NPR美国国家公共电台 2013-01-21

　　From NPR News, I'm Nora Raum.

 

　　President Obama's second term is officially underway after a private ceremony this morning at the White House.

 

　　Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.

 

　　I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear

 

　　I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear

 

　　that I will faithfully execute

 

　　that I will faithfully execute

 

　　the office of President of the United States

 

　　the office of President of the United States

 

　　Chief Justice John Roberson administers the oath of office. The Constitution requires the president take the oath before noon on January 20. He and Roberson will repeat the process tomorrow in front of hundreds of thousands of people at the public ceremony outside the US capital.

 

　　Algerian bomb-disposal teams are searching through the gas plant in the Sahara following the end of a four-day siege there. Officials say another 25 bodies have been found. It's not clear whether they're hostages or militants¹. As of yesterday, 23 foreign hostages were killed. But Algerian officials had expected that number to rise. NPR's Phillip Reeves has more.

 

　　Algerian forces are combing through the vast gas complex for explosives some booby traps. Reports say they found guns, grenades and suicide jackets. Now the Associated Press says they found more corpses². The Agency says it has been told by an unnamed security official that Algerian bomb squads³ have found numerous new bodies. The source reportedly said they are too badly disfigured to identify and could be either Algerian or foreign hostages. According to the Algerian Interior Ministry⁴, 32 Islamist militants were killed during the siege which began when they stormed the gas plant seizing many hostages and threatening to blow up the place. Phillip Reeves, NPR News, London.

 

　　In Afghanistan, a new report by the United Nations says torture and abuse continue to be widespread in Afghan-run Detention⁵ Centers. NPR's Shorn Carberry reports as a result of the findings, NATO has suspended transferring detainees to some Afghan facilities.

 

　　Despite a variety of new protocols⁶ and training measures by Afghan Security Forces, the UN says allegations of torture increased in a number of facilities compared to the previous year. Overall, the report found that half the detainees interviewed over a one-year period provided credible⁷ evidence of ill-treatment, most often physical abuse to coerce⁸ confessions⁹. One UN official involved in the study said that there is a persistent¹⁰ lack of accountability for perpetrators of torture with few investigations¹¹ and no prosecutions¹². The Afghan government claims the level of torture in the report is exaggerated. Shorn Carberry, NPR News, Kabul.

 

　　Military officials in Yemen say at least eight suspected al-Qaeda militants were killed in Yemen last night in two drone strikes believed to have been carried out by the US. The attacks were in the southern part of the country where al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is active. Western governments consider that group to be one of the most active and dangerous wings of al-Qaeda.

 

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　　The trial of five men accused of the rape¹³ and murder of a woman on a bus in New Delhi last month is scheduled to begin tomorrow. It's to take place in a special fast-track court set up for this case. A sixth suspect will be tried in a juvenile¹⁴ court. Authorities say 40 rapes¹⁵ have been reported in the last two weeks of the year after the December 16 gang rape of the 23-year-old student.

 

　　Accused online pirate, Kim Dotcom has launched a new file-sharing website. Stewart Cowen reports from Sydney. The new site went online a year after Dotcom was arrested in New Zealand.

 

　　It's been exactly one year since US authority shut down Megaupload, one of the world's largest file-sharing websites. New Zealand police raided the home of its founder¹⁶, Kim Dotcom, arresting him and several other his associates. But the case has slowly been falling apart in New Zealand courts as the US tries to have Dotcom extradited. Now he has launched a new file-sharing website based in New Zealand called Mega. Dotcom's lawyer says they are satisfied that the website is perfectly¹⁷ legal. It features state-of-the-art encryption so that only users know what's being uploaded that could stop authorities from accusing the site of aiding online piracy¹⁸, the key allegation in the Megaupload case. Dotcom claims the site's registered more than half a million users in its first 14 hours. For NPR News, I am Stewart Cowen in Sydney.

 

　　By the end of the day, we should know which teams are going to the Super Bowl. The Atlanta Falcons¹⁹ are hosting San Francisco 49ers to determine the winner of the NFC championship. That game is getting underway right now. Later Baltimore Ravens²⁰ will play the New England Patriots²¹ in Massachusetts for the AFC championship. The winners will meet on February 3 in the Super Bowl.

 

　　I am Nora Raum, NPR News.

