时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2009年(二月)


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U.S. President Barack Obama is back in campaign mode - traveling to regions hard-hit by the economic recession to rally support for his massive stimulus 1 plan. His first stop was in a town in American's heartland with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country.
 
President Barack Obama speaking at the Concord 2 Community High School in Elkhart, Indiana, 09 Feb 2009


In Elkhart, Indiana the unemployment rate stands at 15 percent, roughly twice the national average. The factories that have long sustained the area are closing, and families are worried about the future.


President Obama says Elkhart, and towns like it, provide the full measure of the economic crisis.


"We are talking about people who have lost their livelihood 3 and do not know what will take its place," said President Obama. "We are talking about parents who have lost their health care and lie awake at night praying their kids do not get sick. We are talking about families who have lost the home that was the corner, the foundation for their American dream."


It was the president's first town hall style event since he took office. He took questions from members of the community and said Washington needs to listen to their concerns.


Mr. Obama said there has been a good debate in Congress on the stimulus bill, and now it is time to act.


"That is why I am calling on Congress to pass this bill immediately," said Mr. Obama. "Folks here in Elkhart and all across America need help right now, and they cannot afford to keep on waiting for folks in Washington to get this done."


The event in Elkhart gave President Obama an opportunity to move the focus from Washington, to the plight 4 of those Americans struggling to deal with the current economic crisis. It put a face on the problem.


"President Obama, we welcome you to Elkhart with our whole hearts," said Helen Tastello.


Elkhart resident Helen Tastello wanted to know if any of the money in the stimulus package would come directly to her town.


The president said steps will be taken to make sure the public is informed every step of the way about where the funds are going and how they are being used.


"Look, we have got to get the bill passed, but we also have to make sure the money is well spent, which means we are doing some things that are unprecedented 5 to make sure the money gets out quickly but it gets out wisely," said President Obama.


President Obama is expected to make many of the same points late Monday back in Washington when he goes before reporters for his first White House news conference. Then he goes back on the road with town meetings scheduled on Tuesday in Fort Myers, Florida and Thursday in Peoria, Illinois.



n.刺激,刺激物,促进因素,引起兴奋的事物
  • Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
  • Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
n.和谐;协调
  • These states had lived in concord for centuries.这些国家几个世纪以来一直和睦相处。
  • His speech did nothing for racial concord.他的讲话对种族和谐没有作用。
n.生计,谋生之道
  • Appropriate arrangements will be made for their work and livelihood.他们的工作和生活会得到妥善安排。
  • My father gained a bare livelihood of family by his own hands.父亲靠自己的双手勉强维持家计。
n.困境,境况,誓约,艰难;vt.宣誓,保证,约定
  • The leader was much concerned over the plight of the refugees.那位领袖对难民的困境很担忧。
  • She was in a most helpless plight.她真不知如何是好。
adj.无前例的,新奇的
  • The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
  • A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。
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(10) ceiling
air crash
air evaporation sludge test
air shutter lever
Allium paradoxum
Alt Ruppin
American pondweed
amidoxime
analogue instrument
anamorphic release print
ase noise enhancement
bazzs
blast furnace gas engine
bourbon tube
Bous
branched decay
bright red blood
by-product materials
cargo handling space
Centrocestus
coinage ratio
commodity cost depletion
congenital agenesis of testis
continuous soaper
continuous-form
delone
eddy diffusivity of momentum
endocrin(e)
Erath County
eresyl blue
extract blood out of a stone
filk
full oil stopper
full-load stall
furamonum
Gakem
good luck charm
granulomatous mural endocarditis
heyre
Histaphene
hydraulic agitator
intelligence index
intransitivization
jean cauvins
kazakhs
Kurdyum
larg
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logical database schema
long-run standards
lunawicz
M. A. L. D.
male ease
mock-
multigroup
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niblicking
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opinion former
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pinkus metal
pivot-point screw
pleiotropies
Protem
pseudopeptide
psychological research
rake-out
required volume
resultant force coefficient
row-equivalence
rum and butter toffee
ruvo
RVOTP
Saint Lawrence Seaway
serrate
shibani
side reflected
sijitus
single criterion under certainty
Skarszewy
skip day feeding
slam her
sledloads
sleigh beds
soil deformation
special program indicator (44)
St. & P.
statistic hot spot factor
steady state reactor operation
stop-start switch
summation plural
tail-gates
to put out
twenty four solar terms?
van dorens
verruca peruana
water system
weakly Hermitian scalar product
Western literature
William Christopher Handy
zero phase sequence