时间:2018-12-17 作者:英语课 分类:2011年NPR美国国家公共电台12月


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 President Obama is continuing the pressure on House and Republican to approve senate-passed measures that extend payroll 1 tax cut for 2 months. The House needs to pass a short-term version of the compromise then we should negotiate agreement as quickly as possible to extend payroll tax and unemployment insurance for the rest of 2012.


 
Even the senate top republican Majority leader Mitch McConnell is telling the House GOP to move on short-term extension. But speaker John Boehner isn't budget.
 
2-month extension when we perpetuate 2, the uncertainty 3 that too many employers abrupt 4 have in dealing 5 with economy, what's coming out of Washington.
 
Democrats 6 say the House GOP’s billing includes several difficult issues that take more time to resolve including cut of unemployment benefit and wick environmental regulation .The current payroll tax cut is expired December 31.
 
Former President George H.W Bush says he is informally endorsing 7 Mitt 8 Romney. The republican presidential candidate is currently trying to knell 9 down votes in New Hampshire with a bus to across the state. As NPR reports, the primary there is less than 3 weeks away.
 
Romney has given informal remark most stop on his bus trip. But he spends more of his time interacting with locals. During sort of retire politic 10 that’s virtually required to New Hampshire primary.
 
We want to make sure shaking hands everybody here because this is what I was told. Let’s shake your hands, you want to bump, so I 'm going to shake hands. If you want to get picture, I would do that, too.
 
At agriculture supply store in Lancaster, he chatted with motor about amount of milk aderi cow can produce. Romney lost this state to John four years ago. The 3-day bus trip campaign wave ensuring that doesn't happen again.NPR redom ,New Hampshire
 
The Italian Senate has approved Prime Minister Mario Monti’s package of tough austerity measures. Five weeks after he replaced the controversial Silvio Berlusconi. As NPR reports the budget cut in tax hike are ending with the stock market confident of Europe 3rd largest economy. The package passed islue with 257 eyes to 51 laze cast mostly by opposition 11 Northern League before the vote ,Monti told the Senate his technocrat 12 government has pushed through the measure as fast as possible due to untenable level of Italy borrowing cost. Monti says Italy can now hold its head high in Europe and he added after addressing Italy massive debt 120% of country's GDP. The government will turn its attention to country's other major economic burden a decade close to zone growth. And Mont repeated what he has said several times in recent weeks. European policy must address growth as well as cutting debts,NPR news ,Rome.
 
An hour before the close on wall street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 49 points at 12156.The NASDAQ was up 19points ,at 2597 ,S&P was up 10 .This is NPR.
 
Explosions in Baghdad are continuing through the evening following day a-15 apparent coordinated 13 bombing cross the city. At least 69 people are dead. Violence coincides with departure of last US troops from Iraq.
 
The government in Pennsylvania has signed a law requiring tough regulation of state abortion 14 clinics. As NPR Joe reports critics worry new law may limit access to safe abortion. Governor Tom Corbett signed a law almost a year after Grand Jury reports described long list on senatorial and criminal protest as Philadelphia abortion clinics run by Kermit Gosnell now. Supporters say the law will protect women's health by holding abortion providers in Pennsylvania to same standard as outpatient surgical 15 facilities. They require abortion providers have elevator and larger operating rooms and drive the way to comida in Ambulance. Opponents say that would make it more expensive for abortion providers to continue operation which in turn can make it more difficult for woman to get a safe and legal abortion. Opponents say better enforcement of existing law would be enough to shut down Gosnell clinics. Joe ,NPR news.
 
South Caronia is being prohibited from its forcing part of tough new immigration law. It is said to take effect on January 1th.But US district court judge today ruled the federal government has exclusive the constitutional authority to regulate immigration among the prevention that blocked requirement of police check the immigration status, people they pull over face back of their country illegally. The Judge is also suspending all hearing in case until US Supreme 16 Court rules on the similar law in Arizona.

