NPR 2012-07-24

 The accused gunman in the Colorado movie theater shooting rampage had his first court appearance today. James Holmes was advised his rights, but prosecutors¹ won't file their full charges against him until next Monday. Colorado Public Radio's Megan Verlee was in the courtroom in the Town of San Antonio near the site of Friday's massacre². 

 

Holmes appeared in a maroon³ jail jump suit with his curly hair dyed bright red. He didn't say anything during the brief proceedings⁴ and seemed vague and uninterested. Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chamber⁵ says she expects the court case to take at least a year. 

 

It's still a very active ongoing⁶ investigation⁷. We're still doing subpoenas⁸, search warrants. We're still looking at this case from every angle. Five relatives of Holmes victims attended the hearing. District Attorney Chamber says her office is consulting with victims' families as prosecutors decide whether to seek the death penalty. For NPR News, I'm Megan Verlee in San Antonio, Colorado. 

 

The NCAA has slapped major penalties on Penn State University's football team in the wake of Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. The sanctions were announced in Indianapolis by NCAA President Mark Emmert this morning. 

 

The NCAA is imposing⁹ a fine of 60 million dollars on the university with the funds to be used to establish an endowment to support programs around the nation that served the victims of child sexual abuse and seek to prevent such abuse from happening. This amount is equivalent of one year's gross revenue of the football team. Second, Penn State football will banned from ball games and any other post season play for 4 years.  

 

The /telease/ also include probation¹⁰, the loss of scholarships, and stripping from former head coach Joe Paterno of every football win from 1998 through 2011. Sandusky is awaiting sentencing after being convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys.

 

A civilian¹¹ worker has admitted to starting a fire abroad the USS Miami nuclear submarine last night. The fire caused 400 million in damage and was followed by another suspicious dock fire. New Hampshire public radio's Ryan Lessard says he scheduled to appear in court this afternoon.

 

The US attorney's office has charged 24 year old Casey James Fury with 2 accounts of arson¹² for willfully and maliciously¹³ setting fires on and around the USS Miami. Fury told the investigators¹⁴ she started the first fire on May 23rd at one of the ship's staterooms using the big lighter¹⁵. The fire burned much of the forward sections of the vessel¹⁶ and took 12 hours to extinguish. Fury also admitted to setting a second fire on the dry dock below the ship on June 16th. Fury claims to have been suffering from anxiety episodes that triggered both arson cases. For NPR News, I'm Ryan Lessard, in Concord¹⁷, New Hampshire.

 

At a last check on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 125 points at 12'698. 

 

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Journalist Alexander Cockburn has died. He passed away in Germany on Friday at the age of 71. As NPR's Neda Ulaby reports Cockburn earned his reputation as a left wing crusader after decades of writing for publications as diverse as the Village Boys and the Wall Street Journal.

 

Alexander Cockburn was best known as a columnist¹⁸ for the magazine The Nation and for cofounding CounterPunch, a website he described to CNN a few years ago.

 

We occupy a definite sight when people say there's must be more delight in the Democratic Party even though we loathe¹⁹ the Republicans. There's CounterPunch saying on you can move here.

 

Cockburn had the Democratic Party to tenant²⁰?. Israel was a favorite target, yet Cockburn was a climate change skeptic²¹. In the 1980s he lost the job for accepting a grant funded a group /zenus/pro-Arab. Even while under treatment for the cancer that would kill him, Alexander Cockburn pulled no punches. A recent essay accused the United States of proto-fascism for condoning²² the patriot²³ act and stopping /fis/ practices by New York police. Neda Ulaby, NPR News.

 

Two civilian police training contractors²⁴ who were killed by an Afghan policeman were American and a third was a British citizen. Earlier two Afghan police officials had said all three of the victims were Americans. The shootings took place yesterday at a training academy in western Afghanistan. 

 

The world's largest AIDS conference opens this week at a key turning point. Doctors, researchers and patients are expected to urge the world's governments not to cut back on the fight against the epidemic²⁵ at such a crucial point. Even though there's still no cure or vaccine²⁶, scientists say they have tools to finally stamp? this threat of the virus. 

 

I'm Windsor Johnston, NPR News in Washington. 

