时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2008年(九月)


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The two major U.S. presidential candidates are expressing reservations about the Bush administration's $700 billion bail-out of ailing 1 financial institutions. Republican John McCain and Democrat 2 Barack Obama both agree on the need for government action. But as VOA's Jim Malone reports from Washington, the candidates have different visions of what the plan should look like.
 






Senator Barack Obama delivers a policy speech at the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, 22 Sept. 2008



Democratic nominee 3 Barack Obama campaigned in Wisconsin, where state polls show a tight race with his Republican opponent, Senator John McCain.

Obama and McCain agree on the need for more government oversight 4 of the financial bail-out plan put forward by the Bush administration.

But Obama also supports a Democratic-led effort in Congress to include in the bail-out an economic stimulus 5 plan aimed at helping 6 working families.

"Now on Main Street, there have been quiet storms going on for a very long time," he said. "There have been people crying out for a government that is fighting for them for a very long time, and that has fallen on deaf ears, and that is one of the things we have got to change in this election."

Obama also blamed the financial turmoil 7 on eight years of Bush administration economic policies, and said electing John McCain would do little to change the direction of the country.

"We can't do this again," he said. "We can't put up with eight more years of mismanagement of the economy. We can't put up with eight more years of no regulation. Enough is enough!"
 






Sen. John McCain speaks at a town hall meeting at the Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple in Scranton, Pennyslvania, 22 Sept. 2008




Senator McCain also expressed some reservations about the government bail-out plan during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania, another state expected to be close in the voting on November 4.

McCain said he wants a high-level oversight board to monitor the bail-out plan, and he also questioned the wisdom of giving Treasury 8 Secretary Henry Paulson broad authority to direct the plan.

"Never before in the history of our nation has so much power and money been concentrated in the hands of one person, a person I admire and respect a great deal, Secretary Paulson," he said. "This arrangement makes me deeply uncomfortable, and when we are talking about trillions of dollars of taxpayer's money, trust me just isn't good enough."

McCain told a television interviewer that the current financial turmoil is the most serious crisis since World War II. A week ago, McCain came under attack after saying the fundamentals of the U.S. economy were sound.

McCain also told the campaign event in Pennsylvania that the bail-out plan should help people remain in their homes and prevent Wall Street executives from profiting from the financial rescue plan.

"My commitment to the American people is to fix the Wall Street mess, reform Washington and most importantly, enact 9 a pro-growth agenda to create jobs for Americans and get this country back on track," he said. "That is what I promise you."

The two campaigns also traded new television attack ads. The McCain camp depicted 10 Obama as the product of corrupt 11 Chicago machine politics, while the Obama campaign put out an ad warning about McCain's proposals to deregulate the health care industry.

Both candidates will also be busy this week preparing for their first presidential debate, which will be held Friday at the University of Mississippi. The subject of the debate will be foreign policy and national security.

Two other presidential debates are scheduled as well as one debate between the two vice 12 presidential candidates, Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Sarah Palin.



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。
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.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
n.勘漏,失察,疏忽
  • I consider this a gross oversight on your part.我把这件事看作是你的一大疏忽。
  • Your essay was not marked through an oversight on my part.由于我的疏忽你的文章没有打分。
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。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
n.骚乱,混乱,动乱
  • His mind was in such a turmoil that he couldn't get to sleep.内心的纷扰使他无法入睡。
  • The robbery put the village in a turmoil.抢劫使全村陷入混乱。
n.宝库;国库,金库;文库
  • The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
  • This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。
vt.制定(法律);上演,扮演
  • The U.S. Congress has exclusive authority to enact federal legislation.美国国会是唯一有权颁布联邦法律的。
  • For example,a country can enact laws and economic policies to attract foreign investment fairly quickly.例如一个国家可以很快颁布吸引外资的法令和经济政策。
描绘,描画( depict的过去式和过去分词 ); 描述
  • Other animals were depicted on the periphery of the group. 其他动物在群像的外围加以修饰。
  • They depicted the thrilling situation to us in great detail. 他们向我们详细地描述了那激动人心的场面。
v.贿赂,收买;adj.腐败的,贪污的
  • The newspaper alleged the mayor's corrupt practices.那家报纸断言市长有舞弊行为。
  • This judge is corrupt.这个法官贪污。
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
学英语单词
absolute fatal wound
act of terrorism
advance copy
air-cooled turbine blade
aligned dimension
arctic mouse-ears
as pale as ashes
ato unit
bank holiday
bar silver
barbier
beam of uniform section
beam splitting dichroic mirror
boiler cupboard
boiling point elevation
C'esaro convergent series
Caldeirão, Sa.do
christianly
click-to-dial
configuration partition function
consistent deformation
continuous overhead sprinkling
copper clad steel
cross reference list
customs tael
decennary forbids
declaration for warehouse
dedecorated
densely ionization radiation
dequass
digital audio inputs
disclosure principle
dreadnaught,dreadnought
earnings surprise
error-deformation string
Evoron
exauguration
farming bacteriology
fidei-commissum
Freyburg
fruit-seed
gamma-butyrolacton
gauge fixing
glass table
gravity assist
grease proof wrapping
hencoops
hepatic rickets
hexylester
hot alignment
hub ratio
imporose
indeterminate fauit
Indiegogo
inter row cultivator
isobits
job confirmation
level holding pipe
Lord High Steward (of England)
multidiversified
napocor
nardoo
news summary
nuclear emulsion
optic papillae
overdimension container
overtighten
ovular
paramyxoviral
pee-eye
Pharmacometric
pigheadednesses
post-axiad
Power Five
quartz still
ratiometer
red bay
reelin
regenerative braking
reteeing
robern
safe in life and limb
see's
side house
simulated environment test
SlimBrowser
Softran
solar proton
SPDL
spheric earth
tamisier
tetons
thiaestrane
three-star
tubicoles
uncontrolled rise
unwilling to spend money
Uzunisa
vertical vane copying milling machine
Weiss' reflex myopic reflex
xylotrechus formosanus
Yongding