时间:2019-01-04 作者:英语课 分类:VOA双语新闻 2009年2月


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  President Barack Obama says he will be held accountable for turning around the nation's ailing 1 economy, and making sure that federal funds used to rescue financial institutions and spur growth are well spent.

美国总统奥巴马说,他将为扭转美国萧条的经济状况承担责任,并保证救助金融机构和刺激经济增长的联邦拨款能得到恰当使用。

Less than two weeks in office, President Obama inherited a deepening recession that began more than a year ago. But if blame for the current economic pain and dislocation cannot be pinned on him, the president says he is fully 2 aware that responsibility for reviving the economy falls on his shoulders.

上台还不到两个星期的奥巴马接手了一年多以前已经开始、并且在不断恶化的经济衰退局面。虽说目前的经济痛苦和混乱状况不能怪他,但奥巴马表示,他完全明白,振兴美国经济的重任落在他的肩上。

Mr. Obama spoke 3 in a pre-recorded interview that aired on the NBC television network.

奥巴马在美国全国广播公司电视台播出的采访录像中说:

"I will be held accountable. I have got four years [first term in office]," the president said. "I think a year from now people are going to see that we are starting to make some progress, but there is still going to be some pain out there. If I do not have this [economic recovery] done in three years, then there is going to be a one-term proposition [will not be re-elected]."

“我将为此负责。我有四年的当政时间。我认为,一年后,人们将看到我们开始取得一些进展,不过大家还是会感到一些经济痛苦。如果我不能在三年内完成经济复苏,那么我这个总统也就别想连任了。”

The president is pushing an $800 billion package of tax cuts and new government spending to stimulate 5 an economy that contracted at a 3.8 percent annual rate in the final three months of 2008. The bill is before the U.S. Senate, after being approved by the House of Representatives on a party-line vote last week.

奥巴马正在推行一个耗资8000亿美元的经济刺激计划,该计划包含减税和增加政府支出的内容。2008年的最后三个月中,美国经济紧缩了3.8%。美国众议院议员们上周按党派立场投票,通过了这一经济刺激计划,目前正在参议院讨论。

Republicans blast stimulus 6 package

Republicans have blasted the measure, saying it is laden 7 with wasteful 8 spending that will increase the deficit 9 without spurring growth. Democrats 10 say the bill will boost the economy immediately and make investments in energy and infrastructure 11 that will promote long-term economic expansion.

Mr. Obama says U.S. banks and other financial institutions continue to be at risk of failure, despite receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in federal bailout money in recent months. The president says additional funds will be required to prop 4 up those institutions, as well as regulations to ensure the money is not wasted and there is no repeat of the debacle.

奥巴马说,美国的银行和其它金融机构虽然在最近几个月中得到了几千亿美元的联邦救助款,但依然面临倒闭的危险。他说,政府需要进一步拨款支持这些机构,此外还要制订规章制度,以确保这笔钱不被浪费,并保证这种金融崩溃不再重演。

"It is my job as president, and Congress' job, to make sure that there are some rules of the road that people are going to abide 12 by, and that we have got transparency and accountability," the president said.

他说:“总统和国会有责任制定人们必须遵守的规章制度,还要保证整个过程的透明性和问责制。”

'It will take time' to correct situation

Mr. Obama added that it will take time to correct the situation, which began more than a year ago with a rash of home-mortgage defaults and foreclosures, prompting a credit squeeze that spread around the globe.

奥巴马还说,扭转目前的局势需要时间。美国目前的经济衰退是一年多以前开始的,最初的表现是大量房贷断供和住房抵押权被银行收回,这引发了蔓延全球的信贷紧缩。

Meanwhile, the Commerce Department reports Americans continue to cut back on purchases. U.S. consumer spending, which accounts for more than half of the nation's economic activity, fell for a sixth consecutive 13 month in December. While the nation's collective savings 14 rate rose, incomes dipped. Analysts 15 say falling consumer spending is an indication that Americans are increasingly worried about their economic security.

