美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-03

 This is week is the democrat’s turn. They hold a national convention in Charlotte North Carolina beginning Tuesday. What do?? they hope to accomplish? Maryland governor Martin O’Malley is head of the democratic governors association. He told CNN they intended to show they are very different from the republicans. We're the party that is for social security and for Medicare. They're the party that whose choices will lead to insecurity for seniors and their policy is I don't care. Go get a voucher¹. You figure it out. President Obama is already on his way to the convention in Charlotte visiting several battleground states along the way. Republican Mitt² Romney is taking a break from the campaign trail for the next two days. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports after Labor³ Day weekend, Romney will begin debate preparations. 

 

Campaign advisor⁴ Kevin Madden says Romney will practice her debates in Vermont at the home of Kerry Healey. She was Mitt Romney's lieutenant⁵ governor in Massachusetts. Ohio senator Rob Portman will join him. Portman is playing the role of President Obama in mock debates. Before Romney flew home to New England Saturday night, his running Paul Ryan joined him at a river front rally in sweatering Jacksonville Florida. Ryan accused President Obama of violating his promise to bring people together. 

 

This is the third president I've served with and I have never seen this kind of partisan⁶ acrimony. I have never seen this much dysfunction in great? lock.  

 

Ryan's scheduled a campaign early next week in Iowa and North Carolina where democrats⁷ are holding their convention. Ari Shapiro, NPR News, travelling with the Romney campaign. 

 

Gulf⁸ coast officials say there are still hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the sweatering heat. After hurricane Isaac last week thousands of people are still out of their homes. The storm's dropped as much as 20 inches of rain on Louisiana and Mississippi. The US army corps⁹ of engineers is investigating whether its new levy¹⁰ system built around New Orleans after hurricane Katina put other communities at greater risk. Eileen Fleming of member station WWNO reports that some residents say they're suffering unprecedented¹¹ flooding after hurricane Isaac. 

 

The 14 billion dollar system designed to protect New Orleans performed as planned at its debut¹² for storm protection. But some residents in communities south of the city and outside that system are asking if massive gates that shut ahead of Isaac sent storm surge to their neighborhoods. The Corp. issued a statement saying it will check the modeling use in the design for the system. It did not say when that review will be complete. For NPR News, I'm Eileen Fleming in New Orleans.

 

Church officials with the unification church say the reverent¹³ Sun Myung Moon has died. He was the self-proclaimed messiah who turned his church into a worldwide relis? movement. And he befriended North Korean leaders as well as US presidents. He died today near his home in South Korea. He was 92. 

 

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Federal Aviation authorities say that flights at all 3 airports in the Washington DC area were stopped for a time this morning. They say a refrigerator caught fire at the facility that handles air traffic and control of the airports, stopping flights for about 25 minutes. Officials say fewer than 20 flights were affected¹⁴. 

 

The legal battle between Apple and Samsung continues despite Apple's recent billion dollar victory. NPR's Lori Hodges? reports.

 

Apple maintained a requested kill list of products throughout the lawsuit¹⁵ which accused Samsung of stealing its designs. The list originally contained 8 items that Apple demanded be taken out of the market. Now 2 of Samsung's biggest products have been added, the Galaxy¹⁶ S3 and the Galaxy Note. The Note is viewed as the biggest competitor to Apple's Ipad. 

 

Phone? Tablet? Feel free. It's Galaxy Note.

 

The S3 which was dubbed¹⁷ the Samsung flagship product and presented as an alternative to the iphone sold 10 million copies in its first 3 months on the market. Banning it could be a significant blow to the company's bottom line. The timing¹⁸ of Apple's request is crucial as they prepared to release a new iphone and new ipad in the next 2 months. Lauren Hodges, NPR News. 

 

A man suspected of a double murder in Detroit had to try twice to turn himself in. Police say the man had got into an argument at a party in open fire, killing¹⁹ 2 people and wounding 2 others. The associated press says the suspect went to a fire station and the police were called. After waiting 2 hours for the police to come, the man went himself to a police station where he was arrested. A police statement said officers were busy handling high priority cases. 

 

I'm Nora Raum, NPR News in Washington. 

1 voucher   

n.收据；传票；凭单，凭证

参考例句：

• The government should run a voucher system.政府应该施行凭证制度。
• Whenever cash is paid out,a voucher or receipt should be obtained.无论何时只要支付现金，就必须要有一张凭据或者收据。

2 mitt   

n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手

参考例句：

• I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
• Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

3 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。

4 advisor   

n.顾问，指导老师，劝告者

参考例句：

• They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
• The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。

5 lieutenant   

n.陆军中尉，海军上尉；代理官员，副职官员

参考例句：

• He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
• He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官，递上了一张简短的便条进去。

6 partisan   

adj.党派性的；游击队的；n.游击队员；党徒

参考例句：

• In their anger they forget all the partisan quarrels.愤怒之中，他们忘掉一切党派之争。
• The numerous newly created partisan detachments began working slowly towards that region.许多新建的游击队都开始慢慢地向那里移动。

7 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

9 corps   

n.(通信等兵种的)部队；(同类作的)一组

参考例句：

• The medical corps were cited for bravery in combat.医疗队由于在战场上的英勇表现而受嘉奖。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

10 levy   

n.征收税或其他款项，征收额

参考例句：

• They levy a tax on him.他们向他征税。
• A direct food levy was imposed by the local government.地方政府征收了食品税。

11 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

12 debut   

n.首次演出，初次露面

参考例句：

• That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
• The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。

13 reverent   

adj.恭敬的，虔诚的

参考例句：

• He gave reverent attention to the teacher.他恭敬地听老师讲课。
• She said the word artist with a gentle,understanding,reverent smile.她说作家一词时面带高雅，理解和虔诚的微笑。

14 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

15 lawsuit   

n.诉讼，控诉

参考例句：

• They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
• He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。

16 galaxy   

n.星系；银河系；一群(杰出或著名的人物)

参考例句：

• The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
• The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。

17 dubbed   

v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制

参考例句：

• Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
• Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

18 timing   

n.时间安排，时间选择

参考例句：

• The timing of the meeting is not convenient.会议的时间安排不合适。
• The timing of our statement is very opportune.我们发表声明选择的时机很恰当。

19 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。