NPR美国国家公共电台 2013-05-04

　　From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh.

 

　　The nation's coming off a better than expected month in job growth, the Labor¹ Department says employers added 165,000 jobs April and the unemployment rate slid to 7.5%, a four-year low. It's encouraging news for the administration as the president shores up economic ties with the U.S.'s Latin American neighbors today. He began the trip in Mexico as NPR's Carrie Kahn reports.

 

　　Obama spoke² to young students gathered in central courtyard of Mexico City's National Anthropology³ Museum. He urged the crowd to think differently about each other.

 

　　Some Americans only see the Mexico that is depicted⁴ in sensational⁵ headlines of violence and border crossings.

 

　　Mexicans, Obama said, see Americans as building high walls and being disrespectful.

 

　　I think it's time for us to put the old mind-sets aside. It's time to recognize new realities, including the impressive progress of today's Mexico.

 

　　Obama's been trying to tow the two countries strong economic ties, instead of talking about immigration and security issues which usually dominate presidential visits. Carrie Kahn, NPR News, Mexico City.

 

　　The National Rifle Association's annual convention is drawing big crowds to Huston. The three-day event kicked off today with fighting words from the NRA leadership, including its chief executive Wayne LaPierre. He accused media of demonizing lawful⁶ American gun owners and being in cahoots with politicians, who renewed calls for tighter gun controls in the aftermath of the Newtown school massacre⁷ in December. LaPierre challenged the administration of focusing on fixing the the country's mental health system and upholding current gun laws.

 

　　Enforce to federal gun laws, on the books right now against drug dealers⁸ with guns, gangs with guns and violent felons⁹ with guns.

 

　　Gun control advocates were also expected to have a presence out the convention.

 

　　In southern California, wildfire continues to move its way down canyons¹⁰ toward the coast line. As NPR's Shereen Marisol Meraji reports the spring's fire has charred¹¹ 10,000 acres and thousands of homes still at risk.

 

　　Hot, dry and windy, the combo is not helping¹² firefighters contain the blaze, says Ventura County Fire's Tom Kruschke.

 

　　It's to try effective for making of this wild erratic¹³ fire that we've been facing here in the last two days.

 

　　Kruschke says the fire is just 10% contained and in neighborhoods where evacuations have been lifted. He says residents should be cautious because this is  a fast moving unpredictable blaze.

 

　　This is just the beginning of May, so this does look good for the rest of the year.

 

　　Fires like this, says Kruschke, usually have been well into fire season around September.

 

　　Shereen Marisol Meraji, NPR News.

 

　　Before the closing bell, Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 142 points nearly 1% at 14,974; NASDAQ up more than 1% at 3,379; S&P 500 also up more than 1%.

 

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　　Still no word on the fate of crew members who were on board the U.S. refueling plane that crashed in Kyrgyzstan. Local authorities say it went down near a village about 100 miles west of a U.S. operated airbase, which is a key part of the war effort in Afghanistan.

 

　　The death toll¹⁴ from last week's factory building collapse¹⁵ in Dhaka, Bangladesh now stands at 500. And within hours of recovering, more victims from the rubble¹⁶, the country's finance minister was quoted saying that he didn't think the accident overall impact on the garment industry was really serious.  Abul Maal Abdul Muhith made that remark during a visit to the Indian city New Delhi.

 

　　The Boston Celtics and Houston Rockets continue their quest tonight to make NBA playoff history. No team has ever won a best four out of seven series after falling behind three games to none. But NPR's Tom Goldman reports both the Celtics and Rockets have a chance. Both teams have Game 6, home games tonight.

 

　　The young Rockets trial  defending western conference champion Oklahoma City three zip. Even though the Thunder had lost injury star point  guard Russell Westbrook. But then savvy¹⁷ moves by Houston head coach Kevin McHale deadly three-point shooting and smothering¹⁸ defense¹⁹ on OKC's superstar Kevin Durant and the Rockets pulled the win in three games to two. Boston also has narrowed its series against the New York Knicks to 3:2. The Knicks was a better team, but they've gone lost somewhere between guard J.R. Smith hot head behavior and star Cameron Anthony's ball hugging weights and with the veteran Celtics team, vowing²⁰ to fight to the end, a series that seemed over a week ago. It's anything but. Tom Goldman, NPR News.

