[00:00.00]Lesson 45 democratic
第45课 民主的
[00:07.10]In democratic countries
在民主的国家里，
[00:10.91]any efforts to restrict freedom of the press are rightly condemned.
任何限制新闻自由的企图都理所当然地受到谴责。
[00:17.91]She can talk beautifully about democracy,
她讲民主可以讲得天花乱坠，
[00:23.66]but does not know how to live a democratic life.
可是却不知道怎么过民主生活。
[00:29.16]The company is run on democratic lines,
公司推行民主管理的方法，
[00:34.17]and all the staff are involved in making decisions.
所有的员工都参与决策。
[00:38.77]restrict
限制
[00:41.59]Mrs.Dumpling.on diet,restricted herself to four apple pies every meal.
汤圆太太在节食，限制自己每顿饭只吃四个苹果饼。
[00:49.47]The use of the drug is restricted.
这种药的使用受到限制。
[00:54.52]abuse
滥用
[00:56.99]However,this freedom can easily be abused.
然而，这种自由容易被滥用。
[01:02.32]He abused his car by not changing the oil,and now it needs major repairs.
他用车用得太狠，老不加油，现在车需要大修了。
[01:10.27]The committee abuses the power granted and gets rightfully dismissed.
委员会滥用了赋予他们的权利，理所当然地被解散了。
[01:17.49]contention
论点
[01:20.98]Acting on the contention that facts are sacred
记者按事实至上的论点行事，
[01:26.22]reporters can cause untold suffering to individuals
披露别人私生活的细节，
[01:32.52]pubilishing details about their private lives.
往往给当事人造成很大的痛苦。
[01:37.64]He listed Spain,Mexico,Russia and France to support his contention.
他又列举了西班牙、墨西哥、俄罗斯和法国支持他的论点。
[01:45.14]Direct tests on individual particles do not support these contentions.
对单个粒子所做的直接试验并不支持这些论点。
[01:52.61]untold
数不尽的，无限的
[01:55.16]In the Charter of the United Nations,the peoples express their determination
在联合国宪法章中，各国人民表示
[02:04.55]to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war
决心要使子孙后代
[02:10.90]which has brought untold sorrows to mankind.
不再遭受曾给人类带来无穷痛苦的战祸。
[02:16.31]They suffered untold terrors in the dark and huddled together for comfort.
他们遭受着黑暗中难以言传的种种恐怖，挤在一堆互相壮胆。
[02:23.60]South Dakota
南达科他州（美国）
[02:26.66]The family lived in Aberdean,a small town of 23000 inhabitants in South Dakota.
这户人家住在南达科他州的一个人口为23000的小镇阿拜丁。
[02:35.85]perpetual
永久的
[02:38.90]As the parents had five children,life was a perpetual struggle against poverty.
家里已有了5个孩子，全家人常年在贫困中挣扎。
[02:46.11]The wind and the water were carrying on their perpetual quarrel.
风和海水在进行它们那永无休止的争吵。
[02:52.66]She would be saved from burning only to be condemned to perpetual imprisonment.
她被免于火刑，得到的是终身监禁的判决。
[02:59.32]obscurity
默默无闻
[03:02.62]They would have continued to struggle against economic odds
他们会继续过紧巴巴的日子，
[03:08.17]and would have lived in obscurity.
默默无闻地活着。
[03:12.46]He moved to Argentina where he lived in obscurity.
他移居阿根廷，无声无息地过活。
[03:17.87]The man was a genius but hindered by the obscurity of his condition.
那个人是个天才，可是因为出身低微不能出头。
[03:24.36]quintuplet
五胞胎之一
[03:27.51]But they suddenly became the parents of quintuplets,
但是他们突然成了五胞胎的父母，
[03:32.86]four girls and a boy,an event which radically changed their lives.
四女一男，这件事彻底改变了他们的命运。
[03:40.41]Every one of the quintuplets are their darlings,
五胞胎个个是他们的心肝宝贝，
[03:45.61]but the mother especially dotes on the youngest.
不过作母亲的格外疼那个最小的。
[03:50.07]radically
彻底地，完全地
[03:53.33]His intereference radically changed the situation.
他的干预彻底改变了局势。
[03:58.53]I am radically against this plan.
这坚决反对这个计划。
[04:02.43]exclusive
独占的，独家的
[04:05.38]Newspapers and magazines
报纸和杂志
[04:09.28]offered the family huge sums for the exclusive rights to publish stories and photographs.
高价向他们购买文字，图片的独家报道权。
[04:17.25]The Times has been granted an exclusive interview.
时报获得独家用采访权。
[04:22.39]They think it's their exclusive privilege.
他们认为这是他们独家的特权。
[04:26.34]nursery
育婴室，保育室
[04:29.13]While the five babies were still quietly sleeping in oxygen tents in a hospital nursery,
五个婴儿在医院育婴房的氧气帐篷里安睡的时候，
[04:36.46]their parents were paying the price for fame.
他们的父母已经在为出名付出代价了。
[04:41.65]She picked orange-colored curtains for the nursery and azure ones for the study.
她为育婴房选了橙色的窗帘，为书房选了天蓝的。
[04:48.80]This is a well-known nursery rhyme.
这是一支大家都很熟悉的童谣。
[04:53.30]commercialization
商品化
[04:57.45]They had become the victims of commercialization,
他们成了商品化的受害者，
[05:02.05]for their names had acquired a market value.
因为他们的名字具有了市场价值。
[05:07.44]This used to be a quiet beach that few people knew about,
这是曾经是一片寂静的海滩，很少有人知晓
[05:13.10]but now commercialization has changed it into a flowery rug of hotels.
但是现在商品化把它变成了一块遍地旅店的花毯了。
[05:20.44]Hardly anyone can escape the influence of commercialization.
几乎没有人能逃脱商品化的影响。
[05:26.24]commodity
商品
[05:29.84]Instead of being five new family members,
这些孩子立即成了商品
[05:34.54]these children had immediately become a commodity.
而不是五个新的家庭成员。
[05:40.29]A bill of exchange is a commodity that is subject to rises and falls in value.
债券是一种商品，也有市价涨落。
[05:47.61]The country is heavily dependent on its export of agricultural commodities.
这个国家在很大程度上依赖农产品出口。