新概念英语第三册 less45_new

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[00:05.30]新闻报道的威力
[00:10.61]Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
[00:15.78]听录音,然后回答以下问题.
[00:20.95]Does the writer think the parents
[00:23.08]作者认为父母
[00:25.21]were lucky or unlucky to gain prosperity in this way，why?
[00:32.14]以这种方式而出名是幸运还是不幸?
[00:39.08]In democratic countries
[00:41.21]在民主国家里,
[00:43.34]any efforts to restrict the freedom of the press are rightly condemned
[00:46.62]任何限制新闻自由的企图都理所当然地受到谴责.
[00:49.89]However,this freedom can easily be abused.
[00:52.60]然而,这种自由很容易被滥用.
[00:55.30]Stories about people
[00:56.99]常人轶事
[00:58.67]often attract far more public attention than political events
[01:01.54]往往比政治事件更能引起公众注意.
[01:04.42]Though we may enjoy reading about the lives of others,
[01:06.87]我们都喜欢看关于别人生活的报道,
[01:09.33]it is extremely doubtful
[01:11.31]但难说的是：
[01:13.30]whether we would equally enjoy reading about ourselves.
[01:15.87]是否同样喜欢看关于自己生活的报道
[01:18.45]Acting on the contention that facts are sacred,
[01:21.16]记者按事实至上的论点行事,
[01:23.88]reporters can cause untold suffering to individuals
[01:26.66]有些记者报道会给当事人造成极大的痛苦,
[01:29.44]by publishing details about their private lives.
[01:31.92]原因是他们发表了有关别人私生活的细节.
[01:34.41]Newspapers exert such tremendous influence
[01:36.98]新闻具有巨大的威力,
[01:39.55]that they can not only bring about major changes to the lives of ordinary people
[01:42.83]它们不仅可以给寻常人家的生活带来重大的变化,
[01:46.11]but can even overthrow a government.
[01:48.19]甚至还能推翻一个政府.
[01:50.26]The story of a poor family that acquired fame and fortune overnight,
[01:53.38]下面这户穷人一夜之间出名发财的故事,
[01:56.51]dramatically illustrates the power of the press.
[01:58.88]戏剧性地说明了新闻报道的威力.
[02:01.26]The family lived in Aberdeen,
[02:03.30]这户人家住在阿拜丁.
[02:05.34]a small town of 23,000 inhabitants in South Dakota.
[02:08.46]在南达科他州一个人口为23,000的小镇上
[02:11.58]As the parents had five children,
[02:13.80]家里已有5个孩子,
[02:16.02]life was a perpetual struggle against poverty.
[02:18.44]全家人常年在贫困中挣扎
[02:20.85]They were expecting their sixth child
[02:22.97]第6个孩子即将问世,
[02:25.08]and were faced with even more pressing economic problems
[02:27.71]他们面临着更为严峻的经济问题.
[02:30.33]If they had only had one more child,the fact would have passed unnoticed
[02:33.57]如果他们只是添了1个孩子,这件事本来就不会引起任何人的注意
[02:36.81]They would have continued to struggle against economic odds
[02:39.54]这家人会继续为克服经济上的拮据而奋斗,
[02:42.27]and would have lived in obscurity.
[02:44.10]并默默无闻地活下去.
[02:45.93]But they suddenly became the parents of quintuplets,four girls and a boy
[02:49.56]但是他们出人意料地生了个五胞胎,4女1男,
[02:53.19]an event which radically changed their lives.
[02:55.71]这事使他们的生活发生了根本的变化.
[02:58.23]The day after the birth of the five children,
[03:00.52]五胞胎降生第二天,
[03:02.80]an aeroplane arrived in Aberdeen bringing sixty reporters and photographers
[03:06.68]一架飞机飞抵阿拜丁,随机带来60名记者与摄影师
[03:10.56]The rise to fame was swift.
[03:12.44]这一家迅速出了名.
[03:14.32]Television cameras and newspapers carried the news to everyone in the country
[03:17.85]电视摄像机和报纸把消息传送到全国.
[03:21.38]Newspapers and magazines offered the family huge sums
[03:24.40]报纸、杂志出高价
[03:27.41]for the exclusive rights to publish stories and photographs
[03:30.19]向他们购买文字、图片的独家报道权.
[03:32.98]Gifts poured in not only from unknown people,
[03:35.55]不但素昧平生的人寄来了大量的礼物,
[03:38.12]but from baby food and soap manufacturers
[03:40.50]而且婴儿的食品、肥皂制造厂商
[03:42.88]who wished to advertise their products.
[03:45.06]为了替自己产品做广告也寄来了大量的礼物
[03:47.24]The old farmhouse the family lived in was to be replaced by a new $500,000 home
[03:51.42]这家人住的旧农舍将由一座价值50万美元的新住宅所取代