时间:2019-02-28 作者:英语课 分类:2011CRI中国国际广播电台


英语课

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Death toll 1 from the bullet train crash in Zhejiang rises to 40; victims' families express disappointment at the government's handling of the tragedy.
 
Norwegian police say they will interrogate 2 the suspect of last week's twin attacks for the second time since he was arrested.
 
More than 75,000 people have been evacuated 3 before tropical storm Nock-Ten made landfall over Hainan.
 
Power shortages continue in China as temperatures go higher in the summer.
 
 
Hot Issue Reports
 
China train crash death toll rises to 40, with mourning for victims
The death toll from the high-speed train crash in east China's Zhejiang Province has risen to 40 after a critically injured passenger died in hospital.
The train crash happened near the city of Wenzhou six days ago, which has also injured almost 200 people.
 
Some relatives of the victims have gathered at the site of the accident to mourn their deceased loved ones.
 
The mourners placed flowers at the site and took turns kneeling and whispering messages to the deceased.
 
Meanwhile, some people have gathered at a local morgue for cremation 4 rites 5 to pay the last respects to their loved ones.
 
Forty-three year-old Zhang Mei-lan, who lost her niece, was at the morgue with the girl's family for her last rites.
 
Zhang says they are disappointed at the government's handling of the accident.
 
"The main thing for us is the response from the railway department and how they will help the families of the victims deal with this problem. The district office told us that if we do not sign on the compensation agreement, they are going to leave. They said if we want to wait, we can wait but they would not care about us. What kind of reasoning is this?"
 
The government has just decided 7 to almost double the amount of compensation to 915,000 yuan per death.
 
The Ministry 8 of Railways will provide the compensation.
 
Officials handling the aftermath of the accident say the raise of the compensation amount is intended to stick to the principle of "putting people first."
 
But the families of the victims have repeatedly urged the government to release more information about the cause of the accident and the rescue efforts that followed it.
 
Chinese Premier 9 Wen Jiabao has promised a thorough and transparent 10 investigation 11 into the accident during a visit to the train crash site.
 
Norway police to question gunman for the second time
Norwegian police say they will interrogate the suspect of last week's twin attacks for the second time since he was arrested.
 
Police Lawyer Paal-Frederik Hjort Kraby says the second round of investigation focuses on two things.
 
"Our two priorities are to find out are there any more danger and did he cooperate with anyone. That's our main questions."
 
Thirty-two year old Anders Behring Breivik is charged with killing 12 a total of 76 people in a bomb attack in Oslo and a subsequent shooting rampage on the Utoeya Island.
 
Meanwhile, Norwegians are slowly coming to terms with the attacks, reflecting on what they might mean for the future.
 
Oslo resident Alex Soloie says he thinks there will be changes.
 
"I think they will tear down the building, and they have constituted this commission for the 22nd of July commission, so they will make some changes for the police authorities, their procedures. I think everybody is going to think twice before they send their kids off on summer camp again."
 
For more on the aftermath of Norway's twin attacks, Liu Yan earlier talked with Chen Xuefei, our north Europe correspondent.
 
More than 75,000 people evacuated before Nock-Ten made landfall
More than 75,000 people were evacuated before tropical storm Nock-Ten made landfall over the southern island province of Hainan late Friday afternoon.
 
Nock-Ten was recorded as packing winds of up to 28 meters per second when landing at Longlou Township in the city of Wenchang at 5:40 p.m.
 
173 flights were canceled.
 
Zhu Yong is a CRI reporter who is stationed in Hainan.
 
"The downpours have stopped all shipping 13 services across the Qiongzhou Strait, which separates Guangdong Province from the island, as well as stopping some of the railway services. The Haikou maritime 14 affairs office has already sent warning messages to all shipping and harbor companies to return all of their boats and staff to port and to stay alert due to Nock-ten. Some areas have also halted tourism activities. Ten districts in Hainan have issued yellow alerts for the tropical storm."
 
Nock-Ten, the eighth storm and the most powerful one to hit China so far this year, is moving northwest at 15 to 20 kilometers an hour and is forecast to enter Beibu Bay Saturday morning. At least 31 people in the Philippines died as a result of the storm.
 
Fujian travelers visit small Taiwan islands alone
Residents of China's Fujian Province started visiting the islands of Kinmen, Matsu and Penghu near Taiwan as individual tourists starting Friday.
 
Ceremonies to mark the start of the tours were carried out in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and Xiamen simultaneously 15 this morning. Later, 385 tourists began their individual trips by ship, marking the successful efforts to boost tourism exchanges between the mainland and Taiwan.
 
Traveling by "Jinlong" ship, tourists said it's the first time they have been able to travel to Matsu, adding that they plan to make the most of their opportunity and take a good look at the scenery the island has to offer.
 
