NPR美国国家公共电台 2013-05-07

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

 

　　The young man accused of lying to federal agents investigating the Boston Marathon bombing has been ordered free on bail¹. NPR's Dina Temple-Raston reports he will be living at home and wearing a tracking device.

 

　　Law enforcement officials have arrested three college friends of the only surviving suspect in last month's attack. Robel Phillipos is a 19-year-old American who had known Dzhokhar Tsarnaev since high school. Law enforcement officials say he lied to FBI agents about throwing away a backpack that contained evidence linking Tsarnaev to the attacks. Tsarnaev is in the prison hospital accused of staging a marathon bombing with his brother. A judge in Boston released Phillipos on a $100,000 bonds on a condition that he be under a custody² of his mother and wear a GPS bracelet³. Phillipos is scheduled to be back in court May 16th. Dina Temple-Raston, NPR News.

 

　　Meanwhile, a funeral director’s having a tough time finding a Boston area cemetery⁴. Federal accept the remains⁵ of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar's older brother who's killed in a gun battle with police sate⁶ after the attack. Officials in Cambridge where Tsarnaev lived are worried about unrest if he's buried in the area. Some residents say there's another way send Tsarnaev's body to Russia, his native homeland. The community activist⁷ William Bro is asking officials to make it happen.

 

　　"We need the federal gunman to skip in this expatiated⁸. They can do a quit when they're running to clakas they appear very quickly. When a situation gets sticky, nobody is around. I see no comments from elected officials. That's deciding."

 

　　Governor Deval Patrick declines to say whether Tsarnaev's body should be allowed to be buried in Massachusetts. He says it's a family issue. That should be resolved soon.

 

　　US Secretary of State John Kerry is heading to Moscow today to try once again to persuade Russia to help resolve the crisis in Syria diplomatically. NPR's Michele Kelemen will be travelling along with them.

 

　　Kerry is to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and to have a lot of issues on their plate. Syria will be one of them. The Israeli's strike over the weekend and the charges of chemical weapons used are urgency in the talks. The US, Russia and other major powers agreed last year to promote a political transition in Syria. But State Department officials say they've never been able to operationalize this. Kerry will try to, as one official puts it, taking other steps on it with Russia because the events on the ground in Syria have become steadily⁹ worse. Asking about the allegation that rebels may have used sarin gas in Syria, an official says the USA has no information to suggest that Syrian rebels have the capability¹⁰ or the intention to use such weapon. Michele Kelemen, NPR News, the state department.

 

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　　Investigators¹¹ are trying to determine what caused a stretch limousine¹² to burst into flame as it was crossing a bridge over the San Francisco Bay Saturday. Five women including a new bride were killed, several others were treated for burns. The Associated Press cites investigators are saying a limo was killing¹³ one two many passengers. But the officials are not saying over clouding was a factor.

 

　　A Utah prosecutor¹⁴ say he will decide within the next couple of days what charges to a teenager accused of punching a soccer referee¹⁵ who died Saturday after a week's coma¹⁶. Authorities say the 17-year-old struck Ricardo Portillo in a head during a soccer match after he called a penalty. The referee eventually died days later.

 

　　A digitized trader trode Earnest Hemingway's paper in personal affects has been transferred from his home in Cuba to the John F. Kennedy Library. The result that's an unusual collection between US base foundation and the Cuban government. NPR's Lynn Neary has more.

 

　　In 2004, Jenny Phillips, granddaughter of Hemingway, editor, Maxwell Perkins, visited Finca Vigia, the state near Havana where Hemingway lived for more than 20 years. The house is contained ni collected. So, Phillip started a foundation to save the place where Hemingway had written some of his greatest books. Today the Finca Vigia Foundation announced 2,000 of Hemingway's papers have been digitized and donated to the Kennedy Library in Boston. The documents include letters, passport, even bar bills and grocery list. What Phillips calls the x writer's life that make up one big puzzle. It's not includes any manuscripts, though in earlier similar effort uncovering utinity ending to for home the bill toll¹⁷.

 

　　Lynn Neary reporting.

1 bail   

v.舀（水），保释；n.保证金，保释，保释人

参考例句：

• One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
• She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。

2 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

3 bracelet   

n.手镯，臂镯

参考例句：

• The jeweler charges lots of money to set diamonds in a bracelet.珠宝匠要很多钱才肯把钻石镶在手镯上。
• She left her gold bracelet as a pledge.她留下她的金手镯作抵押品。

4 cemetery   

n.坟墓，墓地，坟场

参考例句：

• He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
• His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。

5 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。

6 sate   

v.使充分满足

参考例句：

• Nothing could sate the careerist's greed for power.什么也满足不了这个野心家的权力欲。
• I am sate with opera after listening to it for a whole weekend.听了整整一个周末的歌剧，我觉得腻了。

7 activist   

n.活动分子，积极分子

参考例句：

• He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
• He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。

8 expatiated   

v.详述，细说( expatiate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The chairman expatiated for two hours on his plans for the company. 董事长用两小时阐述了公司的规划。 来自辞典例句
• In contrition she expatiated on the beauty of the garden. 在后悔中，她反复谈论着花园的美丽。 来自辞典例句

9 steadily   

adv.稳定地；不变地；持续地

参考例句：

• The scope of man's use of natural resources will steadily grow.人类利用自然资源的广度将日益扩大。
• Our educational reform was steadily led onto the correct path.我们的教学改革慢慢上轨道了。

10 capability   

n.能力；才能；(pl)可发展的能力或特性等

参考例句：

• She has the capability to become a very fine actress.她有潜力成为杰出演员。
• Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.组织整个部门是他能力以外的事。

11 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

12 limousine   

n.豪华轿车

参考例句：

• A chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady.司机为这个高贵的女士打开了豪华轿车的车门。
• We arrived in fine style in a hired limousine.我们很气派地乘坐出租的豪华汽车到达那里。

13 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。

14 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

15 referee   

n.裁判员．仲裁人，代表人，鉴定人

参考例句：

• The team was left raging at the referee's decision.队员们对裁判员的裁决感到非常气愤。
• The referee blew a whistle at the end of the game.裁判在比赛结束时吹响了哨子。

16 coma   

n.昏迷，昏迷状态

参考例句：

• The patient rallied from the coma.病人从昏迷中苏醒过来。
• She went into a coma after swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills.她吃了一整瓶安眠药后就昏迷过去了。

17 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。