(单词翻译:单击)
Welcome to the Voice of America's “News Words”.
欢迎收看美国之音“新闻词汇”。
Here is a story that has to do with defects, or problems, with cars.
这篇报道与缺陷或者说是问题有关,也与汽车有关。
Listen for the word that means to take back something: recall.
请听这个意思是收回某物的词:召回。
They had meetings over this defect. They shared complaints over this defect, yet there was no investigation by the government and no recall by General Motors until 10 years later.
他们曾就此次缺陷的问题进行会面。那时他们认同对该缺陷的投诉,然而直到十年之后,政府才开始调查,通用汽车公司也才发起召回。
“Recall”. It is a word that means to ask people officially to return something.
“召回”。这个词的意思是官方的要求人们退回某物。
In our story, there were major problems with some General Motors cars.
在这篇报道中,通用汽车公司的一些汽车存在重大缺陷。
The man says the U.S. government and the car company took too long to issue a recall, so the cars could be fixed.
报道中的人称,美国政府和该汽车公司花费了过长时间发布一个召回公告,这些汽车终于可以得到维修了。
Now when you hear the word “recall”, your American English will be good enough to know what this News Word means.
现在当你听到“召回”这个词的时候,你的美语就足以知道这个新闻词汇是什么意思了。