美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-24

 Republican presidential nominee¹ Mitt² Romney travels to Denver, Colorado today for a campaign rally. From there he’ll open the three-day bus tour to Ohio to meet supporters. He'll also stop in Virginia this week. But first tonight, he will appear for an interview on CBS's “60 minutes.” For his part, President Obama has some downtime today. But he was campaigning in Wisconsin Saturday as Chuck Quirmbach reports from Wisconsin Public Radio.

 

The president says Republican candidate Mitt Romney wrote off half the nation when Romney said some people see themselves as victims. President Obama told a large audience in Milwaukee that he wants to see everyone do well. Milwaukeean Terrans Bokep took his son to the speech and likes the president's message.

 

“You know, support that let our kids know that their future, they are included in it, that because they are rich or where they come from, but they got an opportunity. So, the president stands for that.”

 

Republicans argue the national debt threatens the standard of living for younger people. For NPR News, I'm Chuck Qurimbach in Milwaukee. 

 

Protests against the anti-Islamic video denigrating³ the Prophet Mohammed have grown in Bangladesh. Islamist groups there are backing a general strike today, expressing outrage⁴. Schools and businesses are closed and thousands of security troops are on the streets. Today's strike was called after a Bangladeshi protest yesterday drew a heavy police response in the capital Dacca and scores of people were hurt. 

 

The government in Pakistan is distancing itself from a cash reward offered by an official to kill the maker⁵ of dispiriting video. The BBC's Aleem Maqbool reports. 

 

Ghulam Ahmad Bilour is a veteran Pakistani politician and currently federal minister for railways. He called a news conference where he announced his reward for the person who killed the maker of the anti-Islam video. I'll pay 100,000 dollars to whoever does it, he said, and if someone else commits such an act, I'll pay 100,000 dollars to whoever kills that person. He said it was the only way to send a message to blasphemers. At one point, he even called on help of the Taliban and al-Qaeda of killing⁷ the video maker.

 

The BBC's Aleem Maqbool. 

 

Police in Nigeria say a suicide bomber⁸ used his car to attack a church in northern Nigeria today. At least two people are dead and 45 others are hurt. There’s been no claim of responsibility. But the Islamist sect⁹ Boko Haram has killed hundreds of people in the past three years in an effort to damage the Nigerian government.

 

Chinese officials are showing more anger toward Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea. China canceled events this week that were to commemorate¹⁰ 40 years of diplomatic relations with Japan. China’s simmering over Japan's decision to purchase the islands.

 

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Syrian rebels working to bring down the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad say they have moved their command center from Turkey into Syria. NPR's Kelly McEvers says for now the move appears symbolic¹¹.

 

Rebel leaders who were based in Turkey have long faced a problem of legitimacy¹² with the fighters inside Syria who battle regime forces every day. Now, those leaders, mostly defectors from the regime's army, say they will join their brothers in the push to take the Syria’s capital Damascus. Rebels also claim they shot down a fighter jet this weekend. But rebel fighters are still far outgunned by regime forces. In Damascus, some members of Syria’s political opposition¹³ are holding a rare meeting. Members said they hope the meeting might unify¹⁴ the many different opposition groups both inside and outside Syria. But two members were abducted¹⁵ when they arrived at the airport in Damascus. The government says they were taken by terrorists. Opposition members say they were detained by the regime. Kelly McEvers, NPR News, Beirut.

 

A panda cub¹⁶ born about a week ago at the National Zoo in Washington DC has died. Suzan Murray is the zoo's chief vet⁶. 

 

“As you all might imagine, the cub was just beautiful. It's a beautiful little body, beautiful face with the marking just beginning to show around the eye. It couldn’t have been more beautiful.”

 

Zoo keepers do not yet know why the cub died; however, they note pandas are very delicate at birth.

 

The National Weather Center says Tropical Storm Miriam is churning in the Pacific Ocean about 500 miles southeast off the tip of the Baja California. Top winds are now 65 miles per hour and the storm is gaining strength. It's expected to become a hurricane later tonight.

1 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。

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 denigrating   

v.诋毁，诽谤( denigrate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• They bristled at his denigrating description of their activities. 听到他在污蔑他们的活动，他们都怒发冲冠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The KGB pigeonholed his report and reprimanded him for denigrating a brother officer. 克格勃把他的调查报告扔在一边，不闻不问，反而说他往同志脸上抹黑。 来自辞典例句

4 outrage   

n.暴行，侮辱，愤怒；vt.凌辱，激怒

参考例句：

• When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
• We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。

5 maker   

n.制造者，制造商

参考例句：

• He is a trouble maker，You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼，你不要跟他在一起。
• A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。

6 vet   

n.兽医，退役军人；vt.检查

参考例句：

• I took my dog to the vet.我把狗带到兽医诊所看病。
• Someone should vet this report before it goes out.这篇报道发表之前应该有人对它进行详查。

7 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。

8 bomber   

n.轰炸机，投弹手，投掷炸弹者

参考例句：

• He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
• Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。

9 sect   

n.派别，宗教，学派，派系

参考例句：

• When he was sixteen he joined a religious sect.他16岁的时候加入了一个宗教教派。
• Each religious sect in the town had its own church.该城每一个宗教教派都有自己的教堂。

10 commemorate   

vt.纪念，庆祝

参考例句：

• This building was built to commemorate the Fire of London.这栋大楼是为纪念“伦敦大火”而兴建的。
• We commemorate the founding of our nation with a public holiday.我们放假一日以庆祝国庆。

11 symbolic   

adj.象征性的，符号的，象征主义的

参考例句：

• It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
• The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。

12 legitimacy   

n.合法，正当

参考例句：

• The newspaper was directly challenging the government's legitimacy.报纸直接质疑政府的合法性。
• Managing from the top down,we operate with full legitimacy.我们进行由上而下的管理有充分的合法性。

13 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。

14 unify   

vt.使联合，统一；使相同，使一致

参考例句：

• How can we unify such scattered islands into a nation?我们怎么才能把如此分散的岛屿统一成一个国家呢？
• It is difficult to imagine how the North and South could ever agree on a formula to unify the divided peninsula.很难想象南北双方在统一半岛的方案上究竟怎样才能达成一致。

15 abducted   

劫持，诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展

参考例句：

• Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
• The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。

16 cub   

n.幼兽，年轻无经验的人

参考例句：

• The lion cub's mother was hunting for what she needs. 这只幼师的母亲正在捕猎。
• The cub licked the milk from its mother's breast. 这头幼兽吸吮着它妈妈的奶水。