VOA标准英语2010年-Website of the Week — Martin Luther

Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative¹ online destinations.

On Monday [18 January], Americans observe the annual holiday honoring slain² civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. King's widow, Coretta Scott King, chose Stanford University Professor Clayborne Carson to edit her husband's papers for publication.

Those many volumes of speeches, letters, sermons, and other writings are really intended for a scholarly audience, but many of King's writings are now available to a wider audience at our Website of the Week. 

"And now, hundreds and even thousands of documents are available on our website, and people throughout the world can get access to information that just 20 years ago was only available to a handful of researchers. So I think that's a major breakthrough and a truly exciting development," says history professor Clayborne Carson.

Carson is the editor of the Martin Luther King papers, online at KingPapers.org. While the published books will mostly end up in university libraries, Carson says the King papers website is designed for a more general audience, so, for example, young people can learn about Dr. King.

"We try to make available those documents that have particular interest to a broader range of people, particularly to teachers and to students in the classroom."

Using its documents, the King Papers project has developed a set of lessons called the Liberation Curriculum, designed to teach about the values of social justice and non-violence that Dr. King championed in his lifetime.

"They can learn about one of the times in history where ordinary people, including many people their own age, changed the course of history."

Martin Luther King is remembered not only as a great civil rights leader but also as an orator³ of prodigious⁴ skill. On KingPapers.org you can read and listen to excerpts⁵ of some of Dr. King's great speeches and sermons.

The King Papers project is part of Stanford University's Martin Luther King Institute, and the website also includes the King Online Encyclopedia⁶ and a chronology of Dr. King's life.

It's all there at KingPapers.org, or visit our site, VOAnews.com, for the link to this and hundreds of other Websites of the Week.
 

1 innovative   

adj.革新的，新颖的，富有革新精神的

参考例句：

• Discover an innovative way of marketing.发现一个创新的营销方式。
• He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。

2 slain   

杀死，宰杀，杀戮( slay的过去分词 )； (slay的过去分词)

参考例句：

• The soldiers slain in the battle were burried that night. 在那天夜晚埋葬了在战斗中牺牲了的战士。
• His boy was dead, slain by the hand of the false Amulius. 他的儿子被奸诈的阿缪利乌斯杀死了。

3 orator   

n.演说者，演讲者，雄辩家

参考例句：

• He was so eloquent that he cut down the finest orator.他能言善辩，胜过最好的演说家。
• The orator gestured vigorously while speaking.这位演讲者讲话时用力地做手势。

4 prodigious   

adj.惊人的，奇妙的；异常的；巨大的；庞大的

参考例句：

• This business generates cash in prodigious amounts.这种业务收益丰厚。
• He impressed all who met him with his prodigious memory.他惊人的记忆力让所有见过他的人都印象深刻。

5 excerpts   

n.摘录，摘要( excerpt的名词复数 )；节选（音乐，电影）片段

参考例句：

• Some excerpts from a Renaissance mass are spatchcocked into Gluck's pallid Don Juan music. 一些文艺复光时期的弥撒的选节被不适当地加入到了格鲁克平淡无味的唐璜音乐中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He is editing together excerpts of some of his films. 他正在将自己制作的一些电影的片断进行剪辑合成。 来自辞典例句

6 encyclopedia   

n.百科全书

参考例句：

• The encyclopedia fell to the floor with a thud.那本百科全书砰的一声掉到地上。
• Geoff is a walking encyclopedia.He knows about everything.杰夫是个活百科全书，他什么都懂。