1 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

2 massacre   

n.残杀，大屠杀；v.残杀，集体屠杀

参考例句：

• There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
• If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！

3 maroon   

v.困住，使（人）处于孤独无助之境；n.逃亡黑奴；孤立的人；酱紫色，褐红色；adj.酱紫色的，褐红色的

参考例句：

• Five couples were marooned in their caravans when the River Avon broke its banks.埃文河决堤的时候，有5对夫妇被困在了他们的房车里。
• Robinson Crusoe has been marooned on a desert island for 26 years.鲁滨逊在荒岛上被困了26年。

4 proceedings   

n.进程，过程，议程；诉讼(程序)；公报

参考例句：

• He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
• to initiate legal proceedings against sb 对某人提起诉讼

5 chamber   

n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所

参考例句：

• For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
• The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。

6 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。

7 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

8 subpoenas   

n.（传唤出庭的）传票( subpoena的名词复数 )v.（用传票）传唤（某人）( subpoena的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• My company has complied with committee subpoenas by supplying documents confirming all that I have said. 本公司按照委员会的要求，提供了能够证实我刚才发言的文件。 来自辞典例句
• Congressional Investigations: Subpoenas and Contempt Power. Report for Congress April 2, 2003. 金灿荣：《美国国会的监督功能》，载《教学与研究》2003年第2期。 来自互联网

9 imposing   

adj.使人难忘的，壮丽的，堂皇的，雄伟的

参考例句：

• The fortress is an imposing building.这座城堡是一座宏伟的建筑。
• He has lost his imposing appearance.他已失去堂堂仪表。

10 probation   

n.缓刑(期)，(以观后效的)察看；试用(期)

参考例句：

• The judge did not jail the young man,but put him on probation for a year.法官没有把那个年轻人关进监狱，而且将他缓刑察看一年。
• His salary was raised by 800 yuan after his probation.试用期满以后，他的工资增加了800元。

11 civilian   

adj.平民的，民用的，民众的

参考例句：

• There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
• He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。

12 arson   

n.纵火，放火

参考例句：

• He was serving a ten spot for arson.他因纵火罪在服十年徒刑。
• He was arraigned on a charge of arson.他因被指控犯纵火罪而被传讯。

13 maliciously   

adv.有敌意地

参考例句：

• He was charged with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm. 他被控蓄意严重伤害他人身体。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• His enemies maliciously conspired to ruin him. 他的敌人恶毒地密谋搞垮他。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

14 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

15 lighter   

n.打火机，点火器；驳船；v.用驳船运送；light的比较级

参考例句：

• The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
• The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。

16 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。

17 concord   

n.和谐；协调

参考例句：

• These states had lived in concord for centuries.这些国家几个世纪以来一直和睦相处。
• His speech did nothing for racial concord.他的讲话对种族和谐没有作用。

18 columnist   

n.专栏作家

参考例句：

• The host was interviewing a local columnist.节目主持人正在同一位当地的专栏作家交谈。
• She's a columnist for USA Today.她是《今日美国报》的专栏作家。

19 loathe   

v.厌恶，嫌恶

参考例句：

• I loathe the smell of burning rubber.我厌恶燃着的橡胶散发的气味。
• You loathe the smell of greasy food when you are seasick.当你晕船时，你会厌恶油腻的气味。

20 tenant   

n.承租人；房客；佃户；v.租借，租用

参考例句：

• The tenant was dispossessed for not paying his rent.那名房客因未付房租而被赶走。
• The tenant is responsible for all repairs to the building.租户负责对房屋的所有修理。

21 skeptic   

n.怀疑者，怀疑论者，无神论者

参考例句：

• She is a skeptic about the dangers of global warming.她是全球变暖危险的怀疑论者。
• How am I going to convince this skeptic that she should attention to my research?我将如何使怀疑论者确信她应该关注我的研究呢？

22 condoning   

v.容忍，宽恕，原谅( condone的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• I'm not condoning what he did, all right? 我并不是宽恕他的所作所为，好吗？ 来自电影对白
• Communist Party conservatives abhor the idea of condoning explicIt'sex. 党内的保守势力痛恨对赤裸性爱内容的宽容。 来自互联网

23 patriot   

n.爱国者，爱国主义者

参考例句：

• He avowed himself a patriot.他自称自己是爱国者。
• He is a patriot who has won the admiration of the French already.他是一个已经赢得法国人敬仰的爱国者。

24 contractors   

n.（建筑、监造中的）承包人( contractor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• We got estimates from three different contractors before accepting the lowest. 我们得到3个承包商的报价后，接受了最低的报价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia. 赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。 来自《简明英汉词典》

25 epidemic   

n.流行病；盛行；adj.流行性的，流传极广的

参考例句：

• That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
• The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。

26 vaccine   

n.牛痘苗，疫苗；adj.牛痘的，疫苗的

参考例句：

• The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
• She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。