VOA常速英语:Fish, Hunt, Win in Missouri

短语讲解：

1. And although you may not think of fields and woods and streams as tourism magnets, we know a lot of people who pack up the family - or a group of friends - and head off to, say South Dakota to hunt pheasants, or Tennessee to go after trophy bass.

think of有…想法, 有…看法
例句：Dick thinks of himself as a genius in literature.
迪克自以为是个文学天才。
pack up 打包; 收拾
例句：Let's pack up and get ready to start at once.
让我们收拾好行李, 准备马上出发。

2. But when it comes to promoting their state as an outdoorsman’s - or woman’s - paradise, we have to hand it to the Midwest state of Missouri.

when it comes to当提到……；当谈到……；当涉及到……
例句：When it comes to cooking I know nothing.
说到做饭，我是一窍不通。

3. And Missouri’s Ozark Mountains are loaded with game.

be loaded with 装着…
例句：He is loaded with talent.
他很有才华。

4. The "First Turkey" or "Fish" program, it says, "helps turn such milestones into mementoes."

turn into (使)变成
例句：Her bitter experience has turned her into a stronger person.
痛苦的经历使她变得更坚强了。

5. The best, though - especially for scouts and summer campers - would be a "First Snipe Certificate." "Snipe hunts," in which camp counselors send kids into the scary woods at night with stones to bang together to attract the elusive snipe, and bags in which to bring it back alive, are a youth-camp tradition.

bring back带回(某人或某物); 还回(某物)
例句：On your way home from your aunt's, will you bring some coffee back?
你从姑母家回来时, 买点儿咖啡带回来好吗?

6. There is such a thing as a snipe; it’s a shorebird, and it IS hard to catch.

such … as像…一样，例如……之类的
例句：Such men as he (is) are rare now.
现在像他这样的人很少了。