时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:访谈录2010


英语课

U.S. President Barack Obama hammers Republicans over their newly unveiled campaign agenda, calling the opposition 1 party's economic ideas (quote) “disastrous 2”. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says Republican plans to roll back healthcare reform and extend Bush era tax cuts for top U.S. earners will not fix the nation's economic woes 3.

”The Republicans who wanna take over congress offer their own ideas the other day. Many were the very same policies that led to the economic crisis in the first place. We're just surprising since many of other leaders were among the architects of that failed policy. It's grounded in the same worn out philosophy: cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires, cut the rules for Wall Street and the special interests. And cut the middle class loose to fend 4 for itself. That's not a prescription 5 for a better future. It's an echo of a disastrous decade we can't afford to relive.”

Republicans as well as so-called T Party activists 6 have been out in 4th ahead of November elections, calling Obama's policies disastrous and promising 7 to address the economy more effectively if they take over one or both Houses of Congress after the elections. The White House has sought to pin Republican ideas as remnants from former President George W. Bush's years in office, a period which Obama's team stresses led to one of the worst recession since the Great Depression. Obama targeted Republican proposals on deficit 8 cutting and tax cuts.

”For all their talk about reining 9 in spending and getting our deficits 10 under control, they want to borrow another 700 billion dollars and use it to give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires.”

Mid-term elections in November will determine whether or not Democrats 11 maintain control of both Houses of Congress, which will be a key factor for Obama's agenda going forward.

Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters



1 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。
2 disastrous
adj.灾难性的,造成灾害的;极坏的,很糟的
  • The heavy rainstorm caused a disastrous flood.暴雨成灾。
  • Her investment had disastrous consequences.She lost everything she owned.她的投资结果很惨,血本无归。
3 woes
困境( woe的名词复数 ); 悲伤; 我好苦哇; 某人就要倒霉
  • Thanks for listening to my woes. 谢谢您听我诉说不幸的遭遇。
  • She has cried the blues about its financial woes. 对于经济的困难她叫苦不迭。
4 fend
v.照料(自己),(自己)谋生,挡开,避开
  • I've had to fend for myself since I was 14.我从十四岁时起就不得不照料自己。
  • He raised his arm up to fend branches from his eyes.他举手将树枝从他眼前挡开。
5 prescription
n.处方,开药;指示,规定
  • The physician made a prescription against sea- sickness for him.医生给他开了个治晕船的药方。
  • The drug is available on prescription only.这种药只能凭处方购买。
6 activists
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 promising
adj.有希望的,有前途的
  • The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
  • We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
8 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。
9 reining
勒缰绳使(马)停步( rein的现在分词 ); 驾驭; 严格控制; 加强管理
  • "That's a fine bevy, Ma'm,'said Gerald gallantly, reining his horse alongside the carriage. "太太!好一窝漂亮的云雀呀!" 杰拉尔德殷勤地说,一面让自己的马告近塔尔顿的马车。
  • I was a temperamental genius in need of reining in by stabler personalities. 我是个需要由更稳重的人降服住的神经质的天才。
10 deficits
n.不足额( deficit的名词复数 );赤字;亏空;亏损
  • The Ministry of Finance consistently overestimated its budget deficits. 财政部一贯高估预算赤字。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Many of the world's farmers are also incurring economic deficits. 世界上许多农民还在遭受经济上的亏损。 来自辞典例句
11 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》
学英语单词
acera
ADACC
antitubercular agent
APRS (automatic production record system)
balance lug
ball cage
banks is.
baryta coated paper
begartered
benzer
bhattacharya
bill of lading freight
bloemspruits
boring machines
breckon
carbon dioxide refrigerating machine
churchill downss
cleaning cell
Cnephia
common mode input
convergency of symptom
country rock alteration
cut price offer
cystoscopic(examination)
D and D
Dahomey
decentralization of purchasing
delitos
dicolic
digestibleness
double head latch needle
Dover Castle
electronic time relay
facia
fern allies
flat iron
fleet streets
fraternal birth order effect
galumphing
gear driven pump
gross line
hughied
hybrid vigour
hydrated electron dosimetry
ICAM Definition Method
individual study
infeoffment
insulated value
justificatory
Kanniyakumari
knokke (knocke)
kokodo
largeend
lead by the nose
mallenders and sallenders
measure of area
method of reverse osmosis
Mohawk Valley
multi-drum winch
Nefretete
normal activity
onie
ozerov
panic grasses
parity drive
persevere in
platen
positive conditioned stimuli
pressure calibration
progressive wave motion
prolonge
pulse-free signal
quadrature hybrid
radiation measurement assembly
Radix motoria
read noise
red-graier
redioimmunoelectrophoresis
relay characteristics
rest-home
rototranslational
Salix opsimantha
scan image
scaningmgcroscop
screen-gri
scroll sheet liner
seable
sennin
spanne
strongly monotonic function
subsistence theory of wages
Sunipia bicolor
surrebutted
tea makers
Tenebrionoidea
thermometer correction
time fuse
travers-tile
tropical plant
undergeneralizing
working fluid heater efficiency
xylota formosana