时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(十一月)


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By Jim Malone
Washington
08 November 2006


U.S. Democrats 2 won a major congressional victory in midterm elections Tuesday, taking control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 1994 and gaining seats in the Senate. As VOA National correspondent Jim Malone reports from Washington, public discontent over the war in Iraq was a major factor in the Democratic gains.


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Voters use electronic voting machines to cast their ballot 3 in Cedarville, Ohio, Nov. 7, 2006  
  
Democrats had all along hoped to make this year's midterm congressional elections a referendum on the war in Iraq and it appears they largely succeeded.


An exit poll survey conducted by the Associated Press found about six in 10 voters unhappy about the war in Iraq and disapproving 4 of the way President Bush is handling his job.


The poll also found that 75 percent of those asked said congressional scandals played an important role in their vote.


Democrats have been the minority party in the 435-member House since the Republican sweep of 1994.
 


Nancy Pelosi  
  
California Democrat 1 Nancy Pelosi is now in line to become the first woman Speaker of the House. Pelosi thanked ecstatic Democrats at party headquarters in Washington and said her party stands ready to meet what she believes is a desire for change among voters.


"And nowhere did the American people make it more clear that we need a new direction than in the war in Iraq," said Nancy Pelosi.


Democrats also made gains in the 100-member U.S. Senate, seizing Republican held seats in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Democrats also seized governorships previously 5 held by Republicans in Massachusetts, New York, Ohio and Colorado.


Democratic control of the House means Democrats will set the congressional agenda and have the power to launch committee investigations 6 of the Bush administration, including its handling of the war in Iraq.


Stephen Wayne is a political expert at Georgetown University in Washington.


"There would be a great incentive 7 to investigate the executive branch, and the Democrats would try to drag the administration through with non-stop investigations for the next two years, " said Stephen Wayne.


Some Democrats are already urging the incoming congressional leadership to focus more on substance and less on political recriminations.


Senator Barrack Obama is a Democrat from Illinois and a possible presidential contender in 2008.


"Democrats also have to show that we are going to move forward aggressively on agendas that actually make a difference with the American people, things like [increasing] the minimum wage, things like lowering the cost of health care," he said. "The American people want progress. They do not want payback [political revenge]."


Republicans meanwhile are trying to assess where they went wrong and how to fix it in time for the next election.


Former Republican Congressman 8 Dick Armey appeared on MSNBC television.


"I think we will come out of this a Republican Party that is stronger," said Dick Armey. "I do not think there is a repudiation 9 of the fundamentals of the Republican Party. There is a disappointment of current Republican officeholders in not having lived up to the ideals of our party."


Historically, the Republican losses in the House and Senate are not unusual in the sixth year of a two-term president. Since World War II, the party that controls the White House has lost an average of 31 House seats and six Senate seats in the sixth year of a second presidential term.



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.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.(不记名)投票,投票总数,投票权;vi.投票
  • The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
  • The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。
adj.不满的,反对的v.不赞成( disapprove的现在分词 )
  • Mother gave me a disapproving look. 母亲的眼神告诉我她是不赞成的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Her father threw a disapproving glance at her. 她父亲不满地瞥了她一眼。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
(正式的)调查( investigation的名词复数 ); 侦查; 科学研究; 学术研究
  • His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查,但没有发现什么。
  • He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。
n.刺激;动力;鼓励;诱因;动机
  • Money is still a major incentive in most occupations.在许多职业中,钱仍是主要的鼓励因素。
  • He hasn't much incentive to work hard.他没有努力工作的动机。
n.(美)国会议员
  • He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
  • The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
n.拒绝;否认;断绝关系;抛弃
  • Datas non-repudiation is very important in the secure communication. 在安全数据的通讯中,数据发送和接收的非否认十分重要。 来自互联网
  • There are some goals of Certified E-mail Protocol: confidentiality non-repudiation and fairness. 挂号电子邮件协议需要具备保密性、不可否认性及公平性。 来自互联网
学英语单词
?-subunit
Acanthephippium sinense
amilorides
analytical geometry of space
Association of Oil Pipe Lines
at the furthest
automobilists
balanced incomplete type
Bartica
beautiness
bocion
bockwurst sausage
brownell
build up to
calorimotor
carrottop
caveator
continuity coefficient
core cavitation
correction and compensation device
counterextortion
cultural diffusions
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
Dazoxibin
DBMS drivers
dead water zone
dialling tones
dietary antigen
diguanidinobutanase
eclipsing star
Elliont type knuckle
equilibrium, temperature
erythrocythaemic
fdp management science
fruitshop
gear in train
grey-back
high quartz solid solution
hooking pass
Hungarian grass
incendiary leaf
incumbent upon
India lawn
iridium sulfite
j-invariant of elliptic curve
kulm
laid siege
lift distribution
low-order
major first face
meadow ferns
mid-latitudes
midget
multicolor emission
multident
multiviscosity oil
Ngoc My
non-independent accounting unit
nonweekly
objective force level
Okawville
P-T region
Pedicularis dolichoglossa
photoactive reaction
pipe valve tray
pointwise ergodic theorem
prolific writer
quinonyl
quotation board
rapid scanning spectrometer
rational form
reinforcement bending shed
remines
repressibility
riveros
Sena, R.
send back system
send sb into bankrupt
side toppling
startscummers
stiede
Stiegel, Henry William
stove drying
stress in beam
suirs
swab man
sweat over sth
swept
tabards
Take someone to the woodshed
Terezinha
theory of matrices
thiofuradene
tropical automatic weather station
tropicalist
tulie
ultrasonic cell disintegration
unirrigated soil
unlight
vieulence alteration
wage drift
wave length-ship length ratio