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1、高中英语 VOA慢速英语美国万花筒第29课（文本）素材英语翻议讲解：1.allowance n.津贴, 补助, 零用钱，补贴 例句：The pension includes an allowance of fifty pounds for traffic expenditures. 年金中包括50镑交通费补贴。 Government officials who travel on business are given traveling allowances. 因公出差的政府官员享有出差补贴。2.donate vt.vi.（尤指向慈善机构）捐赠，赠送 例句：He donated to canc
2、er research. 他捐款支持癌症的研究工作。 They used to donate large sum of money to the Red Cross every year. 他们过去每年都向红十字会捐献大笔的钱。3.raise v.升起,举起,唤起,提高,使出现,使复活,提出,筹集；养育例句：How were they going to raise enough money for it? 他们怎样来为此筹集足够的资金呢?4.predictable adj.可预言预报的,可预见的,可预料的 例句：a predictable disaster 可以预言的灾祸 Their acti
3、ons follow a very predictable pattern. 他们的行为遵循一个十分容易预测的模式。1.At Jordan Catholic School in Rock Island, Illinois, students set up a money supply for Haiti. set up建立，建造, 创立, 竖立 例句：Plenty of foreign firms have set up factories here. 很多外国公司已在这里开办工厂。 A monument was set up as a memorial to the dead soldier
4、s. 为阵亡将士立了一个纪念碑。准备; 安排 例句：Will you set up the drinks while I look after the party food? 你准备饮料, 我来料理宴会食品好吗?2.Harry Covert says the key to re-building the school, and all of Haiti, is to make sure the work is done right. make sure把事情弄清楚, 核实或查明某事物 例句：Go and make sure of the place and time. 去把时间和地点弄清楚。设
5、法确保出现某事物 例句：We and our friends will make sure of that. 我们和我们的朋友要确保这一点。英语听力原文：DOUG JOHNSON:Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.(MUSIC)Im Doug Johnson.Today on our program, we listen to music from some of this weeks Grammy winners .And we tell about the teams competing in the championshi
6、p game of American football .But first, we talk about some small groups and individuals in the United States who are helping the people of Haiti.Help for HaitiThe International Red Cross, MercyCorps and Doctors without Borders are big aid organizations helping the people of Haiti after the earthquak
7、e last month.In the United States, many people are also giving their time and energy to collect money and goods for the earthquake victims. Faith Lapidus tells about some of these projects.FAITH LAPIDUS:At Jordan Catholic School in Rock Island, Illinois, students set up a money supply for Haiti. The
8、 money came mostly from the weekly pay the children get from their parents for good behavior or work around the house. Some children who do not get such allowances found money from other sources. For example, some sixth graders made and sold jewelry.Volunteers deliver donation for Haiti earthquake s
9、urvivors at a drop-off point in Hialeah Gardens, FloridaSandy Carlsten is the assistant principal at the school. Miz Carlsten set up a big glass container in the front office of the school. She sent letters asking the children to donate what they could.Miz Carlsten says the children loved to watch t
10、he big glass jar fill up quickly. She found an envelope in the jar with the message: I hope this money will help you and your family in these rough times.Sandy Carlsten says the children raised more than one thousand four hundred fifty dollars. They are giving it to Catholic Relief Services to help
11、the people of Haiti. She says sharing and caring for others is a big part of Catholic school education.Even victims who were not seriously hurt in the earthquake January twelfth are in need of the most basic supplies. College students in Sierra Vista, Arizona are trying to help meet those needs. The
12、 Cochise College Social Concerns Club has organized a campaign to collect simple medical care equipment and personal cleanliness supplies.In Virginia, employees of the Alexandria Sheriffs Office donated seven thousand dollars to help school children in Haiti. Harry Covert is the spokesman for the sh
13、eriffs office. He is also a leader of a humanitarian aid organization that has been supporting a school in Haiti for years. The school was destroyed in the earthquake but all one hundred fifty students survived.Super BowlLast week we answered a listener question about Americans favorite winter sport
14、 to watch. Experts say American professional football is most popular. Sunday is the most important day for football fans. The National Football League holds its championship game.The New Orleans Saints from Louisiana will play the Indianapolis Colts from Indiana in Super Bowl Forty-Four. They will
15、play at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. This is the home stadium of the Miami Dolphins.New Orleans Saints players exercising Thursday in FloridaGregg Easterbrook writes a weekly piece called Tuesday Morning Quarterback for E.S.P.N.com. He expects this Super Bowl to be an especially excit
16、ing one. He notes the very different styles of the competing teams. He writes that the Colts are very careful, well organized and predictable players. But, New Orleans, he writes, is like watching an outdoor cocktail party play football. The team is wild, fun and loves to use trick plays.The Super Bowl is historic for the New Orleans Saints. The team was established in nineteen sixty-seven. But it has never made
