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 For NPR news in Washington, I am Jeanine Herbst.

 

The governor of Missouri has declared a state of emergency and a curfew for the town of Ferguson. That’s where nightly protests have been taking place after a white police officer killed an unarmed black teen, Michael Brown, last week. NPR’s xx reports the north St. Louise suburb.

 

Governor Jane Nixon told the tense crowd gathered at the Ferguson church that the curfew will started at midnight and last until five o’clock in the morning.

 

The best way for us to get peace is for everybody to help to make sure everybody gets home safe tonight at twelve o’clock.

 

Missouri state highway patrol Capitan Ron Johnson says officers will enforce the curfew through communication.

 

We won’t enforce it with trucks. We won’t enforce it with tear gas. We’ll communicate, we’ll talk about, you know what, it is time to go home.

 

Officials did not say how long a curfew will be enforced. xx, NPR news, Ferguson.

 

A senior US official says American aircrafts carried out strikes today near the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq that was taken earlier this month by Islamic fighters. NPR’s Peter Kenyon reports from northern Iraq that the dam is seen as a major strategic asset.

 

In taking the Mosul Dam on August 7th, the Sunni fundamentalists who want to be called the Islamic State not only handed Kurdish Peshmerga forces in embarrassing defeat, they gain the power to threaten the entire cities with inundation¹. So Iraqis were pleased to learn that military aircrafts were striking Islamic positions in the vicinity of the dam. A Peshmerga officer reached by phone says the strikes are a prelude² to adjoin operation to return the dam to Iraqi control. This plan which has not been confirmed by the US military would involve Iraqi army and Peshmerga forces on the ground with US air support. Peter Kenyon, NPR news, xx, northern Iraq.

 

Arrests were made in the abduction of two Amish girls taken from their families ? in upstate New York last week. Police say Stephen Howell Jr. and Nicole Vaisey in New York will be charged with two counts of first degree kidnapping with the intent of physically³ hummer, sexually abuse the girls. Police say there was potential for other victims. The 7- and 12-year old girls are back with their family.

 

President Obama says college education has to become more affordable⁴, and he is calling on Congress to pass a bill that would allow borrowers to refinance their student debt. In his weekly radio and internet message today, the president called higher education the surest ticket to the middle class, and says a plan to tight federal finance aid to a school performance could help cut college costs. Obama recently signed an executive order allowing more college graduates to cap their student loan payments at 10% of their income.

 

Texas governor Rick Perry says he will fight the indictment⁵ against him for alleged⁶ abuse of power. He vetoed funding for a Travis County unit investigating public corruption⁷ because the Democrat⁸ heading the group refuse to resign after been convicted of drunk and driving.

 

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A Dutch man is returning a medal of honor Israeli government gave him for being one of what it calls the righteous among the nations. xx, who helped save Jews from the Holocaust⁹. xx reports the 91-year old man won that medal for harboring a Jewish child in World War II, but now he lost six family members in an Israeli bombing of the Gaza strip.

 

Seventy-one years ago, the young xx risked his life to snick a Jewish boy pass occupying Nazis¹⁰ and sheltered him in his family home outside Amsterdam until the end of the Holocaust. xx own father died in an concentration camp and his brother xx was killed by the Nazis for resisting occupation. But now xx is returning his medal to Israeli embassy in the Hague, saying in a published letter he finds it “particularly shocking and tragic¹¹ that four generations on our family is faced with the murder of our king in Gaza, murder carried out by the state of Israel.” xx says six Palestinian members of his extended family were killed by an air strike July 20th. The Israeli embassy in the Hague was not immediately available for comment. For NPR news, I am xx.

 

A new center to treat Ebola patients is opening in Liberia after the existing one became overwhelmed with patients. Health officials say the first center was only meant to treat about 25 patients, but now has around 80. The new center will have 120 beds and it may eventually triple in size because of the ongoing¹² crisis. Isolating¹³ Ebola patients is one of the keys to slowing the spread of the disease. That’s because those infected can transmit through body fluids. The World Health Organization says it could take another six months to get the outbreak in West Africa under control. I am Jeannie Herbst, NPR news in Washington.

1 inundation   

n.the act or fact of overflowing

参考例句：

• Otherwise, inundation would ensue to our dismay. 若不疏导，只能眼巴巴看着它泛滥。
• Therefore this psychology preceded the inundation of Caudillo politics after independence. 在独立后，这一心态助长了考迪罗主义的泛滥。

2 prelude   

n.序言，前兆，序曲

参考例句：

• The prelude to the musical composition is very long.这首乐曲的序曲很长。
• The German invasion of Poland was a prelude to World War II.德国入侵波兰是第二次世界大战的序幕。

3 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

4 affordable   

adj.支付得起的，不太昂贵的

参考例句：

• The rent for the four-roomed house is affordable.四居室房屋的房租付得起。
• There are few affordable apartments in big cities.在大城市中没有几所公寓是便宜的。

5 indictment   

n.起诉；诉状

参考例句：

• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
• They issued an indictment against them.他们起诉了他们。

6 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

7 corruption   

n.腐败，堕落，贪污

参考例句：

• The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
• The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。

8 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。

9 holocaust   

n.大破坏；大屠杀

参考例句：

• The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
• Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀，因为他像希特勒一样残忍。

10 Nazis   

n.（德国的）纳粹党员( Nazi的名词复数 )；纳粹主义

参考例句：

• The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Nazis were responsible for the mass murder of Jews during World War Ⅱ. 纳粹必须为第二次世界大战中对犹太人的大屠杀负责。 来自《简明英汉词典》

11 tragic   

adj.悲剧的，悲剧性的，悲惨的

参考例句：

• The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
• Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。

12 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

13 isolating   

adj.孤立的，绝缘的v.使隔离( isolate的现在分词 )；将…剔出（以便看清和单独处理）；使（某物质、细胞等）分离；使离析

参考例句：

• Colour filters are not very effective in isolating narrow spectral bands. 一些滤色片不能很有效地分离狭窄的光谱带。 来自辞典例句
• This became known as the streak method for isolating bacteria. 这个方法以后就称为分离细菌的划线法。 来自辞典例句