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1【Rescue teams battling quake aftershocks】救援队伍冒余震实施救助
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TEXT:Anxious early hours after anmagnitude5.8 earthquake hit northern Italy. Rescue workers searching for locals trapped underrubblewere forced to proceed with caution as a series of aftershocks made their way through the region. Emergency services put the death toll at 15. Hundreds of people are injured and many businesses, including car maker Ferrari closed their plants due to safety concerns. The earthquake which was centered near the town of Modena was felt as far south as central Italy and is the second to hit Italy in just over a week. Deborah Gembara, Reuters
参考译文：意大利北部发生5.8级地震，人们处于焦急状态。营救人员正在搜寻被困在废墟下的当地人们，但他们必须格外小心，因为这个地区仍有一系列余震。紧急救助服务队称死亡人数达到15人，数百人受伤。出于安全考虑，许多企业包括汽车制造商法拉利关闭了他们的工厂。此次地震的震中靠近摩德纳镇，南至意大利中部。是这是意大利短短一个星期内第二次遭到地震袭击。
2【Suu Kyi makes first trip abroad in 24 years】昂山素季24年内首次出国旅行
TEXT:At the airport in Bangkok, there were cheers to greet Aung San Suu Kyi as the Nobel Peace Prize Winner made her first trip outside of Myanmar in 24 years. Her arrival in Thailand is being viewed as an encouraging sign for Myanmar which is in the process of massive reform --- freeing political prisoners and easing media censorship. Suu Kyi --- who spent 15 years in detention, had during brief periods of freedom refused to leave the country ---fearing she would not be allowed back. She is set to give a speech this week at the World Economic Forum on East Asia. Deborah Gembara, Reuters.
参考译文：在曼谷机场，人们欢呼的迎接这位诺贝尔和平奖获得者昂山素季，这是她24年内第一次离开缅甸出国旅行。她此次的泰国之行被认为是一个令人鼓舞的迹象，因为缅甸正在进行大规模改革——释放政治犯并放松媒体审查制度。昂山素季被拘留了15年，期间有短暂的自由，但因担心离开后回不去而拒绝离开自己的国家。她将在本周东亚地区世界经济论坛上发表演讲。
3【U.S., others expel top Syrian diplomats】美国以及其它国家驱逐叙利亚高级外交官
TEXT:The Syrian province of Aleppo --- six weeks after a UN brokered ceasefire. Reuters cannot independently confirm the content of this video which was uploaded to a social media website and was reportedly shot on Tuesday. The killing of over 100 civilians, half of them children in Houla last week prompted the U.S. to deliver this message to Syrian diplomats on Tuesday -- pack your bags. State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. SOUNDBITE: Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland saying: "We took this action in response to the massacre in the village of Houla...absolutely indefensible, vile" Syria's embassy in Washington. Diplomats were summoned to the state department and told they have 72 hours to leave the country. In a show of unity --- Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Spain alsoexpelleddiplomats. The coordinated action took place as envoy Kofi Annan made an emergency trip to Damascus. SOUNDBITE: Envoy Kofi Annan saying: "I shared with President Assad my assessment that the six-point plan is not being implemented as it must. We are at atipping point." While Annnan's meeting is not new for Syria --- the coordinated expulsion of Syrian diplomats will be a lot more difficult to ignore. Deborah Gembara, Reuters.
参考译文：联合国停火协议六周后的叙利亚阿勒颇省。这是一段上传到一个社会媒体网站的视频，据说是在周二拍摄的，路透社无法独立确认其内容。在上周Houla对100多个平民且半数是儿童的大屠杀，促使本周二美国向叙利亚外交官发出这样的信息—卷铺盖走人。美国国务院发言人维多利亚纽兰：“这一举措是对Houla大屠杀的回应，这种行为是不可原谅的，是可耻的”。叙利亚驻华盛顿交官被召集到国务院，被告知72小时内必须离开美国。不仅仅是美国——澳大利亚、英国、加拿大、法国、德国、意大利和西班牙都在驱逐了外交官。随着特使科菲·安南紧急前往大马士革，驱逐行动就开始了。特使科菲·安南说：“我和阿萨德总统评估了一下，本该实行的六点计划并没有实行。我们正处于一个引爆点。尽管安南的会见对叙利亚不是一件新鲜事——但各个国家对叙利亚外交官的驱赶将更加变得难以忽视。
4【Rare pink diamond sells at auction】罕见粉钻在拍卖会上出售
TEXT:Auction house Christie's is in the pink for its spring jewelry sale in Hong Kong. The coveted prize of the day is the Martian Pink - a 12 carat fancy intense pink diamond, the biggest of its kind ever to appear at auction. After an intense bidding session, the gem sold to an anonymous bidder for 17.3 million US dollars - which is roughly 1.5 million dollars per carat,shatteringits pre-sale estimate. Christie's Rahul Kadakia ,head of Jewelry U.S. and Switzerland, explains its success. Saying "It's very difficult to have round colored diamonds that actually show their color with this intensity which is why most coloured diamonds that you see are cut into fancy shapes; either a rectangular shape, a heart, an oval. But to have a round diamond, the most classic cut of them all, with 57 facets and this kind of color intensity, is very rare." There are only two large round pink diamonds in the world with one being the Martian Pink. The other, the "Williamson Pink" is owned by Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Elly Park, Reuters.
