时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA双语新闻 2009年3月


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  On Friday, the U.S. Senate shelved a final vote on the $410 billion spending bill that would fund the federal government through the current fiscal 1 year. Senators from both parties have expressed reservations over the more than 8,000 localized spending projects, called earmarks, which total more than $7 billion.

美国国会参议院星期五搁置了对4100亿美元政府开支议案的最后表决,这项议案将为本财政年度联邦政府的支出提供资金。民主和共和两党的部分参议员对开支议案中有8千多个地方性开支项目,即所谓的专门拨款,持保留意见。这些地方性项目的支出额高达70亿美元。

Congress will continue debate Monday over the federal spending bill, which a handful of Republicans and Democrats 2 are criticizing for being loaded down with earmarks, or special projects legislators use to funnel 3 money to their constituents 4.

国会星期一将继续就联邦开支议案进行辩论。部分共和党和民主党议员对议案中夹带太多的专门拨款项目提出批评。所谓的特别拨款项目就是议员们为自己的选民争取的资金。

Congress did not pass the legislation last year under threat of a veto from then-President George Bush. Now some question whether President Barack Obama is breaking his campaign pledge to scour 5 the budget line by line for wasteful 6 spending.

国会去年在前总统布什威胁要否决的情况下没有通过相关的专门拨款。奥巴马总统竞选时表示要逐条审议预算案,减少浪费的支出。现在有人怀疑奥巴马是否没有兑现竞选时所作的保证。

Republican Senator John McCain, who is well known for deriding 7 earmarks as "pork barrel spending," told Fox News the president should scrap 8 the bill entirely 9.

共和党参议员约翰.麦凯恩曾嘲讽地称这些专门拨款项目为“猪肉桶支出”,他在接受福克斯新闻采访时说,总统应该全面废弃这个议案。

"But the fact is, they are unneeded, unwanted, unnecessary and it is not last year's business," said John McCain. "It is money that is going to be spent as soon as the president signs the bill, and he should not sign it, he should veto it and send it right back."

他说:“但是,事实是,这些都是不必要的,不需要的,没有必要的。这跟去年的情况不一样。这些钱在总统签署之后,就得支出。他不应该签字,他应该否决它,把它退回去。”

McCain acknowledges that earmark spending is a bipartisan problem; about 40 percent of the earmarks came from fellow Republicans. One such Republican is Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama who says the inclusion of earmarks should not impede 10 funding the government.

麦凯恩承认专门拨款项目是两党共有的问题。大约40%的专门拨款项目来自共和党人。阿拉巴马州的共和党参议员谢尔比就是其中之一。他说,议案中包括专门拨款不会阻碍为联邦政府提供资金。

"A lot of people voted for a stimulus 11 bill, a TARP [Troubled Assets Relief Program], that is $1.5 trillion," said Richard Shelby. "Now they say, 'Oh, we better not vote for a $400-billion bill to fund the government.' I think we ought to fund the government and move on."

谢尔比说:“很多人投票赞成经济刺激计划,赞成所谓“救助有问题资产项目”,需要的资金高达1.5万亿美元。现在他们说,我们最好不要投票通过4000亿美元的联邦政府运作资金。我认为我们应该为政府提供资金,然后向前迈进。”

Another Republican, Senator Lindsey Graham, who inserted 37 earmarks for South Carolina, defended the process for funneling 12 revenue to his home state.

另一个共和党人,参议员格雷厄姆为南卡罗来纳加入了37个特别拨款项目。他为自己给家乡争取资金的行为进行辩护。

"I think I should have the ability as a United States Senator to direct money back to my state as long it is transparent 13 and it makes sense," said Lindsey Graham.

格雷厄姆说:“我认为,作为一名美国参议员,我应该有能力为我所在的州争取一些资金,只要这些钱是透明的,支出是有道理的。”

In total, earmarks represent less than two percent of the federal spending bill. Graham and other senators say they expect the bill to pass later this week.

