[00:00.00]no the voa special english program
[00:05.00]words and their stories
[00:07.97]green
[00:09.52]is an important color in nature
[00:13.30]it is the color of grass
[00:15.87]and leaves on trees
[00:18.47]it is also the color of most growing plants
[00:23.80]some times
[00:26.07]the word green means young
[00:29.45]fresh
[00:30.42]and growing
[00:32.15]some times it describe something that is not yet ripe or finished
[00:39.77]for example
[00:42.10]a green horne is some one who has no experience
[00:47.17]who is new to a situation
[00:50.52]in the fifty century
[00:53.47]a green horne was young cow or ox
[00:57.22]who's horns had not yeaht developed
[01:00.70]a century or so later
[01:03.85]a green horn was a soldier
[01:06.45]who had not yeat had any experience in battle
[01:10.92]by the eightieth century
[01:14.20]a green horn had the mean it has today
[01:18.05]a person who is new in a job
[01:22.27]about one hundred years ago
[01:26.17]green horn was a popular expression in the american west
[01:31.62]old timer use it to describe of a men who has just arrived
[01:37.47]from one of the big cities back east
[01:41.27]the green horn lack the skills he would need to live in the hard rough country
[01:49.47]someone who has the ability to grow plans well
[01:54.90]is sad to have
[01:56.52]a green thumb
[01:58.82]the expression comes from the early ninteen hundreds
[02:04.10]a person was a green thumb
[02:07.45]seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well
[02:14.00]you might say that the woman next door has a green thumb
[02:18.85]if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died
[02:25.17]the green revolution is the name given some years ago
[02:30.32]to the development of new kinds of rice
[02:33.52]and other grains
[02:35.62]the new plants produced much large crops
[02:40.52]the green revolutions was was the result of hard work by agricultural of scientist
[02:47.35]who had green thumbs
[02:50.72]green is also to the color used to described powerful emotion jealousy
[02:58.65]the green eye monster is not a frightening creature from out of space
[03:04.77]it is an expression used about four hundred years ago
[03:09.50]by british writer william shakspeare
[03:12.90]in his play of othello
[03:15.67]it describes
[03:17.82]the unpreasant feeling a person has
[03:20.82]when someone has some thing her wants
[03:24.25]a young man
[03:26.10]may suffer from the green eye monster
[03:28.75]if his girl friend begins going out with some else
[03:33.55]or that green eye monster
[03:36.40]may affect your friend
[03:38.22]if you get pay raise
[03:40.22]and she does not
[03:42.92]in most place in the world
[03:46.32]a green light is a sign to move ahead
[03:50.55]a green light on the traffic signal
[03:53.77]means you car can contiue on
[03:57.25]in every day speech
[03:59.52]a green like means approval to continue with a project
[04:04.40]we want you to know
[04:06.90]we have a green light to continue the ?series next week
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