Long Island. For years, people have suggested that Staten Island should have a vineyard.

译文： 多年来，在美国最大的城市大多数生活垃圾都是通过运送到Staten island进行填埋处理的。Staten Island是组成纽约州的五个区之一。其余的区分别为：布朗克斯区、布鲁克林区、曼哈顿和皇后区。垃圾填埋场在2001年关闭了。现在当地的领导人希望Staten Island能够因为美味的葡萄酒或者其他缘由而被人们熟知。官方则希望Tuscan葡萄园项目在夏天来临前就能破土动工。这样，Staten Island植物园的1公顷的土地将大部分被用于种植酿酒用的葡萄。区长James Molinaro已经为葡萄园留出100-150万美金的资金。官方称此项目是非盈利的，并且是具有教育意义的。它将展示从葡萄生长到酿制成葡萄酒的全过程。它也将吸引那些从曼哈顿乘船到staten Island渡口来参观自由女神像的游客。组织者称Staten Island与纽约其它葡萄酒生产地如拇指湖区、长岛等地的气候相似。多年来，人们就认为Staten Island应该有一个葡萄园。

Title: Disadvantaged Student Near Cape Town Excel in Music Program (2 of 3)

Hints: Leanne（人名）, Oranjekloof（地名）, marimbas（木琴）, Djembe drumming, Mouth bow（乐器)

Key Points: racial segregation/apartheid

Source: 下载地址（来自沪江论坛）

Through this effort, Leanne is also trying to address the inequality of the past. In the days of racial segregation or apartheid, black school children were not allowed to study music or creative subjects. Leanne visited a number of Hout Bay school to show how teaching music would broaden the children's career choices. She even tried to convince a headmaster at the Oranjekloof primary school in Hout Bay. No one had ever taught music there, and he didn't believe the children will be interested or that Leanne would even return to teach it. She surprised all by coming back and arranging small classes. The Hout Bay music program's first break came when they got a private donation of 15 violins. The instruments were shared among the growing number of children. Their next big donation of musical instruments came from Germany. Leanne tell us about the growth of the project. “Today we have about 80 children, learning various instruments. We offer bass, cello, violin, and then we also do an African music program where we have incorporated marimbas and Djembe drumming and some of the other African instruments like Mouth bow and traditional instruments.”

译文：通过努力，Leanne也试图解决过去的不平等。在种族隔离的时代里，黑人学校的孩子被禁止学习音乐或者其他创造性的学科。Leanne走访了Hout Bay的很多学校，展示了音乐教育将怎样拓宽孩子的职业选择。她甚至试图说服Hout Bay的Oranjekloof小学的一位校长。但是没有人曾经在那里教过音乐，因此校长不相信孩子们会对音乐感兴趣，甚至不认为Leanne会回来教音乐。出人意料的是她回来了并安排了小班教学。Hout Bay音乐项目的第一次进展是在他们收到一份15架小提琴的私人捐助时。这些乐器在数量日益壮大的孩子中共享。第二笔乐器的大型捐助来自德国。Leanne跟我们谈了项目的发展。“如今，我们有大约80个孩子，他们学习各种各样的乐器。我们提供贝司、大提琴、小提琴。我们也有一个非洲音乐项目，该项目中我们将木琴、非洲手鼓和如口弓的其他一些非洲乐器和传统乐器混编在了一起。

也许大家注意到了，今天Hugh在听写的文章之后附上了译文，一方面来说看很多听写的人的经验说，最好在每次听写的时候要保证听写，翻译，总结三个步骤的进行，从听到写，从写再到翻译，都是有区别的，所以Hugh决定也开始在听写之后尝试翻译；另一方面，相信这样子对于看到这些文章的朋友可能更有帮助，不知道大家的感觉如何，希望能看到大家的留言！