NPR 美国国家电台 2014-10-07

 Thomas Arik Doken, the only confirmed Ebola patient in the United States is fighting for his life at the Dallas hospital. The director of the Centers for disease control is doctor Tom Frieden.

 

We are really hoping for the recovery of the patient in Dallas. We understand that his situation is taking a turn for the worse. We know that Ebola is a very serious disease, and we are hoping for his recovery.

 

Frieden says all doses of the experimental drug to fight ebola zmap or gone, and the drug is not going to be available any time soon. Frieden is scheduled to breif President Obama on the status of the fight to contain Ebola on Monday.

 

Ashoka Mukpo, the NBC news freeland camera man who tested positive for ebola in Liberia Zonbut Omaha. He will be the second Ebola patient treated at the Brasca Medical center's special isolation² unit.

 

Canada is sending another medical laboratory team to fight the Ebola crisis in west Africa. As Dan Carpent Ken¹ reports it's the first time A have deploit two such teams against a single outbreak. 

 

They head the public health agency of Canada says the decision to deploy³ a second mobile lab to siry leo will stretch Canada's resources. The first team on the ground since September provides diagnosetic services. The new mobile lab will work with doctors without boarders to help determine if cleaning techniches of treatment centers should be improved to prevent health care workers from being infected. That issue has been a major concern since health care workers continue to become infected. The World Health Orgnization says that nearly 1400 health care workers have contracted Ebola and 217 of them have died from the disease. Canada has maintained rotating teams of sciensts in Syria Leon since June. For NPR news, I'm Dan Carpenter, Toranto.

 

Earlier this year the Justice Department announced a 31 counting endictment against chinese hackers⁴ acused of trying to gain competitive adavantgae by breaking into computer networks and steal company's and the manufacture's of solar and nuclear technology. Tonight FBI director James Comey told CBS's sixty minutes that Chinese hackers target the intellectual property of the US companies and china everyday. 

 

I like them a bit drunk buglar they kick into the front door knock over the vise walk with your television and said they are just prolific⁵. The stratigy seemed to be, would be just be everywhere all the time, and there is no way they can stop us. 

 

Comey also discussed the US's fight against terrorism discribing the terrorists' networks in Syria as a sophisticated metastasis of Al Quada. Comey says he will keep a close eye on the America's fighting for the so-called Islamic State who then return to the United States. From Washington, you are listening to NPR news.

 

Authorities say one US air man is dead and two other missing as typhoon Phanfone prepares to make land fall in central Japan. From Tokyo John Mathews reports power outrages⁶ and evacuations advisaries are sweeping⁷ eastward⁸ as the storm barrals toward the capital. 

 

Local police on the southern island of ON say three air men were swept up to sea while taking photographs along the island's coast. Japaness coast guards and US air force helicopters are looking for the remaining 2 air men but air force officials say rough seas are complicating⁹ searching efforts. On the main land heavy rains have canceled the search for more bodies on Mount Ontake which killed at least 51 since it erupted last week. Residence in helia areas of central and eastern Janpan are being advised to evacuate¹⁰ for fear of land slides, a commman cost of fatalities¹¹ for Japan during typhoons. For NPR news I'm John Mathews in Tokyo.

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The hunt for Malaysia airline's fight 370 has resumed in a desolate¹² strech of the india ocean more than six months after the jet disappeared. The Go Phoenix¹³ is one of three ships that will spend up to a year hunting for the wreckage¹⁴. It arrived in the search area, about 11,000 miles west of Australia on Monday. The other two ships will join the hunt later this month. 

 

The most decorated Olympian of all time Michael Phelps says he will take a break from swimming and undergo a six-week treatment, a comprehensive impatience¹⁵ program. Philps was arrested on Tuesday after driving 84 miles an hour in a 45-mile-an-hour zone inside Baltimore and subsequently failing a breathalyzer test. It's the second time Phelps have be indicted¹⁶ for drunk driving. This is NPR.

1 ken   

n.视野，知识领域

参考例句：

• Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
• Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.

2 isolation   

n.隔离，孤立，分解，分离

参考例句：

• The millionaire lived in complete isolation from the outside world.这位富翁过着与世隔绝的生活。
• He retired and lived in relative isolation.他退休后，生活比较孤寂。

3 deploy   

v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开

参考例句：

• The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
• The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。

4 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

5 prolific   

adj.丰富的，大量的；多产的，富有创造力的

参考例句：

• She is a prolific writer of novels and short stories.她是一位多产的作家，写了很多小说和短篇故事。
• The last few pages of the document are prolific of mistakes.这个文件的最后几页错误很多。

6 outrages   

引起…的义愤，激怒( outrage的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• People are seeking retribution for the latest terrorist outrages. 人们在设法对恐怖分子最近的暴行进行严惩。
• He [She] is not allowed to commit any outrages. 不能任其胡作非为。

7 sweeping   

adj.范围广大的，一扫无遗的

参考例句：

• The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
• Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗？

8 eastward   

adv.向东；adj.向东的；n.东方，东部

参考例句：

• The river here tends eastward.这条河从这里向东流。
• The crowd is heading eastward,believing that they can find gold there.人群正在向东移去，他们认为在那里可以找到黄金。

9 complicating   

使复杂化( complicate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• High spiking fever with chills is suggestive of a complicating pylephlebitis. 伴有寒战的高热，暗示合并门静脉炎。
• In America these actions become executive puberty rites, complicating relationships that are already complicated enough. 在美国，这些行动成了行政青春期的惯例，使本来已经够复杂的关系变得更复杂了。

10 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

11 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》

12 desolate   

adj.荒凉的，荒芜的；孤独的，凄凉的；v.使荒芜，使孤寂

参考例句：

• The city was burned into a desolate waste.那座城市被烧成一片废墟。
• We all felt absolutely desolate when she left.她走后，我们都觉得万分孤寂。

13 phoenix   

n.凤凰，长生(不死)鸟；引申为重生

参考例句：

• The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
• The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。

14 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

15 impatience   

n.不耐烦，急躁

参考例句：

• He expressed impatience at the slow rate of progress.进展缓慢，他显得不耐烦。
• He gave a stamp of impatience.他不耐烦地跺脚。

16 indicted   

控告，起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
• He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。