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发表于 2008-4-8 19:27
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now the voa special english program "american stories".
Our story today is called "on the road",it was written by (an) american reporter charles kuralt .it is from his book called "a life on the road"
for many years charles kuralt travelled across the united
states,telling interesting stories about americans.his stories were
broadcasted on the cbs television network,later some were published in
books.here is Shep O'Neal with today story "on the road".
I had the somewhat unrealistic idea that I would find interesting stories at every crossroads throughout the american countryside.so camera man,soudnman and I started out with great hope from new york city.
For a few rainy days,we drove throuth the small towns of new england,the northeast corner of the united states.we drove aimlessly,without one idea in our heads,I began to get nervous,wondering if an idea would ever come.
Then the sun came out and the wind started to blow.and the bright autumn leaves shook and fell off the trees,yellow and red and gold rained
down all round us.In every town,children were playing in hills of
leaves. We got the camera out and did our first story about how pretty
it all was.
As a news reporter,I was used to going fast and working hard.These kinds of stories however seemed to work best when I went slow and took it easy.When I finally shook off the sense of speed of newsman,I did not have to worry about finding stories any longer,they found me.
In Westerville Ohio,I met professor john franklin smith ,he taught speech (and) dramma and Otterbein college
until he was 70 years old.then the school rules said he had to
retire,he could not imagine leaving the students behind.so when he was
forced to retire,he just kept working at the college ,he had continued to work for 15 years as a cleaning man in the gymnasium, during my years as a professor,he said,I would walk through the gym
and see the men cleaning the floor.I knew what a mop was and what a bucket was , It was hard work for me at first,but I got used to it,it is necessary to work.
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