总的说来,专门拨款只占联邦政府开支总额的不到1%。格雷厄姆和其他参议员说,他们预期这个议案在本星期晚些时候可以得到通过。



adj.财政的,会计的,国库的,国库岁入的
  • The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
  • The government has two basic strategies of fiscal policy available.政府有两个可行的财政政策基本战略。
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.漏斗;烟囱;v.汇集
  • He poured the petrol into the car through a funnel.他用一个漏斗把汽油灌入汽车。
  • I like the ship with a yellow funnel.我喜欢那条有黄烟囱的船。
n.选民( constituent的名词复数 );成分;构成部分;要素
  • She has the full support of her constituents. 她得到本区选民的全力支持。
  • Hydrogen and oxygen are the constituents of water. 氢和氧是水的主要成分。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.搜索;擦,洗,腹泻,冲刷
  • Mother made me scour the family silver.母亲让我擦洗家里的银器。
  • We scoured the telephone directory for clues.我们仔细查阅电话簿以寻找线索。
adj.(造成)浪费的,挥霍的
  • It is a shame to be so wasteful.这样浪费太可惜了。
  • Duties have been reassigned to avoid wasteful duplication of work.为避免重复劳动浪费资源,任务已经重新分派。
v.取笑,嘲笑( deride的现在分词 )
  • The girls are deriding that boy's foolishness. 姑娘们在嘲笑那个男孩的愚笨。 来自互联网
n.碎片;废料;v.废弃,报废
  • A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.有个男人定时来收废品。
  • Sell that car for scrap.把那辆汽车当残品卖了吧。
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
v.妨碍,阻碍,阻止
  • One shouldn't impede other's progress.一个人不应该妨碍他人进步。
  • The muddy roads impede our journey.我们的旅游被泥泞的道路阻挠了。
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。
[医]成漏斗形:描述膀胱底及膀胱尿道交接区
adj.明显的,无疑的;透明的
  • The water is so transparent that we can see the fishes swimming.水清澈透明,可以看到鱼儿游来游去。
  • The window glass is transparent.窗玻璃是透明的。
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abscess of pharyngeal bursa
Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd
Abū Fulah
airborne patrol
apartment buildings
apple-mose
argyrite (argentite)
Askania marine gravimeter
automatic header-height control system
base of topology
benzopyridazines
bibiliography
biquanides
bloodstreams
boosted-high level clock generator
Bošnjaci
Cabezuela
cfar
chemical armament
Chinese Chem.Soc.
Chroococcales
cilmostim
clamped-edge
Conservative Jew
current genetics
cut-flight conveyor screw
Cyclostegia
Day's multiplexing system
degree of industrial accumulation
dial instrument
differential metacenter
Diflueortolone
dig in
electromechanical automated gram operator
emergency detection system
equipment optimization
exobiologist
field correlator
final steaming
frackiewicz
Gavelândia
Geosciurrus
glischrin
hard rubber tire
hunting selector
hydroxyl group
Hymenolepididae
i-kunde
immunohistochemically
inducible expression
isotopic abundance ratio
joint amphibious task force
like sardines
litmus milk culture-medium
load dividing valve
louis jolliets
lylphangio-endothelioma
marginal productivity theory of wages
Mujimbeji
multi-engine pilot trainer (mept)
mycojuana
Nangodi
negative ion formation
nonlinear diffraction
nuclear threat
o-aminoacetophenone
observed frequency
oil-cooled tube
optical nerve
Polyosma
post-closure
ramp rate
re serve
relative peltier coefficient
returned material report
safe service life
secondary petiole
shout down
sidey
silicate-rich meteorite
sodium hypochlorite burn
Sorghum dochna
space-division switching
spile worm
sungazer
superbusy
surplus for the year
system load vector
tape card
temporarily discontinued
the morphological analysis of chromosome
torsion-free module
tribromizated
trova
turcottes
unguiculatas
unguitractor
valle vista
vinager
vostro deposit
Winnecke, Mt.
yaw regulating mechanism