NPR美国国家公共电台 NPR 2013-11-25

 The national weather service is issuing winter storm, warning across the southwest as ice conditions and flooding rehabbed on the region. NPR’s Sam Sanders reports the storm is expected to continue moving across the country over the next few days.

 

The storm has already led the flooding, high winds, low temperatures and heavy snow in several states. New Mexico would be one of hardest hit areas this weekend with slowing icy conditions. New Mexico emergency management spokesman Estevan Lujan says the state wide effort is underway to prepare for the storm.

 

The state police are actively¹ monitoring all highways and interstates, just make sure that condition in state if there are incomplete or impossible that closing the roads.

 

The storm is responsible for at least four deaths, three in California and one in Arizona. The weather system is expected to move to the southeast over the next two days and end up on the east coast where it should die out just before Thanksgiving. Sam Sanders, NPR News.

 

Delegates at UN climate talks in Poland reached a last minute compromised today. This is after discussions deadlock² when China and India arguing that the developing nations should not have to commit to cutting the same among of greenhouse gas emissions³ as developed nations. From Warsaw, the BBC’s Matt McGrath reports that is one compromise among many aimed a larger global deal in 2014. 

 

After an hour long huddling⁴ at the corner of the hall, a compromise was found where the word “contributions” was substituted for “commitments”. It may seem like trivial detail but it allows the richer countries to continue to claim that a new deal will apply to all, while for India and China it allows them to maintain that their obligations will be very different from the likes of the US and the European Union. This was a key moment of compromise, but many others will be required before the work is done in Warsaw. A new deal in Paris is still a very long way away.

 

The BBC’s Matt McGrath.

 

Delegates to Afghanistan’s Grand Assembly Loya Jirga say they expect to overwhelmingly approve security agreement that allow US troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014. NPR’s Sean Carberry reports the 2,500 delegates concluded deliberations today and are due to deliver their final reports tomorrow.

 

Delegate Said Jawad, the former ambassador to the US, says there was heated debate in his committee over some provisions of the agreement. Still all the provisions passed, including one placing American troops under US legal Jurisdiction⁵. 

 

 

Although for 36 members, four members verdict against it, surprisingly majority of the support came from the area that most of the fighting are taking place.

 

NNNN who give only one name says her committee has a message for President Hamid Karzai who announces he would not sign the agreement until after the presidential election next April.

 

We need to sign that, we need to sign that now.

 

Other delegate say they will not perfect to agreement is good for Afghanistan. Sean Carberry NPR News, Kabul.

 

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In northwest Pakistan, thousands of demonstrators turn out today to protest US drone strikes. They blocked crucial road that NATO used it to ferry supplies and equipment in and out of Pakistan. Meanwhile a legal battle is taking shape in Pakistan over the doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin⁶ Laden⁷. From Islamabad, NPR’s Philip Reeves reports Shakil Afridi is charged with murder. 

 

The murder charge against Afridi stems from allegations involving a teenage boy who died after the doctor operated on him. The boy’s mother filed complaint. The boy actually died in 2006 and Afridi’s lawyers want to know why it is taking so long for the accusation⁸ to surface. They are vowing⁹ to put up Afridi’s legal battle. The doctor has already been sentenced to 33 years in jail over allegations of military links but that verdict was recently overturned as unsound. He still in prison though, awaiting a retrial. Afridi’s case is adding to the friction¹⁰ between Washington and Islamabad. US official preached he was a hero for his role in helping¹¹ track down Bin Laden and to press for the doctor’s release. Philip Reeves, NPR News, Islamabad.

 

In Venezuela, thousands of protestors took to the streets, expressing outrage¹² over food shortages and soaring inflation. They are also protesting a new law that allows the country socialist¹³ President Nicolas Maduro to rule by decree on economic matters. Maduro is blaming speculators for the more than 50% inflation and he has been ordering stores to drastically reduce prices. Opposition¹⁴ leader Henrique Capriles who narrowly lose April’s presidential election to Maduro called the day of protests ridiculous.

1 actively   

adv.积极地，勤奋地

参考例句：

• During this period all the students were actively participating.在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
• We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel.我们正在积极调解争执。

2 deadlock   

n.僵局，僵持

参考例句：

• The negotiations reached a deadlock after two hours.两小时后，谈判陷入了僵局。
• The employers and strikers are at a deadlock over the wage.雇主和罢工者在工资问题上相持不下。

3 emissions   

排放物( emission的名词复数 )； 散发物（尤指气体）

参考例句：

• Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
• Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。

4 huddling   

n. 杂乱一团, 混乱, 拥挤 v. 推挤, 乱堆, 草率了事

参考例句：

• Twenty or thirty monkeys are huddling along the thick branch. 三十只猴子挤在粗大的树枝上。
• The defenders are huddling down for cover. 捍卫者为了掩护缩成一团。

5 jurisdiction   

n.司法权，审判权，管辖权，控制权

参考例句：

• It doesn't lie within my jurisdiction to set you free.我无权将你释放。
• Changzhou is under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province.常州隶属江苏省。

6 bin   

n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件

参考例句：

• He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
• He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。

7 laden   

adj.装满了的；充满了的；负了重担的；苦恼的

参考例句：

• He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
• Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。

8 accusation   

n.控告，指责，谴责

参考例句：

• I was furious at his making such an accusation.我对他的这种责备非常气愤。
• She knew that no one would believe her accusation.她知道没人会相信她的指控。

9 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。

10 friction   

n.摩擦，摩擦力

参考例句：

• When Joan returned to work,the friction between them increased.琼回来工作后，他们之间的摩擦加剧了。
• Friction acts on moving bodies and brings them to a stop.摩擦力作用于运动着的物体，并使其停止。

11 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

12 outrage   

n.暴行，侮辱，愤怒；vt.凌辱，激怒

参考例句：

• When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
• We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。

13 socialist   

n.社会主义者；adj.社会主义的

参考例句：

• China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家，也是一个发展中国家。
• His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。

14 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。