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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
US Democrats1 Convene2 Amid High Unemployment
The day before the convention, Democrats highlighted this state, which they need to win in November, and celebrated3 just being Democrats.
Democrats have come to town on Labor4 Day, as North Carolina’s unemployment rate hovers5 well above the rest of the country - a rate that remains6 high nationally at more than eight percent. Many here blame big corporations.
"They are taking companies that were here, factories that were here and moving them to Mexico. Moving them to India. Doing things like that, basically destroying those middle class jobs," said James Hoffa, Jr., the head of the largest labor union in the United States.
The point people here make is that rightward leaning conservative Republicans got the country into economic trouble.
"President Barack, he inherits an 800,000-a-month job loss - 3.5 million job loss - gushing7 out of the bottom of our economy. That hemorrhaging of our economy stopped," said civil rights leader Jesse Jackson.
"I've been downsized about five times in the last five years," said Reginald Purcell, a victim of the economy.
He has steady work this week as a floral designer only because the convention is in town. But he adds he's still voting for President Obama.
"I really think we are at the cusp of the economy turning around," he said.
The Republican nominee8 for president, Mitt9 Romney, and his running mate Paul Ryan blame Democrats, even harkening back to a president of 30 years ago. Paul Ryan campaigned in North Carolina Monday.
"Every president since the Great Depression who asked Americans to send them into a second term could say that you're better off today than you were four years ago except for Jimmy Carter and for President Barack Obama," he said.
Democrats and the president will spend three days making their case.
This empty arena10 fills with 6,000 delegates and thousands of volunteers and supporters each day the convention gavels in. The main speeches air on TV networks. And, there are 4,000 Democratic parties taking place across the country, watching what happens here at the Democratic National Convention.
1 democrats | |
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 ) | |
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2 convene | |
v.集合,召集,召唤,聚集,集合 | |
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3 celebrated | |
adj.有名的,声誉卓著的 | |
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4 labor | |
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦 | |
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5 hovers | |
鸟( hover的第三人称单数 ); 靠近(某事物); (人)徘徊; 犹豫 | |
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6 remains | |
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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7 gushing | |
adj.迸出的;涌出的;喷出的;过分热情的v.喷,涌( gush的现在分词 );滔滔不绝地说话 | |
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8 nominee | |
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者 | |
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9 mitt | |
n.棒球手套,拳击手套,无指手套;vt.铐住,握手 | |
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10 arena | |
n.竞技场,运动场所;竞争场所,舞台 | |
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