参考译文：佳士得拍卖行在香港春季珠宝销售中如火如荼。今天最诱人的价格来自"火星粉钻"——一颗12克拉，格外别致的深粉红色钻石，这是拍卖会上此类钻石有史以最大的一颗。经过一轮激烈的竞价，一位匿名的买家竞价1730万美元将其收入囊中——这接近150万美元一克拉，打破了竞价前的评估。佳士得美国和瑞士总管Rahul Kadakia对拍卖的成功做了解释：“这种圆形深色彩宝石是非常难得的，这就是为什么大部分的彩钻被雕刻的很花哨，要么是一个矩形，心形或椭圆形。但这样一颗圆形钻石，所有当中最经典的雕刻，配上57个切削面以及这种彩色亮度，是非常罕见的。世界上只有两颗粉色圆形大钻石，其中一颗就是"火星粉钻"。另一颗"威廉姆森粉钻”在英国女王伊丽莎白手中。
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【Egyptian Presidential Hopeful Morsi Leads Pack】埃及总统希望者Morsiy领先群雄
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BRIEF:Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi was not his Islamist group's first choice for its presidential candidate. But he got the job when the Brotherhood's lead candidate was disqualified and then became a front-runner in a show of the group's political muscle.
During the campaign, Morsi delivered fiery speeches and vowed his presidency would be based on Islam but not be a theocracy.
Morsi was born in the Nile Delta in 1951 and received an engineering degree from Cairo University before earning a doctorate in the United States.
He has long been active in the Muslim Brotherhood. He was elected to parliament and later became a spokesman for the group.
He was arrested and jailed in 2006 for several months and again briefly at the start of Egypt's pro-democracy protests last year.
2.每日慢速
【A Call for Equal Rights for Women Farmers】对妇女农民同等权利的呼吁
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TEXT:This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.A new report says if women farmers had the same rights as men, more could be done to reduce world hunger. The report, " Empowering Women in Agriculture," is from the anti-hunger group Bread for the World. Bread for the World says equal access to agricultural resources would help increase food security and economic growth.
Faustine Wabwire is the group's foreign assistance specialist.
FAUSTINE WABMIRE: "Women constituted half of the agricultural labor force in not just Africa, but the developing countries as a whole. And when you think of Africa alone, it's more than sixty percent of the total agricultural labor force being provided by women."
The report says in most countries, women working in rural areas are more likely than men to hold seasonal, part-time and low-wage jobs.
They also receive less pay for the same work.
Ms. Wabwire says women farmers often cannot get seeds, fertilizer, proper tools, credit and, especially, land.
FAUSTINE WABWIRE: "For most of Africa, we have about eighty percent of the population living in rural areas and they subsist on agriculture. Now women make sixty percent of the agricultural labor force and they have no access to resources. So, for example, land is one good example where less than twenty percent of all landholders are women."
This is often because of legal as well as cultural reasons. She says women who have lost their husbands may have no legal rights over their land. The only way to keep the land, she says, is to marry, say, the brother of the dead husband.
FAUSTINE WABWIRE: "So constraints like this are still very prevalent in most African societies and they continue to impede women's ability to fully enjoy their human rights."
However, Ms. Wabwire says women in agriculture are getting more attention these days. For example, Kenya's new constitution gives women the right to own land. But she says there is still a long way to go. Bread for the World is urging the United States government to increase development assistance, or at least not to decrease it.
FAUSTINE WABWIRE: "This assistance through programs such as Feed the Future, which is the U.S. government's agriculture program, is helping to elevate the status of women. It's enabling women to access productive resources such as seeds. They are able to have access toextension services , which will enable them to produce more and contribute to healthy societies."
But Ms. Wabwire says more African governments must recognize the major role that women play in agriculture and elsewhere. The report says, "Putting more income in the hands of women translates into improved child nutrition, health, and education."
Just how much could hunger be reduced if women had equal access to agricultural resources? The report estimates that hunger could be reduced for an extra one hundred to one hundred fifty million people.
And that's the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. You can find a link to the Bread for the World report at 51voa.com. I'm Jim Tedder.
