一、泛聽建議:
1、完整聽一遍,掌握大意。
2、繼續(xù)聽,特別注意關(guān)鍵信息。遇到相似的詞,寫下來。
As the government shutdown persists, _1_ House Speaker John Boehner to allow a vote on the Senate spending bill are growing louder. As NPR's Ailsa Chang reports, both President Obama and Senate leaders say the speaker could single-handedly end the shutdown if he held such a vote.
政府關(guān)閉的情況還在持續(xù),因此要求眾議院議長約翰·博納允許就參議院開支法案進行投票的呼聲不斷高漲。據(jù)NPR新聞的艾爾薩·張報道,奧巴馬總統(tǒng)和參議院領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人均表示,如果議長進行投票,他就可以單方面結(jié)束政府關(guān)閉的現(xiàn)狀。
House Speaker John Boehner _2_ over the weekend there aren't enough votes to pass the Senate spending bill, which neither defunds nor delays the Affordable Care Act. President Obama _3_ Boehner to hold a vote on the Senate bill to see if that's the case. Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the clean spending bill the Senate passed was a measure Boehner personally agreed to over the summer.
周末時,眾議院議長約翰·博納稱如果《平價醫(yī)療法》既不撤資也不推遲實施,那參議院的開支法案不會獲得足夠票數(shù)通過。奧巴馬總統(tǒng)向博納發(fā)起挑戰(zhàn),要求他就參議院法案進行投票,以驗證情況是否如此。同時,參議院多數(shù)黨領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人哈利·里德表示,博納在夏季的時候曾個人表示過同意參議院通過的“清潔版”開支法案。
"What I say to the Speaker is allow a vote on the resolution that would end the shutdown -- legislation that you, John Boehner, _4_ in the first place."
“我要對議長說的是,允許就法案進行投票會結(jié)束關(guān)閉的現(xiàn)狀——這是你約翰·博納一開始就同意的法案。”
Boehner says he first wants negotiations with the White House and Senate over changes to the health care law and _5_ the deficit. Ailsa Chang, NPR News, the Capitol.
博納表示,他首先想讓白宮和參議院就更改醫(yī)療法案和削減赤字等問題進行協(xié)商。NPR新聞,艾爾薩·張國會山報道。
詞匯解析:
1. single-handedly
獨自地;單獨地;無人幫助地;單槍匹馬地;
eg. I brought up my seven children single-handed.
我獨自一人撫養(yǎng)了 7 個孩子。
eg. She changed the face of British politics almost single-handed.
她幾乎是一手改變了英國政治的面貌。
2. in the first place
起初;一開始;
eg. What brought you to Washington in the first place?
最初是什么讓你來到華盛頓的?
eg. The emphasis is swinging away from simply finding cures for illness to ways of preventing illness in the first place.
重點正從簡單地對癥下藥轉(zhuǎn)移到先期預(yù)防的方法上來。
參考答案:
1、calls for 2、claimed 3、challenged
4、proposed 5、reducing