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《大学英语B》统考重点精讲2-阅读理解
Passage 1
There are stories about two U. S. presidents, Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, which attempt to explain the American English term OK. We don't know if either story is true, but they are both interesting.
这是关于两个美国总统:安德鲁. 杰费逊和马丁. 范布郎的故事,,但是它们都很有趣.
The first explanation is based on the fact that President Jackson had very little education. In fact, he had difficulty reading and writing. When important papers came to Jackson, he tried to read them and then had his assistants explain what they said. If he approved of a paper, he would write "all correct" on it. The problem was that he didn't know how to spell, so what he really wrote was "ol korekt". After a while, he shortened that term to "OK".
, ,,他会写上”都正确”.问题是他不知道如何拼写,因此他写的实际是”ol korekt”.不久,他就把它缩短为OK.
The second explanation is based on the place where President Van Buren was born, Kinderhook, New York. Van Buren's friends organized a club to help him become President. They called the club the Old Kinderhook Club, and anyone who supported Van Buren was called "OK".
第二个故事是关于范布郎总统的出生地纽约的Kinderhook而来的. ”the Old Kinderhook Club”,而且每个支持范布郎总统的人都叫OK.
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