时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:美国总统电台演说


英语课

Yesterday began with some devastating 1 news with regard to our economic crisis.  But I'm pleased to say it ended on a more positive note.


In the morning, we received yet another round of alarming employment figures – the worst in more than 30 years.  Another 600,000 jobs were lost in January.  We've now lost more than 3.6 million jobs since this recession began.


But by the evening, Democrats 2 and Republicans came together in the Senate and responded appropriately to the urgency this moment demands.


In the midst of our greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the American people were hoping that Congress would begin to confront the great challenges we face.  That was, after all, what last November's election was all about. 


Legislation of such magnitude deserves the scrutiny 3 that it's received over the last month, and it will receive more in the days to come.  But we can't afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary.  The scale and scope of this plan is right.  And the time for action is now.


Because if we don't move swiftly to put this plan in motion, our economic crisis could become a national catastrophe 4.  Millions of Americans will lose their jobs, their homes, and their health care.  Millions more will have to put their dreams on hold.


Let's be clear:  We can't expect relief from the tired old theories that, in eight short years, doubled the national debt, threw our economy into a tailspin, and led us into this mess in the first place.  We can't rely on a losing formula that offers only tax cuts as the answer to all our problems while ignoring our fundamental economic challenges – the crushing cost of health care or the inadequate 5 state of so many schools; our addiction 6 to foreign oil or our crumbling 7 roads, bridges, and levees.


The American people know that our challenges are great.  They don't expect Democratic solutions or Republican solutions – they expect American solutions.


From the beginning, this recovery plan has had at its core a simple idea:  Let's put Americans to work doing the work America needs done.  It will save or create more than 3 million jobs over the next two years, all across the country – 16,000 in Maine, nearly 80,000 in Indiana – almost all of them in the private sector 8, and all of them jobs that help us recover today, and prosper 9 tomorrow.


Jobs that upgrade classrooms and laboratories in 10,000 schools nationwide – at least 485 in Florida alone – and train an army of teachers in math and science.


Jobs that modernize 10 our health care system, not only saving us billions of dollars, but countless 11 lives.


Jobs that construct a smart electric grid 12, connect every corner of the country to the information superhighway, double our capacity to generate renewable energy, and grow the economy of tomorrow.


Jobs that rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges and levees and dams, so that the tragedies of New Orleans and Minneapolis never happen again.


It includes immediate 13 tax relief for our struggling middle class in places like Ohio, where 4.5 million workers will receive a tax cut of up to $1,000.  It protects health insurance and provides unemployment insurance for those who've lost their jobs.  And it helps our states and communities avoid painful tax hikes or layoffs 14 for our teachers, nurses, and first responders.


That's what is at stake with this plan:  putting Americans back to work, creating transformative economic change, and making a down payment on the American Dream that serves our children and our children's children for generations to come.


Americans across this country are struggling, and they are watching to see if we're equal to the task before us.  Let's show them that we are.  And let's do whatever it takes to keep the promise of America alive in our time.


Thank you.



adj.毁灭性的,令人震惊的,强有力的
  • It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
  • Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
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》
n.详细检查,仔细观察
  • His work looks all right,but it will not bear scrutiny.他的工作似乎很好,但是经不起仔细检查。
  • Few wives in their forties can weather such a scrutiny.很少年过四十的妻子经得起这么仔细的观察。
n.大灾难,大祸
  • I owe it to you that I survived the catastrophe.亏得你我才大难不死。
  • This is a catastrophe beyond human control.这是一场人类无法控制的灾难。
adj.(for,to)不充足的,不适当的
  • The supply is inadequate to meet the demand.供不应求。
  • She was inadequate to the demands that were made on her.她还无力满足对她提出的各项要求。
n.上瘾入迷,嗜好
  • He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
  • Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。
adj.摇摇欲坠的
  • an old house with crumbling plaster and a leaking roof 一所灰泥剥落、屋顶漏水的老房子
  • The boat was tied up alongside a crumbling limestone jetty. 这条船停泊在一个摇摇欲坠的石灰岩码头边。
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
v.成功,兴隆,昌盛;使成功,使昌隆,繁荣
  • With her at the wheel,the company began to prosper.有了她当主管,公司开始兴旺起来。
  • It is my earnest wish that this company will continue to prosper.我真诚希望这家公司会继续兴旺发达。
vt.使现代化,使适应现代的需要
  • It was their manifest failure to modernize the country's industries.他们使国家进行工业现代化,明显失败了。
  • There is a pressing need to modernise our electoral system.我们的选举制度迫切需要现代化。
adj.无数的,多得不计其数的
  • In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
  • I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。
n.高压输电线路网;地图坐标方格;格栅
  • In this application,the carrier is used to encapsulate the grid.在这种情况下,要用载体把格栅密封起来。
  • Modern gauges consist of metal foil in the form of a grid.现代应变仪则由网格形式的金属片组成。
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。
临时解雇( layoff的名词复数 ); 停工,停止活动
  • Textile companies announced 2000 fresh layoffs last week. 各纺织公司上周宣布再次裁员两千人。
  • Stock prices broke when the firm suddenly announced layoffs. 当公司突然宣布裁员时,股票价格便大跌
学英语单词
acid-test ratio
ahigh
arc suppressing coil
as crooked as a dog's hind leg
asswhore
automatic stabilizer
avoiding chord
azzones
ballsbridge
Bergatreute
biocapacity
bleached paddy soil
buckling criteria
Cimanuk, Sungai
closed grating
coefficient of utilization of useful capacity
colloidal fuel
colpeurynter introducing forceps
commodity producer
conductive band
convolation
cordons sanitaires
cross sell
dessicator
dicky-seat
Dmitrovsk-Orlovskiy
dominant laterality
double squirrelcage motor
ecological system
elevator apron
epimera
erysipelas gangraenosum
eschewal
Football's a game of two halves
forfending
formula plan
froben
genus limnobiums
glucoscilliphaeoside
Hall's anchor
hip line
homer a. thompsons
hydraulic-machinery
ignition-switch
input-output interface system
instantaneous center/centre of rotation
intrumental
isothymol
keyboard input
klepto
liver coccidiosis
log well
maritime law institute
mass-energy
mincer and bowl cutter
mode of transducer
Montils
multiethnic education
no-claim
nonresponses
one-hundred-dollar
passive infrared rangefinder
pedaling
permissible limit of vibration
personal contact
phospholipidomics
Photinia chingiana
phylum chaetognathas
Piggott
pinnatifid
posumbu
prosperoes
pseudotriton ruber
pyramid method of hull construction
pyrenophora japonica ito et kuribayashi
Ranella
reaming bit
rhyacophila formosana
ringal
screen house
searls
Semple treatment
sexidentate ligand
Sheykino
silicon impregnation
Soltvadkert
spermatorrheas
subspectra
syndesm-
Thal Des.
thixotropic hardening
thorup
three-membered
twin tail
two-track recorder
vacuum-gauge
Vallen
very low frequency band radiated field system
Vila da Maganja
vision signal
Wairio
wind measuring device