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时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(十)月
You'll almost always find four public services run by local governments across America: police and fire departments, the agency that fixes the streets and cleans the sewers 1, and the public library.
Notice that we said almost always. That's because the fifth-largest library system in the United States isn't local at all.
And it's not fully 2 public, either.
It's a group of 14 library systems from Tennessee to California that are run by a private, profit-making company called Library Systems & Services, or L.S.S.I. This company has been given control of systems that were struggling to find enough money to stay open.
But L.S.S.I.'s latest contract, for $4 million, puts it in charge of a system in Santa Clarita, a Los Angeles suburb in southern California, whose libraries are holding their own financially.
To achieve profitability, Library Systems & Services typically slashes 3 costs drastically, in part by replacing unionized workers.
L.S.S.I. chief executive Frank Pezzanite told the New York Times that a lot of local libraries are, in his words, atrocious.
"Their policies are all about job security," he said. "That's why the profession is nervous about us. You can [work at] a library for 35 years and never have to do anything and then have your retirement 4. We're not running our company that way. You come to us, you're going to have to work."
Responding to outrage 5 expressed in many quarters over the outsourcing of its three library branches, Santa Clarita's acting 6 mayor, Marsha McLean, assured citizens that giving up control of the library was essential to cutting costs during economic hard times.
She stressed that the city's libraries would still technically 7 be public, since the city owns them and anyone in town can still come in and check out books for free.
- The sewers discharge out at sea. 下水道的污水排入海里。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Another municipal waste problem is street runoff into storm sewers. 有关都市废水的另外一个问题是进入雨水沟的街道雨水。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
- The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
- They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
- They report substantial slashes in this year's defense outlays. 他们报道今年度国防经费的大量削减。 来自辞典例句
- Inmates suffered injuries ranging from stab wounds and slashes to head trauma. 囚犯们有的被刺伤，有的被砍伤，而有的头部首创，伤势不一而足。 来自互联网
- She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
- I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。
- When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
- We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。
- Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
- During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。
- Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说，这是最先进的设备。
- The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说，西红柿是一种水果，尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。