参考译文：这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。
一份新报道称，如果女性农民和男性有同样的权利，就可以进一步减少全世界的饥饿问题。这份名为“给女性以农业权利”的报道是反饥饿组织“施世面包”发表的，该组织称，农业上权利的平等有助于提高粮食安全和经济发展。
Faustine Wabwire是该组织的外事援助专家。
Faustine Wabwire：“不仅在非洲，包括在全部发展中国家中，妇女都占了农业劳动力的一半。就说非洲吧，有60%以上的农业劳动力都是女性。”
报道称在很多国家，与男人相比，妇女更多地从事季节性、兼职和低收入的工作。而且做同样的工作收入要少。
Wabwire说，女性农民通常无法得到种子、化肥、合适的农具、信贷，以及最重要的—土地。
Faustine Wabwire：“在非洲大多数地区，约有80%的人口居住在农村地区，靠农业为生。如今，妇女占农业劳动力的60%，但她们却无法得到资源。比如土地就是个很好的例子，只有不到20%的土地拥有者是妇女。”
这通常是由于法律和文化上的原因，她说，失去丈夫的妇女可能就无法拥有土地权。得到土地的唯一途径，就是嫁人，嫁给已故丈夫的兄弟。
Faustine Wabwire：“这类限制在非洲大部分社区很常见，仍将继续阻碍着妇女享有的人权。”
然而，Wabwire说，从事农业的女性近来得到了越来越多的关注。比如，肯尼亚新宪法赋予妇女以土地权。不过她说，还有很长的路要走。“施世面包”一直在督促美国政府增加发展援助，至少不该减少援助。
FAUSTINE WABWIRE: “诸如美国政府‘哺育未来’这样的农业援助项目，帮助提高了妇女地位，使妇女可以得到诸如种子之类的生产资源。她们还能得到延伸服务，从而为健康社会提供创造和贡献。”
不过，WABWIRE还说，必须有更多的非洲政府意识到妇女在农业等领域的重要性。报道称，“增加女性收入可以提高孩子的营养、健康和教育水平。”
如果妇女得到平等的农业资源，能减少多少饥饿人口呢？这份报道估计说，可以减少另外1.5亿饥饿人口。
注：本VOA慢速译文由可可英语Sunny提供
《音乐电台》今日音乐欣赏
英语听累了？听首歌放松放松~~~
The place in your heart
主唱是Ronan Hardiman
伴唱是LeslieDowdall
MV描述:That place in your heart 来自爱尔兰首席配乐大师Ronan Hardiman的专辑《Anthem》，融合了他以之闻名的凯尔特音乐的元素，由Leslie Dowdall担纲女声和声，Leslie Dowdall丝般软润的嗓音与Ronan Hardiman的优美旋律相得益彰， 简洁的伴奏，更突出了Leslie Dowdall 天使般美妙的声线,温柔的声音却是在向大家提出一个千百年来的问题Why can’t we live as one？这是渴望和平的人们在如今战火纷飞的世道对大同世界的一种向往。为什么大家不能彼此和平相处而要互相伤害？
歌词：
walk with me 你我一起同行
break some bread here with me 某些利益使你我反目成仇
Enemy 敌人
Why can’t you live with me? 为什么彼此之间不能和平共处？
Who are you? 你是谁？
what did i do to you? 我曾对你做了什么吗？
Wish i knew 但愿我知道
Why can’t i live with you? 为什么彼此之间不能和平共处？
We are all born the same 我们都生于同一片蓝天
Then we separate 然而却要分道扬镖
Then the world falls apart 我们的世界因此而破裂
and blame turns to hate 埋怨也渐渐变为仇恨
we can not contemplate 我们根本无法凝思出
how far apart we are 我们之间的差距有多远
there is always a way 总是有一条路
to that place in your heart. 能通向你心里的某个地方
Hated one 互相仇恨的人
Just put down your gun 只要放下手中的武器
done is done 过去的已经过去了
why can’t we live as one? 为什么我们不能像一家人一样相处？
feel no shame 没有尴尬
the air we breath is the same 因为我们呼吸的是同样的空气
heal the pain 结束痛苦吧
why do we live in vain? 为什么我们要空虚地生活？
We are all born the same 我们生于同一片蓝天
Then we seperate 然而却要分道扬镖
Then the world falls apart 我们的世界因此而破裂
and blame turns to hate 埋怨也渐渐变为仇恨
《词汇解析》今日词汇学习
1.Magnituden.巨大; 重要性
The auditorium is a building of great magnitude.
这个大礼堂是一栋巨大的建筑物。
I hadn't realized the magnitude of the problem.
我没有认识到这个问题的重要性。
〈天〉星等
Stars of the first magnitude are the brightest.
一等星最明亮。
2.rubblen.碎石, 瓦砾
After the earthquake, it took months to clean up the rubble.
地震后, 花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
3.Expelvt.驱逐, 赶走, 放逐
They expelled a foreign spy from their country.
他们把一个外国间谍驱逐出境。
把…除名, 把…开除
He was expelled from the club for breaking the rules.
他因违反了规定而被开除出俱乐部。
排出
The whale expelled water from his blowhole.
鲸鱼从鼻孔排出水。
4.tipping pointn 1.卸载点 2.引爆点、临界点、时间窗、价格点、量变到质变的分界点
The tipping point seems to be about 30 per cent.
能产生重大变化的数字似乎是30%左右。
5.Shattervt.砸碎, 粉碎
The stone shattered the windscreen.
石头砸碎了挡风玻璃。
大大扰乱; 毁坏
We were shattered to hear of her sudden death.
听到她突然死亡的消息我们十分震惊。
