时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2010年(九)月


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Arlington National Cemetery 1 - just outside Washington - one of the nation's most hallowed sites. It's where the remains 2 of more than 300,000 service members are buried, including many who died in military conflicts dating back to the American Civil War.


As families come here to say their final goodbyes, the Army continues to deal with the fallout from an unfolding scandal over cemetery mismanagement.




John McHugh

"There's simply no excuse," said John McHugh, Secretary of the Army. "And on behalf of the U.S. Army and on behalf of myself, I deeply apologize to the families of the honored fallen resting in that hallowed ground who may now question the care afforded to their loved ones."


Army officials say as many as 6,600 graves at Arlington appear to be unmarked or mislabeled on cemetery maps. The revelations follow a seven-month investigation 3 into poor record keeping and improper 4 burials of American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among the discoveries: bodies buried on top of one another in the same grave, and unidentified cremated 5 remains found in a landfill on the cemetery grounds.




After the scandal broke earlier this year, the cemetery's superintendent 6 John Metzler and his deputy Thurman Higginbotham abruptly 7 retired 8. At a congressional hearing, Higginbotham tried to explain to Senator Claire McCaskill what went wrong.




Thurman Higginbotham

"Anything that's done by hand for 140-plus years, well there would have to be some errors somewhere," he said.


"It's called keeping track of who you bury where. That is not a complicated task," McCaskill replied.


So far, the Defense 9 Department has received more than one thousand calls from concerned families who worry their loved ones might be buried in the wrong place.


One such call last month, from the concerned widow of a soldier, led to the discovery that her husband and another soldier had been buried in each other's graves.


Cemetery officials also exhumed 10 the body of a Marine 11 killed in Iraq in 2006, but the family was able to positively 12 identify his remains.


Army spokesman Gary Tallman said officials were gratified the outcome in that case was positive.


Still, the scandal weighs on the minds of many of the cemetery's nearly four million annual visitors - such as Dee Lavery and her husband.


"It's inexcusable," she said. "This is someplace where heroes are buried and you should take better care of them than that."


The Army says it has begun to strengthen its management and oversight 13 at Arlington Cemetery, including crosschecking grave sites and modernizing 14 the recordkeeping system. But some family members of fallen soldiers say they still wonder whether their loved ones are properly resting in peace in the nation's premier 15 military cemetery.

 



n.坟墓,墓地,坟场
  • He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
  • His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
adj.不适当的,不合适的,不正确的,不合礼仪的
  • Short trousers are improper at a dance.舞会上穿短裤不成体统。
  • Laughing and joking are improper at a funeral.葬礼时大笑和开玩笑是不合适的。
v.火葬,火化(尸体)( cremate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He wants to is cremated, not buried. 他要火葬,不要土葬。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The bodies were cremated on the shore. 他们的尸体在海边火化了。 来自辞典例句
n.监督人,主管,总监;(英国)警务长
  • He was soon promoted to the post of superintendent of Foreign Trade.他很快就被擢升为对外贸易总监。
  • He decided to call the superintendent of the building.他决定给楼房管理员打电话。
adv.突然地,出其不意地
  • He gestured abruptly for Virginia to get in the car.他粗鲁地示意弗吉尼亚上车。
  • I was abruptly notified that a half-hour speech was expected of me.我突然被通知要讲半个小时的话。
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
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。
v.挖出,发掘出( exhume的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Marie Curie's remains were exhumed and interred in the Pantheon. 玛丽·居里的遗体被移出葬在先贤祠中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • His remains have been exhumed from a cemetery in Queens, New York City. 他的遗体被从纽约市皇后区的墓地里挖了出来。 来自辞典例句
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
  • Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
adv.明确地,断然,坚决地;实在,确实
  • She was positively glowing with happiness.她满脸幸福。
  • The weather was positively poisonous.这天气着实讨厌。
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。
使现代化,使适应现代需要( modernize的现在分词 ); 现代化,使用现代方法
  • Modernizing a business to increase its profitability and competitiveness is a complicated affair. 使企业现代化,从而达到增加利润,增强竞争力的目的,是一件复杂的事情。
  • The young engineer had a large share in modernizing the factory. 这位年轻工程师在工厂现代化的过程中尽了很大的“力”。
adj.首要的;n.总理,首相
  • The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
  • He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。
学英语单词
a black look
acoustic hologram
against cancer
aid equipments
aircraft climb assisting unit
almonte
aminoglycinuria
amittere curiam
aparaphysate
archaeoastronomical
array language
associated electrical apparatus
bacteride
bakeshop
barthelmy
bet ones bottom dollar
bismuth phenate
bronchial nocardiosis
certified emulsion
chronocidal
cold-air mass
complementary injunction transistor
congo brown
craniometry
data input/output interface
decanth larva
decide against sb.
Demlastatin
dip channel
disapproving
disengaging mechanism
disjunction mathematics
dispersion relation
document of school completion
double-bagger
drawls
Dreschhausen
ductile cast iron roll
eclosion hormone
etale morphism
export orientation
extragalactic gamma-rays
feedwater check valve
fiduciality
finishing groover
fluid column roaster
fold testing
free flight
freges
freightcars
fundamental loop
fusidane
futures and options fund
genus Tethus
Gerres
helc-
Hemopoietcis
high price
identifying with
immanations
in-place force
inchrome process
interstitial endometriosis
iraqi-style
last home
leader-member
life-times
Liz, R.
lording
machine-made lace
massively parallel computer
mawangdui
MBQ (modified biquinary code)
Muurame
nenadkevite
open side hammer
orestess
overperformances
photosensitive speed
polar high pressure belt
pre-compression
rate of stretch
redamages
reticulocerebellar fibers
run over sth
sandy blight
Sargassum siliquastrum
segmentate
self aligning spherical rolling bearing
sliding mandrel
squatting closet
sub-freight
suppressor overvoltage
thermoalloy
ultraprecision
unspell
vagi-
Valrelease
waiting to
wheel bay
yiganning granules
zone leveling