美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-06-19
时间：2018-12-19 作者：英语课 分类：CNN2013年(六)月
英语课
I am Anderson Copper 1. Welcome to the podcast. Cancer charity has spend most of your donations on themselve. Their response to expose. Also the ¡°RidicuList.¡± Let¡¯s get started.
Last week, after profiling three so-called cancer charities that seems only care about their profits. I challenged the people who run them to come on the program or talk to our correspondent Drew Griffin. Let them explain I said facts uncovered by Drew. The Tampa Bay Times and the Center for Investigative Reporting facts that show these so-called charities to be abusing and squandering 2 your hard-earned donations like none we have ever seen before.
Drive down these country roads outside Knoxville, Tennessee and into this small industrial park. And you will find headquarters of the family conglomerate 3 of cancer charities that return lavish 4 salariese to their owners but according to their own taxes record donate very little to dying cancer patients and the last thing the people running this chairity want to do is answer questions.
Don't turn your camera on me, ok?
Across the country in Mesa, Arizona, another outpost of conglomerate. It's called the breast cancer society. Its CEO, an executive director, the man escaping into the truck. James Reynolds Jr.
Excuse me, sir, Mr. Reynolds. Back in Knoxville, there is another cancer charity, the Children's Cancer Fund of America, and this one run by yet another member of the family, Rose Perkins.
Hi. Is Rose Perkins in? She's not available and she's not doing any interviews. Rose Perkins did e-mail us and tell us her charity has clear conscience because we feel we are making a good difference in people's lives. But also told us the interview is not something we can consider. That maybe because of the question we would like to ask her and the other members of her extended family who are essentially 5 making a living on your donations.Rose Perkins, the CEO of the Children's Cancer Fund, is paid $227,442 a year. Her ex-husband, James Reynolds Sr., is president and CEO of Cancer Fund of America. He gets paid $236,815. And James Reynolds Jr., president and CEO of the Breast Cancer Society, has a salary of $261,609. It's money that comes from donors 6 like you who in 2011 sent these three charities $26 million in cash. How much of those donations actually went to helping 7 cancer patients? According to the charity's own tax records, about 2 percent in cash.
1 copper
n.铜；铜币；铜器；adj.铜(制)的；(紫)铜色的
- The students are asked to prove the purity of copper.要求学生们检验铜的纯度。
- Copper is a good medium for the conduction of heat and electricity.铜是热和电的良导体。
2 squandering
v.（指钱，财产等）浪费，乱花( squander的现在分词 )
- You're faced with ending it all, of squandering what was given. 把到手的东西就这样随随便便弄掉。 来自辞典例句
- I see all this potential And I see squandering. 你们的潜力都被浪费了。 来自互联网
3 conglomerate
n.综合商社，多元化集团公司
- The firm has been taken over by an American conglomerate.该公司已被美国一企业集团接管。
- An American conglomerate holds a major share in the company.一家美国的大联合企业持有该公司的大部分股份。
4 lavish
adj.无节制的；浪费的；vt.慷慨地给予，挥霍
- He despised people who were lavish with their praises.他看不起那些阿谀奉承的人。
- The sets and costumes are lavish.布景和服装极尽奢华。
5 essentially
adv.本质上，实质上，基本上
- Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
- She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。