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爱德华·博克:爱德华·博克自传·补录 597
爱德华·博克《爱德华·博克自传》· The Americanization of Edward Bok · 领导
The next number of his magazine presented a graphic picture of the Horseshoe Falls as they were and the same Falls as they would be if more water was allowed to be taken for power: a barren coal-pile with a tiny rivulet of water trickling down its sides. The editorial asked whether the American women were going to allow this? If not, each, if an American, should write to the President, and, if a Canadian, to Earl Grey, then Governor-General of Canada. Very soon after the magazine had reached its subscribers' hands, the letters began to reach the White House; not by dozens, as the President's secretary wrote to Bok, but by the hundreds and then by the thousands. "Is there any way to turn this spigot off?" telegraphed the President's secretary. "We are really being inundated."
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定位:Additional excerpt 597 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
白话
下一期杂志登出对比图:马蹄瀑布现在的样子,和若允许更多水被引去发电后的样子——只剩一堆荒煤,细流从两侧淌下。社论问:美国女性会允许这样吗?若不允许,美国读者就写信给总统,加拿大读者写信给加拿大总督格雷伯爵。杂志一到订户手里,信就涌向白宫;总统秘书告诉博克,不是几十封,而是几百封、几千封。秘书发电报问:“有没有办法关掉这个水龙头?我们真被淹没了。”这说明,把抽象议题变成直观画面,再给出明确收信人,普通人就能形成排山倒海的民意。
上下文
博克用杂志发动读者,就尼亚加拉瀑布保护问题向政要写信施压。
今日一问
你能把关心的议题做成一张让人一看就懂的对比图,并告诉读者具体该写给谁吗?
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