NPR美国国家公共电台 NPR 2015-06-17
时间：2018-12-18 作者：英语课 分类：2015年NPR美国国家公共电台6月
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The white house and its allies on capital hill are trying to salvage 1 a controversial trade package. NPR's S reports House democrats 2 signed track the measure with the vote last week.
House republican leader R says there are many different options to revive the trade package, but none is easy or particularly ... Congressional leaders have be swapping 3 ideas with the administration officials, but white house spokesman J says they have not settled on a workable roadmap.
This is not actually a legislative 4 procedure this laid out at this point, so .. is something that continues .., the subject .. intense discussion until the conversations are taking place with the input 5 of the white house that as well.
Backers of the trade measure contrived 6 to persuade the significant number of house members to switch their votes from last Friday, or they can reformulate the package and take the chances in the set.
Colorado's supreme 7 court says companies can fire employees for using medical marijuana in their free time. Colorado's public radio is making ruling reports on today's ruling which upheld to lower court in the state.
Brandon Coats is a quadriplegic( A quadriplegic is a person who is permanently 8 unable to use their arms and legs.), who uses marijuana to control muscle spasms 9. Five years ago, Dish Network fired him failing a drug test. Colorado law protects employees use lawful 10 substances outside to work. With this ruling however, the state's supreme court found these substances must be legal under both state and federal law.
The fact that federal law prohibits marijuana is a perfectly 11 reasonable base(s) for the court's decision, but it is not the only that it could gone.
This ruling only applies to medical marijuana. Colorado's law specifically says the employers can fire workers for recreational use.
1 salvage
v.救助，营救，援救；n.救助，营救
- All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
- The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。
2 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》
3 swapping
交换，交换技术
- The slow swapping and buying of horses went on. 马匹的买卖和交换就是这样慢慢地进行着。
- He was quite keen on swapping books with friends. 他非常热衷于和朋友们交换书籍。
4 legislative
n.立法机构，立法权；adj.立法的，有立法权的
- Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.国会是美国政府的立法部门。
- Today's hearing was just the first step in the legislative process.今天的听证会只是展开立法程序的第一步。
5 input
n.输入(物)；投入；vt.把(数据等)输入计算机
- I will forever be grateful for his considerable input.我将永远感激他的大量投入。
- All this information had to be input onto the computer.所有这些信息都必须输入计算机。
6 contrived
adj.不自然的，做作的；虚构的
- There was nothing contrived or calculated about what he said.他说的话里没有任何蓄意捏造的成分。
- The plot seems contrived.情节看起来不真实。
7 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。
8 permanently
adv.永恒地，永久地，固定不变地
- The accident left him permanently scarred.那次事故给他留下了永久的伤疤。
- The ship is now permanently moored on the Thames in London.该船现在永久地停泊在伦敦泰晤士河边。
9 spasms
n.痉挛( spasm的名词复数 )；抽搐；（能量、行为等的）突发；发作
- After the patient received acupuncture treatment,his spasms eased off somewhat. 病人接受针刺治疗后，痉挛稍微减轻了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The smile died, squeezed out by spasms of anticipation and anxiety. 一阵阵预测和焦虑把她脸上的微笑挤掉了。 来自辞典例句