时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:2018年NPR美国国家公共电台8月


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The FBI has fired a veteran agent who investigated Russia's interference in the 2016 election and then became a target for President Trump 1. Special Agent Peter Strzok became a lightning rod because of text messages he sent that were critical of the president. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.


SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE 2: Strzok's dismissal marks the end of a long slide. He'd been taken off the Russia investigation 3 last summer when supervisors 4 became aware of his politically loaded text messages. Two months ago, he was escorted out of the FBI's headquarters. President Trump cheered Strzok's firing with a tweet this afternoon that said, finally. Trump had often criticized the special agent, as in this interview with CBS News last month.


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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: He was a disgrace to our country. He was a disgrace to the FBI. So when I look at things like that - and he led that investigation or whatever you call it.


HORSLEY: Trump has often called the investigation of Russia's interference in the 2016 election a witch hunt, and he points to Strzok's text messages as justification 5 for that charge. Strzok has acknowledged sending messages critical of the president to a former FBI attorney, Lisa Page, with whom he was having an extramarital affair. But during a contentious 6 congressional hearing last month, Strzok insisted that had no bearing on the investigation.


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PETER STRZOK: Let me be clear. Unequivocally and under oath, not once in my 26 years of defending our nation did my personal opinions impact any official action I took.


HORSLEY: Strzok says that goes for both the Russia probe and an earlier investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, a case on which he also worked. Trump today called the FBI's Clinton email probe a sham 7 and said it ought to be reopened.


According to Strzok's attorney, the disciplinary arm of the FBI had recommended only a demotion and a 60-day suspension for the special agent, but the bureau's deputy director decided 8 to fire Strzok instead. His attorney calls the dismissal a response to political pressure and adds the FBI and the American people deserve better. The attorney echoed Strzok's own testimony 9 to Congress last month when he said Russia's election interference had been wildly successful, shaking faith in America's institutions and sowing discord 10 throughout the country.


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STRZOK: Today's hearing is just another victory notch 11 in Putin's belt and another milestone 12 in our enemies' campaign to tear America apart.


HORSLEY: Tonight the FBI issued a statement explaining the decision to fire Strzok as within the deputy director's authority and, quote, "in the best interest of the FBI." Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.



n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
n.署名;v.署名
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
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。
n.监督者,管理者( supervisor的名词复数 )
  • I think the best technical people make the best supervisors. 我认为最好的技术人员可以成为最好的管理人员。 来自辞典例句
  • Even the foremen or first-level supervisors have a staffing responsibility. 甚至领班或第一线的监督人员也有任用的责任。 来自辞典例句
n.正当的理由;辩解的理由
  • There's no justification for dividing the company into smaller units. 没有理由把公司划分成小单位。
  • In the young there is a justification for this feeling. 在年轻人中有这种感觉是有理由的。
adj.好辩的,善争吵的
  • She was really not of the contentious fighting sort.她委实不是好吵好闹的人。
  • Since then they have tended to steer clear of contentious issues.从那时起,他们总想方设法避开有争议的问题。
n./adj.假冒(的),虚伪(的)
  • They cunningly played the game of sham peace.他们狡滑地玩弄假和平的把戏。
  • His love was a mere sham.他的爱情是虚假的。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
n.证词;见证,证明
  • The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
  • He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。
n.不和,意见不合,争论,(音乐)不和谐
  • These two answers are in discord.这两个答案不一样。
  • The discord of his music was hard on the ear.他演奏的不和谐音很刺耳。
n.(V字形)槽口,缺口,等级
  • The peanuts they grow are top-notch.他们种的花生是拔尖的。
  • He cut a notch in the stick with a sharp knife.他用利刃在棒上刻了一个凹痕。
n.里程碑;划时代的事件
  • The film proved to be a milestone in the history of cinema.事实证明这部影片是电影史上的一个里程碑。
  • I think this is a very important milestone in the relations between our two countries.我认为这是我们两国关系中一个十分重要的里程碑。
学英语单词
a barrel of fun
abies concolors
adapter computer system
agricultural seasons
answer-seizure ratio
antimension, antimensia
astrogeologist
astromancy
automatic circuit analyser and verifier
bagging-off chute
bar-rigged drifter
bassets
battery charging station
bin drive belt
braised turnip
bulked up
calandna
cardozoes
catsits
chlorbenzamide
combined cutting and-welding blow-pipe
commodity economy
compression type refrigerating unit
confixing
dark ruby silver
decay of luminescene
delivery guage
directo print
east antarctic craton
eaton (transmessible) agent
electromagnetic oil pressure indicator
end play
ferrouranium
finishing teeth
finnmarks
flared
fuel to fertile material ratio
Harper Brothers
hot-pluggable
imbodied
inherdand
initial infection
insisted
intellectual speculation
khaipudyr b. (khaypudyrskaya guba)
knife-carriers
Kāmyārān
lantern test
laws of rational indices
limited safe
madrigalers
mallardi
Miaotse
mist forest
mony
Muzāfarpur
najmas
neutralized states
non-sellings
ordinary composition series of subgroups
oximino acid
pacific type orogeny
pearl opal
polup
preattached
primum
public morality
pyrosulfuryl
remote source
restratifications
rheocardiographic
rigid plastic finite element method
rotary car tipper
sales proceeds
sausage skin
shelf list sheet
shooting ring
shoujo
slides-in
Sorrento
splender
spring a leak
spring set
spur gear system
staythorpe
stogging
street trading
Sunnaic
suomi
take up to
thoracic pleural bristle
three hop
transistor short-pulse power rating
translation probability matrix
tropto-meter
ultramicro-earthquake
vermitin
watershed ecosystem
xylotrechus chinensis
Yushania andropogonoides
Yuwaaliyaay