"We are excited to be part of the first independent tour group to visit Taiwan. It's a precious opportunity."
 
Local resident of Matsu, Ye Yan-gong was returning home on the same ship. He said excitedly that local residents will welcome visitors from Fujian during their tour of Taiwan.
 
"The open policy will benefit both cultural and academic exchanges and will close the Cross-Strait relationship."
 
Guo Heng-ming, director of the Fujian Tourism Bureau, says Fujian residents being able to visit the islands near Taiwan as individual tourists lays a good foundation for the construction of a Taiwan Straits traveling circle.
 
"Cooperation with the three outlying islets of Taiwan, as well as with Taiwan's main island, has real significance for promoting understand between the two sides".
 
Power supply is stable
Power shortages continue in China as temperatures go higher in the summer. To deal with the situation, the government has coordinated 16 sources across the country to balance supply and demand. He Fei has more.
 
The National Development and Reform Commission says to ensure the power supply this summer, the country has increased the supply of coal for power generating and encouraged the country to produce more hydropower.
 
Jia Fusheng is with the NDRC.
 
"All major coal producing provinces and related state-owned enterprises have increased the productions of power generating coal. Transportation departments list the coal transmission as their priority."
 
The national power capacity has reached 2,200 billion kilowatt-hours in the first half of the year, about 13 percent of increase compared to the same period last year. The total electricity supply has also increased 12 percent.
 
Since June, increasing rainfall and adequate water supply in the eastern part of the country have brought new hopes. In June alone, the national hydropower capacity per day reached more than 2 billion kilowatt-hours, which is 30 percent more than the number in May. On top of that, the country has paid more attention on coordinating 17 power resources across the country.
 
Jia Fusheng again.
 
"As the central and eastern parts of the country are short of power supply, the NDRC and the National Energy Administration have helped to expand the power delivery from southwestern Sichuan Province. In June, inter-district power transmission across the country was nearly 16 billion kilowatt-hours, 20 percent more than the same period last year."
 
Jia says the NDRC has also urged local governments to improve their regulations on proper power utilization 18. Power for living is the priority. High energy consumption and heavy pollutant 19 enterprises are still strictly 20 limited.
 
The NDRC has stated the country's power supply is generally stable and people's daily lives have been guaranteed.
 
For CRI, I'm He Fei.
 
Pork prices drop for first time in three months
The Ministry of Commerce says China's pork prices dropped by 0.2 percent for the week ending July 24, compared to figures from the previous week.
This represents the first time that the price of pork has dropped within the past 3 months.
 
High pork prices have become a major concern for the nation as the consumer price index, the main gauge 21 of inflation, rose to a three-year high of 6.4 percent last month, driven by surging food prices.
 
Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show pork prices in June surged 57.1 percent year-on-year.
 
For more insight into pork prices and China's CPI, Liu Yan earlier talked with Mark Hughes, executive business editor with China Daily.
 
Adoption 22
China has always been a popular destination for couples from other countries such as America and the UK seeking to adopt a baby abroad. Since 2000, US citizens have adopted more babies from China than from any other country.
 
"My name is A Mei, I was born in the year of rabbit. I love the Chinese language."
 
A Mei is a Chinese girl who was adopted by an American couple years ago. Recently, her adoptive parents brought her back to China for a tour. Her adoptive mother says she hopes A Mei can get a better understanding of Chinese culture during the trip.
 
"She is our Baobei (sweetheart), she is beautiful, we love her, and she is very bright, does well at school and sports and music. She is exceptional."
 
In recent years, China has been a popular destination for couples from other countries seeking to adopt a baby abroad. The Chinese government has been very serious about selecting families for these children and has implemented 23 strict measures to protect the children.
 
It was in 1992 that intercountry adoption was specified 24 for the first time in China's adoptive law. And in 1993, China joined the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, which is an international convention dealing 25 with international adoption, child laundering 26, and child trafficking.
 
The China Center for adoption affairs, which was established in 1996, is a nonprofit organization committed to transcountry adoption and to seeking opportunities for orphans 27 to find placements with families. So far, it has established partnerships 28 with many adoptive organizations in 17 countries, including the US, the UK and Spain.
 
Zhang Shifeng, the director of the China Center for Children's Welfare and Adoption explains:
 
"The document provided by adoptive family includes many details. We see if the family is capable of adopting a child. This includes information on the couple's marital 29 status, their health status, their jobs and income, as well as if they have any criminal record. Measuring these aspects aims to ensure that the orphans from China will have a good family looking after them."
 
According to a report by the People's Daily online, it is becoming increasingly difficult for American couples to adopt a Chinese baby because the number of available children is diminishing despite soaring interest.
 
