时间:2018-12-17 作者:英语课 分类:2013年NPR美国国家公共电台9月


英语课

 President Obama is welcoming today's US-Russian agreement to secure destroying Syria's chemical weapons. The press extressed the US is still prepared to take military action if diplomacy 1 fails. Former UN weapons inspector 2 Charles Duelfer spoke 3 and supported the deal. 


Sometime things work, and this may be one of those cases. It has all the elements by thinking place, it will require for a successful disarmed 4 operation, opinion in mind, we're drawing on lessons from the experience for Iraq in 1990s. 
The European Union and NATO were also welcoming the US and Russian initiative on dismantling 5 Syria's chemical weapons. Teri Schultz reports. 
Demanding Damascus provide full access to all chemical stores, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is also calling on the long divided UN security council to reenforce the US-Russian framework with the formal resolution. Ashton notes many EU states have significant techinical  expertise in dismantling and destroying chemical agents. She offers European assistants in securing the Syrian sites. NATO secretary general  Anders Fogh Rasmussen says Syria must fully 6 complied with this process. The international community, Rasmussen says, must continue to ensure the chemical weapons are not used, and to that end, he says those who have violated that norm must be held accountable. For NPR News, I'm Teri Schultz in Brussels. 
Top republicans are criticizing today's US-Russian solution on Syria. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham say France and enemies of the US will view the deal as an actor of provocative 7 weakness by America. 
Dozens of people are hurt after a Greyhound bus drove off an inter-state highway in southwest Ohio early this morning. Maryanne Zeleznik  of member station WVXU reports, the bus struck a tree and defence and then footstone aside before sliding to a stop in a corn field. 
The bus was headed north bound on I75, when it overturned in Liberty township around 4 o'clock this morning. But the county emergency operation center officials, say 34 people are hurt, suffering from injuries ranging from minor 8 to severe. They were transported to area hospitals, six by medical helicopters. 52 people were on the bus when it crashed. The bus was headed to Detroit. For NPR News, I'm Maryanne Zeleznik, in Cincinnati. 
Rescue crews in Colorado say they are making progress reaching people who are stranded 9 in mountain communities cut off by flooding. Emergency official Dan Dallasxxx, says airlifts are planned to bring supplies to those forced from their homes. 
We are looking in, what I called very larger show today to, who are, somebody of evacuations, and also supports some that escalated 10 communities with, just really basic necessities, food, water, things like bed. 
The national guard says nearly 800 people have been evacuated 11. This is NPR News. 
Washington state agricultural officials announced today that genetically 12 modified alfalfa was found and filled where it shouldn't have been. Growing the crop is legal in the United States, but it's not clear if the mix up will upset sensitive export markets. Anne Kingxx of the northwest News network reports. 
Jerks Ganxx, is a well known alfalfa grower in southeastern Washington. On this farm, all seed is tested before it's planted to maker 13 sure that there is no genetically engineered stuff mixed in. Then in harvest, he tests its crop again. But even a harvester, with the bit of hey left from a GM field, could boggle a prime cell. Gan says. 
I want people to understand that they close do care about our markets, we want to make sure that our markets have the choice available to their own to buy home agri- type fruits they like to have. 
The state department of agriculture is working with the federal government to see if any further action is needed. FOr NPR News, I'm Anne Kingxx, in Richland, Washington. 
Ingrid has become the second hurricane of the Atlantic storm season of Mexico. The national hurricane center's MichaelBrandenxx, says Ingrid is heading for the western coast of the gulf 14 of Mexico. 
We expect landfall to occur some time on Monday in that area. We do expect Ingrid is strengthening a little bit during the next couple of days. So we should see a hurricane making windfall in that area on Monday. 
Forecasters say the storm so far is packing 75-mile-per-hour winds. There are no immediate 15 reports of the injuries. 

1 diplomacy
n.外交;外交手腕,交际手腕
  • The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
  • This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。
2 inspector
n.检查员,监察员,视察员
  • The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
  • The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
3 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。
4 disarmed
v.裁军( disarm的过去式和过去分词 );使息怒
  • Most of the rebels were captured and disarmed. 大部分叛乱分子被俘获并解除了武装。
  • The swordsman disarmed his opponent and ran him through. 剑客缴了对手的械,并对其乱刺一气。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 dismantling
(枪支)分解
  • The new government set about dismantling their predecessors' legislation. 新政府正着手废除其前任所制定的法律。
  • The dismantling of a nuclear reprocessing plant caused a leak of radioactivity yesterday. 昨天拆除核后处理工厂引起了放射物泄漏。
6 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
7 provocative
adj.挑衅的,煽动的,刺激的,挑逗的
  • She wore a very provocative dress.她穿了一件非常性感的裙子。
  • His provocative words only fueled the argument further.他的挑衅性讲话只能使争论进一步激化。
8 minor
adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修
  • The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
  • I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
9 stranded
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
10 escalated
v.(使)逐步升级( escalate的过去式和过去分词 );(使)逐步扩大;(使)更高;(使)更大
  • The fighting escalated into a full-scale war. 这场交战逐步扩大为全面战争。
  • The demonstration escalated into a pitched battle with the police. 示威逐步升级,演变成了一场同警察的混战。
11 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
12 genetically
adv.遗传上
  • All the bees in the colony are genetically related. 同一群体的蜜蜂都有亲缘关系。
  • Genetically modified foods have already arrived on American dinner tables. 经基因改造加工过的食物已端上了美国人的餐桌。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 基因与食物
13 maker
n.制造者,制造商
  • He is a trouble maker,You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼,你不要跟他在一起。
  • A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。
14 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
15 immediate
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
学英语单词
alveolar-capillary membrane
atomic thermo-capacity
Baiso
bandlimitedness
base circle of cam contour
be on pins and needles
binder soil
blogaholics
bodgies
bottlenose dolphin
brubacher
Bundled service
cadmium compound
cavity field
circle segment
classical wave equation
Clinoril
conditionally exempt
crossotarsus simplex
damnworthy
data quality control monitor
demonstrative determiners
detrusion
Diplacrum caricinum
dis tressed
disodium EDTA
docking bridge
Doma Peaks
draft filly
elmina
empty one's plate
false incontinence
field road
firearm manoeuvre
flash desorption spectroscopy
fllium
ftp explorer
full buoyance
gatophobia
glymph
got up to kill
halpens
having it off
hop the perch
industrial solvent
klas
largest-capacity
late in life
lay emphasis up on
leonne
lime sower
limiting kinetic current
lindernia pyxidaria l.
lubrication oil sump
man load chart
Marienborn
MF
micrometer measuring rod
middle jiao
network army
nitrosoethylurethane
no-scope
odd half-spin representation
orchard cultivator
palisadian disturbance
perchlorovinyl resin
Perdices, Sa.de
Peverson
polyphyll
printer/plotter
recremental
return wall
rowlock bolster
rubber hydrochloride
Russianism
saxagliptin
sea connection
self-cleaning tank
sequence control of boiler ignition system
Siwalik Range/Hills
Slovomir
sodium silicate concrete
somatostatinomas
song of songs (hebrew)
spiny-stemmed
steering propeller
stepwise impulse
the yakuza
thought provoking
Tungufjall
two-level parametric amplifier
typhoid complicated with intestinal perforation
unboastfulness
under-glaze
unsinister
upper ideal
uriniferous tubulus (or renal tubules)
vertico-podalic diameter
Videhan
Vujicic
wrist fracture
zero gear