VOA常速英语2021--拜登呼吁通过美国投票权立法

The United States Tuesday called on Moscow to comply "promptly¹" with Kazakhstan's request to pull Russian troops out of the country after Washington questioned the deployment² following rare unrest there.

美国星期二呼吁莫斯科“迅速”响应哈萨克斯坦的要求，即从该国撤出俄罗斯军队。此前，华盛顿对俄罗斯在哈萨克斯坦发生罕见动荡后部署军队提出了质疑。

State Department spokesman Ned Price said the United States welcomed a return to calm in the Central Asian nation after dozens died and President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev issued shoot-to-kill orders.

美国国务院发言人内德·普莱斯表示，美国希望看到这个中亚国家恢复平静，此前已有数十人死亡，总统托卡耶夫发布了枪杀命令。

Tokayev on Tuesday announced that a, quote, "phased withdrawal⁴" of troops from the Moscow-led alliance would begin in two days and take no more than 10 days.

托卡耶夫星期二宣布，莫斯科领导的联盟将于两天内开始“分阶段撤军”，撤军时间不超过10天。

Tokayev, backed by Russia, described the unrest as a coup⁵ attempt and called in the group due to purported⁶ foreign influence.

托卡耶夫（受俄罗斯支持）称这次动乱是一次未遂政变，并且他是因为在据称的外国影响下召集了该组织。

The narrative⁷, though, has been doubted by outside rights experts who believe protests were prompted largely by concern over mounting fuel costs.

然而，这种说法遭到了外部人权专家的质疑，他们认为，抗议活动在很大程度上是由对不断上涨的燃料成本的担忧引发的。

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday made an impassioned plea for United States voting rights legislation stalled in Congress and said Democratic lawmakers should make a major change in Senate rules to override⁸ Republican opposition⁹.

美国总统拜登星期二慷慨激昂地呼吁通过美国投票权立法，该立法在国会陷入停滞，并表示民主党议员应该对参议院的规则进行重大修改，以推翻共和党的反对意见。

Calling it a "battle for the soul of America," Biden put the voting rights effort on par³ with the fight against segregation¹⁰ by slain¹¹ civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

拜登称这是“为美国的灵魂而战”，他将争取投票权的努力与被刺杀的民权领袖马丁·路德·金反对种族隔离的斗争置于同一高度。

He also likened it to the struggle against the forces behind the assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2020, by supporters of former President Donald Trump¹², which Biden called an "attempted coup."

他还将其比作与前总统唐纳德·特朗普的支持者在2020年1月6日袭击美国国会大厦幕后势力的斗争，拜登称这是一场“未遂政变”。

Biden said if no breakthrough on legislation can be achieved, lawmakers in the Senate should, quote, "change the rules including getting rid of the filibuster¹³ for this."

拜登表示，如果不能在立法上取得突破，参议院议员应该“改变规则，包括取消对此的阻挠议事。”

It was Biden's most direct plea to date for the Senate to change its rules.

这是拜登迄今为止要求参议院改变规则的最直接的请求。

1 promptly   

adv.及时地，敏捷地

参考例句：

• He paid the money back promptly.他立即还了钱。
• She promptly seized the opportunity his absence gave her.她立即抓住了因他不在场给她创造的机会。

2 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。

3 par   

n.标准，票面价值，平均数量；adj.票面的，平常的，标准的

参考例句：

• Sales of nylon have been below par in recent years.近年来尼龙织品的销售额一直不及以往。
• I don't think his ability is on a par with yours.我认为他的能力不能与你的能力相媲美。

4 withdrawal   

n.取回，提款；撤退，撤军；收回，撤销

参考例句：

• The police were forced to make a tactical withdrawal.警方被迫进行战术撤退。
• They insisted upon a withdrawal of the statement and a public apology.他们坚持要收回那些话并公开道歉。

5 coup   

n.政变；突然而成功的行动

参考例句：

• The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
• That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。

6 purported   

adj.传说的，谣传的v.声称是…，（装得）像是…的样子( purport的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• the scene of the purported crime 传闻中的罪案发生地点
• The film purported to represent the lives of ordinary people. 这部影片声称旨在表现普通人的生活。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 narrative   

n.叙述，故事；adj.叙事的，故事体的

参考例句：

• He was a writer of great narrative power.他是一位颇有记述能力的作家。
• Neither author was very strong on narrative.两个作者都不是很善于讲故事。

8 override   

vt.不顾，不理睬，否决；压倒，优先于

参考例句：

• The welfare of a child should always override the wishes of its parents.孩子的幸福安康应该永远比父母的愿望来得更重要。
• I'm applying in advance for the authority to override him.我提前申请当局对他进行否决。

9 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

10 segregation   

n.隔离，种族隔离

参考例句：

• Many school boards found segregation a hot potato in the early 1960s.在60年代初，许多学校部门都觉得按水平分班是一个棘手的问题。
• They were tired to death of segregation and of being kicked around.他们十分厌恶种族隔离和总是被人踢来踢去。

11 slain   

杀死，宰杀，杀戮( slay的过去分词 )； (slay的过去分词)

参考例句：

• The soldiers slain in the battle were burried that night. 在那天夜晚埋葬了在战斗中牺牲了的战士。
• His boy was dead, slain by the hand of the false Amulius. 他的儿子被奸诈的阿缪利乌斯杀死了。

12 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

13 filibuster   

n.妨碍议事，阻挠；v.阻挠

参考例句：

• A senator dragged the subject in as a filibuster.一个参议员硬把这个题目拉扯进来，作为一种阻碍议事的手法。
• The democrats organized a filibuster in the senate.民主党党员在参议院上组织了阻挠议事。