1 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

2 corpses   

n.死尸，尸体( corpse的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The living soldiers put corpses together and burned them. 活着的战士把尸体放在一起烧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Overhead, grayish-white clouds covered the sky, piling up heavily like decaying corpses. 天上罩满了灰白的薄云，同腐烂的尸体似的沉沉的盖在那里。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说

3 squads   

n.（军队中的）班( squad的名词复数 )；（暗杀）小组；体育运动的运动（代表）队；（对付某类犯罪活动的）警察队伍

参考例句：

• Anti-riot squads were called out to deal with the situation. 防暴队奉命出动以对付这一局势。 来自辞典例句
• Three squads constitute a platoon. 三个班组成一个排。 来自辞典例句

4 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

5 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。

6 protocols   

n.礼仪( protocol的名词复数 )；（外交条约的）草案；（数据传递的）协议；科学实验报告（或计划）

参考例句：

• There are also protocols on the testing of nuclear weapons. 也有关于核武器试验的协议。 来自辞典例句
• Hardware components and software design of network transport protocols are separately introduced. 介绍系统硬件组成及网络传输协议的软件设计。 来自互联网

7 credible   

adj.可信任的，可靠的

参考例句：

• The news report is hardly credible.这则新闻报道令人难以置信。
• Is there a credible alternative to the nuclear deterrent?是否有可以取代核威慑力量的可靠办法？

8 coerce   

v.强迫，压制

参考例句：

• You can't coerce her into obedience.你不能强制她服从。
• Do you think there is any way that we can coerce them otherwise?你认为我们有什么办法强迫他们不那样吗？

9 confessions   

n.承认( confession的名词复数 )；自首；声明；（向神父的）忏悔

参考例句：

• It is strictly forbidden to obtain confessions and to give them credence. 严禁逼供信。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Neither trickery nor coercion is used to secure confessions. 既不诱供也不逼供。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

10 persistent   

adj.坚持不懈的，执意的；持续的

参考例句：

• Albert had a persistent headache that lasted for three days.艾伯特连续头痛了三天。
• She felt embarrassed by his persistent attentions.他不时地向她大献殷勤，使她很难为情。

11 investigations   

（正式的）调查( investigation的名词复数 )； 侦查； 科学研究； 学术研究

参考例句：

• His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
• He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。

12 prosecutions   

起诉( prosecution的名词复数 )； 原告； 实施； 从事

参考例句：

• It is the duty of the Attorney-General to institute prosecutions. 检察总长负责提起公诉。
• Since World War II, the government has been active in its antitrust prosecutions. 第二次世界大战以来，政府积极地进行着反对托拉斯的检举活动。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件

13 rape   

n.抢夺，掠夺，强奸；vt.掠夺，抢夺，强奸

参考例句：

• The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
• He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。

14 juvenile   

n.青少年，少年读物；adj.青少年的，幼稚的

参考例句：

• For a grown man he acted in a very juvenile manner.身为成年人，他的行为举止显得十分幼稚。
• Juvenile crime is increasing at a terrifying rate.青少年犯罪正在以惊人的速度增长。

15 rapes   

n.芸苔( rape的名词复数 )；强奸罪；强奸案；肆意损坏v.以暴力夺取，强夺( rape的第三人称单数 )；强奸

参考例句：

• The man who had committed several rapes was arrested. 那个犯了多起强奸案的男人被抓起来了。 来自辞典例句
• The incidence of reported rapes rose 0.8 percent. 美国联邦调查局还发布了两份特别报告。 来自互联网

16 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

17 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

18 piracy   

n.海盗行为，剽窃，著作权侵害

参考例句：

• The government has already adopted effective measures against piracy.政府已采取有效措施惩治盗版行为。
• They made the place a notorious centre of piracy.他们把这地方变成了臭名昭著的海盗中心。

19 falcons   

n.猎鹰( falcon的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Peregrine falcons usually pluck the feathers and strip the flesh off their bird prey. 游隼捕到鸟类猎物时，通常是先拔掉它们的羽毛，再把肉撕下来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Though he doubted the wisdom of using falcons, Dr. de la Fuente undertook the project. 虽然德·拉·富恩特博士怀疑使用游隼是否明智，但他还是执行了这项计划。 来自辞典例句

20 ravens   

n.低质煤；渡鸦( raven的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Wheresoever the carcase is,there will the ravens be gathered together. 哪里有死尸，哪里就有乌鸦麇集。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• A couple of ravens croaked above our boat. 两只乌鸦在我们小船的上空嘎嘎叫着。 来自辞典例句

21 patriots   

爱国者，爱国主义者( patriot的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Abraham Lincoln was a fine type of the American patriots. 亚伯拉罕·林肯是美国爱国者的优秀典型。
• These patriots would fight to death before they surrendered. 这些爱国者宁愿战斗到死，也不愿投降。