与此同时,美国商务部的报告说,美国人继续减少消费支出。占美国总体经济活动一半以上的消费者支出去年12月出现连续第6个月的递减。虽然美国整体储蓄率升高,但是人们的收入却减少了。分析人士说,消费者支出的减少表明,美国人对经济安全越来越感到担心。

U.S. unemployment has surged more than two percentage points during the past year. A private economic research firm (the Conference Board) is reporting that job vacancies 16 advertised on the Internet have fallen by more than 20 percent in the past two months.



v.生病
  • They discussed the problems ailing the steel industry. 他们讨论了困扰钢铁工业的问题。
  • She looked after her ailing father. 她照顾有病的父亲。
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • 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。
vt.支撑;n.支柱,支撑物;支持者,靠山
  • A worker put a prop against the wall of the tunnel to keep it from falling.一名工人用东西支撑住隧道壁好使它不会倒塌。
  • The government does not intend to prop up declining industries.政府无意扶持不景气的企业。
vt.刺激,使兴奋;激励,使…振奋
  • Your encouragement will stimulate me to further efforts.你的鼓励会激发我进一步努力。
  • Success will stimulate the people for fresh efforts.成功能鼓舞人们去作新的努力。
n.刺激,刺激物,促进因素,引起兴奋的事物
  • Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
  • Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
adj.装满了的;充满了的;负了重担的;苦恼的
  • He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
  • Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。
adj.(造成)浪费的,挥霍的
  • It is a shame to be so wasteful.这样浪费太可惜了。
  • Duties have been reassigned to avoid wasteful duplication of work.为避免重复劳动浪费资源,任务已经重新分派。
n.亏空,亏损;赤字,逆差
  • The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
  • We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.下部构造,下部组织,基础结构,基础设施
  • We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
  • We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设,发展各类群众文化。
vi.遵守;坚持;vt.忍受
  • You must abide by the results of your mistakes.你必须承担你的错误所造成的后果。
  • If you join the club,you have to abide by its rules.如果你参加俱乐部,你就得遵守它的规章。
adj.连续的,联贯的,始终一贯的
  • It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
  • The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。
n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
n.空房间( vacancy的名词复数 );空虚;空白;空缺
  • job vacancies 职位空缺
  • The sign outside the motel said \"No Vacancies\". 汽车旅馆外的招牌显示“客满”。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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a crapella
accounting period principle
allochronic isolation
Arabish
assateague
Bad Schussenried
beating-up device
bill for remittance
bliss tweed
Bodenzeolith
bomber aircrew
brisbin
can capping
compearance
congenital arteriovenous communication
connecting rods
conspirito
criticisingly
cyclographic projection
debtor creditor agreement
default access for logical I/O
disc-floret
dome fastener
drift control
drive a coach and four through
electrocontractility
En Gedi
ESAR
estrus time
euctolite
extra part
family anomalopidaes
fetal heart monitor
fusarium oxysporum gladioli
gas pass baffle
general interactive host link
gentiana crinita froel. fringed gentian
Gentiana forrestii
genus psettas
hard-fisted
Headley
homoerotophobia
hydronephros
kaon(ic)atom
last frontiers
León, Pta.
liberatas
love-philtres
LPG odorant
ltss
Mahonia flavida
Malili
meridian determination
most destructive
multiple car cut
nested group
non-repudiation with proof of delivery
operation field code
optimal linear filtering
organobromine
Palmital, R.
Parafossarulus sinensis
pathological process
Petitmenginia matsumurae
phocomely
policy knowledge utilization
polydora fusca
pomelos
positional operators
POTD
prebookings
quartz-Bourdon tube pressure gauge
r&d
releasees
repowered
safety stay
Scherpenzeel
scouring mill
shell of boiler
shortly attenuate
six-year teeth
soc (subcarrier oscillator)
sound net
steel aluminium trolley wire
stick insects
strongyls
sulfathizaole
suplexes
symptom of computer virus
think again
Tibnīn
tissue grasping forceps
Tokashiki
unassenting
unscientifically
velocity-compounded stage
viscoelastic blanket
wave transparent concept
waylen
wough
X boson
zala (borax)