For CRI, I am Zhang Wan 6.
 
Films set for Venice Film Festival
Organizers of Venice Film Festival have announced the movies that are competing for the Golden Lion this year.
 
American filmmakers seem to dominate the lineup of the event, where George Clooney and four others will be competing for the Golden Lion, while Madonna, Al Pacino and Steven Soderbergh will premiere their latest directorial efforts.
 
According to the organizer, Clooney's political drama "The Ides of March" has been selected as the festival's opening night film.
 
Madonna's film about King Edward VIII's romance with American divorcee Wallis Simpson will have its world premiere at the festival.
 
Marco Mueller is the director of Venice film festival.
 
"Rock-stars also can become movie artists and can have the attitude and the intelligence that many important film-maker have. Madonna's movie, you will see it as you will watch it, distributed by Archibald, is not the movie you expect. It is a movie that begins from a very sad finding: Wally Simpson writes to a friend saying ' Mine became the love-story of the century, this means that I am sentenced to live the rest of my life until my death this and only this love-story. This does not seem to me an obvious approach, but I don't know what does it mean to have a rock-star's approach to a movie."
 
So far, 21 films for the competition have been announced with another one to be unveiled during the festival.
 
Meanwhile, three Chinese-language films have made it to the list, namely Hong Kong director Ann Hui's film "Tao Jie", "Seediq Bale" of Taiwan director Wei De Sheng and action star Jet Li's new film "The Sorcerer and the White Snake."
 
The 68th Venice Film Festival will be held from August 31 to September 10.
 
Newspaper Picks
 
Global Times: After a series of food safety scandals across the country, Beijing plans to build a computer tracking system to fully 30 guarantee food from source to consumer by 2015.
 
The new system will particularly emphasize the safety of domestic brands of baby milk powder.
 
However, many consumers believe it will take a lot longer to rebuild customer confidence than it will to construct the software system.
 
Trust in China's dairy industry is at an all time low, following massive failures in the supply chain.
 
After the melamine-contaminated "plastic milk" scandal in 2008, this February saw the "leather milk" episode, in which another additive 31, leather-hydrolyzed protein, was found.
 
A survey conducted by China Central Television in April showed that 70 percent of Beijing consumers will not buy domestic milk powder.
 
In a five-year action plan laid out and released by Beijing Food Safety Administration (BFSA) in a meeting Wednesday, the city will set up a rigorous food tracking and monitoring system to fully guarantee food safety.
 
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Shanghai Daily: A local scholar is looking for a car driver who threw litter at him and ignored his advice.
 
Wang Pinxian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Tongji University professor, was leaving campus for home last Sunday when a man tossed some trash out of his car window in front of Wang.
 
Wang picked up the waste and asked the driver to take it back, but the driver turned a deaf ear to him.
 
Wang then moved to the front of his car to get his attention, but the driver backed his car and drove away.
 
Wang posted a letter on the campus website seeking clues to the driver. He said he would visit the driver and discuss with him about his behavior whether he is a Tongji member or not.
 
The university issued a "wanted notice" on the campus website to help Wang find the driver. The website editor said the letter is a good reminder 32 to students and faculties 33 about their public behavior.
 
City legislators are revising the public sanitation 34 administration law to include a specific punishment against people who throw trash out of a car window.
 
Fines could be several hundred yuan but the exact amount is still under discussion, according to the legislators.
 
Market Update
 
US stocks ended the worst week in a year Friday as time runs out on Washington to reach agreement before the government loses its ability to borrow money.
 
The Dow Jones industrial average was down 0.8 percent to 12,143. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 0.7 percent to 1,292. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 0.4 percent to 2,756.
 
European market also closed low. London's FTSE 100 dipped 1 perent to 5815, Frankfurt's DAX index lost 0.4 percent to 7159, and the CAC 40 in Paris went down 1 percent to 3671.

