英语听力精选进阶版 16031

 

Business Matters: Expected election victory for Assad 5 Jun 14

Thu, 5 Jun 14

The BBC's Jeremy Bowen reports from Damascus, where supporters of President Bashar al Assad are celebrating his landslide¹ victory in Syria's presidential election. We're at a gun raffle² in Hendricks County, Indiana to find out why Americans get so hot and bothered about their Second Amendment³ rights. Nick Davis hangs out at the recording⁴ studios and dance halls of Kingston, Jamaica, looking at the clash between gangster⁵ culture and real gangsterism⁶. And senior US television executive, Steve Capus, the new Executive Editor of CBS, joins presenter⁷ Roger Hearing in the studio to discuss the extent of government snooping, one year to the day since Edward Snowdens revelations were published in The Guardian⁸ newspaper. In our New York bureau, former Federal Reserve official Andrew Huszar, and in Bangalore, Revathy Ashok, founder⁹ of the Political Action Committee campaign group.

1 landslide   

n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票；一面倒的胜利

参考例句：

• Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
• An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。

2 raffle   

n.废物，垃圾，抽奖售卖；v.以抽彩出售

参考例句：

• The money was raised by the sale of raffle tickets.这笔款子是通过出售购物彩券筹集的。
• He won a car in the raffle.他在兑奖售物活动中赢得了一辆汽车。

3 amendment   

n.改正，修正，改善，修正案

参考例句：

• The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
• The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。

4 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

5 gangster   

n.匪徒，歹徒，暴徒

参考例句：

• The gangster's friends bought off the police witness.那匪徒的朋友买通了警察方面的证人。
• He is obviously a gangster,but he pretends to be a saint.分明是强盗，却要装圣贤。

6 gangsterism   

犯罪，歹徒及其犯罪行为

参考例句：

• They charged that the press is romanticizing gangsterism. 他们控诉报纸将匪盗行为传奇化。
• Political resistance slips easily into plain gangsterism. 政治对抗容易滑向歹徒犯罪。

7 presenter   

n.（电视、广播的）主持人，赠与者

参考例句：

• Most people think being a television presenter is exciting.很多人认为当电视节目主持人是一件刺激的事情。
• The programme dispensed with its most popular presenter.这个节目最受欢迎的主持人被换掉了。

8 guardian   

n.监护人；守卫者，保护者

参考例句：

• The form must be signed by the child's parents or guardian. 这张表格须由孩子的家长或监护人签字。
• The press is a guardian of the public weal. 报刊是公共福利的卫护者。

9 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。