1 payroll
n.工资表,在职人员名单,工薪总额
  • His yearly payroll is $1.2 million.他的年薪是120万美元。
  • I can't wait to get my payroll check.我真等不及拿到我的工资单了。
2 perpetuate
v.使永存,使永记不忘
  • This monument was built to perpetuate the memory of the national hero.这个纪念碑建造的意义在于纪念民族英雄永垂不朽。
  • We must perpetuate the system.我们必须将此制度永久保持。
3 uncertainty
n.易变,靠不住,不确知,不确定的事物
  • Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
  • After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后,压力开始产生影响了。
4 abrupt
adj.突然的,意外的;唐突的,鲁莽的
  • The river takes an abrupt bend to the west.这河突然向西转弯。
  • His abrupt reply hurt our feelings.他粗鲁的回答伤了我们的感情。
5 dealing
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
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 endorsing
v.赞同( endorse的现在分词 );在(尤指支票的)背面签字;在(文件的)背面写评论;在广告上说本人使用并赞同某产品
  • Yet Communist leaders are also publicly endorsing religion in an unprecedented way. 不过,共产党领导层对宗教信仰的公开认可也是以前不曾有过的。 来自互联网
  • Connecticut Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman is endorsing Republican Senator John McCain. 康涅狄格州独立派参议员约瑟夫。列波曼将会票选共和议员约翰。麦凯恩。 来自互联网
8 mitt
n.棒球手套,拳击手套,无指手套;vt.铐住,握手
  • I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日,我送给他一只棒球手套。
  • Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
9 knell
n.丧钟声;v.敲丧钟
  • That is the death knell of the British Empire.这是不列颠帝国的丧钟。
  • At first he thought it was a death knell.起初,他以为是死亡的丧钟敲响了。
10 politic
adj.有智虑的;精明的;v.从政
  • He was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage.他很聪明,不会与这么重要的人争吵。
  • The politic man tried not to offend people.那个精明的人尽量不得罪人。
11 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。
12 technocrat
n.技术人员,技术官僚
  • He is a distant technocrat who is unable to connect with ordinary voters.作为一个冷淡的技术官僚,他不能做到与普通选民息息相通。
  • Jack Lew,the new budget director,is the quintessential technocrat.新预算主管杰克·卢就是一个典型的技术官僚。
13 coordinated
adj.协调的
  • The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
  • The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
14 abortion
n.流产,堕胎
  • She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
  • A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。
15 surgical
adj.外科的,外科医生的,手术上的
  • He performs the surgical operations at the Red Cross Hospital.他在红十字会医院做外科手术。
  • All surgical instruments must be sterilised before use.所有的外科手术器械在使用之前,必须消毒。
16 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
学英语单词
'Arad
a man and a brother
agent of carrier
alarm signal
all weather liquefied petroleum gas
annihilation gamma quantum
anuerobic respiration
arteria frontalis medialis
ascent rate
beat frequency meter
bloodthirsties
blower sprayer
body scoring
body searches
central oscillating cylinder linkage
chante
Cheneyville
cherry gum
chrysops flavescens
circular behavior
cold junciton
composition of conductor
converted journal entry
coshocton
digit significant
dishabituations
distillation with steam
Dolgaya Kosa
dotted crotchet
enthalpy of desalting
equilibrium reflux boiling point
extensive operations in farming
factory-worker
fast feathering
fiber bush
file allocation tables
film studio
float wheel
floating point base
gorge-walking
grandmozzer
gravity brake
haemoglobinopathy
hot-head
hydraulic-controlled bulldozer
Ifergane
insect endocrinology
intermediate speed pinion
iron(ii) metavanadate
joint effort
Ladies' Gallery
lakhdars
late release
line controller
mahanta
maukish
monodictys putredinis
motor repair
multipath signal
munchy
N star N
new-metal
newley
nickel(ii) nitrate ammoniated
nonprison
oblique speech
Oil Sample
oppressors
papier
peer entity authentication
personal liability policy
promotion activities
protection setting
radio telemetering
rated d.c. output current
red lead anticorrosive primer
red-mouth
reference stress
repine
revolver loan
ride easy
Ring of the Nibelung, The
rood-lofts
Sales Oliveira
schemies
screenings wrapping
seerhand
shirt dress
Sinemurian Stage
spasmodic cholera
spreadsheet package
stagnation line
storage utilization
style book
superkids
syndrome of stirring wind due to blood deficiency
Teeswaters
Tottori
turn our back on
urocyclid
VLAP
world legal order