时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:VOA常速英语2013年(十月)


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US Government Shutdown Casts Shadow Over Promising 1 Harvest 美国政府关闭阴影投下承诺收获



Just one year after a catastrophic drought damaged vast areas of farmland in the Midwestern United States, farmers heading to the fields to harvest one of the best crop yields in years have been dealing 2 with another obstacle - the partial shutdown of the U.S. Government. As VOA's Kane Farabaugh reports from Polo, Illinois, the shutdown has had a ripple 3 effect, affecting everything from subsidies 4 to loans to the price of grains and meat that farmers are trying to sell.


就在美国中西部遭受了大片地区的干旱的一年后,农民们都奔向耕田准备迎接近些年来之不易的丰收,然而,这却遭到了另一个障碍——美国政府的临时关闭。美国之声记者凯恩·法拉博从伊利诺斯州的保罗带回报道,美国政府的关闭引起了连锁反应,几乎影响了一切,从补助到贷款,从粮食价格到农民去努力出售的肉类的价格。



2013 is shaping up to be a golden harvest for Illinois farmer Brian Duncan. “The crops this year are really good… really good crops.”


The corn stalks in his fields are tall and plentiful 5, a dramatic change from last year’s harvest, when a historic drought reduced crop yields throughout the United States.


But while much of what Duncan sees is promising, it’s Washington, D.C., that gives him the greatest concern.


“There was supposed to be a major crop report last Friday that could have been a market-moving report one way or the other, the October Crop Reduction Report. It wasn’t released,” he said.


That’s because the U.S. Department of Agriculture was partially 6 shut down, and no one was available to publish the reports.


“When we’ve got the potential for a good size crop coming in, nobody knows how big the crop is, how much the carry over is going to be," said LaSalle County farmer Monty Whipple, who also serves as president of the local Farm Bureau. "All those government programs regarding crop size are on hold because nobody is keeping statistics, because nobody is showing up for work.”


He said the government shutdown has had a ripple effect on farmers across the country.


It’s been noticeable mostly because the branch offices of the Agriculture Department have been closed and government programs for farmers have been on hold.


"If you are expecting any kind of a program payment yet this year, you are obviously not getting it. If you have programs you want to enroll 7 for, they’re not taking enrollments. If you want to put your crop money under loan, that federal loan money that’s available is not going through,” said Whipple.


“I’m waiting for a sign-off on a new hog 8 building, that I’m participating with a government program, the EQIP Program," said Duncan. "And were ready to go. October 1st it should have been signed off on. No one is in the office to sign off on it. So there we sit.”


As Duncan sits in his combine and focuses on this year’s harvest, he also is thinking about next year’s planting season.


“We’re making decisions as far as ordering seed, cropping mix, and we don’t know what insurances will be available to us, what pricing will be available to us, and we sit here without much information,” said Duncan.


That’s because once lawmakers have dealt with the debt ceiling and reopened the federal government, they will have to tackle another issue of big concern to farmers - passing new Farm Bill legislation. The deadline is January 1. 




adj.有希望的,有前途的
  • The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
  • We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
n.涟波,涟漪,波纹,粗钢梳;vt.使...起涟漪,使起波纹; vi.呈波浪状,起伏前进
  • The pebble made a ripple on the surface of the lake.石子在湖面上激起一个涟漪。
  • The small ripple split upon the beach.小小的涟漪卷来,碎在沙滩上。
n.补贴,津贴,补助金( subsidy的名词复数 )
  • European agriculture ministers failed to break the deadlock over farm subsidies. 欧洲各国农业部长在农业补贴问题上未能打破僵局。
  • Agricultural subsidies absorb about half the EU's income. 农业补贴占去了欧盟收入的大约一半。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.富裕的,丰富的
  • Their family has a plentiful harvest this year.他们家今年又丰收了。
  • Rainfall is plentiful in the area.这个地区雨量充足。
adv.部分地,从某些方面讲
  • The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
  • The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静,宵禁部分解除。
v.招收;登记;入学;参军;成为会员(英)enrol
  • I should like to enroll all my children in the swimming class.我愿意让我的孩子们都参加游泳班。
  • They enroll him as a member of the club.他们吸收他为俱乐部会员。
n.猪;馋嘴贪吃的人;vt.把…占为己有,独占
  • He is greedy like a hog.他像猪一样贪婪。
  • Drivers who hog the road leave no room for other cars.那些占着路面的驾驶员一点余地都不留给其他车辆。
学英语单词
12-Lipoxygenase
Adams method
alphettes
ameland i.
annular saw
anuclear
avena fatus
averoff
ballizing
bead-and-batten work
Bila Tserkva
bornyl formate
buy and write
CALCICHORDATA
Calyx seu Fructus Physalis
carbon sink
Caspian tigers
Cctv, closed-circuit television.
centrifuge rotating blade
chapping sore
chloroacetates
class B telephone
commendams
constant ratio frequency convertor
constant voltage/constant current power supply
coordinatior
cyberbreaches
cystideans
Day Seamount
deepetching
devil's dung
digital videotape recorder
discrete fourier series
doodle-e-squat
downsweep
electrostatic-precipitator
emergent year
encode control
end entity
evaporation ratio
feros
ffag synchrotron
fore-announce
genus Francisella
gross money supply
hairedness
heavy chain class
hereditary neutropenia
Herschel, Sir William
in the depth of night
Isocarbamid
laser microanalysis
legal ouster
legalizers
local-elections
loncars
longitudinal clinometer
lysitol
magnon side band
male force
mislevy
money shop
Mīr Hasan
optical projection reading device
parameter learning
pastey
peccaries
perming
plant-cane
pleomorphous bacteria
posthistory
Pseudosasa yuelushanensis
RDO
reincubation
root diameter of thread
rotational diffusion
saarlands
saccharide
see someone further
ship radio silence
shore end of submarine cable
special equipment for locomotive operation
split(-film) fibre
stored database
Strangeways
stud driver
superhelixes
Syntetrex
tank monitoring system
taunter
Teocelo
Tina, Mt.
torchet
transglottic
Trichobilharzia jianensis
tropical gal
two generations
ustilago eleocharidis
USW (ultra-short wave)
vehicle clearance circle
washing agent
zealotisms