第355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 。Lawmakers by 232-to-186 votes _1_ creation of a special committee to do investigate the assault on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. Republican lawmakers founds it to continue to _2_ of questions about the attack that claims the lives of the US ambassador, Christopher Stevens and 3 others. But some Democrats, like New York representative Louise Slaughter, calls it political theater.
议员以232票赞成、186票反对的结果批准成立特别委员会调查美国驻利比亚班加西外交机构的袭击案 。共和党议员可以继续追寻这起袭击案的答案,这起袭击案造成包括美国大使克里斯托弗·斯蒂文斯在内的三人死亡 。但是一些民主党人称这一举动是政治表演,这其中就包括纽约州议员路易斯·斯拉特尔 。
"It's been down for politics. It's been down to raise money."
“这是出于政治目的 。这是为了筹集资金 。”
Slaughter _3_ the fact it is a reelection year. But Republican Pete Sessions from Taxes said it's about determining to the true.
斯拉特尔重申,事实是今年是选举年 。但是得克萨斯州共和党议员皮特·萨森斯表示,这是寻求真相的举动 。
"We must get to the bottom of it without its _4_ a political witching."
“我们必须查清这件事的真相,这不是政治作秀 。”
There have already been more than a dozen of public hearing, thousands of pages of documents and 50 separate _5_ on the Benghazi attack.
班加西袭击案已经召开了12次公开听证会,涉及文件达到数千页,进行了50次专门简报会 。
词汇解析:
1. be down for
已安排…的;要做…的;将发生…的;
eg. Mark had told me that he was down for an interview.
马克已告诉我他要参加一场面试 。
eg. The boy was down for the final match.
这男孩进入了决赛 。
2. be down to
由…引起(或造成);
eg. Any mistakes are entirely down to us.
任何过错全是我们造成的 。
eg. That's down to pure hard work.
那些全是凭辛苦的劳动得来的 。
3. get to the bottom of
找到…的真正起因;查寻到…的根源;
eg. I have to get to the bottom of this mess.
我必须查清造成这一混乱局面的真正原因 。
eg. She got suspicious and decided to get to the bottom of it.
她起了疑惑,便决定弄个水落石出 。