【词汇大师】时过境迁，第一修正案不变（1/2）

英语自学网

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时代的车轮滚滚向前，有哪些东西给人们保留，成为文化的永恒呢？
TIPS
本篇对话中，主持人的对话不需要听写，只需听写嘉宾的话
主持人对话① "I mean it's forty-five words long. I actually printed out a copy of it here and -- "
主持人对话②"Yeah, well, it looks like I think I've got my math right here. It says, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.' That's a lot."
主持人的话③"Avi just read to us the First Amendment. Now, those words don't change, but new meanings come into it. How has how we talk about the First Amendment changed?"
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Bill of Rights
metaphor

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"It's one of the amendments in the original Bill of Rights that we know the most about. It seems that the colonists were most exercised, you might say, about questions of freedom of expression or speech, as they talked about it; of conscience and worship; and of the right to assemble and petition their government for right of redress. We hear about that part of it less often today."
"You counted."
"Indeed, it's quite a mouthful. I'm glad you brought that up. And, you know, it's almost as though somebody tried to squeeze everything that was on the top of their minds that they found important that day, into a single phrase."
"Here is one example I use in the book. In about the, I guess, immediate post-World War Two period, you have judges on the Supreme Court talking about 'the wall of separation between church and state.' It's really a metaphor. It's a boundary metaphor that suggests, at least how it was used initially, that we're better off if there is a kind of fence making good neighbors between people who believe in one kind of god and those who believe in another kind of god, or those who believe in no kind of god at all.”