NPR 美国国家电台 2014-10-29

 Law enforcement officials are releasing new details about Friday shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck high school outside Seattle. Debral Wang from member station KUOW reports they let out how they believe the shooter got his five victims together before the attack.

 

Sihomish county Share of Tie Trinary says the shooter had taxed his five victims inviting¹ them to lunch. They were sitting at a table in a cafeteria when he shot them. Police have not named the shooter. But witnesses identified him as Jalen Friber, a popular student who had been crowned homecoming prince. The victims were his friends and two were cousins. Shere of Trinari says investigators² are still combing though phone and tax massages³.

 

But I think the question that everybody wants is why. And un candidly⁴ I don’t know that the why is gonna be something we can provide.

 

Trinari says the shooter used a forty caliber⁵ bered pistol which was purchase legally and registered to a family member. Police are trying to determine how Friber got the weapon. For NPR News I’m Deber Wang in Seattle.

 

In an effort to do what’s what is rapidly becoming a patch work of deferent state guidelines concerning those returning to the US from the Ebola-strict areas of West Africa. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is trying to come up with a set of uniform guidelines, the agency today calling for voluntary home quarantine for those most at risk of contracting Ebola. … might suffer a needle stick retend with Ebola patients without protective gear. The CDC is establishing four risk categories. 

 

UN Human Right Commission is expressing concerns about the rising number of executions in Iran. NPR’s Michel Telmen has more on a report being discussed at the UN.

 

The UN special repotour on the human rights situation in Iraq Ahmad Chehe says there has been a surge in executions in Iran with more than 852 since June of last year. He also criticizes Iran for carrying out a death sentence against a woman, convicted of killing⁶ a man who she says was sexually assaulting her.

 

I was shocked all the weekend for execution of Miss Rihani Jabarei have raised issues about a trak of conviction and have a satisfactory reply with you got to the points raised. Essentially⁷ about the fiannas of the trial that she was given. 

 

The US also condemns⁸ Iran for carrying out the execution despite an international outcry. Michel Kelimen NPR News, Washington.

 

A lava⁹ flow from Hawaii’s Kilo Weio volcano has been creeping slowly toward a more build-up area of the big island. Dozens of people in the path of the lava flow were preparing for a possible evacuation according to the Whai county civil defence. Jenny Babs geolos… geologist¹⁰ with the US geological service, whying volcano observatories¹¹ says the lava flow has been picking up speed. 

 

It is now just a recicular duralts from Pola village road which is the main road through the village.

 

That’s cause officials to close the roads all but local officials.

 

On Wall Street today, a mix showing the DOW was up 12 points to end the session, it’s 16,817. The Nasdaq rose 2 points. The Standard and Poor’s 500 lost 2 points. You’re listening to NPR News in Washington.

 

An Australian drug company is announcing it has agreed to pay just over a quarter of a billion dollars for one of artist flu vaccine¹² business. CSO Limited announcing the deal will make the company the second biggest flu vaccine maker¹³ in the world that combine the revenues of could top of a billion dollars when the next uni five years. It was a company nobody says it expects to ship around 60 million doses of flu vaccine worldwide during this year’s flu season.

 

And a study released today finds the number of bicycle riders being killed in collisions with cars is up 16%. NPR’s Sam Sanders reports men was the vast majority of the deaths. 

 

The Governor’s Highway Safety Association found that over 700 bicyclists died from collisions with motor vehicles in 2012. Two-thirds of bike riders in that number weren’t wearing helmets. And one in four were alcoholic¹⁴ peierd. Doc Alan Wolims offer the state, and he says the age of bicyclists dying in this kind of crashes is changing.

 

People weigh back as far as they can which would be 1975. There were mostly children who were killed as bikers. And now it’s mostly adults and mostly adult males -- about three quarters of fatalities¹⁵.

 

In 2012, California had had the highest number of cyclists die from crashes with motor vehicles. Sam Sanders, NPR News.

