时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2017年6月


英语课

 


AZUZ: Yesterday, on the National Day of Prayer, President Trump 1 signed a new executive order. It's named Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty. The president says, under his administration, free speech does not end at the steps of a cathedral, a synagogue, or any other house of worship.


And what his executive order could do is give churches and other religious organizations more flexibility 2 to endorse 3 or oppose political candidates.


That's been banned by a law called the Johnson Amendment 4 since 1954, but it hasn't been enforced that much.


Another part of the executive order could allow businesses to avoid providing certain health services to their employees, if the companies object to doing it for religious reasons.


DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We will not allow people of faith to be targeted, bullied 5, or silenced anymore.


And we will never ever stand for religious discrimination, never ever.


(APPLAUSE)


AZUZ: Some religious leaders who oppose the order say political endorsements 6 shouldn't be made from the pulpit. They say it could turn religious groups into political organizations.


And the American Civil Liberties Union plans to sue the Trump administration. It says the executive order would allow companies to use religion to discriminate 7.



1 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • 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。
2 flexibility
n.柔韧性,弹性,(光的)折射性,灵活性
  • Her great strength lies in her flexibility.她的优势在于她灵活变通。
  • The flexibility of a man's muscles will lessen as he becomes old.人老了肌肉的柔韧性将降低。
3 endorse
vt.(支票、汇票等)背书,背署;批注;同意
  • No one is foolish enough to endorse it.没有哪个人会傻得赞成它。
  • I fully endorse your opinions on this subject.我完全拥护你对此课题的主张。
4 amendment
n.改正,修正,改善,修正案
  • The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
  • The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。
5 bullied
adj.被欺负了v.恐吓,威逼( bully的过去式和过去分词 )
  • My son is being bullied at school. 我儿子在学校里受欺负。
  • The boy bullied the small girl into giving him all her money. 那男孩威逼那个小女孩把所有的钱都给他。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 endorsements
n.背书( endorsement的名词复数 );(驾驶执照上的)违章记录;(公开的)赞同;(通常为名人在广告中对某一产品的)宣传
  • He must make much money on those tennis shoe endorsements he does. 他替那些网球鞋珍重广告,就赚了不少钱。 来自互联网
  • But celebrity endorsements remain an important promotional tool for marketers. 尽管如此,邀明星助阵仍是营销人员重要的推广手段之一。 来自互联网
7 discriminate
v.区别,辨别,区分;有区别地对待
  • You must learn to discriminate between facts and opinions.你必须学会把事实和看法区分出来。
  • They can discriminate hundreds of colours.他们能分辨上百种颜色。
学英语单词
adjustable stop hook
alkaline thinkening
antenna capture area
Ban Bo Han
bear up for(to)
birds of jove
block mode
branches of tail of caudate nucleus
cannizzaroes
cape wrath
certificate verification
clastic ore
clubgoing
coal trimmer
cohesive-energy density
commercialize invention
conventional submarine
crawlspace
degenerate feasible solution
dileonardo
Dist. Atty.
electromagnetic contacter
enrach
equilibrium freezing curve
equitable interest
evaporation current
fawnling
finneran
folding movement
forklift atachment
future perfect
geodesic conic
gombeens
gothic notation
Grand Marnier
high usage trunk group
humbuggery
ice cream freezer
incoming call
intensive training course
kalala
lardacity
latch needle machine
Lath-screen
leptazol pentylentetrazol
Liedform
LRST
machetelike
max.s
mindspace
mirror side
nitrozinc complex
non-attribution
nondefinable
optical measuring method
organic contaminant
orussus brunneus
over throw
overprinting
Pier Luigi Nervi
pimpernels
play politics
plioplatecarpines
prong cell
pseudomyxoma
pyrenophora avenae
pyroge
rational action
rear wall shelf rail
redistribution by fiscal process
residual landform
Rivinus's tympanic incisure
rough colony
rough mason
Sannio, Mti.del
schizolachnus orientalis
sheep raising
single grain
slot space
sophisticated society
sporangiospores
stromatolitic bioherm
strongly reducing atmosphere
sub-lessees
sulfur-bearing crude
supine
syndrome of dampness-heat in large intestine
take things easy
target stated in a contract for fixed output
terpinols
thermoluminescence
toppingly
transition roller
tweenness
two stream instability
under-petticoat
unsynchronization
Valergen
vesicula bilis
whiffletree switch
wide number duck
Youghal B.