NPR边听边练256:美国心理健康社区论坛
时间:2018-12-12 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2014年(三月)
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Chicago was trying to recover from two nights' of gun violence. The Chicago Suntimes reports four people _1_ overnight in separate shootings, this is after a mass shooting at a Chicago park Thursday evening injuried 13 people including a three-year-old boy. A spokesman for his family says he is recovering from surgery.
芝加哥正努力从两个晚上所发生的枪支暴力中恢复。据《芝加哥太阳报》报道,晚上发生的独立枪击案中有4人受伤,在此之前,周四晚上芝加哥一公园发生大规模枪击案,造成13人受伤,其中还包括一名3岁男童。该男童家人的一名发言人表示,男孩已经做完手术目前正在恢复中。
Some 300 people gathered in Kansas city today for the lastest and series of community forums 2 on mental health. As Monica Sandrarich reports from member station KCUR.
今天,约300人聚集在堪萨斯城,参加最新一期的心理健康社区论坛。KCUR成员站的莫妮卡·桑德拉里奇将带来报道。
It's part of a national _2_ by president Obama after last year's mass shooting in Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut. Kansas city is one of ten cities holding forums to assess mental health problems _3_ its communities, especially its young people. Health & Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius told the group most violence crimes is not _4_ by people suffering from mental illness, but she added that most people diagnosed with mental or substance abuse problems do not receive medical care.
这是去年康涅狄格州桑迪·胡克小学发生大规模枪击案之后,奥巴马总统提议进行的全国对话的一部分。堪萨斯城是10个举办这种论坛的城市之一,论坛旨在评估影响社区的心理健康问题,尤其是对年轻人的影响。美国人类与健康服务部部长凯瑟琳·西贝柳斯告诉这个群体,大部分暴力犯罪都不是由患有心理疾病的人实施的,但是她说,大部分患有心理疾病或是滥用药物的人都没有接受医疗照顾。
"That is a situation that is a tragedy, we would never let that happen if 60% of people _5_ with cancer or who had heart attacks, or had an open wound, we wouldn't let that happen in this country. That's what we have to change."
“这种情况就是悲剧,对60%患有癌症或心脏病的人或是那些有开放性伤口的人,我们绝不会让这种情况发生,我们不会让这种情况在我们国家发生。而那就是我们必须要做出改变的事情。”
Sebelius told the administration a portable carry-out which includes mental coverage 3 in a mental health act . For NPR News, I am Monica Sandrarich.
西贝柳斯向政府提出了一个简便的执行方案,这就包括在精神卫生法中涵盖心理健康保险。
词汇解析:
1、forum 1
n. 论坛,讨论会;法庭;公开讨论的广场
eg:But this Forum tells us it can be done.
但本论坛告诉我们这是可以做到的。
2、diagnose 诊断;断定
eg:How did they diagnose you?
他们怎么给你的诊断的?
参考答案:
1、were killed 2、initiated 3、affecting
4、committed 5、identified
1 forum
n.论坛,讨论会
- They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
- The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。