NPR美国国家公共电台 2013-01-12

　　From NPR news in Washington, I'm Lakshimi Singh.

 

　　Thanks to Miaomiaojiao

 

　　Afghan president Hamid Karzai is heading home with some of reassurances(reassurance can be both countable¹ and uncountable) from president Obama at the White House today on the draw-down of the American forces in the Afghanistan by the end of 2014. They've agreed to speed up the transition of security across Afghanistan to local forces. One important component² for Karzai is control of Afghanistan's prisoners.

 

　　Concerning Afghan sovereignty, we agreed on the complete retain of detention³ centers, and detainees to Afghan sovereignty, and this would be implemented⁴ sure enough for my return to Afghanistan.

 

　　President says the US's effort in Afghanistan will shift to a supportive role in the spring and the agreement calls for an immunity⁵ agreement in which American troops are not subject to Afghan law. Mr. Obama did not say how many troops might remain after 2014.

 

　　The video industry is the latest stakeholder in US gun policy to visit the White House, as vice⁶ president Joe Biden prepares to deliver gun control proposals to president Obama Tuesday. It [caps] several days of meetings with groups on both sides of the gun debate. The talks were spurred by last month mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.

 

　　After 5 terms of West Virginia's US senator J. Rockefeller is calling a quit today, the democrat⁷ and great grandson of industrialist⁸ John. D. Rockefeller, announced he would not seek reelection in 2014. Dave Mistage from Western Virginia public radio has more.

 

　　After 50 years of public service, first as a state legislator, than governor and currently as US senator, Rockefeller will serve out his term and than step down. First came to West Virginia as volunteer with vista⁹ in 1964 where he worked and lived in a small rural community.

 

　　You are giving me what I wanted most, a real and almost spiritual sense of mission.

 

　　Rockefeller says he plans on spinning his time away from congress with his family and looking for other ways of serving public. For NPR news, I'm Dave Mistage, in Charleston(state's capital), West Virginia.

 

　　Ford¹⁰ Motor company says it will hire 22,00 salaried workers in the US this year. Michigan Radio's Tracy Hamilton has more.

 

　　Ford Motor company employs about 280,500 salaried workers in the North American today. The hiring [binge] is nearly a 8% increase. Joe Henry is Ford's president of the America's. He says Ford's higher profit margins¹¹ should help it avoid previous [bloom and bass] cycles that led to large scale layoffs¹².

 

　　But also what’s very important to support that it's the global growth is occurring, which makes us a more balance company not so reliant on one part of the world. Last year, Ford also boosted its hourly workers in US by 7500. For NPR news, I'm Tracy Hamilton in Ann Arbor¹³, Michigan.

 

　　Dow was down three at 13,468. This is NPR news.

 

　　France has begun a military campaign in Mali to help the West African Nations stop the advance of Islamist rebels who have taken over the North of the country. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports that Mali's president has declared a national state of emergency as the French military operation gets underway.

 

　　Speaking to nation in the televised address, Hollande said French air and ground forced were fighting with Mali's Army to throw out what he called the terrorists. The rebels who are linked(link is just a noun or verb) to an African branch of Al-Qaeda took over the North of Mali a year ago and ruled with brutality¹⁴ and repression¹⁵. Though an international intervention¹⁶ had been talked for months, it came sooner than expected when the rebel moving South this week threatening the capital of Bamako. Hollande called the terrorist group a threat to Africa, Europe and international community. He said France was fighting with its African partners under the legitimacy¹⁷ of a(U is not a vowel¹⁸ sound) UN security council mandate¹⁹. Mali's president also personally appeals for France to intervene. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR news Paris.

 

　　The Israeli prime minister is vowing²⁰ to keep the Iranian threat the top issue of his agenda if he is elected on(according to grammar, there is an on, but cannot hear it) January 22nd. Benjamin Netanyahu told the visiting US senators today that he is determined²¹ to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapon. Israel has indicated that an military strike is possible if economic sanctions against Iran fail. Iran has long denied Israeli and Western claims of a nuclear weapon's program.

 

　　The US's biggest mortgage lender is posing a profit surge today. Wells Forgo²² said it earned nearly 5 billion dollars in final months of 2012. That's 25% higher than it was a year earlier .

