第十八期 4-1 (4/7)-英语听力

[00:00.00]Every person has his own special words and expressions [00:04.64]like the American expression "on the wagon". [00:08.12]It means a person who no longer drinks whisky, [00:11.41]beer or other kinds of alcoholic drinks. [00:14.73]The "wagon" is a water wagon. [00:17.02]In other words, a drinker has decided to change from alcohol to water. [00:22.17]An Oklahoma newspaper wrote about a man who had a history of heavy drinking [00:27.48]on America's Fourth of July holiday. [00:30.39]Said the newspaper, "We believed that his experience had lifted him onto the water wagon, [00:36.55]but he was even drunker the next Fourth of July." [00:39.61]In the early 1900s, many Americans joined in a campaign to make alcohol illegal in the United States.