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 North California saw a sputtering¹ over rain this week, though it’s apparently² not enough to make a major difference. As NPR’s Richard Gonzales explains, more than a dozen communities and water districts could run out the water within a hundred days. 

The areas in greatly need water are small rural communities in north California, the central valley and a serial³ of foothills. State officials are looking at a variety of stopgap measures like digging new wells, holing water into parch⁴ area and partnering small and larger water districts. But they say any approach will take time and money. California governor Jerry Brown declared a drop in emergency earlier this month, asking residents to voluntarily conserve⁵ 20% of their water use. Now he sent a mandatory⁶ message, saying that every day that drought goes on we’re going to have to tighten⁷ screws on what people are doing. Richard Gonzales, NPR News, San Francisco. 

 

President Obama continues his postal⁸ state of union road trip today, expanding on some of the ideas he scratched out on Tuesday night. NPR’s Scott Horsley reports the president used an engine factory in Wisconsin highlight the needs for improving job train. 

General Electric Waukesha engine factory is growing, adding more than 60 employees last year to bring a total to nearly 700. The company partner with an union, a local technical college and others to make sure incoming workers have the skills they need to land good-paid manufacturing jobs. President Obama says that’s a model for what he wants to see more off. 

“When we got to start by figuring out which skill is employees are looking for, then they got engaged in this entire community, we got help workers earn these skills they need to do the job it exists.”

Obama advised vice⁹ president Biden to lead that efforts it’s a kind of modest administration move the White House can make without Congress action. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Milwaukee. 

 

What starts off is a small investigation¹⁰ in the allegation of a drug use by a personnel in a air force missile base, it’s now widened into a far bigger investigation. officials are alleged¹² of a extensive exam cheating. According an official discovered the half of 183 nuclear missile officers Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana are now implicated¹³ into a probe. Air force secretary Deborah Lee James explains what appeared to driving the cheating. 

“It’s severe didn’t cheat to pass, they cheated because they felt driven to get 100 percent. Getting 90% or 95% was considered a failure in their eyes.”

Malmstrom Air Base is one of 3 nuclear missile wings oversee¹⁴ the country 450 intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs. 

 

Federal prosecutors¹⁵ are calling on a @@ order bank of America to pay 2.1 billion dollars in penalty for knowingly selling bad home loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the height of housing bubbles. Document follows today as the government says it’s basically amount a total revenue derive¹⁶ from the fraud and steps of profits that were made. 

 

On Wall Street today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 109, to 15,848; the NASDAQ gained 71 points. 

 

You’re listening to NPR News in Washington. 

 

Federal prosecutors say they plan to seek the death penalty against the accused Boston marathon bomber¹⁷ Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the final decision of the case made by US Attorney General Eric Holder¹⁸. Twin bombings slamed into now 20 years old Tsarnaev and his brother, who died in a shootout with police, were also the death of 3 people last April. Prosecutors allege¹¹ the pair ethnic¹⁹ Chechnya brothers, who have lived in US for about a decade, planed to a pressure cooker bombers²⁰ near the finish line of the marathon. Tsarnaev is also charged with the death of a MIT police officer. 17 of the 30 charges against him carry a possible death penalty. 

 

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio is moving to drop an appeal, but the decision has found city stopped and frisk policy unconstitutional. NPR’s Mark Idler reports the mayor was opposite the sidewalk searches once the case sent back the lower court. 

The district court found the city’s stop and frisk policy was unconstitutional by targeting Black and Latino men. Former mayor Bloomberg defended of the policy appealed. Mayor Blasio held a news conference which the plaintiff in the case and announced an agreement including a monitor to oversee reform for 3 years. Police commissioner²¹ William Bratton says reform is important because the stop and frisk:

“Instead of securing confidence, instead of securing legitimacy²² and instead raised doubts and concerns about the police force in this city”

Much has to be worked out, but once the lower court signed off found in an agreement between the parties. The city will formally ask to drop the appeal. Mark Idler, NPR News, New York. 

 

Big game hasn’t even started and in the appear of scalpers have already hearted worked. Federal authorities are announcing they have seized 21.6 million dollars for the counterfeit²³ super ball jerseys²⁴ and other items what they’re calling a major crackdown. 

