英语新闻听写 美国参议员麦凯恩死亡

 

Reuters reports that U.S. Senator John McCain has died.

据路透社报道，美国参议员约翰·麦凯恩去世。

McCain was a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran unsuccessfully for president in 2008,

麦凯恩曾是越南战争的囚犯，2008年竞选总统失败，

as a self-styled maverick¹ Republican and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump².

他自称是特立独行的共和党人，并成为唐纳德·特朗普总统的著名批评者。

He was 81. A Senator for Arizona for more than three decades,

他已经81岁了。麦凯恩担任亚利桑那州参议员已有30多年，

McCain had been suffering from glioblastoma, brain cancer since July 2017 and had not been at the U.S. Capitol this year.

自2017年7月以来，他一直患有胶质母细胞瘤，这是一种脑癌，他今年还没有在国会出现过。

His family said on Friday that McCain was discontinuing cancer treatment.

麦凯恩的家人周五宣布，麦凯恩正在停止进一步的癌症治疗。

1 maverick   

adj.特立独行的；不遵守传统的；n.持异议者，自行其是者

参考例句：

• He's a maverick.He has his own way of thinking about things.他是个特异独行的人。对事情有自己的看法。
• You're a maverick and you'll try anything.你是个爱自行其是的人，样样事情都要尝试一下。

2 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。