PBS高端访谈:海岸警卫队遭受政府关门影响

JUDY WOODRUFF: And for more on what the government shutdown means in practical terms, an update now on the U.S. Coast Guard. More than 42,000 Coast Guard personnel missed a paycheck earlier this month, making it the only branch of the U.S. military to work without pay. That's because the Coast Guard is funded by the Department of Homeland Security, whose funding is tied up in the shutdown debate. Yet crews are still deploying¹ on national security operations. Tweet, Coast Guard Commandant Karl Schultz wrote: Our USCG members sail across the world to protect U.S. national interests, while their loved ones cope with financial challenges and no pay at home. He also tweeted out this video produced by the Coast Guard. It included this message from Vice² Admiral Linda Fagan, a Pacific area commander.

VICE ADM. LINDA FAGAN, U.S. Coast Guard: During these uncertain times of the lapse³ of appropriations⁴ of the government shutdown, I know it's hard for these crews to be leaving behind their dependents and spouses⁵. So thousand times more so when everybody's wondering when their next paycheck will be and how they can support the family that they are leaving behind. There has been an incredible outpouring of support for the families here, here in the Alameda region, but the tension and the anxiety for the crew is real.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Without legislative⁶ action, or an end to the partial shutdown, Coast Guard members will miss their second paycheck on January 30th, and retirees will start missing out on benefits next month. Virginia U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat⁷, spoke⁸ on the Senate floor today about the Coast Guard.

SEN. TIM KAINE (D), Virginia: They're deploying for multiple months and they're saying goodbye to their families, but their families who live in and around Alameda, it's not necessarily cheap, they're gonna have to keep paying rent bills and things while their Coastie, as they call themselves, is deployed⁹, and yet they're not being paid.

JUDY WOODRUFF: According to the Coast Guard, an estimated 31 percent of active-duty members do not have enough money in an emergency savings¹⁰ fund to cover one month's worth of expenses.

朱迪·伍德拉夫：今天的节目将为大家介绍政府停摆的实际影响，并向大家汇报美国海岸警卫队的最新情况。4.2万多名海岸警卫队队员本月初都没拿到工资，成为美国军队里唯一没拿到工资的部门。这是因为海岸警卫队的资金由国土安全部提供，而国土安全部的资金因为政府停摆的讨论而无法使用。但海岸警卫队还在执行国家安全任务。在一则推文中，海岸警卫队司令官舒尔茨写道，我们海岸警卫队的队员们在世界各地的海域上航行，只为守护美国利益，但他们爱的人却捉襟见肘，揭不开锅。他还在推文中放上了海岸警卫队制作的这则视频。其中，太平洋地区的司令、海军中将琳达·费根也传递了这样的信息。

海军中将，琳达·费根，美国海军警卫队：现在有很多未知数，又值政府停摆、资金无法划拨的时期，我知道队员们很难抛下家中的妻儿不管。而当所有人都在担心下个月的工资什么时候会发以及是否能供养家中老小的时候，这种感觉就更是强烈。虽然阿拉米达地区的队员都有家人们的鼎力支持，但他们依然十分焦虑紧张。

朱迪·伍德拉夫：如果不采取法律行动，也无法停止政府停摆的话，海军警卫队的队员们1月30日也拿不到第二个月的工资，退休队员下个月也会拿不到工资。弗吉尼亚州参议员、民主党议员蒂姆·凯伊妮今天提及了海军警卫队。

参议员，蒂姆·凯伊妮，弗吉尼亚州：海军警卫队的队员们部署了几个月了，一直见不到家人。但他们的家人都住在阿拉米达及其附近地区，生活成本可不低。他们既要一直付房租，也有生活费用，而作为海军警卫队队员的家人却要执行任务，而且拿不到工资。

朱迪·伍德拉夫：根据海军警卫队的数据，大概有31%在执行任务的队员没有足够的钱应对紧急状况，也无法支付每个月的开支。

1 deploying   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的现在分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Provides support for developing and deploying distributed, component-based applications. 为开发和部署基于组件的分布式应用程序提供支持。
• Advertisement, publishing, repair, and install-on-demand are all available when deploying your application. 在部署应用程序时提供公布、发布、修复和即需即装功能。

2 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。

3 lapse   

n.过失，流逝，失效，抛弃信仰，间隔；vi.堕落，停止，失效，流逝；vt.使失效

参考例句：

• The incident was being seen as a serious security lapse.这一事故被看作是一次严重的安全疏忽。
• I had a lapse of memory.我记错了。

4 appropriations   

n.挪用（appropriation的复数形式）

参考例句：

• More commonly, funding controls are imposed in the annual appropriations process. 更普遍的作法是，拨款控制被规定在年度拨款手续中。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
• Should the president veto the appropriations bill, it goes back to Congress. 假如总统否决了这项拨款提案，就把它退还给国会。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件

5 spouses   

n.配偶，夫或妻( spouse的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Jobs are available for spouses on campus and in the community. 校园里和社区里有配偶可做的工作。 来自辞典例句
• An astonishing number of spouses-most particularly in the upper-income brackets-have no close notion of their husbands'paychecks. 相当大一部分妇女——特别在高收入阶层——并不很了解他们丈夫的薪金。 来自辞典例句

6 legislative   

n.立法机构，立法权；adj.立法的，有立法权的

参考例句：

• Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.国会是美国政府的立法部门。
• Today's hearing was just the first step in the legislative process.今天的听证会只是展开立法程序的第一步。

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 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

9 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

10 savings   

n.存款，储蓄

参考例句：

• I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假，那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
• By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时，他的存款已全部用完。