1 sputtering   

n.反应溅射法；飞溅；阴极真空喷镀；喷射v.唾沫飞溅( sputter的现在分词 )；发劈啪声；喷出；飞溅出

参考例句：

• A wick was sputtering feebly in a dish of oil. 瓦油灯上结了一个大灯花，使微弱的灯光变得更加阴暗。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）
• Jack ran up to the referee, sputtering protest. 贾克跑到裁判跟前，唾沫飞溅地提出抗议。 来自辞典例句

2 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

3 serial   

n.连本影片，连本电视节目；adj.连续的

参考例句：

• A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
• Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗？

4 parch   

v.烤干，焦干

参考例句：

• Let's parch corn!咱们爆玉米花吧。
• But you can parch the clothes with the gas in the kitchen.你就用煤气火烤干衣服吧。

5 conserve   

vt.保存，保护，节约，节省，守恒，不灭

参考例句：

• He writes on both sides of the sheet to conserve paper.他在纸张的两面都写字以节省用纸。
• Conserve your energy,you'll need it!保存你的精力，你会用得着的！

6 mandatory   

adj.命令的；强制的；义务的；n.受托者

参考例句：

• It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
• There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。

7 tighten   

v.(使)变紧；(使)绷紧

参考例句：

• Turn the screw to the right to tighten it.向右转动螺钉把它拧紧。
• Some countries tighten monetary policy to avoid inflation.一些国家实行紧缩银根的货币政策，以避免通货膨胀。

8 postal   

adj.邮政的，邮局的

参考例句：

• A postal network now covers the whole country.邮路遍及全国。
• Remember to use postal code.勿忘使用邮政编码。

9 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

10 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

11 allege   

vt.宣称，申述，主张，断言

参考例句：

• The newspaper reporters allege that the man was murdered but they have given no proof.新闻记者们宣称这个男人是被谋杀的，但他们没提出证据。
• Students occasionally allege illness as the reason for absence.学生时不时会称病缺课。

12 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

13 implicated   

adj.密切关联的；牵涉其中的

参考例句：

• These groups are very strongly implicated in the violence. 这些组织与这起暴力事件有着极大的关联。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Having the stolen goods in his possession implicated him in the robbery. 因藏有赃物使他涉有偷盗的嫌疑。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

14 oversee   

vt.监督，管理

参考例句：

• Soldiers oversee the food handouts.士兵们看管着救济食品。
• Use a surveyor or architect to oversee and inspect the different stages of the work.请一位房产检视员或建筑师来监督并检查不同阶段的工作。

15 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

16 derive   

v.取得；导出；引申；来自；源自；出自

参考例句：

• We derive our sustenance from the land.我们从土地获取食物。
• We shall derive much benefit from reading good novels.我们将从优秀小说中获得很大好处。

17 bomber   

n.轰炸机，投弹手，投掷炸弹者

参考例句：

• He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
• Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。

18 holder   

n.持有者，占有者；(台，架等)支持物

参考例句：

• The holder of the office of chairman is reponsible for arranging meetings.担任主席职位的人负责安排会议。
• That runner is the holder of the world record for the hundred-yard dash.那位运动员是一百码赛跑世界纪录的保持者。

19 ethnic   

adj.人种的，种族的，异教徒的

参考例句：

• This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
• The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。

20 bombers   

n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟

参考例句：

• Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》

21 commissioner   

n.（政府厅、局、处等部门）专员，长官，委员

参考例句：

• The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
• He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。

22 legitimacy   

n.合法，正当

参考例句：

• The newspaper was directly challenging the government's legitimacy.报纸直接质疑政府的合法性。
• Managing from the top down,we operate with full legitimacy.我们进行由上而下的管理有充分的合法性。

23 counterfeit   

vt.伪造，仿造；adj.伪造的，假冒的

参考例句：

• It is a crime to counterfeit money.伪造货币是犯罪行为。
• The painting looked old but was a recent counterfeit.这幅画看上去年代久远，实际是最近的一幅赝品。

24 jerseys   

n.运动衫( jersey的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The maximum quantity of cotton jerseys this year is about DM25,000. 平方米的羊毛地毯超过了以往的订货。 来自口语例句
• The NBA is mulling the prospect of stitching advertising logos onto jerseys. 大意：NBA官方正在酝酿一个大煞风景的计划——把广告标志绣上球服！ 来自互联网