VOA标准英语2011--As Caucus Nears, Republican Candidates Woo Iowa Voters
时间：2019-01-03 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2011年(十二月)
As Caucus 1 Nears, Republican Candidates Woo Iowa Voters
In the days leading up to Iowa's Republican Party caucus January 3, presidential candidates are crossing the Midwestern US state in a final effort to secure support. As they make their case to voters, the sluggish 2 economy and job security remain the dominant 3 concerns for Iowans.
In Davenport, Iowa, along the Mississippi River, Dan Pekios is trying to keep the doors open in the bookstore his grandfather, a Greek immigrant, founded in 1939.
“I don’t make much money here. As the prices of gas and food and everything goes up and wages don’t, people don’t absolutely have to have books. You can’t eat them,” he said.
A few blocks from Pekios' store, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt 4 Romney began the final leg of his Iowa campaign, trying to appeal to undecided voters like Pekios.
“Mom and Pop businesses, like the one I just spoke 5 with out in the hall, they feel they are struggling under the weight of a government onslaught," Romney said.
But Pekios remains 6 undecided about this year's candidates.
“I’ll wait until the last minute, and hear it all. I’d like to see how the whole thing plays out. It’s been very interesting so far. I want to see what the economy does,” Pekios said.
Ahead of Tuesday's caucus votes, the Republican candidates are crisscrossing Iowa, including Ron Paul and former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich.
They are wooing undecided voters like Des Moines homebuilder Mark Reetz. He attended a local campaign event for Texas Governor Rick Perry to find out which candidate can help make his job easier.
“As a homebuilder, we are deadly overregulated. Especially with the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). The hoops 7 that we have to jump through, it’s a process, and it’s very costly 8 to us,” Reetz said.
Davenport health care worker Mary Klueder supports Mitt Romney. But she harbors some disappointment in this year's campaign. “I haven’t seen a whole lot of candidates this time around. This is the first time I’ve seen Governor Romney, I know he was here one other time. But four years ago he had an office here, in this part of the state. There’s not any of the groundwork for a lot of the candidates,” Klueder said.
Klueder says the absence of that groundwork may be one reason there is no clear front-runner this close to the Iowa caucus, when voters get their first say in the process of selecting a president.
- This multi-staged caucus takes several months.这个多级会议常常历时好几个月。
- It kept the Democratic caucus from fragmenting.它也使得民主党的核心小组避免了土崩瓦解的危险。
- This humid heat makes you feel rather sluggish.这种湿热的天气使人感到懒洋洋的。
- Circulation is much more sluggish in the feet than in the hands.脚部的循环比手部的循环缓慢得多。
- The British were formerly dominant in India.英国人从前统治印度。
- She was a dominant figure in the French film industry.她在法国电影界是个举足轻重的人物。
- I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
- Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- a barrel bound with iron hoops 用铁箍箍紧的桶
- Hoops in Paris were wider this season and skirts were shorter. 在巴黎，这个季节的裙圈比较宽大，裙裾却短一些。 来自飘（部分）