Episode 252: The Father of the GI Bill
AZ: The History of Arizona podcast

Episode 252: The Father of the GI Bill

B2中高级2026年3月30日33分钟

Arizona celebrated V-E and V-J Day along with the rest of the country. But as the veterans started coming home, it was an Arizona senator who helped lead the charge to make sure there was a place for them.

播放本集

打开播放器:完整文字稿,每个单词都可点击,附翻译和单词卡。

试一试:点任意单词

来自本集开头的真实句子,每个单词都标出了难度级别。

第 1 句,共 12 句 · 0:00

,

Marshall Trimble, who said that in the future, historians will probably divide Arizona's

点一个单词,用你的语言查看释义。

这些单词你认识吗?

本集中 8 个较难的单词。点一个查看释义,然后标记一下。

标记几个单词,我们会告诉你这一集是否适合你的水平。

这一集适合你吗?

B2

B2 · 中高级

能看懂电视新闻就会觉得轻松

A1 15%A2 28%B1 30%B2 23%C1 4%
  • 73% 的单词在 B1 或更简单的水平。
  • 每分钟 139 词:自然语速。
  • 整集共有 174 个较难的单词(B2 及以上)。

文字稿

本集开头部分。完整文字稿在播放器中。

0:00

Back in episode 233, I got us primed to talk about World War II by quoting State historian Marshall Trimble, who said that in the future, historians will probably divide Arizona's timeline into two parts, Pioneer history and the modern state, with World War II serving as the handy dividing line between the two. And ever since that episode, we have watched that dividing

0:38

line being drawn. At the end of the 1930s, Trimble told us Phoenix was basically still a countdown, surrounded by even smaller, more rural communities. But then the war came. Suddenly, thousands of Chinese British and American pilots were receiving their wings at Air Base as established in Arizona.

1:02

General George S. Patton was training soldiers and nurses in the Sanorn Desert. Many factoring springed the life as wartime industries chose to set up shop in the Grand Canyon State. Soldiers, Hermann Marines, incarcerated Japanese Americans, German POWs, politicians, and M. Merrinden resistance leaders all cross their stage at some point during the war years.

以上是开头部分。 本集其余部分(32 分钟)在播放器中:每个单词都可点击,附翻译、生词收藏和单词卡。

在播放器中继续

由音频自动生成,可能存在错误。 音频版权归其发布者所有,并从其订阅源播放。版权所有者可申请删除 — 版权与删除政策