VOA标准英语2012--Kentucky's Tea Party is a Force to be Reckoned With
时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2012年(十月)
Kentucky's Tea Party is a Force to be Reckoned With
Kentucky voter Eric Wilson is concerned about his children’s future.
"I have to do now what is right, to give them the lifestyle that they need," Wilson said.
He is so passionate 1 that he leads the Kentucky 9/12 Project, a loosely affiliated 2 group of voters who want to re-capture the predominant mood of Americans in the wake of the September 11th terror attacks.
"It’s the day after September 11th, when we weren’t red states or blue states, we were the United States," he explained.
Kentucky red
But despite the non-partisan mantra, Wilson’s home state of Kentucky is a so-called red state, which currently favors conservative Republican candidates for public office. Groups like Wilson's are among the most conservative. Their popularity is partly a result of the growing strength of the Tea Party movement. They share the same values and concerns.
“I like the fact that the Tea party is kind of this nebulous thing that’s a little hard to define, but essentially 3 when it comes down to it, smaller government, balanced budgets, less debt, a simpler tax code, and dismantling 4 this political class," said Tea Party activist 5 David Adams. Those were key points, he said, that helped elect Tea party favorite Rand Paul to the U.S. Senate.
Adams was Rand Paul’s campaign manager and says the Tea Party is a force to reckon with. "It has really shaken up the Republican Party in my view," he said.
Democratic voter Liz Cook, who lives in Danville, Kentucky -- site of the vice 7 presidential debate -- is concerned about the rise of groups like 9/12. She also worries about the Tea Party's desire to slash 8 government programs.
"It’s a little scary because I view them as an extreme part of the Republican Party. And I think that any extremist groups make it a challenge for other more moderate reasonable discussions to surface," she said.
Extremism
But 9/12 Director Eric Wilson says groups affiliated with the Tea Party are not extremist.
“The Tea Party is really the sentiment of the people," he said. The sentiment of the people is still of frustration 9, still wanting their power, wanting their liberties back, still shouting at their TV, still shouting at their elected officials saying “hey, give me a voice.'”
It's no secret that Mitt 10 Romney will most likely win Kentucky in November. Beyond that, Tea Party activists 11 aim to elect candidates to Kentucky's legislature who will support the conservative agenda: a rollback of abortion 12 rights, support of the coal industry and cuts to medical care for the poor. To achieve that, Republicans will have to control the state's House of Representatives, something that has eluded 13 them for almost a century.
- He is said to be the most passionate man.据说他是最有激情的人。
- He is very passionate about the project.他对那个项目非常热心。
- The hospital is affiliated with the local university. 这家医院附属于当地大学。
- All affiliated members can vote. 所有隶属成员都有投票权。
- Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
- She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。
- The new government set about dismantling their predecessors' legislation. 新政府正着手废除其前任所制定的法律。
- The dismantling of a nuclear reprocessing plant caused a leak of radioactivity yesterday. 昨天拆除核后处理工厂引起了放射物泄漏。
- He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
- He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
- 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》
- 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。
- The shop plans to slash fur prices after Spring Festival.该店计划在春节之后把皮货降价。
- Don't slash your horse in that cruel way.不要那样残忍地鞭打你的马。
- He had to fight back tears of frustration.他不得不强忍住失意的泪水。
- He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration.他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。
- 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。
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
- A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。