NPR 美国国家电台 2015-1-11

 From NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack¹ Speer.A dramatic conclusion to a muitified hostages crisis in and around Paris today. French authority's confirming the 2 brothers accused of shooting and killing² 12 people the weekly Charlie Hebdo earlier this week died in a shootout with police in a warehouse³ north of the city. The vaccancy German suspected of killing a French police officer and held hostages to close market. Hostage ? similar round people moved in there. ? * has more.

It cost about a quarter passed 5 here darkness just begins to fall. When there are 4 loud bellings from the Jewish supermarket. Special fores have moved in on the gunman named as Amedy Coulibaly who's been holding hostages for more than 4 hours. It's unclear how many people were killed in the initial onslaught. The latest report speak of 4 dead at the end of the siege plus the gunman. French authority's investigating potential links between the gunmen in both hostage-takings. French president Francois Hollande called the attacks an act of exceptional barbarism. 

Prosecutors⁴ of the FBI and the justice department are recommending bringing felony charges against former CIA chief David Petraeus. Those charges are in connection to allegations of betrayals gave a female Army Reserve officer he was having a affair with access to his CIA email. NPR's * explains not yet clear charges would move forward though. 

The charges they say would stem them from his providing classified information to his former mistress while he was director of the CIA. That does mean that there actually going to bring charges. What that does is it basically leaves the ground work for attorney general Eric Holder⁵ to decide whether to seek an indictment⁶. That could end up sending him to prison. 

NPR's * is in justice department being looking whether Petraeus's skipped the woman Paula Broadwell access to his classified email. Petraeus step down as the CIA's director in 2012. 

Ultra republicans are expected to taken any of president Obama's immigration policies next week including taking the vote over term 7's protections for immigrants brought to the US their children. Plan appears be emerging with suspect the men from the most conservative lawmakers and go well beyond the approach initially⁷ talked about by the GOP. 

Can be the best year for hiring in 15 years liberal department today announced the economy at 252,000 jobs in the final month of 2014. Separate survey show the unemployement rate fell 2 cents of percent to 5.6%. Governor also advise up previous month job numbers all know according to Carrie Johnson pretty good year. 

You look back to 2014, and ask yourself how did we do on the job side of the equation for the US economy. And the answer is we did extremly well, the best really since 1999. 

Job ? December's fairly broad base one worries some signs that wage growth for main ? none-existance. 

On Wall street, the Dow was down 170 points a day, the Nasdaq fell 32 points a day, S&P 500 close down 17 points. This is NPR.

Extreme winter weather with blowing snow and poor visibility's been blamed for a series of crashes on inter⁸ state 94 in southwest Michigan, left as many as 150 vehicles half the road and at least 1 person dead. ? police say some of those vehicles have apparently⁹ caught fire and included a ? truck of ? carring fireworks and other household material. 

House lawmakers today voted to approve the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline¹⁰. The Obama administration says the state department will continue its long-running review of the project. Now the Nebraska supreme¹¹ court is OK, the pipeline's route. In * reports the White House is still oppose any congress efforts fast track the project. 

The federal government has been reviewing the propose pipeline for more than 6 years. And the latest delay was a court challenged in the Nebraska. And Nebaraka's supreme court has now denied that challenge and that put the ball back in the Obama administration's court. The Pipeline which will carry oil from the Canadian tar¹² sands needs a permit from the administration to cross the international border. And president Obama says he will only grant that permit if he can concludes it won't worsen the problem of climate change. A White House spokesman says the administration is to determine to left that process play out despite legislation is on the short circled review and grant the permit immediately. * NPR news the White House.

Shaping up to be a especially bad flu season with the centre of disease prevention and control saying doctors perhaps should be more aggressive, describing anti-viral medications like Tamiflu for patients. The nation about halfway¹³ through the flu season CDC ? free the day said the flu is especially dangerious for the very young and elderly. I'm Jack Speer in NPR news.

1 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

2 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。

3 warehouse   

n.仓库；vt.存入仓库

参考例句：

• We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
• The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。

4 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。

5 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。

6 indictment   

n.起诉；诉状

参考例句：

• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
• They issued an indictment against them.他们起诉了他们。

7 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。

8 inter   

v.埋葬

参考例句：

• They interred their dear comrade in the arms.他们埋葬了他们亲爱的战友。
• The man who died in that accident has been interred.在那次事故中死的那个人已经被埋葬了。

9 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

10 pipeline   

n.管道，管线

参考例句：

• The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
• A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。

11 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。

12 tar   

n.柏油，焦油；vt.涂或浇柏油/焦油于

参考例句：

• The roof was covered with tar.屋顶涂抹了一层沥青。
• We use tar to make roads.我们用沥青铺路。

13 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。