VOA慢速英语2011.11.29
[audio]http://sound.yywz123.com/tingbbs/voa/voa20111129.mp3[/audio]The expression by the grapevine is more than one hundred years old.
通过小道消息（by the grapevine）这个短语已有100多年历史。
The American inventor, Samuel F. Morse, is largely responsible for the birth of the expression. Among others, he experimented with the idea of telegraphy – sending messages over a wire by electricity. When Morse finally completed his telegraphic instrument, he went before Congress to show that it worked. He sent a message over a wire from Washington to Baltimore. The message was: “What hath God wrought?” This was on May twenty-fourth, eighteen forty-four.
美国发明家塞缪尔.摩尔斯，对这个短语的产生的负主要责任。其中，他进行了电报试验——通过电缆传送信息。当摩尔斯最终完成了他的电报仪器时，他前往国会展示了其有效。他通过电缆从华盛顿发了一条消息到巴尔的摩。消息内容是：上帝创造了什么？这发生在1844年5月24日。
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**** Hidden Message ***** Quickly, companies began to built telegraph lines from one place to another. Men everywhere seem to be putting up pours with stright of wires for carrying telegraph messages.The workmanship was poor, and the wire were not put of stright. The expression by the grapevine is more than one hundred years old. Tha American ?? is largely responsible for the birth of the expression, among others, he experimented with the idea of telegraphy, sending messages over a wire by electricity. When Moss finaly completed his telegraphic instrument, he went before Congress to show that it worked. He sent a message over a wire from Washington to ??. The message was what have god wrote, this was on May 24th 1844.
Quickly, companies began to build telegraphy lines from one place to another, mean everywhere seem to be putting up powers with stri? of wire for carrying telegraphic messages, the workman shipped with power and the wire's put up straight.
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