时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2009年(三月)


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U.S. President Barack Obama is calling on America's allies to further coordinate 1 efforts to jump-start their economies. The president also is expected to sign a bill Wednesday to keep the U.S. government running through September, while calling for reforms in the budget process.


President Obama is warning that his initiatives to revive the U.S. economy will struggle without coordination 2 from other major economies.


"We can do a really good job here at home with a whole host of policies," he said. "But if you continue to see deterioration 3 in the world economy, that is going to set us back."
 
President Barack Obama meets with Treasury 4 Secretary Timothy Geithner, in the Oval Office of the White House, 11 Mar 5 2009


Mr. Obama spoke 6 after receiving an Oval Office briefing from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who goes to Britain this week to meet with the finance ministers of 20 advanced and developing nations.


"Everything we do in the United States will be more effective if we have the world moving with us," said Geithner. "You know, we are the most productive economy in the world, [with the] most productive workers in the world. But they need markets for their products that are expanding, and we have a lot of work to do. But I think we can make a lot of progress."


The president said his goals for the finance ministers' meeting are to ensure that there is a "concerted effort around the globe to jump-start the economy," and to move forward on regulatory reform, to prevent future crises.


The leaders of the "G-20" nations will meet in London early next month, to discuss the global financial situation.


Meanwhile, Mr. Obama is signing a $410 billion spending bill to keep the U.S. government functioning through September. The legislation contains billions of dollars for projects in lawmakers' home districts - a practice Mr. Obama says he wants to limit.


"Projects have been inserted at the 11th hour, without review, and sometimes without merit, in order to satisfy the political or personal agendas of a given legislator, rather than the public interest," he said.


Mr. Obama has promised to force Congress to limit spending on projects for lawmakers' home districts or states. But the budget is estimated to contain almost 8,000 "earmarks," worth $5.5 billion.


It includes $485,000 for a boarding school for native students in Alaska, for example, and $1.2 million to allow the nonprofit organization, Helen Keller International to give eyeglasses to students with poor vision.


Despite his opposition 7 to some of the expenditures 8 in the bill, the president says he is signing the legislation so the government will continue functioning.


"We cannot have Congress bogged 9 down at this critical juncture 10 in our economic recovery," Mr. Obama said. "But I also view this as a departure point for more far-reaching change."


The 1,100-page budget pays for the operations of every Cabinet department except Defense 11, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs.



adj.同等的,协调的;n.同等者;vt.协作,协调
  • You must coordinate what you said with what you did.你必须使你的言行一致。
  • Maybe we can coordinate the relation of them.或许我们可以调和他们之间的关系。
n.协调,协作
  • Gymnastics is a sport that requires a considerable level of coordination.体操是一项需要高协调性的运动。
  • The perfect coordination of the dancers and singers added a rhythmic charm to the performance.舞蹈演员和歌手们配合得很好,使演出更具魅力。
n.退化;恶化;变坏
  • Mental and physical deterioration both occur naturally with age. 随着年龄的增长,心智和体力自然衰退。
  • The car's bodywork was already showing signs of deterioration. 这辆车的车身已经显示出了劣化迹象。
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.破坏,毁坏,弄糟
  • It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence.大人们照例不参加这样的野餐以免扫兴。
  • Such a marriage might mar your career.这样的婚姻说不定会毁了你的一生。
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.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
n.花费( expenditure的名词复数 );使用;(尤指金钱的)支出额;(精力、时间、材料等的)耗费
  • We have overspent.We'll have to let up our expenditures next month. 我们已经超支了,下个月一定得节约开支。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The pension includes an allowance of fifty pounds for traffic expenditures. 年金中包括50镑交通费补贴。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.陷于泥沼的v.(使)陷入泥沼, (使)陷入困境( bog的过去式和过去分词 );妨碍,阻碍
  • The professor bogged down in the middle of his speech. 教授的演讲只说了一半便讲不下去了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • The tractor is bogged down in the mud. 拖拉机陷入了泥沼。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.时刻,关键时刻,紧要关头
  • The project is situated at the juncture of the new and old urban districts.该项目位于新老城区交界处。
  • It is very difficult at this juncture to predict the company's future.此时很难预料公司的前景。
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
学英语单词
alkali hydrometer
antienzymic
Anutans
atmospheric ozone layer
axillary paralysis
barrel sponge
basal apodeme
Belize Dist.
brush toe
calcic gingivitis
casement fastener
certainity
cololabis saira
common lead dating
computer-aided learning
continuous deodorization tower
coo-ed
cric acid
deck cargo main line
DEGRDN
delocalized bond
deoxyinosine-5'-monophosphate
depositional remanent magnetism
Diabetosan
Drapers law
drop knowledge
epc
flower-cup fern
fructophyranose
galactic halo
girdle structure
heresiography
hyperboloids
innovate on
instrument desk
insubmissive
involute spline gauge
Jeffreys body
juke houses
karl czernies
Labruguière
laesio enormis
late trading
lesson-planning
live in luxury
locked wire rope
lossy compression
low-intensity radiation
maclise
make yourself
malloside
methylpentosan
monitor lizard
multi-sourcing
musehont
NADN
near-unanimity
nerlove
on-step operation
outside stimulus
outstart
over-chafed
PCO2A
Philomachus
pine carbon black
plain time rate
plane resonator
Portuguese literature
post-traumatic stress disorder
power swing
profit-sharing trust
protonsynchrotron
recedings
relay protection system
reticulum trabeculare
ridealong
rubiform
sequential interdependence
sequoiadendrons
Shetland pony
shoran trilateration
sieve sizing
single-cycle boiling water reactor plant
Sir James Paul McCartney
skin-depth factor
sorn
sphen-
sphenomite
stoniness
subcritical bifurcation
subcutaneous cauterization
suchards
syntax recognizer
throttle back
Tougouri
Trachelospoermum
triangular taste test
water inlet pipe
water-proof automatic telephone
wickabilities
wilnite (wollastonite)
Zeuxine strateumatica