时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2009年(二)月


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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.
 
Copies of the budget plan at the Government Printing Office in Washington


President Barack Obama on Thursday proposed his first budget to Congress. He wants to let the Bush administration's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans end next year, replaced by a middle-class tax cut.


His other proposals include six hundred thirty-four billion dollars over ten years for health care reform. But he hopes to raise billions through a system in which businesses that release greenhouse gases would buy and trade pollution permits.


In all, his plan calls for three and a half trillion dollars in federal spending for the two thousand ten budget year starting in October. It also predicts for this year the biggest deficit 1, as a share of the economy, since World War Two: one trillion seven hundred fifty billion dollars.


But the president says he inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. And he says his team has already identified two trillion dollars in reductions to help cut the deficit in half within four years. Targets include war spending and direct payments to large agricultural businesses.


Republicans say the budget is too big and that the proposed tax increase on the wealthy would hurt small businesses.


The new president gave his first speech to Congress Tuesday night.
 
Vice 2 President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with President Obama


BARACK OBAMA: "We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before."


He discussed the seven hundred eighty-seven billion dollars in spending and tax cuts that he signed into law last week.


BARACK OBAMA: "Over the next two years, this plan will save or create three-point-five million jobs. More than ninety percent of these jobs will be in the private sector 3 -- jobs rebuilding our roads and bridges, constructing wind turbines and solar panels, laying broadband and expanding mass transit 4."


He also discussed his budget plan for next year, saying Congress will need to sacrifice some programs but think long term.


BARACK OBAMA: "That is why, even as it cuts back on programs we don't need, the budget I submit will invest in the three areas that are absolutely critical to our economic future: energy, health care, and education."


To answer for the opposition 5, the Republicans chose Bobby Jindal, the young governor of Louisiana and the son of Indian immigrants. He said Republicans want to work with the president. But he said Democrats 6 in Congress chose "irresponsible" spending over tax cuts, as Republicans proposed for the economic recovery plan.
 
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal giving the Republican response to the president's speech to a joint 7 session of Congress


BOBBY JINDAL: "It includes three hundred million dollars to buy new cars for the government, eight billion dollars for high-speed rail projects, such as a 'magnetic levitation 8' line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, and one hundred forty million dollars for something called 'volcano monitoring.' Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption 9 of spending in Washington, D.C."


Stock prices in the United States hit twelve-year lows this week.


And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report, written by Mario Ritter. I'm Steve Ember.



1 deficit
n.亏空,亏损;赤字,逆差
  • The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
  • We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。
2 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。
3 sector
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
4 transit
n.经过,运输;vt.穿越,旋转;vi.越过
  • His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
  • The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。
5 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
6 democrats
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》
7 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
8 levitation
n.升空,漂浮;浮起
  • We are particularly interested in phenomena such as telepathy and levitation. 我们对心灵感应及空中漂浮这样的现象特别有兴趣。 来自辞典例句
  • This paper presents a magnetic levitation system control using the gain-scheduling controller. 本文以增益程序控制器针对磁浮系统进行控制。 来自互联网
9 eruption
n.火山爆发;(战争等)爆发;(疾病等)发作
  • The temple was destroyed in the violent eruption of 1470 BC.庙宇在公元前1470年猛烈的火山爆发中摧毁了。
  • The eruption of a volcano is spontaneous.火山的爆发是自发的。
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acid camphor mixture
Aizubange
Akieni
apo-enzyme
apple cider vinegars
arcanums
asphaltic macadam
backwater silting
balanced top roll
behooped
bleeding in late pregnancy
Bupleurum longicaule Wall.
button marking
calotte
capsula externa
cervical rigidity
comparative difference in cost
computer aided detector design
contrast echocardiography
cryogenic helium
deaming
dicolic
Dictyophyllum
efficiency of electric energy
Equetus
exhaust manifold heat valve
f-actin molecule
find again command
flat parachute
formatting command
free block control table
frequency stabilization of laser
full-throated
Furneaux Grp.
go to jail
gross sch?nebeck
guigang
hand chuck
heritable security
hierarchizes
hot pressed aluminium nitride
hydraulic lifting cylinder
ideal occlusion
in full regalia
ischian
Ismaning
isosyllabic
jack-in-a-boxes
jankovicite
k'ua kung ko
lightpens
linear dilatometry
linearization of wave force
long pin
lost of wits
Maxaila(Machaila)
Monteflascone
nanoneedles
non-reversible laydays
non-serial dynamical programming
nonchalant
nonmover
p.x
perigraphs
physical ability test
piedest
piricularia setariae nishikado
plesh
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relinquisht
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same name
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shitness
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Slovak Crown
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social average value
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speech channel
spot of oil cavity
St. Lawrence River
steric protection
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tidy sums
tube end
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Ulysees
unitahite
visceral layer of pericardium
Vuylstekeara
yak on
Zaymah