 

　　I'm Lakshimi Singh, NPR news in Washington.

 

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1 countable   

adj.可数的，可以计算的

参考例句：

• The word "person" is a countable noun.person这个词是个可数名词。
• Countable nouns have singular and plural forms.可数名词有单数和复数之分。

2 component   

n.组成部分，成分，元件；adj.组成的，合成的

参考例句：

• Each component is carefully checked before assembly.每个零件在装配前都经过仔细检查。
• Blade and handle are the component parts of a knife.刀身和刀柄是一把刀的组成部分。

3 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

4 implemented   

v.实现( implement的过去式和过去分词 )；执行；贯彻；使生效

参考例句：

• This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper. 这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The economy is in danger of collapse unless far-reaching reforms are implemented. 如果不实施影响深远的改革，经济就面临崩溃的危险。 来自辞典例句

5 immunity   

n.优惠；免除；豁免，豁免权

参考例句：

• The law gives public schools immunity from taxation.法律免除公立学校的纳税义务。
• He claims diplomatic immunity to avoid being arrested.他要求外交豁免以便避免被捕。

6 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。

7 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

8 industrialist   

n.工业家，实业家

参考例句：

• The industrialist's son was kidnapped.这名实业家的儿子被绑架了。
• Mr.Smith was a wealthy industrialist,but he was not satisfied with life.史密斯先生是位富有的企业家，可他对生活感到不满意。

9 vista   

n.远景，深景，展望，回想

参考例句：

• From my bedroom window I looked out on a crowded vista of hills and rooftops.我从卧室窗口望去，远处尽是连绵的山峦和屋顶。
• These uprisings come from desperation and a vista of a future without hope.发生这些暴动是因为人们被逼上了绝路，未来看不到一点儿希望。

10 Ford   

n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过

参考例句：

• They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
• If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。

11 margins   

边( margin的名词复数 )； 利润； 页边空白； 差数

参考例句：

• They have always had to make do with relatively small profit margins. 他们不得不经常设法应付较少的利润额。
• To create more space between the navigation items, add left and right margins to the links. 在每个项目间留更多的空隙，加左或者右的margins来定义链接。

12 layoffs   

临时解雇( layoff的名词复数 )； 停工，停止活动

参考例句：

• Textile companies announced 2000 fresh layoffs last week. 各纺织公司上周宣布再次裁员两千人。
• Stock prices broke when the firm suddenly announced layoffs. 当公司突然宣布裁员时，股票价格便大跌

13 arbor   

n.凉亭；树木

参考例句：

• They sat in the arbor and chatted over tea.他们坐在凉亭里，边喝茶边聊天。
• You may have heard of Arbor Day at school.你可能在学校里听过植树节。

14 brutality   

n.野蛮的行为，残忍，野蛮

参考例句：

• The brutality of the crime has appalled the public. 罪行之残暴使公众大为震惊。
• a general who was infamous for his brutality 因残忍而恶名昭彰的将军

15 repression   

n.镇压，抑制，抑压

参考例句：

• The repression of your true feelings is harmful to your health.压抑你的真实感情有害健康。
• This touched off a new storm against violent repression.这引起了反对暴力镇压的新风暴。

16 intervention   

n.介入，干涉，干预

参考例句：

• The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
• Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。

17 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。

18 vowel   

n.元音；元音字母

参考例句：

• A long vowel is a long sound as in the word"shoe ".长元音即如“shoe” 一词中的长音。
• The vowel in words like 'my' and 'thigh' is not very difficult.单词my和thigh中的元音并不难发。

19 mandate   

n.托管地；命令，指示

参考例句：

• The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
• The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。

20 vowing   

起誓，发誓（vow的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild its collapsed bridge. 布什总统承诺将帮助明尼阿波利斯重建坍塌的大桥。
• President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild this collapse bridge. 布什总统发誓要帮助明尼阿波利斯重建起这座坍塌的桥梁。

21 determined   

adj.坚定的；有决心的

参考例句：

• I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
• He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。

22 forgo   

v.放弃，抛弃

参考例句：

• Time to prepare was a luxuary he would have to forgo.因为时间不够，他不得不放弃做准备工作。
• She would willingly forgo a birthday treat if only her warring parents would declare a truce.只要她的父母停止争吵，她愿意放弃生日宴请。