美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-06-19

 I am Anderson Copper¹. Welcome to the podcast. Cancer charity has spend most of your donations on themselve. Their response to expose. Also the ¡°RidicuList.¡± Let¡¯s get started.

Last week, after profiling three so-called cancer charities that seems only care about their profits.  I challenged the people who run them to come on the program or talk to our correspondent Drew Griffin. Let them explain I said facts uncovered by Drew. The Tampa Bay Times and the Center for Investigative Reporting facts that show these so-called charities to be abusing and squandering² your hard-earned donations like none we have ever seen before.

Drive down these country roads outside Knoxville, Tennessee and into this small industrial park. And you will find headquarters of the family conglomerate³ of cancer charities that return lavish⁴ salariese to their owners but according to their own taxes record donate very little to dying cancer patients and the last  thing the people running this chairity want to do is answer questions.

Don't turn your camera on me, ok?

Across the country in Mesa, Arizona, another outpost of conglomerate. It's called the breast cancer society. Its CEO, an executive director, the man escaping into the truck. James Reynolds Jr.

Excuse me, sir, Mr. Reynolds. Back in Knoxville, there is another cancer charity, the Children's Cancer Fund of America, and this one run by yet another member of the family, Rose Perkins.

Hi. Is Rose Perkins in? She's not available and she's not doing any interviews. Rose Perkins did e-mail us and tell us her charity has clear conscience because we feel we are making a good difference in people's lives. But also told us the interview is not something we can consider. That maybe because of the question we would like to ask her and the other members of her extended family who are essentially⁵ making a living on your donations.Rose Perkins, the CEO of the Children's Cancer Fund, is paid $227,442 a year. Her ex-husband, James Reynolds Sr., is president and CEO of Cancer Fund of America. He gets paid $236,815. And James Reynolds Jr., president and CEO of the Breast Cancer Society, has a salary of $261,609. It's money that comes from donors⁶ like you who in 2011 sent these three charities $26 million in cash. How much of those donations actually went to helping⁷ cancer patients? According to the charity's own tax records, about 2 percent in cash.

1 copper   

n.铜；铜币；铜器；adj.铜(制)的；(紫)铜色的

参考例句：

• The students are asked to prove the purity of copper.要求学生们检验铜的纯度。
• Copper is a good medium for the conduction of heat and electricity.铜是热和电的良导体。

2 squandering   

v.（指钱，财产等）浪费，乱花( squander的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• You're faced with ending it all, of squandering what was given. 把到手的东西就这样随随便便弄掉。 来自辞典例句
• I see all this potential And I see squandering. 你们的潜力都被浪费了。 来自互联网

3 conglomerate   

n.综合商社，多元化集团公司

参考例句：

• The firm has been taken over by an American conglomerate.该公司已被美国一企业集团接管。
• An American conglomerate holds a major share in the company.一家美国的大联合企业持有该公司的大部分股份。

4 lavish   

adj.无节制的；浪费的；vt.慷慨地给予，挥霍

参考例句：

• He despised people who were lavish with their praises.他看不起那些阿谀奉承的人。
• The sets and costumes are lavish.布景和服装极尽奢华。

5 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。

6 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 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。