 

Once more or less an American phenomenon -- large model SUVs are now starting to go global, on the spike¹⁶ in gas prices during the financial crisis had made it look like the vehicles were on their way out. It seems better economic times as well as wealthy buyers in Asian, South America helping¹⁷ to fuel in an SUV resurgent. Over this year SUVs have overtook four-door sedans was the first time is most popular vehicles for individual buyers in the US. In 2018, many analysts¹⁸ believe China will be the biggest market for SUVs in the world.

1 inviting   

adj.诱人的，引人注目的

参考例句：

• An inviting smell of coffee wafted into the room.一股诱人的咖啡香味飘进了房间。
• The kitchen smelled warm and inviting and blessedly familiar.这间厨房的味道温暖诱人，使人感到亲切温馨。

2 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 massages   

按摩，推拿( massage的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• At present the doctor is giving him daily massages to help restore the function of his limbs. 目前医生每天在给他按摩，帮助他恢复腿臂的功能。
• His father massages his nose and chin. 他爸爸揉了揉鼻子和下巴。

4 candidly   

adv.坦率地，直率而诚恳地

参考例句：

• He has stopped taking heroin now,but admits candidly that he will always be a drug addict.他眼下已经不再吸食海洛因了,不过他坦言自己永远都是个瘾君子。
• Candidly,David,I think you're being unreasonable.大卫，说实话我认为你不讲道理。

5 caliber   

n.能力；水准

参考例句：

• They ought to win with players of such high caliber.他们选手的能力这样高,应该获胜。
• We are always trying to improve the caliber of our schools.我们一直在想方设法提高我们学校的水平。

6 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

7 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

8 condemns   

v.（通常因道义上的原因而）谴责( condemn的第三人称单数 )；宣判；宣布…不能使用；迫使…陷于不幸的境地

参考例句：

• Her widowhood condemns her to a lonely old age. 守寡使她不得不过着孤独的晚年生活。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The public opinion condemns prostitution. 公众舆论遣责卖淫。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

9 lava   

n.熔岩，火山岩

参考例句：

• The lava flowed down the sides of the volcano.熔岩沿火山坡面涌流而下。
• His anger spilled out like lava.他的愤怒像火山爆发似的迸发出来。

10 geologist   

n.地质学家

参考例句：

• The geologist found many uncovered fossils in the valley.在那山谷里，地质学家发现了许多裸露的化石。
• He was a geologist,rated by his cronies as the best in the business.他是一位地质学家，被他的老朋友们看做是这门行当中最好的一位。

11 observatories   

n.天文台，气象台( observatory的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• John Heilbron, The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories, 3-23. 约翰．海耳布隆，《教会里的太阳：教堂即太阳观测台》，第3-23页。 来自互联网
• Meteorologists use satellites, land observatories and historical data to provide information about the weather. 气象学家使用卫星、上天文台和历史资料来提供有关天气的信息。 来自互联网

12 vaccine   

n.牛痘苗，疫苗；adj.牛痘的，疫苗的

参考例句：

• The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
• She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。

13 maker   

n.制造者，制造商

参考例句：

• He is a trouble maker，You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼，你不要跟他在一起。
• A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。

14 alcoholic   

adj.（含）酒精的，由酒精引起的；n.酗酒者

参考例句：

• The alcoholic strength of brandy far exceeds that of wine.白兰地的酒精浓度远远超过葡萄酒。
• Alcoholic drinks act as a poison to a child.酒精饮料对小孩犹如毒药。

15 fatalities   

n.恶性事故( fatality的名词复数 )；死亡；致命性；命运

参考例句：

• Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. 有几个人受伤，但没有人死亡。
• The accident resulted in fatalities. 那宗意外道致多人死亡。 来自《简明英汉词典》

16 spike   

n.长钉，钉鞋；v.以大钉钉牢，使...失效

参考例句：

• The spike pierced the receipts and held them in order.那个钉子穿过那些收据并使之按顺序排列。
• They'll do anything to spike the guns of the opposition.他们会使出各种手段来挫败对手。

17 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。

18 analysts   

分析家，化验员( analyst的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
• I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。