NPR美国国家公共电台 2013-02-17

　　From NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Raum.

 

　　A bomb exploded at a busy market in southwest Pakistan today. Police say at least 63 people were killed, at least 180 others were wounded. The attack occured in a Shiah Muslim neighborhood in the city of Quetta, which has been targeted several times in recent months by hardline Sunnite militants¹.

 

　　On March 1st to cross the board spending cuts that will reduce federal spending by 85 billion dollars beginning to take effect. NPR's Brian Naylor reports the Obama administration is starting to sound the warning bell.

 

　　What's known as a sequestration in Washington speaker will cut domestic spending by 5% and the defence budget by about 8%, its effects will be widespread, any government employees will face temporary layoffs² or full loads. Air travellers may be confronted with longer lines at security because of fewer TA screeners and then delays in getting off ground due to fewer air traffic controllers. Homeland security says there will be fewer boots on the ground patrolling the border with Mexico. The fillers won't happen overnight. Senate democrats⁴ will take up a proposal later this month to replace the sequestra with more agreed cuts and higher tax on millionaire, but with republicans supposed the plan is expected to fail. Brian Naylor NPR News, Washington.

 

　　Republican congresswomen, Martha Roby, claims the president and senate democrats are using the sequester⁵, as a way to push through another tax increase.

 

　　It is a shame that a commander in chief is using the military he weighs, as leverage⁶ for an ideological⁷ crusade for higher taxes. These games have to stop.

 

　　The weekly republican address will be said the president should replace the automatic cuts with more responsible spending cuts. She said the republican led the house has already vote twice on such bills. But the democrat³ controlled senate has failed to act. Both the house and the senate are in recess⁸ all next week.

 

　　Federal inspectors⁹ and repair crews are getting their first look aboard disabled Carnival¹⁰ cruise ship Triumph. The vessel¹¹ is in the port of Mobile, Alabama, after 4,000 passengers spent almost a week at sea without power. Pat Duggins of Alabama public radio has more.

 

　　Repair team inspecting the engines and electric systems which failed while the Triumph was off Mexico Yucatan peninsula, cleaning crews are also removing the raw sewages in the hall ways. Jimmy Lyons is the head of Alabama state port authority, he says Carnival has cancells up to 15 voyages for the Triumph, which means it could be April before the ship sets sail again.

 

　　Those voyages are making student forward in five-day voyage, so you can get to do the math on that on, and, you talk about a couple of months sending ill.

 

　　All of the work under the supervision¹² of the national transportation safety board, and inspectors from the Bahamas where the Triumph was registered. For NPR News, I'm Pat Duggins.

 

　　A month long school bus strike in New York city is over. Union leaders say they've been assured by several mayor hopefuls. That concerns about job security would be considered. The current mayor said the city won't be held hostage by the union. This is NPR.

 

　　A spokesman for the Vaticn says the Roman Catholic church is considering whether it can call a conclave¹³ to elect a new pope sooner than March 15th. Pope Benedit is expected to resign February 28th. The rule say a conclave should be called 15 days after a vacancy¹⁴ to allow cardinals¹⁵ enough time to get to Rome. But since the cardinals know now though be needed, a sooner day may be possible.

 

　　Cleanup is underway in Russia, a meteorite¹⁶ exploded yesterday over the Euro mountains. It blew out windows in more than 4,000 buildings. Some 1,200 people were injured, most by flying glass. Russia apparently¹⁷ is in the only place to have been visited by bright light in the sky this week. NPR's Allison Keyes explains.

 

　　Dozens remain hospitalized and some 1,200 were hurt, mostly by flying glass, when a meteorite exploded in the sky over Russia yesterday. Now a space center in San Francisco says its sky calls about the straight of light in the sky that appeared last night. JoetHamlingxx, told KGO TV,

 

　　The sites like a big, like a flahs of lighting¹⁸.

 

　　And in Cuba, residents in the city of Rodastxxx, told the website Cubasite, they saw a bright light in the sky earlier in the week and feel to large explosion. AllenHellxx, at the German air space center says,

 

　　I think in the future, we might be confronted with increasing number of incidents like this.

