美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-04-13

 A champion of freedom, a pioneering leader,a woman of greatness, that's how some world leaders described Margret Thatcher¹.Former British Prime Minister died yesterday after she had a stroke.

 

We lost a great leader, a great primeminister, and a Great Britain. Margret Thatcher didn't just lead our country.She saved our country. 

 

Thatcher served as Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. She was the first and is still the only woman to lead the British government. 

 

Was the most fascinating time of my life?And there were gripping years. We sorted out the economy. People came to have a highest standard of living. A real enterprise economy. We then saw the end of the Cold War. There was fascinating event after event after event. 

 

Thatcher was sometimes known as the Iron Lady because of her personal and political toughness. Her policies, especially some economic ones, earned her support and critism from British people. 

 

One of her constant allies was the United States. Thatcher and American President, Ronald Reagon, worked together on many global issues. That included the Cold War against the communist Soviet² Union which Thatcher helped end. Tha cher had suffered from medical issues in recent years. She was 87 years old.

 

President Obama visited Connecticutyesterday, went to talk about guns. Connecticut just passed new gun laws, some sort of the strictest gun laws in the United States. The U.S. Senate is set todebate the issue of guns. One part of the discussion is background checks for people who want to buy guns. 

 

I'm hopeful that we can get something on background checks. 90% of Americans are for background checks. 

 

I have to do with the reality as the government of the State Texas. And universal background checks is not going tosave one life...

 

All right next up today. Never again is the motto of Holocaust³ Remembrance Day. Its goal is to honor the 6 million Jewishpeople and millions of others who were killed by Nazi⁴ Germany, and prevent something like that from ever happening again. 

 

It is Israel. You can see people who stopped their cars and paused for a moment as memorial siren sound yesterday. 

 

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was part of an annual ceremony, Yad Vashem. That's Israel's holocaust memorial center. 

 

Families took part in ceremonies in the U.S. as well. One holocaust survivor⁵ talked about the Day's message for younger generations. 

 

Teach them tolerance⁶, accept people for what they are, not to hate, and to leave a better world to their children and their grandchildren than I in my generation leave to them.

1 thatcher   

n.茅屋匠

参考例句：

• Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher. 汤姆 - 索亚和撒切尔法官同乘一条小艇。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
• Mrs. Thatcher was almost crazed; and Aunt Polly, also. 撒切尔夫人几乎神经失常，还有波莉姨妈也是。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险

2 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

3 holocaust   

n.大破坏；大屠杀

参考例句：

• The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
• Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀，因为他像希特勒一样残忍。

4 Nazi   

n.纳粹分子，adj.纳粹党的，纳粹的

参考例句：

• They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
• Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。

5 survivor   

n.生存者，残存者，幸存者

参考例句：

• The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
• There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。

6 tolerance   

n.宽容；容忍，忍受；耐药力；公差

参考例句：

• Tolerance is one of his strengths.宽容是他的一个优点。
• Human beings have limited tolerance of noise.人类对噪音的忍耐力有限。