(单词翻译:单击)
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第161期:主餐一道:泛听练习
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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 。3、复述新闻
。
Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is the latest politician to ask _1_ for a second chance. Spitzer is meeting with voters in New York City as he launches a run -- comptroller, as NPR's Joel Rose reports.
前纽约州州长艾略特·斯皮策请求选民再给一次机会,成为又一位发出此请求的政治家 。斯皮策宣布参选审计官一职,并与纽约市选民会面,NPR新闻的乔尔·罗斯将带来报道 。
It's been five years since Spitzer's spectacular fall from power. The one-time "Sheriff of Wall Street" _2_ the governorship in the midst of a prostitution scandal. Since then Spitzer has been a politcial commentator, teacher and TV host. But in an interview with member station WNYC, Spitzer said he's _3_ return to government, and he hopes voters will give him another chance.
距斯皮策引起轰动并被迫辞职已过去五年的时间 。这位曾经的“华尔街警长”因卷入召妓丑闻而辞去州长一职 。自那时起,斯皮策担任过政治评论员、教师以及电视主持人 。而在接受WNYC成员站的采访时,斯皮策表示,他渴望重返政坛,他希望选民能再给他一次机会 。
"I'm asking _4_ from them for my indiscretions , my violations of trust, but the five years of reflection and focusing elsewhere is enough for voters. Only voters will tell me I've complete faith in the public to render a decision."
“我请求他们原谅我轻率的举动、违背信任的行为,而我五年来一直在反省,从事着其他领域的工作,这对选民来说应该已经足够了 。只有选民能告诉我公众决定完全信任我 。”
Spitzer, a Democrat, _5_ for the relatively low-profile job of city comptroller. He has until Thursday to gather enough signatures to get on the ballot. Joel Rose, NPR News, New York.
斯皮策是民主党人,准备竞选纽约市审计官这个相对低调的职位 。截至周四,他已经收集了足够的签名,可以参加竞选 。NPR新闻,乔尔·罗斯纽约报道 。
词汇解析:
1. spectacular
adj.场面富丽的,壮观的;引人注意的;惊动一时的;惊人
eg. They have revamped the business with spectacular success.
他们成功地调整了业务,成绩斐然 。
eg. The results have been spectacular.
结果令人惊叹 。
eg. The view from the top of the tower was spectacular.
从塔顶远眺景色蔚为壮观 。
2. indiscretion
n.不慎重的举止,轻率的言行;言行失检
eg. Occasionally they paid for their indiscretion with their lives.
有时候他们因自己的轻率而搭上性命 。
eg. You should not wreck a young man's career for a single boyish-indiscretion.
不要因为一件幼稚的轻率举动就断送青年人的前程 。
eg. He had never forgiven her for reporting his indiscretion in front of his friends.
他一直没有原谅她在朋友面前揭发他的不检点行为 。
参考答案
1、voters 2、resigned 3、eager to
4、forgiveness 5、is running