n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
vt.讯问,审问,盘问
  • The lawyer took a long time to interrogate the witness fully.律师花了很长时间仔细询问目击者。
  • We will interrogate the two suspects separately.我们要对这两个嫌疑人单独进行审讯。
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
n.火葬,火化
  • Cremation is more common than burial in some countries. 在一些国家,火葬比土葬普遍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Garbage cremation can greatly reduce the occupancy of land. 垃圾焚烧可以大大减少占用土地。 来自互联网
仪式,典礼( rite的名词复数 )
  • to administer the last rites to sb 给某人举行临终圣事
  • He is interested in mystic rites and ceremonies. 他对神秘的仪式感兴趣。
(wide area network)广域网
  • The shared connection can be an Ethernet,wireless LAN,or wireless WAN connection.提供共享的网络连接可以是以太网、无线局域网或无线广域网。
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.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
adj.首要的;n.总理,首相
  • The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
  • He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。
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。
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.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
n.船运(发货,运输,乘船)
  • We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
  • There's a shipping charge of £5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。
adj.海的,海事的,航海的,近海的,沿海的
  • Many maritime people are fishermen.许多居于海滨的人是渔夫。
  • The temperature change in winter is less in maritime areas.冬季沿海的温差较小。
adv.同时发生地,同时进行地
  • The radar beam can track a number of targets almost simultaneously.雷达波几乎可以同时追着多个目标。
  • The Windows allow a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.Windows允许计算机用户同时运行多个程序。
adj.协调的
  • The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
  • The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
v.使协调,使调和( coordinate的现在分词 );协调;协同;成为同等
  • He abolished the Operations Coordinating Board and the Planning Board. 他废除了行动协调委员会和计划委员会。 来自辞典例句
  • He's coordinating the wedding, and then we're not going to invite him? 他是来协调婚礼的,难道我们不去请他? 来自电影对白
n.利用,效用
  • Computer has found an increasingly wide utilization in all fields.电子计算机已越来越广泛地在各个领域得到应用。
  • Modern forms of agricultural utilization,have completely refuted this assumption.现代农业利用形式,完全驳倒了这种想象。
n.污染物质,散布污染物质者
  • Coal itself is a heavy pollutant.煤本身就是一种严重的污染物。
  • Carbon dioxide may not be a typical air pollutant.二氧化碳可能不是一种典型的污染物。
adv.严厉地,严格地;严密地
  • His doctor is dieting him strictly.他的医生严格规定他的饮食。
  • The guests were seated strictly in order of precedence.客人严格按照地位高低就座。
v.精确计量;估计;n.标准度量;计量器
  • Can you gauge what her reaction is likely to be?你能揣测她的反应可能是什么吗?
  • It's difficult to gauge one's character.要判断一个人的品格是很困难的。
n.采用,采纳,通过;收养
  • An adoption agency had sent the boys to two different families.一个收养机构把他们送给两个不同的家庭。
  • The adoption of this policy would relieve them of a tremendous burden.采取这一政策会给他们解除一个巨大的负担。
v.实现( implement的过去式和过去分词 );执行;贯彻;使生效
  • This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper. 这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The economy is in danger of collapse unless far-reaching reforms are implemented. 如果不实施影响深远的改革,经济就面临崩溃的危险。 来自辞典例句
adj.特定的
  • The architect specified oak for the wood trim. 那位建筑师指定用橡木做木饰条。
  • It is generated by some specified means. 这是由某些未加说明的方法产生的。
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.洗涤(衣等),洗烫(衣等);洗(钱)v.洗(衣服等),洗烫(衣服等)( launder的现在分词 );洗(黑钱)(把非法收入改头换面,变为貌似合法的收入)
  • Separate the white clothes from the dark clothes before laundering. 洗衣前应当把浅色衣服和深色衣服分开。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He was charged with laundering money. 他被指控洗钱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
孤儿( orphan的名词复数 )
  • The poor orphans were kept on short commons. 贫苦的孤儿们吃不饱饭。
  • Their uncle was declared guardian to the orphans. 这些孤儿的叔父成为他们的监护人。
n.伙伴关系( partnership的名词复数 );合伙人身份;合作关系
  • Partnerships suffer another major disadvantage: decision-making is shared. 合伙企业的另一主要缺点是决定要由大家来作。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
  • It involved selling off limited partnerships. 它涉及到售出有限的合伙权。 来自辞典例句
adj.婚姻的,夫妻的
  • Her son had no marital problems.她的儿子没有婚姻问题。
  • I regret getting involved with my daughter's marital problems;all its done is to bring trouble about my ears.我后悔干涉我女儿的婚姻问题, 现在我所做的一切将给我带来无穷的烦恼。
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
adj.附加的;n.添加剂
  • Colour is often an additive in foods.颜料经常是各种食物中的添加物。
  • Strict safety tests are carried out on food additives.对食品添加剂进行了严格的安全检测。
n.提醒物,纪念品;暗示,提示
  • I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
  • It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知,她才付应该交的房租。
n.能力( faculty的名词复数 );全体教职员;技巧;院
  • Although he's ninety, his mental faculties remain unimpaired. 他虽年届九旬,但头脑仍然清晰。
  • All your faculties have come into play in your work. 在你的工作中,你的全部才能已起到了作用。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.公共卫生,环境卫生,卫生设备
  • The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point.从卫生角度来看,这个地段非常糟糕。
  • Many illnesses are the result,f inadequate sanitation.许多疾病都来源于不健全的卫生设施。
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