NPR美国国家公共电台 2013-06-07

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

 

　　Under fire for the disclosion is the National Security Agence has been collecting the phone records of millions of Americans. NPR’s Carie Gorsion reports the Attorney General try to reassure¹ Senate lawmakers about the program in testimony² today.

 

　　Eric Holder³ told lawmakers he couldn’t say much about highly classified daily collection program. But the Attorney Gerneral says the issues should come as “no big surprise” on Capitol Hill.

 

　　“Remember it Congress have been fully⁴ briefed as this issues, matters have been underway.”

 

　　To which Maryland’s Democrat⁵ Barbara Mikulski says” This fully brief is something that drives us up a wall.” Republicans and Democrats⁶ on the Senate Appropriations⁷ Panel say they want more details in this close session to be sure the government is overreaching and violenting people’s privacy. Carie Gorsion NPR News, Washington.

 

　　The House Oversight⁸ Committee is holding a hearing looking into an inspect general’s reports on the excessive spending on conferences by the IRS. NPR’s Tamara Keith reoprts one focus of this hearing have been videoproduced for 2010 conference in Anaheim, California.

 

　　There’s a report shows the IRS spent over 4 millions dollars on that one conference, but estimated 50, 000 dollars was going to produce the parody⁹ videos including one with Star Trek¹⁰ theme. A leisure comes in as the ranking member of the committee. "I swear to God, I have looked at that video over and over again and, I swear, I do not see the redeeming¹¹ value,"

 

　　It left the committee chairman Darrell Issa with some questions. “What were you thinking? Were you thinking this will never be seen? Or were you thinking, 'How will this look when it is seen?'"

 

　　He was asking Faris Fink, the commissioner¹² of the IRS division that held the conference.

 

　　"They are embarrassing and I regret the fact that they were made," and he said videos like that wouldn’t be made now. Tamara Keith, NPR news, the Capitol.

 

　　President Obama is in a middle school in Mooresville, North Carolina, pledging to help the digital learning to US classrooms.

 

　　“Today I’m directing the Federal Communication Commission which is the FCC, to begin a process that would connect 99% of American students the high speed broadband Internet within 5 years. We get 5 years, and we wanna get it down.”

 

　　Obama says far fewer US students can connect to high-speed Internet compared with other nations.

 

　　Democratic US representative John Dingell of Michigan is reaching a mount stone. At the tomorrow he will be the longest-serving member in Congress. @@ began his career more than half a century ago. Dingell told NPR about one of his proudest moment.

 

　　“The single vote that the most important and the one of most classics in my job was the vote and fight that I participated in to get the Civil Rights Act in 1964 @@ in the law.”

 

　　He serves the people in Michigan for 67 years 5 months and 25 days.

 

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　　The pubilc is paying its final respcet this hour to the late Senator Frank Lautenberg who died this week from viral pneumonia¹³. This afternoon, an honor guard carried the New Jersey¹⁴ lawmaker’s coffin¹⁵ up the steps of US Senate where he served nearly 30 years. Though he missed the number of votes, this year due to health problems, Democrat returned to Senate with a wheelchair for vote on a gun legislation. At 89, Lautenberg was the chamber’s oldest member and Senate’ last survival World WarⅡveteran.

 

　　Historic flood-reaching havoc¹⁶ in cities and towns across the central Europe. Many of this in Germany. NPR’s Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports from Berlin, residents and emergency crews work through the night to bolster¹⁷ the riverbanks and build sandbag barriers as flood water has killed 16 people wodnorth.

 

　　@@ told German Public Radio that he is one of many volunteers in city of Halo who came to reinforce areas’ riverbanks.

 

　　He said I’ve never done something like this but we never had this happen, either. Some 30,000 Halo residents were told to evacuate¹⁸. In the eastern German city of Dresden, sandbags and barriers are piled to hold as the water peaked, sparing its damage of a mass flood 11 years ago. The situation in the Bavarian town of Deggendorf remained critical as another levee bursted and @@ engulfed¹⁹ entire neighborhood. Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, NPR news, Berlin.

