NPR邊聽邊練316：317年歷史的小提琴拍賣

以下段落是摘自新聞里的一些重要信息,并不是一個段落的聽寫。空內(nèi)信息可在本新聞中全部找到,大家可以根據(jù)這些信息復述新聞。

一、泛聽建議：

1、完整聽一遍，掌握大意。

2、繼續(xù)聽，特別注意關(guān)鍵信息。遇到相似的詞，寫下來。

A 317-year-old Stradivarius violin sold at a London auction today for $2,268,431. While far off the record, Larry Miller reports it _1_ this particular instrument might never be seen to her again.

今天，一把擁有317年歷史的斯特拉迪瓦里小提琴在倫敦拍賣行以226.8431萬美元的價格拍出。據(jù)拉里·米勒報道，由于拍賣結(jié)果不公開發(fā)表，有人擔心可能再也看不到這把小提琴了。

Bidding was described as hotly contested and fierce the focus of the attention, a 1696 Stradivarius violin that _2_ from an international soloist while she grabbed a bread at a London train station in 2010. The thief _3_ it to a bus driver for $140 who turned it down because his daughter already played the recorder. The violin then mysteriously _4_ three years later, still in excellent condition. Jason Price of Tarisio Auction House told the BBC why it struts a various command such a high price.

拍賣競爭激烈，成為了大家的關(guān)注焦點，這把1969年的斯特拉迪瓦里小提琴于2010年被盜，它的主人是一名國際獨奏家，當時正在倫敦的一個火車站買面包。小偷曾想以140美元的價格將這把小提琴賣給一名公交車司機，但是司機以女兒在學長笛為由拒絕了小偷。三年后這把小提琴神秘出現(xiàn)，仍然保持極佳的狀況。塔里西奧拍賣行的杰森·普萊斯接受BBC新聞的采訪時講述了這把小提琴能賣出如此高價格的原因。

"It sounds great, and it's a supply and demand issue. There are fewer and fewer of them. They are not making more of them."

“音質(zhì)很棒，而且這是一個供求問題。這類小提琴越來越少。已經(jīng)不再生產(chǎn)了。”

Around 600 violins made by Stradivarius remain in the world. For NPR News, I'm Larry Miller in London.

目前斯特拉迪瓦里小提琴存世量約為600把。NPR新聞，拉里·米勒倫敦報道。

For package shipper Fedex, some good news today, the company says its latest quarter profits were up 14%. That was in part on stronger margin in cost _5_. Even with an uptick, the results were still slightly behind analysts estimates.

今天，包裹托運商聯(lián)邦快遞公司有一些好消息，該公司表示最新一季的利潤上漲了14%。部分原因是降低成本帶來的高額利潤。雖然利潤小幅上漲，但結(jié)果仍然略低于分析師的預期。

詞匯解析：

1、off the record

非正式的;不得發(fā)表的;

eg. May I speak off the record?

我可以私下說說嗎，不要發(fā)表?

eg. At the end of the lunch, I said I had some off-the-record comments.

午餐快結(jié)束的時候，我說我有一些想私下談的看法。

eg. The President told the reporters his remarks were strictly off the record.

總統(tǒng)告訴記者們他的談話不得公開發(fā)表。

2、fierce

adj. 兇猛的;猛烈的;暴躁的

eg:They look like the teeth of some fierce animal.

它們看上去像是某種猛獸的牙齒。

參考答案：

1、was feared 2、had been stolen 3、offered

4、turned up 5、cutting