 

　　He says that's because more and more of earth surface has covered by cities. Allison Keyes NPR News.

 

　　THe supreme¹⁹ leader of Iran said today his country is not building nuclear weapons, but it could if it wanna to. AltolaAlekminixx, said in his website, that Iran believes that all nuclear weapons must be abolished. But he said that if Iran intends to build them, the US couldn't  stop it.

 

　　I'm NOra Raum, NPR news in Washington.

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 layoffs   

临时解雇( layoff的名词复数 )； 停工，停止活动

参考例句：

• Textile companies announced 2000 fresh layoffs last week. 各纺织公司上周宣布再次裁员两千人。
• Stock prices broke when the firm suddenly announced layoffs. 当公司突然宣布裁员时，股票价格便大跌

3 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。

4 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 sequester   

vt.使退隐，使隔绝

参考例句：

• Everything he owned was sequestered.他的所有财产都被扣押了。
• This jury is expected to be sequestered for at least two months.预计这个陪审团将至少被隔离两个月。

6 leverage   

n.力量，影响；杠杆作用，杠杆的力量

参考例句：

• We'll have to use leverage to move this huge rock.我们不得不借助杠杆之力来移动这块巨石。
• He failed in the project because he could gain no leverage. 因为他没有影响力，他的计划失败了。

7 ideological   

a.意识形态的

参考例句：

• He always tries to link his study with his ideological problems. 他总是把学习和自己的思想问题联系起来。
• He helped me enormously with advice on how to do ideological work. 他告诉我怎样做思想工作，对我有很大帮助。

8 recess   

n.短期休息，壁凹（墙上装架子，柜子等凹处）

参考例句：

• The chairman of the meeting announced a ten-minute recess.会议主席宣布休会10分钟。
• Parliament was hastily recalled from recess.休会的议员被匆匆召回开会。

9 inspectors   

n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 )；（英国公共汽车或火车上的）查票员；（警察）巡官；检阅官

参考例句：

• They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过，通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 carnival   

n.嘉年华会，狂欢，狂欢节，巡回表演

参考例句：

• I got some good shots of the carnival.我有几个狂欢节的精彩镜头。
• Our street puts on a carnival every year.我们街的居民每年举行一次嘉年华会。

11 vessel   

n.船舶；容器，器皿；管，导管，血管

参考例句：

• The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
• You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。

12 supervision   

n.监督，管理

参考例句：

• The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
• The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。

13 conclave   

n.秘密会议，红衣主教团

参考例句：

• Signore,I ask and I prey,that you break this conclave.各位阁下，我请求，并祈祷，你们能停止这次秘密会议。
• I met my partner at that conclave and my life moved into a huge shift.我就是在那次大会上遇到了我的伴侣的，而我的生活就转向了一个巨大的改变。

14 vacancy   

n.（旅馆的）空位，空房，（职务的）空缺

参考例句：

• Her going on maternity leave will create a temporary vacancy.她休产假时将会有一个临时空缺。
• The vacancy of her expression made me doubt if she was listening.她茫然的神情让我怀疑她是否在听。

15 cardinals   

红衣主教( cardinal的名词复数 )； 红衣凤头鸟（见于北美，雄鸟为鲜红色）； 基数

参考例句：

• cardinals in scarlet robes 身披红袍的枢机主教
• A conclave of cardinals was held to elect the new Pope. 红衣主教团举行了秘密会议来选举新教皇。

16 meteorite   

n.陨石；流星

参考例句：

• The meteorite in Jilin Exhibition Hall is believed to be the largest in the world.吉林展览馆的陨石被认为是世界上最大的。
• The famous Murchison meteorite smashed into the Australian ground in 1969.1969年著名的默奇森陨石轰然坠落在澳大利亚。

17 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

18 lighting   

n.照明，光线的明暗，舞台灯光

参考例句：

• The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
• The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。

19 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。