VOA标准英语2012--Conventions Loom as Test for US Presidential Candidates
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(八月)
Conventions Loom 1 as Test for US Presidential Candidates
Negative ads from both sides blanket the TV airwaves and the candidates are taking it personally.
"The other side has decided 2 that compromise is a dirty word," President Obama said. "And they spend a lot of time trying to beat me instead of moving the country forward."
“So Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America,” said Republican presidential candidate Mitt 3 Romney.
Mitt Romney has excited conservatives with his choice of Wisconsin Congressman 4 Paul Ryan as his running mate.
But Democrats 5 are attacking Ryan’s past plans to reform Medicare, the government's health care program for older Americans.
“So we know hope and change has become attack and blame," Ryan said. "We’re not going to blame other people. We’re going to take responsibility.”
Romney has a chance to reintroduce himself at the Republican convention in Tampa, says analyst 6 Norman Ornstein.
“Romney now has an opportunity to show that he is not the imperious, mean-spirited, out-of-touch rich guy but rather a warm family person who cares about others and also somebody who is competent enough to move forward,” he said.
Polls show President Obama is more likeable than Romney, but politically vulnerable because of the weak economy.
The president is trying to convince voters that better days are ahead.
“I’ll wake up every single day fighting as hard as I know how for you," he said. "I will think about you and I will represent you and I will fight for you and I have kept that promise, Iowa! I have kept that promise!”
Obama will have a different challenge when he speaks to Democrats at their convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, in September, says Ornstein.
“You want to reinforce the things that you’ve done including killing 7 Osama bin 8 Laden 9 that show you as the tough, resolute 10 decision-maker,” he said.
Political conventions have changed from the days when they actually chose candidates, says Quinnipiac pollster Peter Brown.
“They are a way of presenting each party in its best light, and it’s a way of telling voters, this is who the party is, this is who the candidate is and this is what he stands for,” he said.
After the conventions, the next major campaign test will be a series of candidate debates beginning October 3.
- The old woman was weaving on her loom.那位老太太正在织布机上织布。
- The shuttle flies back and forth on the loom.织布机上梭子来回飞动。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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》
- What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
- The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
- He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。
- 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。