NPR 美国国家电台 2014-10-05

 The Islamic extremist group, calling itself Islamic State, has released another video, showing the beheading of a hostage. In a video, a man identified is British citizen Alan Henning. Kneeled in front of a knife-wielding, black-clad man who let introduce another hostage identifies as an American. Ken¹ Pewlkus is a senior fellow to Brookings Institution. He says well the videos are aimed to scare the US could be having opposite effect. 

"In many ways I think that's a reinforcing to most the Americans the horrific nature of this group in west is so important that the US be dealing² with situations in Iraq and Syria across this group and eliminate the prospect³ of the new groups like it taking their place."

In a statement, president Obama condemned⁴ what he called "the brutal⁵ murder of beheading". British Prime Minister David Cameron said the slay⁶ shows "how barbaric and repulsive⁷ these terrorists are."

 

Texas health officials have narrowed to 15 number of people that following who may have been in a contact with Dallas Ebola patient. Bill Zibble with Number Station KERA in Dallas reports that's half the number they were initially⁸ watching. 

Doctor David Lakey, Commissioner⁹ of State Services, says the idea is to cast a wide net when trying to find out who might have come in contact with Thomas Eric Duncan. Thursday, the number was a hundred. Lakey says most of the 15 being monitored are at low risk. 

"They're about 10 individuals that are at higher risk and so we continue to watch those individuals very carefully."

Among the 10 are family members isolated¹⁰ in an apartment, Doctor will be visiting before going to the hospital. Those individuals get their temperature taken twice a day to see if fever set in. So far, none of them have any symptoms. For NPR News, I'm Bill Zibble in Dallas. 

 

The White House is appointing to a new appointment report that for the further evidence US economy is on demand. NPR's Scott Horsley reports US employers added 248,000 jobs last month while unemployment bottoms the lowest level in 6 years. 

The solid gain in September helped to erase¹¹ so luckless to job report from the previous month. It turns out the hiring in August was also stronger than initially reported. White House economist¹² Jason Forman notes unemployment now stays at just 5.9%. It's lowest rating since July of 2008. 

"Could you ask me a year ago or 2 years ago? I don't think I can see unemployment rate with 5 in front of it during the Obama administration. Forecasts didn't think the unemployment rate getting this low until 2017."

While some to drop the jobless rate stands for workers leaving the labor¹³ force, Forman notes broad measure of unemployment that includes this discouraging workers are also down. Scott Horsley, NPR News, the White House. 

 

The service sector¹⁴ was growing last month. The institute for supply management is keen for purchasing manages groups, says the service sector index was down slightly from August would still formally in the expansion zone. 

 

While the positive economic news played well in Wall Street, the Dow was up 208 points, to 17,009; the NASDAQ grew 45 points. 

 

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A warning from Syria to its neighbor Turkey. Any move by Turkey to appoint troops inside its border would be seen as an act of aggression¹⁵. Turkey also called on international community to place limits on action on the part of Turkey's troops. The statement from Syria's Foreign Ministry¹⁶ came after Turkey's parliament this week gave the government new power to launch military incursion in the either neighboring Syria or Iraq, among them a swath of territory in two countries have been taken by the Islamic militant¹⁷ group calling itself Islamic State. 

 

76 million households whose records were hacked¹⁹ from JP Morgan system could find themselves targets of fishing attack. That's according to security experts. Over NPR's Yuki Noguchi report, US's biggest bank says it will not provide for liquidity²⁰ motoring. 

The E-mail name and address data hacked from the bank system in August contain no financial information according to the bank. But that information could be used to target customers through fishing. That is fraudulent E-mails pretending to be from JP Morgan that designed to fool customers into handing over account information. In a regular trial filling, JP Morgan said customers would not be held liable if they properly report on authorizing²¹ transaction. The FBI's investigating the hack¹⁸ and the bank says it's cooperating with the probe. Yuki Noguchi, NPR News, Washington. 

 

Another recall of General Motor, the 71st, so far this year. GM announced today recalling 430,000 of its Cadillac model SRX SUVs as well as Saab 9-4X SUVs which share similar components²². GM says submersed suspension bolts on the model 2011 to 2014 and 2011 to 2012 Saab models could loose because they were not tightened²³ properly. General Motor says it could cause a part to separate the vehicles. 

1 ken   

n.视野，知识领域

参考例句：

• Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
• Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.

2 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

3 prospect   

n.前景，前途；景色，视野

参考例句：

• This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
• The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。

4 condemned   

adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
• The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

5 brutal   

adj.残忍的，野蛮的，不讲理的

参考例句：

• She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
• They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼，骨子里却是野蛮残忍。

6 slay   

v.杀死，宰杀，杀戮

参考例句：

• He intended to slay his father's murderer.他意图杀死杀父仇人。
• She has ordered me to slay you.她命令我把你杀了。

7 repulsive   

adj.排斥的，使人反感的

参考例句：

• She found the idea deeply repulsive.她发现这个想法很恶心。
• The repulsive force within the nucleus is enormous.核子内部的斥力是巨大的。

8 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。

9 commissioner   

n.（政府厅、局、处等部门）专员，长官，委员

参考例句：

• The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
• He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。

10 isolated   

adj.与世隔绝的

参考例句：

• His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
• Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。

11 erase   

v.擦掉；消除某事物的痕迹

参考例句：

• He tried to erase the idea from his mind.他试图从头脑中抹掉这个想法。
• Please erase my name from the list.请把我的名字从名单上擦去。

12 economist   

n.经济学家，经济专家，节俭的人

参考例句：

• He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
• He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。

13 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

14 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

15 aggression   

n.进攻，侵略，侵犯，侵害

参考例句：

• So long as we are firmly united, we need fear no aggression.只要我们紧密地团结，就不必惧怕外来侵略。
• Her view is that aggression is part of human nature.她认为攻击性是人类本性的一部份。

16 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。

17 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

18 hack   

n.劈，砍，出租马车；v.劈，砍，干咳

参考例句：

• He made a hack at the log.他朝圆木上砍了一下。
• Early settlers had to hack out a clearing in the forest where they could grow crops.早期移民不得不在森林里劈出空地种庄稼。

19 hacked   

生气

参考例句：

• I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
• I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。

20 liquidity   

n.流动性，偿债能力，流动资产

参考例句：

• The bank has progressively increased its liquidity.银行逐渐地增加其流动资产。
• The demand for and the supply of credit is closely linked to changes in liquidity.信用的供求和流动资金的变化有密切关系。

21 authorizing   

授权，批准，委托( authorize的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Letters of Marque: Take letters from a warning friendly power authorizing privateering. 私掠许可证：从某一个国家获得合法抢劫的证书。
• Formal phavee completion does not include authorizing the subsequent phavee. 阶段的正式完成不包括核准随后的阶段。

22 components   

（机器、设备等的）构成要素，零件，成分； 成分( component的名词复数 )； [物理化学]组分； [数学]分量； （混合物的）组成部分

参考例句：

• the components of a machine 机器部件
• Our chemistry teacher often reduces a compound to its components in lab. 在实验室中化学老师常把化合物分解为各种成分。

23 tightened   

收紧( tighten的过去式和过去分词 )； （使）变紧； （使）绷紧； 加紧

参考例句：

• The rope holding the boat suddenly tightened and broke. 系船的绳子突然绷断了。
• His index finger tightened on the trigger but then relaxed again. 他的食指扣住扳机，然后又松开了。