时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2013年(二月)


VOA标准英语2013--Thousands March on White House to Protest Climate Change - 英语课
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Thousands March on White House to Protest Climate Change



Demonstrators formed a "human pipeline 1" Sunday, stretching from the National Mall to the White House, to protest an oil pipeline that would stretch across the United States, linking Canada to the Gulf 2 of Mexico.


They want President Obama to reject the nearly 3,000-kilometer Keystone XL Pipeline, saying its development would harm the environment and ultimately lead to greater greenhouse gas emissions 3. They also want the president to order U.S. authorities to set carbon standards for power plants.


"The people are upset at what's going on and he needs to actually pay attention to what the people want and not what the corporations want," said a protester named Leslie.


Local and national environmental groups organized what they hoped would be the largest climate rally in U.S. history.


"You are the antibodies kicking in as the planet tries to fight its fever," said protest organizer Bill McKibben.


The State Department is scheduled to release a new environmental impact statement on the pipeline project after authorities changed the planned construction path to bypass ecologically sensitive areas. But the project's future remains 4 uncertain, following the president's renewed focus on climate change.


And after a four 1/2-year-long hold on building it, critics accuse the Obama administration of unnecessarily impeding 5 America's energy independence and preventing the creation of tens of thousands of jobs.


"I believe that the president has been overly political in catering 6 to so-called green energy private investors 7, as well as others, when our carbon dioxide emissions are lower now than they have been in 20 years," said Congressman 8 Ed Whitefield.


Just like the protesters, proponents 9 of the pipeline plan on holding their own grassroots events across the country in support of the project's approval. 




n.管道,管线
  • The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
  • A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
排放物( emission的名词复数 ); 散发物(尤指气体)
  • Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
  • Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
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。
a.(尤指坏事)即将发生的,临近的
  • Fallen rock is impeding the progress of rescue workers. 坠落的石头阻滞了救援人员的救援进程。
  • Is there sufficient room for the kiosk and kiosk traffic without impeding other user traffic? 该环境下是否有足够的空间来摆放信息亭?信息亭是否会妨碍交通或者行走? 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
n. 给养
  • Most of our work now involves catering for weddings. 我们现在的工作多半是承办婚宴。
  • Who did the catering for your son's wedding? 你儿子的婚宴是由谁承办的?
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
n.(美)国会议员
  • 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。
n.(某事业、理论等的)支持者,拥护者( proponent的名词复数 )
  • Reviewing courts were among the most active proponents of hybrid rulemaking procedures. 复审法院是最积极的混合型规则制定程序的建议者。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
  • Proponents of such opinions were arrested as 'traitors. ' 提倡这种主张的人马上作为“卖国贼”逮捕起来。 来自辞典例句
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a Jamie
Agave tequilana
aggregate demand curve
allowable friction power
allowances for exchange fluctuation
archtreasurer
attitudinise
barrel number
beg leave to do sth
Bertholet, C.
breached crater
butterfly strokes
catheteroximeter
chiricahua
clash gear transmission
combretums
compensation training
Control-Alternate-Delete
controlroom
coprotus glaucellus
corticolimbic
custody of assets
database request model
demultiplication of frequency
development of residential housing
diesel engine simulator
differential heating
disunification
dogmatizes
Duddell arc
early stage of pyogenic infection of skin
elocute
Eriocaulon brownianum
etherification
Eugene O'Neill
fandoms
fixed setting
free from particular average
free of all average
gas recombiner
heavily doped
hetch
humanest
hypopnoeas
ice swimming
imbrices
immediate access store
indirect ophthalmoscopy
innatural
international barter
king pin angle
kinseys
knife file
kratts
marine pollution of pesticide
marjata r.(kunga r.)
memory bank
minimum-age
misbleed
molybdenum(vi) sulfide
money trade
multijunctions
multipotent
normal retirement age
OMGPOP
Parapyrenaria
payinger
plebiscitary
postprobate
presewn
putting away
quantum tunneling
quotationally
regulation carrying capacity
rhodium gold (rhodite)
San Juan Is.
sea bladder
sinuses reuniens
sleep temple
sonfuckers
sopite
space ring
split-row fertilizer boot
statistical frequency
Storhφ
subthalamotomy
supervision over juristic person
surgical approach
swaying vibration
switching line
takatsu
the left wing
tolciclate
trafton
tricarbon dioxide
ultraperipheral
variable amount
versimilitude
waglerins
well completion
woodmotes