第306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 。The Republican-controlled House has approved the bill _1_ the nation's debt limits and containing no other provisions. As NPR's Edith Chapin reports, that's exactly what president Obama _2_ upon and what many House Republicans had opposed.
共和党掌控的众议院通过了无条件提高联邦政府债务上限的法案 。据NPR新闻的艾迪斯·查品报道,这就是奥巴马总统一直坚持而众议院共和党一直反对的事项 。
House Speaker John Boehner recent years sits tight debt limits increasing to federal spending cuts, what he _3_ the Boehner rule.But he abandoned that approach after he had unable to craft anything that would win enough Republican votes to reach the majority of full House. Boehner, nonetheless blamed Obama for refusing his offereing sessions in return for increasing the nation's borrowing authority to avoid the default.
众议院议长约翰·博纳近几年一直坚持要提高债务上限就必须缩减联邦开支,他称这为“博纳规则” 。但是他因为无法找到一项在众议院投票中获得多数共和党人支持的措施,而放弃了这种方法 。尽管如此,博纳还是指责了奥巴马,称他为了达到避免债务违约而增加举债权限的目的而拒绝协商 。
"So president is driving up the debt and the president wanting to do nothing about the debt that's occurring, or not engaged in our long-term _4_ problem, and so let his party give him the debt ceiling increase that he wants."
“总统要增加债务,但是总统并不关心所发生的债务问题,也不想参与到我们的长期开支问题中,所以就让他的政党给予他想要的提高债务上限吧 。”
Democrats provided the vast majority of the Yes vote. The proposal now goes to the Democrats currently _5_ Senate, where a quick approval is expected. Edith Chapin, NPR News.
投赞成票的绝大多数议员为民主党 。这份法案目前已递交至民主党掌控的参议院,预计将会迅速获得通过 。NPR新闻,艾迪斯·查品报道 。
词汇解析:
1. sit tight
呆在原处不动;不轻举妄动;
eg. Sit tight. I'll be right back.
你留在这儿别动,我马上就回来 。
eg. Life would continue to be hard but if they sat tight and trusted him things would get better.
生活依然会很艰辛,但是如果他们能静观其变,并且信任他,一切会慢慢好起来的 。
2. in return for
作为回报;作为交换;
eg. I sent him a present in return for his help.
我送给他一份礼物以回报他的帮助 。
eg. Police offer leniency to criminals in return for information.
警方给罪犯宽大处理以换取情报 。