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Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories.
现在，美国之音学习英语节目“单词及其故事”。
Today we talk about a color found all throughout nature – green!
今天我们谈论一种在自然界中随处可见的颜色——绿色！
Green is also very common in American English. Let’s hear Warren Scheer read a story about these colorful expressions!
绿色在美式英语中也很常见。 让我们听沃伦·谢尔读一个关于这些丰富多彩的表情的故事！
Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is also the color of most growing plants.
绿色是自然界中一种重要的颜色。 它是草和树上叶子的颜色。 它也是大多数生长植物的颜色。
Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet ripe or finished.
有时，绿色这个词意味着年轻、新鲜和成长。 有时，它描述尚未成熟或完成的事物。
For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed. A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in battle. By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today - a person who is new in a job.
例如，新手是指没有经验、对某种情况不熟悉的人。 在十五世纪，“greenhorn”是指角尚未发育的小母牛或公牛。 大约一个世纪后，“greenhorn”是指还没有任何战斗经验的士兵。 到了十八世纪，“greenhorn”就具有了今天的含义——新入职的人。
About one hundred years ago, greenhorn was a popular expression in the American west. Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east. The greenhorn lacked the skills he would need to live in the hard, rough country.
大约一百年前，“greenhorn”在美国西部是一个流行的表达方式。 老人们用它来形容一个刚从东部大城市来到这里的人。 这位新手缺乏在艰苦、崎岖的国家生活所需的技能。
Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early 1900s.
据说，有能力种植植物的人具有园艺天赋。 这个表达来自 1900 年代初期。
A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.
一个园艺高手似乎有一种魔力，可以让植物生长得又快又好。 你可能会说，如果隔壁的女人的花园在你的植物死后很长时间仍然继续生长，那么她就是园艺高手。
The Green Revolution is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs.
绿色革命是几年前对新型稻米和其他谷物开发的称呼。 新植物的产量要大得多。 绿色革命是具有园艺天赋的农业科学家辛勤工作的结果。
Green is also the color used to describe the powerful emotion, jealousy. The green-eyed monster is not a frightening creature from outer space. It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play "Othello." It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something he wants.
绿色也是用来形容强烈的情感——嫉妒的颜色。 绿眼怪物并不是来自外太空的可怕生物。 这是大约四百年前英国作家威廉·莎士比亚在他的戏剧《奥赛罗》中使用的表达方式。 它描述了当某人拥有他想要的东西时一个人所产生的不愉快的感觉。
A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else. Or, that green-eyed monster may affect your friend if you get a pay raise and she does not. In most places in the world, a green light is a sign to move ahead.
如果一个年轻人的女朋友开始和别人约会，他可能会患上绿眼怪物。 或者，如果你加薪而你的朋友却没有加薪，那么那个绿眼睛的怪物可能会影响你的朋友。 在世界上大多数地方，绿灯是前进的标志。
A green light on a traffic signal means your car can continue on. In everyday speech, a green light means approval to continue with a project. We want you to know we have a green light to continue this series next week. And that's all the time we have for this Words and Their Stories.
交通信号灯亮起意味着您的汽车可以继续行驶。 在日常用语中，绿灯意味着批准继续进行项目。 我们想让您知道，我们已经批准下周继续这个系列。 这就是我们阅读《言语及其故事》的所有时间。
Don't forget to tune in again for another story about American English expressions.
不要忘记再次收听另一个有关美式英语表达的故事。
Marilyn Christiano wrote this program.
玛丽莲·克里斯蒂安诺编写了这个程序。
Warren Scheer and Anna Matteo narrated.
沃伦·谢尔和安娜·马特奥担任旁白。
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