VOA慢速英语2016--五月四日和你在一起

AS IT IS 2016-05-05 May The Fourth Be With You 五月四日和你在一起

People who love Star Wars movies do not need a reason to leave a photograph or message on social media.

On any given day, you might see Star Wars-related photos all over Facebook and Twitter. There might be a cat made to look like Darth Vader or a dog in what appears to be the clothing of a storm trooper.

Anytime a Star Wars video comes out online, people watch it. Look at the trailer for the next Star Wars movie, “Rogue One.” It came out in April. Just a month later, it has over 35 million views on YouTube.

Star Wars fans do not need a reason to celebrate. But every year they have a special day, anyway.

And that day is May 4!

Do you know why?

Perhaps the most famous saying from all of the Star Wars movies is “May the Force Be With You.”

On May 4, people have fun saying “May the Fourth Be With You.”

The two sayings sound nearly the same.

That is why May 4 is known as “Star Wars Day.” And the hashtag #MayThe4thBeWithYou is trending on Twitter. By Wednesday afternoon, that hashtag was used almost 600,000 times.

Many businesses hoping to promote their products used the hashtag. Volkswagen posted a photo of one of its famous VW buses as one of the AT-AT walkers from the 1980 film “The Empire Strikes Back.”

One Twitter user¹, Mish Lipman of England, wished everyone “Happy Star Wars Day, or as we call it, a standard day in our house.”

Stars Wars Day leads to all sorts of visual humor². Sports teams use photo editing³ software to make it look as if their players were in the movies. Perhaps a tennis player or golfer holds a light saber instead of a racquet or golf club.

But this photo, from London’s Heathrow Airport, may have been the best of the day.

It shows the famous Millennium⁴ Falcon⁵ spaceship sitting next to airplanes.

Words in This Story

software – n. the programs that run on a computer and perform certain functions

fan – n. a lover⁶ or supporter of something

promote – v. to support; to advertise

visual – adj. relating to seeing or to the eyes

1 user   

n.用户，使用者

参考例句：

• The company is the biggest user of oil.该公司是最大的石油用户。
• The umbrella keeps the rains off the user.雨伞使撑伞人免受雨淋。

2 humor   

n.(humour)幽默，诙谐

参考例句：

• He is distinguished for his sense of humor.他以其幽默感著称。
• American humor is founded largely on hyperbole.美式幽默主要以夸张为基础。

3 editing   

adj.编辑的

参考例句：

• The processing of data in random order,not subject to preliminary editing or sorting.未经预先编辑或分类，以任意次序对数据进行的处理的做法。

4 millennium   

n.一千年，千禧年；太平盛世

参考例句：

• The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.全世界都在倒计时迎接新千年的到来。
• We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.我们静候着时钟滴答走过千年的最后几秒钟。

5 falcon   

n.隼，猎鹰

参考例句：

• The falcon was twice his size with pouted feathers.鹰张开羽毛比两只鹰还大。
• The boys went hunting with their falcon.男孩子们带着猎鹰出去打猎了。

6 lover   

n.情人，恋人；爱好者

参考例句：

• Every lover sees a thousand graces in the beloved object.情人眼里出西施。
• Mr.Smith was a lover of poetry.史密斯先生是一名诗歌爱好者。