NPR美国国家公共电台 2013-06-13

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

 

　　这里是华盛顿NPR新闻，我是拉克希米·辛格。

 

　　The head of the National Security Agency says the nation’s surveillance programs have disrupted dozens of potential terrorist attacks. NPR's Craig Windham reports General Keith Alexander's testimony¹ before a Senate panel is his first since information was leaked about the NSA’s sweeping² Internet surveillance effort.

 

　　国安局局长基斯·亚历山大表示，美国的监控计划已经挫败了几十起潜在的恐怖袭击。据NPR新闻的克雷格·温德姆报道，这是美军上将基斯·亚历山大在国安局的大范围网络监控计划遭到泄露后首次在参议院调查组面前为该计划辩护。

 

　　Members of the Appropriations³ Committee asked Alexander about Edward Snowden, the former contract worker for the NSA, who leaked word of the agency's Internet surveillance, in particular how was the 29-year-old high shool dropout⁴ given access to highly classified information.

 

　　爱德华·斯诺登是前国安局承包商，由于他泄露国安局的网络监控计划，拨款委员会向亚历山大询问起关于爱德华·斯诺登的事情，他们特别想知道这名在高中就辍学的29岁承包商如何获取到这一高度机密信息。

 

　　“I have grave concerns over that, the access that he had.”

 

　　“我非常担心他获取这些机密信息的渠道。”

 

　　Alexander says there are clearly problems that must be addressed.

 

　　亚历山大表示，很明显，有些问题必须处理。

 

　　“We do have to go back and look at these processes, the oversight⁵ in those, where they went wrong and how we fix those.”

 

　　“我们的确需要回顾一下整个过程，看看这其中出现哪些疏忽与错误，以及如何解决这些问题。”

 

　　Alexander says he does not see a tradeoff between security and liberty. He says both must be protected simultaneously⁶. Craig Windham, NPR News, Washington.

 

　　亚历山大表示，安全与自由无法得到权衡，我们必须同时维护这两种权利。华盛顿NPR新闻，克雷格·温德姆报道。

 

　　Meanwhile, Snowden is vowing⁷ to fight extradition⁸ from Hong Kong. That's where he's been since he came out last week as the source of the leak. The 29-year-old tells the South China Morning Post he is neither traitor⁹, nor hero, but an American.

 

　　与此同时，斯诺登发誓将坚决抵制从香港引渡回国。上周，他向外界泄密后就一直留在香港。现年29岁的斯诺登对香港《南华早报》说，他既不是叛徒，也不是英雄，仅仅是一名美国人而已。

 

　　CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell has resigned. He will be succeeded by Avril Haines. Haines is currently deputy assistant to the president and legal advisor¹⁰ to the National Security Council.

 

　　中情局副局长迈克尔·莫瑞尔已经辞职，其继任者将是艾维尔·海恩斯。海恩斯目前兼任总统助理和国家安全委员会的法律顾问。

 

　　Today President Obama said he wanted to keep going forward in an effort to slow climate change. NPR's Scott Horsley reports the president's comments came in Massachusetts where he was campaigning for Democratic Senate hopeful Ed Markey.

 

　　今日，NPR新闻的斯科特·霍斯利在马萨诸塞州报道了奥巴马总统的讲话。奥巴马表示他希望遏制气候变化的工作取得更大进展。他今日在麻省为大热门民主党议员艾德·马尔基助选。

 

　　Congressman¹² Markey has made climate change a top-tier issue in his bid to fill the Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry. President Obama highlighted that during a campaign rally for Markey, saying the Massachusetts's Democrat¹¹ would be helpful in the Senate in dealing¹³ with climate change in an honest and realistic way.

 

　　为了填补前国务卿约翰·克里留下的空缺，国会议员马尔基将气候变化问题视为竞选过程中的首要问题。奥巴马总统在一场为马尔基举行的竞选集会上强调了这一点，认为这位马萨诸塞州的民主党议员将会协助参议院切实处理好气候变化问题。

 

　　“We’ve got to double down on our investment in science and basic research. We can't just develop the energy sources of the past. We’ve got to develop the energy sources of the future.”

