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英语课
By Mike O'Sullivan
Los Angeles
16 November 2007

Democratic Party presidential candidates faced off in Las Vegas Thursday, as Senator Hillary Clinton accused her rivals of distorting her record. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan reports from Los Angeles, the race is heating up in the weeks before the start of party caucuses 1 and primary elections.


Senator Clinton leads the Democrats 2 in national opinion polls, and has been the target of intense attacks from Illinois senator Barak Obama and former South Carolina senator John Edwards. Her rivals kept the pressure on in Las Vegas, accusing Clinton of switching positions on issues including Iraq, Iran, U.S. Social Security pensions, and the controversial domestic question of granting drivers' licenses 3 to illegal immigrants. Obama called Clinton a capable politician who has run a good campaign, but says she is constantly switching positions.


"What the American people are looking for right now is straight answers to tough questions, and that is not what we have seen out of Senator Clinton on a host of issues," Obama said.


Senator Edwards, who was the Democratic Party's vice 4 presidential candidate in 2004, has refused to take contributions from corporate 5 lobbyists in this presidential campaign. He accused Clinton of defending a political system that he says is corrupt 6 and broken, but he says he will bring change to Washington.


"Senator Clinton defends the system, takes money from lobbyists, does all those things, and my point is simply that people have - no, wait a minute - voters have those choices. Voters have those choices," said Edwards. "And they deserve to know that they have those choices, and that there are in fact differences between us. But I think every one of us should be held to the same standard."


Clinton accused her rivals of throwing mud and using tactics on their fellow Democrats that she said were taken from the Republican playbook.


Clinton also responded to critics who say she has used her gender 7 to her advantage. She recently told students at her all-female alma mater, Wellesley College, that her education prepared her for what she called the "boys club" of politics. In the debate, she deflected 8 the criticism.


"I'm not playing, as some people say, the gender card here in Las Vegas. I'm just trying to play the winning card. And I understand very well that people are not attacking me because I'm a woman," said Clinton. "They're attacking me because I'm ahead."


While Clinton leads in national polls, she faces a tough battle in the Iowa caucuses January 3. Clinton, Obama and Edwards are in a dead heat in state opinion polls.


The New Hampshire primary will follow a few days later. The Western state of Nevada, where Thursday's debate was held, will hold its party caucuses January 19.




n.(政党决定政策或推举竞选人的)核心成员( caucus的名词复数 );决策干部;决策委员会;秘密会议
  • Republican caucuses will happen in about 410 towns across Maine. 共和党团会议选举将在缅因州的约410个城镇进行。 来自互联网
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.执照( license的名词复数 )v.批准,许可,颁发执照( license的第三人称单数 )
  • Drivers have ten days' grace to renew their licenses. 驾驶员更换执照有10天的宽限期。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Jewish firms couldn't get import or export licenses or raw materials. 犹太人的企业得不到进出口许可证或原料。 来自辞典例句
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
adj.共同的,全体的;公司的,企业的
  • This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
  • His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
v.贿赂,收买;adj.腐败的,贪污的
  • The newspaper alleged the mayor's corrupt practices.那家报纸断言市长有舞弊行为。
  • This judge is corrupt.这个法官贪污。
n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性
  • French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语,所有的名词都有性。
  • Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。
偏离的
  • The ball deflected off Reid's body into the goal. 球打在里德身上反弹进球门。
  • Most of its particles are deflected. 此物质的料子大多是偏斜的。
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