VOA常速英语2020--美国努力减缓冠状病毒传播

Police in Miami beach Florida enforced a new curfew saturday night. We're hoping that by closing earlier, it actually tones down the party and will allow these folks to go home go back to their hotels wherever they're staying and possibly keep everyone else around them everyone else in our city safe. Representative Donna Shalala who represents Miami beach and congress is calling for even tougher action to stop the spread. And it's totally out of control. We need to close down in Florida. We've asked the governor to do that and we've even asked him to do the simplest thing. And that is to require masks for everyone,he has not done that.

周六晚，佛罗里达州迈阿密海滩警方实施了新的宵禁。我们希望，通过提早关门，能够使聚会的气氛缓和下来，能够让这些人回到家中，回到他们住的酒店，也能够保护周围的其他人以及我们城市里的其他人的安全。迈阿密海滩和国会的众议员唐娜·沙拉拉呼吁采取更强硬的措施阻止疫情蔓延。情况完全失控了。我们得封锁佛罗里达。我们要求州长这么做，甚至要求他做最简单的事情。也就是要求所有的人都戴上口罩，他之前没有这样做过。

Climbing case numbers have forced other governors who once resisted mask mandates¹ to put them in place. We did take the further step of instituting a statewide mask mandate², not something I wanted to do, but it's something everybody can do to relieve the pressure on our hospitals, to give us a hope to bring down those cases. President Donald Trump³ says he's not ordering mask wearing nationwide. In an exclusive interview on Fox news sunday, he cited contradictory⁴ advice on masks issued during the early days of the pandemic. Everybody was saying don't wear a mask all of a sudden everybodys got to wear a mask, and as you know masks caused problems too. With that being said, I'm a believer in masks because I think masks are good, but I leave it up to the governors. To deal with the economic consequences of the virus, congress is expected this week to work on another coronavirus stimulus⁵ package. Lawmakers are under pressure to act quickly because their August recess⁶ is approaching.Marcus Harton VOA news Washington

不断攀升的病例数迫使其他曾经抵制戴口罩命令的州长们开始下达相关命令。我们确实采取了更进一步的措施，下命令要求全州范围内佩戴口罩，这不是我想做的事情。但这是每个人都能做的，以减轻我们医院的压力，让我们有希望减少病例。唐纳德·特朗普总统表示，他不会在全国范围内下令佩戴口罩。在福克斯周日的独家采访中，他提出了与疫情初期发布的口罩命令相矛盾的的建议。每个人都在说不要戴口罩，突然之间每个人都得戴上口罩，你也知道戴口罩也会引起问题。话虽如此，我还是戴口罩，因为我认为戴口罩很好，但我把这个问题留给州长去解决。为了处理病毒造成的经济后果，国会预计本周将制定另一项冠状病毒刺激方案。议员们面临着迅速采取行动的压力，因为他们八月份的休会期即将来临。美国之音记者Marcus Harto，华盛顿报道

1 mandates   

托管（mandate的第三人称单数形式）

参考例句：

• Individual mandates would require all people to purchase health insurance. 个人托管要求所有人都要购买健康保险。
• While I agree with those benefits, I'm not a supporter of mandates. 我同意上述好处，我不是授权软件的支持者。

2 mandate   

n.托管地；命令，指示

参考例句：

• The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
• The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。

3 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

4 contradictory   

adj.反驳的，反对的，抗辩的；n.正反对，矛盾对立

参考例句：

• The argument is internally contradictory.论据本身自相矛盾。
• What he said was self-contradictory.他讲话前后不符。

5 stimulus   

n.刺激，刺激物，促进因素，引起兴奋的事物

参考例句：

• Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
• Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。

6 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。