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第358期：主餐一道：泛听练习
以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。
一、泛听建议：
1、完整听一遍，掌握大意。
2、继续听，特别注意关键信息。遇到相似的词，写下来。
President Obama _1_ a plan to speed up federal permitting for _2_ bridges and highways and for other infrastructure work. NPR's Craig Windham reports, president _3_ a New York aging Tappan Zee Bridge which has been replaced.
奥巴马总统宣布了一项计划，加快建筑桥梁、高速公路及其他基础设施的联邦许可进程。据NPR新闻的克雷格·温德姆报道，总统加快了纽约老化的塔潘泽大桥被替代的进程。
The president says the steps he's taking will accelerate infrastructure projects.
总统表示，他采取的步骤将加快基础设施工程的建设。
"We're cutting bureaucratic red tape to stop good projects from breaking ground. We're launching a new national _4_ system to implement these reforms."
“我们将减少阻止优秀项目动工的官僚主义繁文缛节，我们将启动实施这些改革项目的新的国家许可制度。”
President says road, bridge and port projects create jobs and help to _5_ business to the US.
总统表示，公路、桥梁和港口工程将创造就业岗位，有助于为美国吸引商机。
"The alternative is to do nothing and watch business go to places that haven't outstanding projects."
“另一种选择是什么都不做，看着商机流向那些没有优秀项目的地方。”
The initiative is a part of president's push to get lawmakers to replenish the highway trust fund which pays for road's repair and construction.
这份方案是总统推动议员为公路信托基金拨款计划的一部分，这笔基金用于道路的维修和建设。
"If they don't act by the end of the summer, federal funding for transportation projects will run out."
“如果他们到今年夏天还不行动，用于交通工程项目的联邦基金就会用完。”
Craig Windham, NPR News.
以上是NPR新闻的克莱格·温德姆带来的报道。
词汇解析：
1. speed up
使（某一过程或活动）加快；
eg. I had already taken steps to speed up a solution to the problem.
我已经采取措施加快解决该问题。
eg. Once these difficulties were got over, the work would speed up.
一旦克服了这些困难，工作进展就快了。
2. red tape
繁文缛节；官僚作风；
eg. The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
能用的那点儿小钱被繁文缛节拖得遥遥无期。
eg. Red tape has delayed the progress of our program.
官僚作风延迟了我们计划的进展。
3. run out
用完；耗尽；
eg. Food supplies had run out towards the end of the trip.
在旅行快结束时，食物已经吃完了。
eg. He is going the pace and his property will soon run out.
他生活奢侈，财富很快就会花光。
