VOA慢速英语2012.11.15
[audio]http://sound.yywz123.com/tingbbs/voa/voa20121115.mp3[/audio]A leatherneck or a grunt do not sound like nice names to call someone. Yet men and women who serve in the United States armed forces are proud of those names. And if you think they sound strange, consider doughboy and GI Joe. After the American Civil War in the eighteen sixties, a writer in a publication called Beadle's Monthly used the word doughboy to describe Civil War soldiers.Leatherneck(海军陆战队员)或grunt(兽人步兵)听起来都不像是一个对他人的合适称呼,然而美军服役人员都引以为傲.如果你认为这些名称听上去很怪,那就想想步兵(doughboy)和特种部队(GI Joe)这两个名称吧.19世纪60年代美国内战之后,一家名为Beadle\'s Monthly刊物的作者使用doughboy这个词来称呼美国内战中的士兵.
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