 

　　“我们必须加大科研和基础研究方面的投资力度。不能只依靠过去的能源，还必须开发出未来可用的能源。”

 

　　Obama renewed his pledge to deal with climate change during his second inaugural¹⁴ address five months ago. Since then both environmentalists and the energy industry had been watching for signals of how the president plans to make good on that promise. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.

 

　　奥巴马在五个月前的第二次就职演说中重申了治理气候变化的竞选承诺。从那以后，环保和能源业人士就一直等待总统发出兑现承诺的信号。华盛顿NPR新闻，斯科特·霍斯利报道。

 

　　Communities from Iowa to the Washington DC area are in the path of massive line of thunderstorms. Forecasters say over the next 24 to 48 hours the storms may generate tornados¹⁵, hail and potentially destructive winds. They may also spawn¹⁶ a derecho and unusual weather event that can produce damage over an area spanning at least 240 miles.

 

　　爱荷华州到华盛顿特区这一带上空将出现大范围暴风雨。天气预报称，未来24至48小时内，这场暴风雨可能会引起强对流风暴和罕见的天气现象，至少240英里内的区域将受到威胁。

 

　　Before the closing bell, Dow was down 127 points at 14,995. This is NPR News.

 

　　道琼斯工业平均指数收跌127点至14,995。这里是NPR新闻。

 

　　Two Defence Department cargo¹⁷ planes have been dispatched to the site of massive firefighting efforts near Colorado Springs. As many as 100 homes may have been destroyed in Black Forest. NPR's Kirk Siegler is covering the latest.

 

　　两架国防部的运输机已被调遣至科泉市附近地带参与大规模灭火救援。黑森林地区多达100栋住宅在此次山火中被烧毁。NPR新闻的科克·西格勒正在报道该事件最新消息。

 

　　The Black Forest fire is burning quite close to where the Waldo Canyon¹⁸ fire burned last summer. It's been almost a year since that happened. That was Colorado's most destructive wildfire and enormous evacuations there, so people here are, you know, getting pretty used to wildfires and evacuations and having to pick up and leave in a moment's notice.

 

　　此次黑森林山火与去年夏天的沃尔多峡谷大火发生的地点非常接近，没想到不到一年时间会再次发生火灾。那一场山火是科罗拉多州发生过最具破坏力、疏散人群众多的灾难。因此，当地人都对山火和疏散工作习以为常了，收到通知后立刻就能收拾东西准备离开。

 

　　NPR's Kirk Siegler. He says thousands of people have already been evacuated¹⁹.

 

　　据NPR新闻的科克·西格勒报道，成千上万的人已经撤离。

 

　　A ten-year-old Pennsylvania girl at the center of a national debate over the allocation of lungs for transplants is undergoing a transplant today. As NPR's Rob Stein tells us, the girl's mother posted news of the development on her Facebook page.

 

　　肺部移植分配问题掀起了一场全民辩论，大家都把焦点集中在一名10岁的宾夕法尼亚女童身上，这名女孩今天正要接受移植。据NPR新闻的罗布·斯坦报道，女童的母亲将此事的进展发布到了她的Facebook主页上。

 

　　Janet Murnaghan is asking the public to pray for her daughter Sarah and the family of the donor²⁰. Sarah Murnaghan needed a transplant because her own lungs have been destroyed by cystic fibrosis. Her plight²¹ drew national attention when a judge ordered the nation's organ network to make her eligible²² to receive a lung from an adult. Typically adult lungs are offered to other adults and adolescents first. No details have been released about who ended up being Sarah's donor. She's being treated at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where she had been in intensive care. In response to her case, the organ network this week announced a temporary process for children to be placed on the list for adult lungs as it reviews its policies. Rob Stein, NPR News.

