NPR美国国家公共电台 2013-06-04

　　From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh.

 

　　The US supreme¹ court is narrowly upholding a Maryland law saying police can take DNA² from people they arrested for serious crimes. The 5:4 ruling deal is a blow to privacy rights advocates. While as NPR's Nina Totenberg reports it's a significant win for law enforcement.

 

　　Law enforcement will be ecstatic about this ruling. It affirms a practice that has been growing in many states and had been in legal question with lots of courts reaching different conclusions. The question being, can you take the DNA of some body who's been arrested but not yet convicted, and then use that DNA,  feed it into a database, and see if it, and if it comes up as matching a previous other crime, that, use that DNA to lead to another prosecutions³.

 

　　NPR's Nina Totenberg.

 

　　New researches out on breast cancer and specifically on how African American women are affected⁴. It says black women appeared to be more likely then had been thought to have genetic⁶ flaws that increase their risk for breast cancer. The new data was released today during a meeting of the Americn society of clinical and colleging in Chicago. NPR's Rob Stein has details.

 

　　Researchers analyse the gene⁵ of more than 200 breast cancer patients in Chicago. They found that 1/5 of the women had genetic flaws linked to breast cancer including the well known BRCA 1 and 2 genes⁷. The defects were especially common among those who had negress form of breast cancer known as triple negative breast cancer.  The findings could help find why black women tend to be more likely to get breast cancer when they are younger and it could help explain why they tend to be less likely to survive after being diagnosed. Scientists say the findings suggest black women should be encouraged more to undergo straining for breast cancer genes. Rob Stein NPR NEws.

 

　　President Obama says it's time to bring the issue of mental illness out of the shadows. To that aim the White House's hosting the conference on mental health, part of a broder response to the New Town school shootings five months ago. That also includes proposals for tighter gun controls. One of the nation's most prominent supporters of gun control, New Jersey⁸ senator Frank Lautenberg has died at the age of 89. His colleagues say the democrat⁹ left his mark over the spend of nearly 30 years in the senate as a driving force behind laws that bar people from smoking on US airline flights or from drinking alcohol if they are under 21. Here senate majority leader Harry¹⁰ Reid.

 

　　Few people in history pay these social tributes much to our nation, and to United States' senate, as Frank Lautenberg.

 

　　Lautenberg was the senate's last surviving veteran of World War II, he also co-founded the payroll¹¹ services company, automatic data processing, or ADP.

 

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　　Secretary of state John Kerry says the goal of a still unscheduled peace conference on Syria is to prevent the total collapse¹² of the country. He calls it a difficult process. NPR's Michele Kelemen has more.

 

　　Kerry had been hoping to bring together Syria's warring factions¹³ last month then diplomats¹⁴ are still struggling to get everyone to the table in Geneva to set up a transnational government for Syria. The secretary says the US is coming to this late.

 

　　We are trying to prevent the sectarian violence from dragging Syria down into a complete and total implosion¹⁵, while it has broken up into enclaves and institutions of the state have been destroyed.

 

　　Kerry says he thinks Russia's foreign minister is still committed to holding the conference, but add said Moscow's arms deals with Bashar al-Assad regime are putting this as a risk. Michele Kelemen NPR News Washington.

 

　　Nine Afghan children and two international service members were killed today in a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan. Authority say the attacker targeted a US delegation¹⁶.

 

　　The waters have been rising in one southeastern German city to levels not seen in the area in 70 years. The down pours at inundated¹⁷ much of central Europe in recent days are causing rivers to overflow¹⁸ their banks and flood into per cell leaving much of city impossible by foot. Floods in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Chech Republic have claimed at least eight lives. Authority say nine people are still missing.

 

　　Before the closing bell, Dow was up 138 points at 15,254; NASDAQ up nine and the S&P 500 also up nine points.

 

　　I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News.

1 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

2 DNA   

(缩)deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸

参考例句：

• DNA is stored in the nucleus of a cell.脱氧核糖核酸储存于细胞的细胞核里。
• Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code.基因突变是指DNA密码的改变。

3 prosecutions   

起诉( prosecution的名词复数 )； 原告； 实施； 从事

参考例句：

• It is the duty of the Attorney-General to institute prosecutions. 检察总长负责提起公诉。
• Since World War II, the government has been active in its antitrust prosecutions. 第二次世界大战以来，政府积极地进行着反对托拉斯的检举活动。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件

4 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。

5 gene   

n.遗传因子，基因

参考例句：

• A single gene may have many effects.单一基因可能具有很多种效应。
• The targeting of gene therapy has been paid close attention.其中基因治疗的靶向性是值得密切关注的问题之一。

6 genetic   

adj.遗传的，遗传学的

参考例句：

• It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
• Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。

7 genes   

n.基因( gene的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• You have good genes from your parents, so you should live a long time. 你从父母那儿获得优良的基因，所以能够活得很长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Differences will help to reveal the functions of the genes. 它们间的差异将会帮助我们揭开基因多种功能。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 生物技术的世纪

8 jersey   

n.运动衫

参考例句：

• He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
• They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

9 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

10 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

11 payroll   

n.工资表，在职人员名单，工薪总额

参考例句：

• His yearly payroll is $1.2 million.他的年薪是120万美元。
• I can't wait to get my payroll check.我真等不及拿到我的工资单了。

12 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

13 factions   

组织中的小派别，派系( faction的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The gens also lives on in the "factions." 氏族此外还继续存在于“factions〔“帮”〕中。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
• rival factions within the administration 政府中的对立派别

14 diplomats   

n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 )；有手腕的人，善于交际的人

参考例句：

• These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
• The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》

15 implosion   

n.向内破裂，内爆

参考例句：

• The population explosion is accompanied by a population implosion.人口爆炸还伴随着人口爆聚。

16 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。

17 inundated   

v.淹没( inundate的过去式和过去分词 )；（洪水般地）涌来；充满；给予或交予（太多事物）使难以应付

参考例句：

• We have been inundated with offers of help. 主动援助多得使我们应接不暇。
• We have been inundated with every bit of information imaginable. 凡是想得到的各种各样的信息潮水般地向我们涌来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

18 overflow   

v.(使)外溢，(使)溢出；溢出，流出，漫出

参考例句：

• The overflow from the bath ran on to the floor.浴缸里的水溢到了地板上。
• After a long period of rain,the river may overflow its banks.长时间的下雨天后，河水可能溢出岸来。