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Broadcast: Jan 09 2003


 


New York State and the Canadian Province of Quebec are planning an historic joint 1 effort to host Winter Olympic Games. New York Governor George Pataki announced Wednesday the United States first ever bi-national bid for the Games.


Mr. Pataki said the busy corridor between Montreal, Canada, and New York State's Adirondack Mountains provides an ideal venue 2 for the Winter Olympics.


"Today I am proud to announce that we are working with Premier 3 Landry of Quebec to put together America's first ever bi-national olympic 2)bid, the bid to have the games hosted jointly 4 by the north country and by Quebec. It will be exciting opportunity," said Mr. Pataki.


The governor did not specify 5 a particular Olympic year. But he said New York State and neighboring Canada have much to offer, including well-known winter sports resorts and olympic experience.


The Adirondack village resort of Lake Placid 6 hosted the Winter Olympics in 1980 and 1932. The Summer Olympics were held in the Canadian city of Montreal in 1976. The two are about 200-kilometers apart. The regions already have an active commercial and cultural relationship and cooperate on security and 3)transpiration issues.


Mr. Pataki made his announcement just two months after the U.S. Olympic Committee selected New York City over San Francisco to compete as the host city of the 2012 Summer Olympics.


The next Winter Olympics will be held in Turin, Italy in 2006.


Jenny Badner VOA news, New York.


1)    Quebec魁北克(加拿大省名)


2)    bid [bid]vt.出价, 投标


3)    transpiration[7trAnspi5reiFEn]n.散发,发散,流逸



1 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。
2 venue
n.犯罪地点,审判地,管辖地,发生地点,集合地点
  • The hall provided a venue for weddings and other functions.大厅给婚礼和其他社会活动提供了场所。
  • The chosen venue caused great controversy among the people.人们就审判地点的问题产生了极大的争议。
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 jointly
ad.联合地,共同地
  • Tenants are jointly and severally liable for payment of the rent. 租金由承租人共同且分别承担。
  • She owns the house jointly with her husband. 她和丈夫共同拥有这所房子。
5 specify
vt.指定,详细说明
  • We should specify a time and a place for the meeting.我们应指定会议的时间和地点。
  • Please specify what you will do.请你详述一下你将做什么。
6 placid
adj.安静的,平和的
  • He had been leading a placid life for the past eight years.八年来他一直过着平静的生活。
  • You should be in a placid mood and have a heart-to- heart talk with her.你应该心平气和的好好和她谈谈心。
学英语单词
a river
accrued dividends
aggresomal
aluminium foil container
anoysance
audit productivity
ball-point pens
balun (balanced-unbalanced transformer)
baptising
be continuous
beach-house
box bill
bubble roof
cache management
capitalizes on
cashed out
cenomanian transgression
check-in
Chenossil
chicken roll
cobalt trifluoride
combined radial and axial bearing
constant-thickness arch
crane shaft
crested cariama
daphnella mitrellaeformis
developmental potentiality
dharavi
domini gene
earnest for
electronic piece of cheese
eyesockets
fatins
fold of upper eyelid
gamma-fetoprotein
gap heat transfer coefficient
Gaussian reduction method
gear stock
glossopyrosis
great-circle flying
grmek
harmonian
HKH
hypersaline
Idarac
increased borborygmus
International Bill of Rights
intraplate volcanism
invulnerable
isadore
Ischia, I.d'
isocentre
keep someone in his place
Kegworth
kingfishers
kiss someone
kokil
lactonization
macrogonite
mainlines
mbi
MIMD array
mimicus
minimum setting pressure of safety valve
miserabley
monobhrid circuit
multi-media instruction
Octobre
one - stop shopping
operating face
philias
phosphoric fertilizer
pingueculum
pipe offset
promenade decks
pulse charge
put the hard word on
refractory glass fiber
ring-roll mill
samarangs
scal(e)y fruit
sievable
single-shot survey
sliding touch
sprun
standing gage block
stop firing
tasking management
tibialiss
tissue paper
Tranquilizing Liver-wind Decoction
travel(l)ator
trip/tripping device
truck gardening
Tullus Hostilius
two-man saw
vote by proxy
warning stage
water-cold attacking lung
whinings
Yatish