 

　　I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News, in Washington.

1 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 anthropology   

n.人类学

参考例句：

• I believe he has started reading up anthropology.我相信他已开始深入研究人类学。
• Social anthropology is centrally concerned with the diversity of culture.社会人类学主要关于文化多样性。

4 depicted   

描绘，描画( depict的过去式和过去分词 )； 描述

参考例句：

• Other animals were depicted on the periphery of the group. 其他动物在群像的外围加以修饰。
• They depicted the thrilling situation to us in great detail. 他们向我们详细地描述了那激动人心的场面。

5 sensational   

adj.使人感动的，非常好的，轰动的，耸人听闻的

参考例句：

• Papers of this kind are full of sensational news reports.这类报纸满是耸人听闻的新闻报道。
• Their performance was sensational.他们的演出妙极了。

6 lawful   

adj.法律许可的，守法的，合法的

参考例句：

• It is not lawful to park in front of a hydrant.在消火栓前停车是不合法的。
• We don't recognised him to be the lawful heir.我们不承认他为合法继承人。

7 massacre   

n.残杀，大屠杀；v.残杀，集体屠杀

参考例句：

• There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
• If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！

8 dealers   

n.商人( dealer的名词复数 )；贩毒者；毒品贩子；发牌者

参考例句：

• There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers. 私人收藏家和交易商急速竞相喊价。
• The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug dealers. 警察腐败，与那伙毒品贩子内外勾结。

9 felons   

n.重罪犯( felon的名词复数 )；瘭疽；甲沟炎；指头脓炎

参考例句：

• Aren't those the seats they use for transporting convicted felons? 这些坐位不是他们用来押运重犯的吗？ 来自电影对白
• House Republicans talk of making felons out of the undocumented and those who help them. 众议院共和党议员正商议对未登记的非法移民以及包庇他们的人课以重罪。 来自互联网

10 canyons   

n.峡谷( canyon的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This mountain range has many high peaks and deep canyons. 这条山脉有许多高峰和深谷。 来自辞典例句
• Do you use canyons or do we preserve them all? 是使用峡谷呢还是全封闭保存？ 来自互联网

11 charred   

v.把…烧成炭( char的过去式)；烧焦

参考例句：

• the charred remains of a burnt-out car 被烧焦的轿车残骸
• The intensity of the explosion is recorded on the charred tree trunks. 那些烧焦的树干表明爆炸的强烈。 来自《简明英汉词典》

12 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

13 erratic   

adj.古怪的，反复无常的，不稳定的

参考例句：

• The old man had always been cranky and erratic.那老头儿性情古怪,反复无常。
• The erratic fluctuation of market prices is in consequence of unstable economy.经济波动致使市场物价忽起忽落。

14 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

15 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。

16 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

17 savvy   

v.知道，了解；n.理解能力，机智，悟性；adj.有见识的，懂实际知识的，通情达理的

参考例句：

• She was a pretty savvy woman.她是个见过世面的漂亮女人。
• Where's your savvy?你的常识到哪里去了？

18 smothering   

（使）窒息， （使）透不过气( smother的现在分词 )； 覆盖； 忍住； 抑制

参考例句：

• He laughed triumphantly, and silenced her by manly smothering. 他胜利地微笑着，以男人咄咄逼人的气势使她哑口无言。
• He wrapped the coat around her head, smothering the flames. 他用上衣包住她的头，熄灭了火。

19 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。

20 vowing   

起誓，发誓（vow的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild its collapsed bridge. 布什总统承诺将帮助明尼阿波利斯重建坍塌的大桥。
• President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild this collapse bridge. 布什总统发誓要帮助明尼阿波利斯重建起这座坍塌的桥梁。