大学英语-UncleSam-山姆大叔精品课件

1、Uncle SumEDITOR:赵海燕 张勇 邓维娇 李光亮 王秋秀Speaker:张晓蔚For nearly 100 years, this grand old personification of the United States has encouraged young men to go off and get killed in a war for the good of their country. But did you know that the image of Uncle Sam, first depicted in a U.S. Army poster in 1917,

2、 was based on a similar English recruitment poster created three years earlier? Our greatest American icon is nothing more than a cheap knock-off of some British guys named Lord Kitchener and John Bull. Nothing says “American independence” quite like a total rip off of an icon native to the country

3、we fought so hard to distance ourselves from. But the kicker is that Lord Kitchener was a real personhe was Englands War Secretary from 1914 to 1916. Wed like to give Uncle Sam the benefit of the doubt, but the fact of the matter is that real peopleeven dead peopletrump imaginary people every time.

4、For more than 170 years, Uncle Sams name has been used to evoke American identity, loyalty, and patriotism. No other image has been reproduced more often to sway us towards a common cause or belief. 对于拥有170多年，山姆大叔的名字已被用来唤起美国人的身份，忠诚和爱国精神。没有其他图像已被复制更经常地摇摆朝着一个共同的事业或信仰的我们。During the war of 1812, while n

5、orthern troops were headquartered near Troy, the Wilson brothers received a government contract to supply meat to the soldiers. Sam also began working as an army meat inspector. On all the Wilson brothers casks of meat, and on all other casks that passed his inspection, Sam stamped the initials U.S.

6、 Although intended to stand for United States, this caused some consternation because the more typical abbreviation at the time was U. States. 在1812年战争，北方军队总部附近被特洛伊，威尔逊兄弟收到了政府合同，供应肉食的士兵。山姆也开始作为一支军队肉类检查工作。在所有的威尔逊兄弟木桶肉，并通过了他的所有检验等木桶，山姆加盖缩写“美”虽然意在代表“美国”，这引起了一些惊愕，因为在当时较为典型的缩写是“美国的国家。”In 1961 the U.S. Co

7、ngress acknowledged what political cartoonists had known for years, that Uncle Sam was a national symbol. Congress passed a resolution saluting Uncle Sam Wilson of Troy, New York, as the progenitor of Americas National symbol of Uncle Sam. 美国国会在1961年承认了什么政治漫画家相识多年，这山姆大叔是国家的象征。国会通过一项决议，敬礼“作为美国的国家象征祖山

8、姆大叔山姆大叔威尔逊特洛伊，纽约。”山姆大叔(Uncle Sam) Uncle Sam is used to say that “America or the united states government in the united states, Britain, especially in the use of more. uncle Sam a nickname, the statue of liberty. Americans “Uncle Sam honest, hard-working and industrious as well as patriotism spirit a

9、s their pride and the quality. since the spread quickly. the first world war has given rise to the call for the youth of propaganda, popular. in 1961, the united states congress officially recognized uncle Sam in the united nations.Cartoon uncle sam1830s, an American cartoonist had a picture, “Uncle

10、 Sam in a long white hair, with a goatee, the star of the priests, dressed in red, white and blue striped trousers three color tuxedo and the united states pattern of stars and stripes (the united states is stars and stripes design） was a tall man. “Uncle Sam the image is by many Americans. in 1961, the united states congress to finally adopted a resolution to confirm uncle Sam as a symbol of the united stat