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 In our appears the number of people injuried after a collapse¹ at a packed London theater has raisen more than 75 with authorities there saying at least seven of those people suffered more serious injuries. Official now say it appears protion of the theater's ceiling gave way during a performance of the holiday show, the curious incident dog in the night time.  Laos with the London fieberga.

 

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Official say this time they are not ware² of any fatalities³, the incident took place in the Polar theater in London's west end, the theater which dates back to 1901 holds about 775 people.

 

New York city has become the biggest city in the nation to add electronic cigerate to its somking bans. City boarding today 43-8 prohibit their use in public places. NPR's Dan Bob has more. 

 

New Yorkers will soon be forbidden from using e-cigarates in the same public places regular cigerates are banned, places like resturants and parks. E-cigerates creat a weaper at nicotin and other chemicals. Proponents⁴ say they are less harmful and many use them precisely⁵ to get around smoking bans. Some think e-cigerates are less dangerous than conbustval cigarates but researchers scanned. Mior of the campaign for tobacco free kids says it's an open question whether the biper from e-cigarates is harmful to those exposed to it.

 

The American public should not be human genipicks for second hand smoke from e-cigarates.

 

Mayor Bloomburger is expected to sign the bill before he leaves office at the end of the year. Dan Bobucar, NPR News, New York.

 

Weekly jobs report shows new claims on unemployment benefit have reached a nine month high. NPR's Larran Hoges reports some economists⁷ don't think that's necessaryly a warrant sign.

 

The Labour Department reported that new jobs claims raise to seasonly adjust 379,000 last week, the highest numbers sinch March. This fell short of expections which forjected a drop in first time applications. But economist⁶ Gus of Tennesy financial service says the holidays were affecting that number. 

 

I think it's just a season adjustment issue not any underline problems in consumer spending in the holiday seasons.

 

Fosy says the monthly jobs report for Dec will be a bigger indicator⁸ and all other avaliable data point to improving jobs market. Hiring increased in Oct and Nov, unemployment drop to a-five-year low of 7% in Nov. Norn Harges, NPR News, Washington.

 

Index of leading economic indicators⁹ which looks at a varity of different reports   from manufacturing to jobs numbers was strong tense represent last month.   research of the conference board saying last month rises far stronger than the  0.1% gain reported on Oct. 

 

On Wall Street today mix close, the Don was up 11 points to 16,179, the nasdaq fell 11 points. You are listening to NPR. 

 

Dispite calls by the White House to hold off any further sanctions against Iran talks continue in    that country's disputed nuclear program. It appears some Senate lawmakers don't agree. A quater of the Senate to fine the president introducing legislation of set standards if Iran violates a nuclear deal which the world powers last month including a global boycott¹⁰ Iranian oil exports. A deal reached in Geneva the Obama administration promise no new sanction for six months,   Congress not act during that period.

 

Two Islamist extremists have been convicted by a London jury of killing¹¹ an off duty British solider on south London district in May. Larry Miller¹² reports the jury took just 90 minutes to fine the men guilty.

 

Muslim converts Michael Adbula and Michael Adbuali selected solider Lee as he walked near south London Bericks. They first drove their car to Rigeby then hacked¹³ him to death and attempted to dicapitate him. As they waited for the police to arrive they handed a bystander a note saying the intendtion was to bring carnige to London streets. In their defense¹⁴ they accused claim they were soliders of Anla and the killing was an act of war. Scla Yard cress a date.

 

After the murder they are  men waited at scene they testified they wanted to be killed by police and murder them, they are found not guilty of attempting to murder a police officer. For NPR News, I am Larry Miller in London.

 

Couple of California lawmakers are proposing a kill-switch be put into cell phones so in event of stole they can be randered in oppoable. Cell phone carriers are objecting the idea saying a viales kill-switch obstentionly also allow hackers¹⁵ disable someone's phone.

 

I am Jack¹⁶ Speer, NPR News in Washington.  

1 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

2 ware   

n.(常用复数)商品，货物

参考例句：

• The shop sells a great variety of porcelain ware.这家店铺出售品种繁多的瓷器。
• Good ware will never want a chapman.好货不须叫卖。

3 fatalities   

n.恶性事故( fatality的名词复数 )；死亡；致命性；命运

参考例句：

• Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. 有几个人受伤，但没有人死亡。
• The accident resulted in fatalities. 那宗意外道致多人死亡。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 proponents   

n.（某事业、理论等的）支持者，拥护者( proponent的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Reviewing courts were among the most active proponents of hybrid rulemaking procedures. 复审法院是最积极的混合型规则制定程序的建议者。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
• Proponents of such opinions were arrested as 'traitors. ' 提倡这种主张的人马上作为“卖国贼”逮捕起来。 来自辞典例句

5 precisely   

adv.恰好，正好，精确地，细致地

参考例句：

• It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
• The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。

6 economist   

n.经济学家，经济专家，节俭的人

参考例句：

• He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
• He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。

7 economists   

n.经济学家，经济专家( economist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
• Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 indicator   

n.指标；指示物，指示者；指示器

参考例句：

• Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation.黃金价格常常被看作是通货膨胀的指标。
• His left-hand indicator is flashing.他左手边的转向灯正在闪亮。

9 indicators   

（仪器上显示温度、压力、耗油量等的）指针( indicator的名词复数 )； 指示物； （车辆上的）转弯指示灯； 指示信号

参考例句：

• The economic indicators are better than expected. 经济指标比预期的好。
• It is still difficult to develop indicators for many concepts used in social science. 为社会科学领域的许多概念确立一个指标仍然很难。

10 boycott   

n./v.(联合)抵制，拒绝参与

参考例句：

• We put the production under a boycott.我们联合抵制该商品。
• The boycott lasts a year until the Victoria board permitsreturn.这个抗争持续了一年直到维多利亚教育局妥协为止。

11 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

12 miller   

n.磨坊主

参考例句：

• Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
• The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。

13 hacked   

生气

参考例句：

• I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
• I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。

14 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

15 hackers   

n.计算机迷( hacker的名词复数 )；私自存取或篡改电脑资料者，电脑“黑客”

参考例句：

• They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒，他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Arranging a meeting with the hackers took weeks againoff-again email exchanges. 通过几星期电子邮件往来安排见面，他们最终同意了。 来自互联网

16 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。