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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
News organizations now refer to President Trump1's whoppers - from the size of his inaugural2 crowds to a hurricane threatening Alabama - as routinely as referring to rain in Seattle. But there was still some surprise this week when at services to mark the 18th anniversary of the attacks of September 11, the president insisted, quote, "Soon after, I went down to ground zero with men who worked for me to try to help in any little way that we could. We were not alone. So many others were scattered4 around, trying to do the same. They were all trying to help." Richard Alles, battalion5 chief of The New York Fire Department at the time of the attacks, spent several months in the smoking, choking ruins of ground zero, and told PolitiFact this summer, I was there for several months. I have no knowledge of his being down there and added that there would be a record of President Trump sending a hundred or more workers to aid in the harrowing recovery efforts at ground zero. There is not.
We might remember that 18 years ago, the wreckage6 and rubble7 at ground zero was considered sacred ground. It held the remains8 of thousands of loved ones, including police and firefighters who perished as they tried to save lives. It was a place for rescue and recovery workers, not amateurs, gawkers or celebrities9. Producer Peter Breslow and I were in Lower Manhattan in the days following September 11, when a haze10 of pulverized11 steel, glass and death hung in the air, and scores of photos of mothers, fathers and lost loved ones were taped on buildings and lampposts asking, have you seen? But we couldn't go past the security perimeter12 outside ground zero.
My wife and I would stand outside that perimeter along Canal Street at night, where thousands of people stood to cry, pray and cheer for the workers in hardhats heading in to do the hard, heavy, hazardous13 work there. There is a phrase for the offense14 committed by imposters who wear phony medals and try to pose as combat veterans - stolen valor15. At a Republican debate in 2016, Senator Ted3 Cruz decried16 what he called New York values. And Donald Trump replied, New York is a great place. It's got great people. It's got loving people, wonderful people. When the World Trade Center came down, I saw something that no place on Earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely17 than New York. It was all he needed to say, then and this week.
(SOUNDBITE OF JULIA KENT'S "GUARDING THE INVITATIONS")
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n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭 | |
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adj.就职的;n.就职典礼 | |
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vt.翻晒,撒,撒开 | |
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4 scattered | |
adj.分散的,稀疏的;散步的;疏疏落落的 | |
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n.营;部队;大队(的人) | |
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n.(失事飞机等的)残骸,破坏,毁坏 | |
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n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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9 celebrities | |
n.(尤指娱乐界的)名人( celebrity的名词复数 );名流;名声;名誉 | |
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n.霾,烟雾;懵懂,迷糊;vi.(over)变模糊 | |
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adj.[医]雾化的,粉末状的v.将…弄碎( pulverize的过去式和过去分词 );将…弄成粉末或尘埃;摧毁;粉碎 | |
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14 offense | |
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16 decried | |
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adv.仁慈地;人道地;富人情地;慈悲地 | |
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