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 California lawmakers have approved a measure that legalized physician-assisted suicide. As Ben Adler of Capital Radio reports it's now up to the governor to sign it into the law. “It's not clear whether Jerry Brown will sign the end-of-life legislation. We do know that last year he spent about an hour on the phone with the young California woman named Britney Mernad who moved from California to Oregon to end her life using Oregon's assisted suicide law. If Brown does sign the measure, California would be the 6th state with a right-to-die law.”

A war of words between Hungary and Austria over the migrant crisis in Europe is escalating¹. The BBC's BB reports the Hungarian government is angry about comments made by Austria's chancellor². “Chancellor Werner Faymann told Der Spiegel that sticking refugees and trains and sending them somewhere completely different from what they thought they were going reminded him of the darkest period of European history. His words are reference to Nazi³ deportations during the second world war. Hungary has reacted angrily. The foreign minister Peter Seattle said Mr Faymann's remarks were unworthy of a 21 century European leader.” The BBC's BB reporting from Vienna, Austria.

Britan's opposition⁴ Labor⁵ Party has elected a new leader, self-described Democratic socialist⁶ lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn was a 201 outsider when the race started  three months ago, but as LM reports from London he won with nearly 60 percent of the vote. After the results, we announced Corbyn vow⁷ to move to Britain to the political left. He campaigned on issues including ending austerity and increasing public spending, establishing rent controls, renationalizing the rail roads and eliminating Britain's marine-based nuclear arsenal⁸. For his 42 years as a member of parliament, Corbyn has always been on the left of his left-wing party. So getting more moderate Labour lawmakers on board will be a challenge. From NPR news, I'm LM in London.

Egypt's cabinet resigned today amid a corruption⁹ scandal. NPR's LF reports from Cairo. The resignation comes days after Egypt's Agricultural Minister was ordered and then arrested at the Prime Minister's office Sallah Helal is accused of taking bribes¹⁰ from businessmen to illegal state land. The corruption scandal has shaken people's faith in the opaque¹¹ system that critics say depends on lot of crony capitalism¹².Egypt state news agency reports the outgoing government will continue to work for the next week until a new cabinet is chosen. The resignation comes before a planned parliamentary elections next month. Egypt has been without a parliament for more than two years. LF, NPR news, Cairo. This is NPR.

In his weekly address, President Obama said a revamped college scorecard website provides perspective colleges students with important information as they decide which school to attend. Everyone should be able to find clear, reliable, open data on college affordability¹³ and value like whether they are likely to graduate, find good jobs and pay off their loans. The website includes college specific information about graduate's earnings¹⁴. Ten automakers, including GM,Ford, Toyota and Volkswagen say they're going to install automatic emergency braking systems on all their cars. Michigan Radio's TS reports their designs to prevent rearenders. Automatic emergency braking uses radar¹⁵, cameras and lasers to warn drivers they are about to cause a rearender collision, and it'll apply the brakes if the drives don't react quickly enough. DZ is with the intransit institute for highway safety. He says the technology is already proving itself. It can prevent some rear-front clashes when it doesn't manage to intervene in time to prevent a crash, it medicates the severity. Rearend crashes are rarely deadly but they are very common. 30 precent of all multi-vehicle accidents involved are rearend collision. From NPP news, I'm TS.

At the US Open Tennis Tournament, long-time friends Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Finch¹⁶ are battling it out for the women single's title. Finch beats Serena Williams in yesterday's semi-finals ending her hopes for a calendar year grand slam.

I'm BK, NPR news.

1 escalating   

v.（使）逐步升级( escalate的现在分词 )；（使）逐步扩大；（使）更高；（使）更大

参考例句：

• The cost of living is escalating. 生活费用在迅速上涨。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The cost of living is escalating in the country. 这个国家的生活费用在上涨。 来自辞典例句

2 chancellor   

n.(英)大臣；法官；(德、奥)总理；大学校长

参考例句：

• They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
• He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。

3 Nazi   

n.纳粹分子，adj.纳粹党的，纳粹的

参考例句：

• They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
• Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。

4 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

5 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。

6 socialist   

n.社会主义者；adj.社会主义的

参考例句：

• China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家，也是一个发展中国家。
• His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。

7 vow   

n.誓(言)，誓约；v.起誓，立誓

参考例句：

• My parents are under a vow to go to church every Sunday.我父母许愿，每星期日都去做礼拜。
• I am under a vow to drink no wine.我已立誓戒酒。

8 arsenal   

n.兵工厂，军械库

参考例句：

• Even the workers at the arsenal have got a secret organization.兵工厂工人暗中也有组织。
• We must be the great arsenal of democracy.我们必须成为民主的大军火库。

9 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。

10 bribes   

n.贿赂( bribe的名词复数 )；向（某人）行贿，贿赂v.贿赂( bribe的第三人称单数 )；向（某人）行贿，贿赂

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。
• corrupt officials accepting bribes 接受贿赂的贪官污吏

11 opaque   

adj.不透光的；不反光的，不传导的；晦涩的

参考例句：

• The windows are of opaque glass.这些窗户装着不透明玻璃。
• Their intentions remained opaque.他们的意图仍然令人费解。

12 capitalism   

n.资本主义

参考例句：

• The essence of his argument is that capitalism cannot succeed.他的论点的核心是资本主义不能成功。
• Capitalism began to develop in Russia in the 19th century.十九世纪资本主义在俄国开始发展。

13 affordability   

可购性

参考例句：

• Performance-Based Logistics Affordability: Can We Afford Categorical Conversion to Performance-Based Acquisition? 基于性能的后期的可承受性：能否担负得起向基于性能的采办的无条件的转变？
• There would be no crisis of affordability, as't for food or clothing. 就想食物与服装一样，因为供给没有危机。

14 earnings   

n.工资收人；利润，利益，所得

参考例句：

• That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.那个老人靠他女儿的收入维持生活。
• Last year there was a 20% decrease in his earnings.去年他的收入减少了20%。

15 radar   

n.雷达，无线电探测器

参考例句：

• They are following the flight of an aircraft by radar.他们正在用雷达追踪一架飞机的飞行。
• Enemy ships were detected on the radar.敌舰的影像已显现在雷达上。

16 finch   

n.雀科鸣禽(如燕雀，金丝雀等)

参考例句：

• This behaviour is commonly observed among several species of finch.这种行为常常可以在几种雀科鸣禽中看到。
• In Australia,it is predominantly called the Gouldian Finch.在澳大利亚，它主要还是被称之为胡锦雀。