NPR美国国家公共电台 NPR 2013-11-08

 From NPR News in Washington,I am Jack¹ Speer.

President Obama travelled to Dalas to attend a couple of fundraisers for democratic senators today before    that some of the volunteers will help sign people up for health insurance.In the city with more than one million people who lack health benefits,the president says ti's important coverage² be made avilable to those individuals.

The task is a specially³ challenging here in the great lons dasting,but I think that all of you understand that no state actually needs this more than Texas.

Sealers will clear from the signs along the roads the president's motor ca past not everyone was in agreement Obama past signs saying lier and no Obama care.

Health and human service secretary Kethrin had another rough day on Capitol Hill today,she testified before the senate finance committee about the rold out of healthcare.com.NPR's Bok reports law makers⁴ admanning she will be held accountable.

Secretary Serbilis again vowed⁵ that the steps had been taken to fix the government's healcare website.But when asked how many iterms need fixing,she couldn't quite put a figure on it.

I would say there are acouple hundred functional⁶ fixes that have been identified

Republican senator Pat Robers of Cansas wasn't satisfied and said Serbilis's main goal shouldn have been the security of American's signning up for health care.

You said America should hold you for accountable which is why today madam secretary I repeat my request for you to resign.The first roman figures for these changes will do next week.Serbilis says she expects those numbers to be quite low.Briten Boker,NPR News,Washington.

Palestanian officials are not yet commenting on new test result showing former Palestanian leader Alrafat may have been poisoned before he died in 2004. Alfat's widow says the evidence makes clearly was deliberately⁷ killed,NPR's Amely has more.

The Palestanian committee investigating Alrafat's death has copies of swiss in Russian lad test done on Alrafat's remains⁸.But the committee head says Palestanian officials will draw no conclusions until they examine all the evidence.Alrafat's boday was exzonmed last year after tests of some personal iterms found traces of the deadly radio active subsestence ponium 2-10.Now newest test found high levels of poison in    his bones and other tissue.The lab said the result morderly support the poison feary.Many Palestnians have long believed that Israeil agency killed Alrafat.Israeil has long denied the accusion,officials has now repeated denials.Amely,NPR News,Juesalum.

On Wall Street,back in record territory least for blow chipd today,the Don was up 128 points to close at 15,746,s&p 500 rose 7 points.This is NPR.

The senate signed off on a republican back change bill that would allow disagrenation against gays in the work place by voice vote.The senate proving the manmate that would provent federal sta in local governments from attalying against religious groups are examined under the law.  expectd to set the stage for passage of the bill the measure best discremination the work place against gays by sexual trends gender⁹ Amercans.

A senior Obama administration official says nuclear negotiators expect first step from Iran that hauls its nuclear program about a comprehensive agreement negotiated.NPR's Piter reprots from Geniva the 2 days of talks get under way thirday.

Not long after Iranian foreign minister Muhamud told a French channel that a nuclear agreement could be struck this week.Negotiators prepared to put that search into the test.The senior American official tells reporters in Genivca that the first step must address Iran's compassity to rerich urnim and the size of its existing stock pile and hww any susbenchi would be mornitored and verified,then there would be confidence that the 2 sides have time to negotiate a final agreement.The official also says while international sanctions were key to bring Iran to the table,new sanctions now would be harmful and could undermine the talks at crucial time.Peter,NPR News,Geniva.

  the media explosion over a Russian city last year scientists now say the threat of space rock mashing¹⁰ to earth may be greater than initially¹¹ believed. Scientists say the medium over the city of Chilibonks was about 60 feets across and explosed with the power of 40 ton of bombs,   way from the blast broke windows injuried more than 1600 people.Scientist said such closing   medium only likely once in every 150 years nut it up that to once every 30 years.

1 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

2 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

3 specially   

adv.特定地；特殊地；明确地

参考例句：

• They are specially packaged so that they stack easily.它们经过特别包装以便于堆放。
• The machine was designed specially for demolishing old buildings.这种机器是专为拆毁旧楼房而设计的。

4 makers   

n.制造者，制造商（maker的复数形式）

参考例句：

• The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
• The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 vowed   

起誓，发誓（vow的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
• I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。

6 functional   

adj.为实用而设计的，具备功能的，起作用的

参考例句：

• The telephone was out of order,but is functional now.电话刚才坏了，但现在可以用了。
• The furniture is not fancy,just functional.这些家具不是摆着好看的，只是为了实用。

7 deliberately   

adv.审慎地；蓄意地；故意地

参考例句：

• The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
• They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。

8 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

9 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

10 mashing   

捣碎

参考例句：

• Long ago, they served as a useful third set of mashing molars. 许多年前，它们可是有用的第三套磨牙系统。
• During continuous mashing, filter 2 is filled when filter 1 is full. 在连续糖化过程中，当压滤机1填满后即填充压滤机2。

11 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。