美国国家公共电台 NPR First Episode Of 'All Things Considered' Is Headed To Library Of Congress

 

DAVID GREENE, HOST:

Now let's consider something else here. Or maybe let's consider a few more things. Or actually, how about all the things? - which is what NPR's afternoon news show has tried to do for more than four and a half decades.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)

ROBERT CONLEY, BYLINE¹: From National Public Radio in Washington, I'm Robert Conley with All Things Considered.

(SOUNDBITE OF DAN VOEGELI'S "ALL THINGS CONSIDERED")

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

That's how the first broadcast of All Things Considered started on May 3, 1971. We're hearing it now because that broadcast is one of 25 recordings³ being added to the National Recording² Registry at the Library of Congress.

STEVE LEGGETT: The selection was meant to kind of highlight the diversity of America's recorded sound heritage.

GREENE: Steve Leggett helps run that registry, which has been preserving audio since 2002.

MARTIN: There's a lot of music in the registry - all kinds, from a Radiohead rock song to old field recordings of folk and traditional music. There are famous speeches, even a comedy album by George Carlin.

LEGGETT: We have made a big push the last few years to improve the preservation⁴ of radio programs. And All Things Considered and NPR has just had such a seminal⁵ importance, you know, in American culture, in politics and just keeping people informed the last 40 years plus.

GREENE: When All Things Considered launched in 1971, the news of the day was a massive Vietnam War protest in Washington, D.C. And host Robert Conley told listeners they would hear the news covered differently.

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CONLEY: Rather than pulling in reports from all over town, we thought we might try to take you to the event to get the feel, the texture⁶, the sort of day it's been.

JEFF KAMEN, BYLINE: And here come the police.

(SOUNDBITE OF MOTOR SCOOTER)

KAMEN: One demonstrator knocked down by a motor scooter policeman.

Sergeant⁷, excuse me. Jeff Kamen, National Public Radio - is that a technique, where the men actually try to drive their bikes into the demonstrators?

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE SERGEANT: No, it's no technique. We're trying to go down the road, and the people get in front. What are you going to do? You don't stop on a dime⁸.

GREENE: Taking you to the scene. That first broadcast was heard on about 90 public radio stations. Other topics considered that day include an interview with a former nurse who had become a drug addict⁹, a reading of World War I poems...

MARTIN: And a barber in Ames, Iowa, who shaved women's legs - 75 cents for the first leg, a quarter for the other. Those stories and more will be preserved at the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.

(SOUNDBITE OF DAN VOEGELI'S "ALL THINGS CONSIDERED")

1 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

2 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

3 recordings   

n.记录( recording的名词复数 )；录音；录像；唱片

参考例句：

• a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
• old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐

4 preservation   

n.保护，维护，保存，保留，保持

参考例句：

• The police are responsible for the preservation of law and order.警察负责维持法律与秩序。
• The picture is in an excellent state of preservation.这幅画保存得极为完好。

5 seminal   

adj.影响深远的；种子的

参考例句：

• The reforms have been a seminal event in the history of the NHS.这些改革已成为英国国民保健制度史上影响深远的一件大事。
• The emperor's importance as a seminal figure of history won't be diminished.做为一个开创性历史人物的重要性是不会减弱的。

6 texture   

n.(织物)质地；(材料)构造；结构；肌理

参考例句：

• We could feel the smooth texture of silk.我们能感觉出丝绸的光滑质地。
• Her skin has a fine texture.她的皮肤细腻。

7 sergeant   

n.警官，中士

参考例句：

• His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
• How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹？

8 dime   

n.（指美国、加拿大的钱币）一角

参考例句：

• A dime is a tenth of a dollar.一角银币是十分之一美元。
• The liberty torch is on the back of the dime.自由火炬在一角硬币的反面。

9 addict   

v.使沉溺；使上瘾；n.沉溺于不良嗜好的人

参考例句：

• He became gambling addict,and lost all his possessions.他习染上了赌博，最终输掉了全部家产。
• He assisted a drug addict to escape from drug but failed firstly.一开始他帮助一个吸毒者戒毒但失败了。