时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2008年(三月)


英语课
By Greg Flakus
Houston
05 March 2008
 


Hillary Clinton made a stunning 1 comeback in Tuesday's primaries and caucuses 2, winning decisively in Ohio and Rhode Island and coming out on top of a close race in Texas. John McCain won all four states, to clinch 3 the Republican nomination 4, putting him in position to begin organizing for the November election, while his Democratic opponents continue to battle each other. VOA's Greg Flakus has more on the story from Houston.


After losing 11 straight contests to Barack Obama and being advised by some political pundits 6 to drop out of the race, Hillary Clinton made a spectacular comeback on Tuesday, winning the popular vote in three of the four states holding primaries. Coming before cheering supporters in Ohio, she made it clear that she has no intention of quitting.


"You know what they say, as Ohio goes, so goes the nation. (cheers) Well, this nation is coming back and so is this campaign," she said.


Clinton also cast her gaze forward to the November election, presenting herself as the best candidate for the Democratic Party, based on her decisive win in Ohio.


"No candidate in recent history, Democrat 5 or Republican, has won the White House without winning the Ohio primary," she said.


The other big winner of the evening was Republican John McCain, who beat challenger Mike Huckabee in all four states and clinched 7 his party's nomination.


"Thank you, Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island. Thank you," he said.


Huckabee congratulated McCain and announced his withdrawal 8 from the race. McCain is now free to concentrate his time and money on preparing for the election in November. The decorated Vietnam War veteran will present himself as the more experienced candidate and the one who can best protect the nation from enemies abroad.


Clinton's recent campaigning included portrayals 9 of her experience and good judgment 10 and questions about the readiness of Barack Obama to be commander in chief. Obama responded by saying that she showed poor judgment when she voted in the Senate for the authorization 11 to wage war in Iraq. Although he was not yet in the Senate at the time, he spoke 12 out against the idea of going to war.


Speaking in San Antonio, Texas, after congratulating Clinton on her victories, Barack Obama concentrated his main rhetorical fire on John McCain.


"In this election, we will offer two very different visions of the America we see in the 21st Century, because John McCain may claim long history of straight talk and independent thinking and I respect that. But in this campaign he has fallen in line behind the very same policies that have ill served America," he said.


In the next few weeks there will be contests in small states, like Wyoming and Mississippi, where Obama is favored to win. The next large state battleground will be Pennsylvania, which holds its primary April 22. Clinton has strong support there, but she will be hard pressed to keep the momentum 13 of her campaign going for the several weeks leading up to that contest. Obama holds a lead in delegates that will be difficult for Clinton to surpass. However, she could gain an edge among so-called super delegates before the Democratic convention in August. Party leaders hope the nomination can be decided 14 long before that, so as not to give the Republicans the advantage of sitting on the sidelines while the Democrats 15 continue to attack each other.




adj.极好的;使人晕倒的
  • His plays are distinguished only by their stunning mediocrity.他的戏剧与众不同之处就是平凡得出奇。
  • The finished effect was absolutely stunning.完工后的效果非常美。
n.(政党决定政策或推举竞选人的)核心成员( caucus的名词复数 );决策干部;决策委员会;秘密会议
  • Republican caucuses will happen in about 410 towns across Maine. 共和党团会议选举将在缅因州的约410个城镇进行。 来自互联网
v.敲弯,钉牢;确定;扭住对方 [参]clench
  • Clinch the boards together.用钉子把木板钉牢在一起。
  • We don't accept us dollars,please Swiss francs to clinch a deal business.我方不收美元,请最好用瑞士法郎来成交生意。
n.提名,任命,提名权
  • John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
  • Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
n.民主主义者,民主人士;民主党党员
  • The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
  • About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后,他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。
n.某一学科的权威,专家( pundit的名词复数 )
  • The pundits disagree on the best way of dealing with the problem. 如何妥善处理这一问题,专家众说纷纭。 来自辞典例句
  • That did not stop Chinese pundits from making a fuss over it. 这并没有阻止中国的博学之士对此大惊小怪。 来自互联网
v.(尤指两人)互相紧紧抱[扭]住( clinch的过去式和过去分词 );解决(争端、交易),达成(协议)
  • The two businessmen clinched the deal quickly. 两位生意人很快达成了协议。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Evidently this information clinched the matter. 显然,这一消息使问题得以最终解决。 来自辞典例句
n.取回,提款;撤退,撤军;收回,撤销
  • The police were forced to make a tactical withdrawal.警方被迫进行战术撤退。
  • They insisted upon a withdrawal of the statement and a public apology.他们坚持要收回那些话并公开道歉。
n.画像( portrayal的名词复数 );描述;描写;描摹
  • And painters alluded to her eroticism in their bare breasted portrayals of the dying queen. 画家们把她描绘为裸胸垂死的贪欲的女王。 来自互联网
n.审判;判断力,识别力,看法,意见
  • The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
  • He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。
n.授权,委任状
  • Anglers are required to obtain prior authorization from the park keeper.垂钓者必须事先得到公园管理者的许可。
  • You cannot take a day off without authorization.未经批准你不得休假。
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。
n.动力,冲力,势头;动量
  • We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
  • The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
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》
学英语单词
-oi
admiralty port
agitated depressions
Asian dollar bond
automatic floor-stop operation
automatic place control
barrack allowance
beam a program at
borescopy
butt knife
Campamento
carbon arrestor
chebyshev minimax theorem
check row
Chernenko
Christie, L.
confirmatory sample
dairy machinery
damn him
Debre-Fibiger syndrome
dulcimer
dumbification
East-sider
expenses quota
fibrous barite
Filarioidea
fitting ration
fretwire
genus picriss
ground-tracking equipment
haixia
Hess capiliary tests
histogeneses
homemade
idiosoma
indicating instrument method
interphase connecting rod
iows
irregular curved line
irregular meter
itoplectis naranyae
job's logical job name
lay leader
Le Verrier
light wood oil
limited right
low pressure hot spray
low-temperature bolometer
metatrophic bacteria
microbe electrode sensor
minute memory
mis-representation
multiple scanning
non imposition
normas
odd bad repute
optical resolving power
Papilionanthe
peripheral epithelioma
pivot centre
point a rope
polyaminopolycarboxylates
pre-swing
prednisolone hexanoate
preset speed
presifted
pressure divider
puma robot
Pyretosymptomatology
racquet
rami costalis lateralis
rannigal
revving
rotary table opening
sale of bankruptcy property
scallopine
scelets
Shi'izing
shock insulation
shouldn't
silent attrition
sinusoidal coding
So Near There to as She May Safely Reach and Lie Always Afloat
string man
stylopharyngeal
sulcaria sulcata
systematic requirement criteria
teodorescu
the reprobate
training glider
underpavement
uniques
Vahl
warcz (wartsch)
Wardrop's methods
warm-airs
water tank test cock
weight cloth
wellin'
Wellsian
workweek
zone-fire two-zone continuous furnace