 

　　珍妮特·默纳汉请求公众为她的女儿和捐赠者一家祈福。萨拉·默纳汉因患囊包性纤维症导致自身肺部坏死，需要进行肺部移植。她的困境引来了全国人民的关注，一位法官下令国家器官捐赠组织特许她植入成人肺部。成人肺部一般会优先移植给其他成年人和青少年。萨拉的捐赠者到底是谁，目前还不得而知，只知道她正在费城儿童医院的重症监护室接受治疗。本周，为了对萨拉事件作出回应，器官捐赠组织反思内部政策，并公布了一个暂时性的处理方法，以便让儿童能够植入成人肺部。NPR新闻，罗布·斯坦报道。

 

　　I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News in Washington.

 

　　我是拉克希米·辛格，这里是华盛顿NPR新闻。

1 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。

2 sweeping   

adj.范围广大的，一扫无遗的

参考例句：

• The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
• Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗？

3 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

4 dropout   

n.退学的学生；退学；退出者

参考例句：

• There is a high dropout rate from some college courses.有些大学课程的退出率很高。
• In the long haul,she'll regret having been a school dropout.她终归会后悔不该中途辍学。

5 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。

6 simultaneously   

adv.同时发生地，同时进行地

参考例句：

• The radar beam can track a number of targets almost simultaneously.雷达波几乎可以同时追着多个目标。
• The Windows allow a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.Windows允许计算机用户同时运行多个程序。

7 vowing   

起誓，发誓（vow的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild its collapsed bridge. 布什总统承诺将帮助明尼阿波利斯重建坍塌的大桥。
• President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild this collapse bridge. 布什总统发誓要帮助明尼阿波利斯重建起这座坍塌的桥梁。

8 extradition   

n.引渡（逃犯）

参考例句：

• The smuggler is in prison tonight,awaiting extradition to Britain.这名走私犯今晚在监狱，等待引渡到英国。
• He began to trouble concerning the extradition laws.他开始费尽心思地去想关于引渡法的问题。

9 traitor   

n.叛徒，卖国贼

参考例句：

• The traitor was finally found out and put in prison.那个卖国贼终于被人发现并被监禁了起来。
• He was sold out by a traitor and arrested.他被叛徒出卖而被捕了。

10 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。

11 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。

12 Congressman   

n.（美）国会议员

参考例句：

• He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
• The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。

13 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

14 inaugural   

adj.就职的；n.就职典礼

参考例句：

• We listened to the President's inaugural speech on the radio yesterday.昨天我们通过无线电听了总统的就职演说。
• Professor Pearson gave the inaugural lecture in the new lecture theatre.皮尔逊教授在新的阶梯讲堂发表了启用演说。

15 tornados   

n.龙卷风，旋风( tornado的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• And the national weather service reports several tornados touch down. 国家气象中心报告预测龙卷风将来袭。 来自互联网
• They had stock footage of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes. 他们存有关于闪电、龙卷风和飓风的电影胶片。 来自互联网

16 spawn   

n.卵，产物，后代，结果；vt.产卵，种菌丝于，产生，造成；vi.产卵，大量生产

参考例句：

• The fish were madly pushing their way upstream to spawn.鱼群为产卵而疯狂地向上游挤进。
• These fish will lay spawn in about one month from now.这些鱼大约一个月内会产卵。

17 cargo   

n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物

参考例句：

• The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
• A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。

18 canyon   

n.峡谷，溪谷

参考例句：

• The Grand Canyon in the USA is 1900 metres deep.美国的大峡谷1900米深。
• The canyon is famous for producing echoes.这个峡谷以回声而闻名。

19 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

20 donor   

n.捐献者；赠送人；(组织、器官等的)供体

参考例句：

• In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
• The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。

21 plight   

n.困境，境况，誓约，艰难；vt.宣誓，保证，约定

参考例句：

• The leader was much concerned over the plight of the refugees.那位领袖对难民的困境很担忧。
• She was in a most helpless plight.她真不知如何是好。

22 eligible   

adj.有条件被选中的；(尤指婚姻等)合适(意)的

参考例句：

• He is an eligible young man.他是一个合格的年轻人。
• Helen married an eligible bachelor.海伦嫁给了一个中意的单身汉。