美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-15

 A solemn homecoming today outside Washington D.C., the remains¹ of four Americans killed in Libya will return to the U.S. today. President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were on hand for the ceremony at Joint² Base Andrews. As NPR's Michele Kelemen reports. 

 

With somber³ music playing, guards carried the flag draped caskets of Ambassador Chris Stevens, Information management officer Sean Smith and two former Navy Seals who were protecting the consulate⁴ in Benghazi, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods. The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid tribute to them, she also demanded that leaders in the region restored security after violence spread over what she called an awful internet video.

 

The people of Libya, Yemen and Tunisia did not trade the tyranny of a dictator for the tyranny of a mob.

 

President Obama says the U.S. will stand fast against violence in these difficult days. Michele Kelemen, NPR News, Washington.

 

In Jerusalem, Israeli police fired tear gas at a crowd of Palestinians who joined Muslims in the Middle East, Africa and Asia to target U.S. embassies and those of their western allies who protest the anti-Muslim video that despaired Islam's prophet Muhammad. They scaled the walls of the US embassies in Tunisia and Sudan, and set fire to part of the German embassy. In Nigeria, soldiers reportedly clashed with youths following Friday's prayers. Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi called for restraint in Cairo, where police fought with protestors near the US embassy. A marine⁵ rapid response team arrived in Yemen's capital today as protests erupted at the US embassy there.

 

Speaking today to an annual gathering⁶ of religious conservatives in Washington D.C., Republican vice⁷ presidential nominee⁸ Paul Ryan covered a range of topics. NPR's Don Gonyea reports Ryan included an attack on White House handling of anti-American violence in the Muslim world that claimed the life of a U.S. ambassador.

 

Ryan opened by expressing condolences for the US lives loss before launching into this strong critic.

 

American foreign policy needs moral clarity and firmness of  purpose. Only by the confident exercise  of the American influence are evil and violence overcome.

 

Though the bulk of Ryan's speech was on other topics, repeating assertions that the president has failed economically. He also did something neither he nor Mitt⁹ Romney have done much of which is to deliver a lengthy¹⁰ criticism of the president on the issue of abortion¹¹. Don Gonyea, NPR News, Washington.

 

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Spain appears to be close to requesting financial help at a finance ministers meeting staying in Cyprus. Spanish delegation¹² revealed it would propose a new set of economic changes by the end of the month.

 

Oil futures¹³ have risen to $100 a barrel for the first time since May as global unrest spread today. A senior trader at Swiss Bank UBS is on trial in London. Larry Miller¹⁴ reports he was described as a master fraudster that cost the bank millions.

 

Equity's trader Kweku Adoboli is accused of lying to UBS, inventing clients and fictitious¹⁵ deals and breaching¹⁶ bank rules by high risk gambling¹⁷. The 32-year-old from Ghana is the son of a diplomat¹⁸. His deals cost UBS 2.3 billion dollars and when the fraud was disclosed last year, 4.5 billion dollars were wiped from the value of the bank. The prosecutor¹⁹ claims he risked the very existance of the bank for his own benefit. That his system crashed like a car hitting a wall at high speed. She says the amount lost could have paid the salaries of 70,000 nurses or built six new hospitals. Adoboli denies the charges of fraud and false accounting²⁰. For NPR News, I'm Larry Miller in London.

 

Twitter has handed over an Occupy Wall Street activist's Twitt to a New York criminal judge in a closely watched case over just how much access law enforcement should have to materials posted on social networks. The protester Malcolm Harris  was arrested with hundreds of others. Prosecutors²¹ say Harris' messages could show whether he disregarded police orders during that protest on the Brooklyn Bridge. Twitter says it was under pressure to comply with the subpoena²² or face steep fines. 

1 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

2 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

3 somber   

adj.昏暗的，阴天的，阴森的，忧郁的

参考例句：

• He had a somber expression on his face.他面容忧郁。
• His coat was a somber brown.他的衣服是暗棕色的。

4 consulate   

n.领事馆

参考例句：

• The Spanish consulate is the large white building opposite the bank.西班牙领事馆是银行对面的那栋高大的白色建筑物。
• The American consulate was a magnificent edifice in the centre of Bordeaux.美国领事馆是位于波尔多市中心的一座宏伟的大厦。

5 marine   

adj.海的；海生的；航海的；海事的；n.水兵

参考例句：

• Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
• 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。

6 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

7 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

8 nominee   

n.被提名者；被任命者；被推荐者

参考例句：

• His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
• Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。

9 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。

10 lengthy   

adj.漫长的，冗长的

参考例句：

• We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
• The professor wrote a lengthy book on Napoleon.教授写了一部有关拿破仑的巨著。

11 abortion   

n.流产，堕胎

参考例句：

• She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
• A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。

12 delegation   

n.代表团；派遣

参考例句：

• The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
• We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。

13 futures   

n.期货，期货交易

参考例句：

• He continued his operations in cotton futures.他继续进行棉花期货交易。
• Cotton futures are selling at high prices.棉花期货交易的卖价是很高的。

14 miller   

n.磨坊主

参考例句：

• Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
• The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。

15 fictitious   

adj.虚构的，假设的；空头的

参考例句：

• She invented a fictitious boyfriend to put him off.她虚构出一个男朋友来拒绝他。
• The story my mother told me when I was young is fictitious.小时候妈妈对我讲的那个故事是虚构的。

16 breaching   

攻破( breach的过去式 )； 破坏，违反

参考例句：

• The company was prosecuted for breaching the Health and Safety Act. 这家公司被控违反《卫生安全条例》。
• Third, an agency can abuse its discretion by breaching certain principles of judge-made law. 第三，行政机关会因违反某些法官制定的法律原则而构成滥用自由裁量权。

17 gambling   

n.赌博；投机

参考例句：

• They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
• The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。

18 diplomat   

n.外交官，外交家；能交际的人，圆滑的人

参考例句：

• The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.那位外交官插进一个笑话，紧张的气氛顿时缓和下来。
• He served as a diplomat in Russia before the war.战前他在俄罗斯当外交官。

19 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

20 accounting   

n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表

参考例句：

• A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
• There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。

21 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。

22 subpoena   

n.（法律）传票；v.传讯

参考例句：

• He was brought up to court with a subpoena.他接到传讯，来到法庭上。
• Select committees have the power to subpoena witnesses.特别委员会有权传唤证人。