时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2007年(五)月


英语课

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.


The United States has urged China to accept new safety rules for its food and drug exports.  American officials said the rules would include a new list of Chinese exporters. 


Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns and Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt made the statements.  They spoke 2 the day after high-level trade talks between the two nations.


 
Chinese Vice 1 Premier 3 Wu Yi with Treasury 4 Secretary Henry Paulson at the US-China Strategic Economic Dialogue in Washington
The Americans met last week in Washington with a Chinese delegation 5 led by Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi. 


The United States Food and Drug Administration said inspectors 6 rejected more than one hundred shipments of food imports from China during April alone.  The inspectors rejected them for being unclean or containing harmful substances.


China has a lot to lose if people fear its food and drugs.  The nation earns an estimated thirty billion dollars yearly in food and drug exports. Companies in the United States would also suffer.  For example, American companies depend on China for large amounts of apple juice.                                                                                                        
Last week, United States health inspectors began examining toothpaste from China.  The government acted after tubes of the teeth-cleaning substance were sent to Panama and the Dominican Republic.   The toothpaste was found to contain diethylene glycol, a deadly chemical.  But no deaths linked to the toothpaste have been reported.


In recent months, wheat flour produced in China for use in pet food sickened or killed many dogs and cats in the United States and Canada. 


Critics of Chinese imports suspect that Chinese companies placed the industrial chemical melamine in the wheat flour to increase the amount of protein.  


Worries increased when chicken, fish and pork in the United States were also found to contain melamine. The animals got the melamine in their feed.   The chemical is used to make plastics and fertilizers.  It is not meant for human food. 


There also have been incidents of bad effects from foods made and used inside China. For example, a number of babies died because of falsely marked baby milk. Earlier this month, China announced new measures to make food companies improve conditions.


And that's the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, written by Jeri Watson.  You can read scripts and download audio from our Web site, voaspecialenglish.com. I'm Steve Ember.



1 vice
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。
2 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
3 premier
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。
4 treasury
n.宝库;国库,金库;文库
  • The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
  • This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。
5 delegation
n.代表团;派遣
  • The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
  • We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。
6 inspectors
n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 );(英国公共汽车或火车上的)查票员;(警察)巡官;检阅官
  • They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过,通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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学英语单词
accessible coast
air-blast freezer tunnel
analytic procedure
anorgasmy
arithmetic facilities
articulated boat
aterio-cardiac
backing cough
beam approach beacon system (babs)
biconical package
bottom surface
brynston
camerapeople
capitulum uln?
chimney jamb
chiral chromatography
chloramphenicol cinnamate
Cladrastis parvifolia
compound preteins
conchoclination
conductivity modulated rectifier
Coonoor
crystallizing tank
danceaholics
dark currentvoltage curve
decastyle building
diagonal joint steam chest
Diethylether
difenadion
digger body
discretional account
distance reading thermometer
double thrustbearing
educational economic
electron microscopic examination
enclave
flat bottomed centrifuge basket
flexible return
fuel assembly fall
gavarnies
gene drift
GM_nouns-compound-nouns
Guiseppe Guarneri
handed in
hatchcover gasket
heterodermia pacifica
hijinks
hit-men
hunting and gathering societies
incissura ulnaris
indirect probability
infrequent menstruation
innate capacity
institutionalization of science
isoglabrol
Kegul'ta
kilogrammeters
Leninsk-Kuznetskiy
locker-lampson
lognormally
lotic ecosystem
mindmaps
mountainboarding
mud jacking
never-before
Newfoundland Basin
Nickel-ChromiumCopperNickel thermocouple
nonoxynol
Norwayan
Nueno
observation check
order of Saint Benedict
p140exo2
peer project
polybenzimidazole resin
polyzonal fuel element
ql
quadratic form
razoring
regulator base
repeatedly
SATAe
self incompatible line
sereny
shilt
short run forging
short-haired
shuttle armature H
single-apertured core
songstresses
spring-heeled
streptocolysin
thrust-anemometer
Toksovo
transmission-line theory
transverse plane of worm
upper limit slope for cultivation
uranphyllite (torbernite)
Veronica biloba
Waikelo, Tk.
wayboards
Weber's methods