 

　　Before the closing bell, DOW is up 80 points, at 15,051. NASDAQ up 23, at 3424. S&P 500 also up 13. It is NPR.

1 reassure   

v.使放心，使消除疑虑

参考例句：

• This seemed to reassure him and he continued more confidently.这似乎使他放心一点，于是他更有信心地继续说了下去。
• The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe.航空公司尽力让乘客相信飞机是安全的。

2 testimony   

n.证词；见证，证明

参考例句：

• The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
• He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。

3 holder   

n.持有者，占有者；(台，架等)支持物

参考例句：

• The holder of the office of chairman is reponsible for arranging meetings.担任主席职位的人负责安排会议。
• That runner is the holder of the world record for the hundred-yard dash.那位运动员是一百码赛跑世界纪录的保持者。

4 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

5 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。

6 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》

7 appropriations   

n.挪用（appropriation的复数形式）

参考例句：

• More commonly, funding controls are imposed in the annual appropriations process. 更普遍的作法是，拨款控制被规定在年度拨款手续中。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
• Should the president veto the appropriations bill, it goes back to Congress. 假如总统否决了这项拨款提案，就把它退还给国会。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件

8 oversight   

n.勘漏，失察，疏忽

参考例句：

• I consider this a gross oversight on your part.我把这件事看作是你的一大疏忽。
• Your essay was not marked through an oversight on my part.由于我的疏忽你的文章没有打分。

9 parody   

n.打油诗文，诙谐的改编诗文，拙劣的模仿；v.拙劣模仿，作模仿诗文

参考例句：

• The parody was just a form of teasing.那个拙劣的模仿只是一种揶揄。
• North Korea looks like a grotesque parody of Mao's centrally controlled China,precisely the sort of system that Beijing has left behind.朝鲜看上去像是毛时代中央集权的中国的怪诞模仿，其体制恰恰是北京方面已经抛弃的。

10 trek   

vi.作长途艰辛的旅行；n.长途艰苦的旅行

参考例句：

• We often go pony-trek in the summer.夏季我们经常骑马旅行。
• It took us the whole day to trek across the rocky terrain.我们花了一整天的时间艰难地穿过那片遍布岩石的地带。

11 redeeming   

补偿的，弥补的

参考例句：

• I found him thoroughly unpleasant, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. 我觉得他一点也不讨人喜欢，没有任何可取之处。
• The sole redeeming feature of this job is the salary. 这份工作唯其薪水尚可弥补一切之不足。

12 commissioner   

n.（政府厅、局、处等部门）专员，长官，委员

参考例句：

• The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
• He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。

13 pneumonia   

n.肺炎

参考例句：

• Cage was struck with pneumonia in her youth.凯奇年轻时得过肺炎。
• Pneumonia carried him off last week.肺炎上星期夺去了他的生命。

14 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。

15 coffin   

n.棺材，灵柩

参考例句：

• When one's coffin is covered,all discussion about him can be settled.盖棺论定。
• The coffin was placed in the grave.那口棺材已安放到坟墓里去了。

16 havoc   

n.大破坏，浩劫，大混乱，大杂乱

参考例句：

• The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。
• This concentration of airborne firepower wrought havoc with the enemy forces.这次机载火力的集中攻击给敌军造成很大破坏。

17 bolster   

n.枕垫；v.支持，鼓励

参考例句：

• The high interest rates helped to bolster up the economy.高利率使经济更稳健。
• He tried to bolster up their morale.他尽力鼓舞他们的士气。

18 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

19 engulfed   

v.吞没，包住( engulf的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was engulfed by a crowd of reporters. 他被一群记者团团围住。
• The little boat was engulfed by the waves. 小船被波浪吞没了。 来自《简明英汉词典》