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1【Three U.S. soldiers killed by Afghan police in Helmand】三名美国士兵被阿富汗警方杀害
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TEXT:Helmand province Afghanistan. It has been the site of some of the fieriest fighting in the war in Afghanistan. Now the enemy is is not always on the battlefield. On Thursday night an Afghan police commander and several of his men killed three U.S. soldiers in Helmand, turning guns on them after inviting them to dinner to discuss security. Not including Thursday's attack, there have already been 24 incidents this year of so-called green on blue shootings, in which Afghan police or soldiers turn their guns on their Western colleagues. That compares with 21 in the whole of 2011. NATO Brigadier General Gunter Katz, says often these attacks are more personal than political. NATO BRIGADIER GENERAL GUNTER KATZ, SAYING: "Actually there is a kind of common denominator and that is that most of those incidents were caused by personal grievances and or stress situations." More than 3,100 foreign solders have died in Afghanistan since the war was launched in 2001.
参考译文:阿富汗赫尔曼德省已经是阿富汗几场最激烈战争的所在地。然而现在敌人并不总是在战场上。周四晚一名阿富汗警察指挥官和他的几个随行在赫尔曼省邀请三名美国士兵赴宴共商安全问题后将其枪杀。排除周四的袭击事件，今年已经发生了24起所谓的绿蓝枪击事件，阿富汗警方或士兵将枪口指向他们西方同僚的。相比之下,2011年全年发生21起。北约卡茨准将称通常这些袭击相比于政治问题更带有个人色彩。北约准将卡茨说:“事实上,这些事件都有一种共同的特性，它们都是由于个人恩怨或紧张情绪下引起的。”自从2001年阿富汗战争爆发以来已经有3,100名国外士兵牺牲。
2【Japan, South Korea spar over islands】独(竹)岛之争再起 日本要求打国际官司
TEXT:A helicopter carrying South Korea's president touches down on a disputed island in the Pacific Ocean on Friday. While it only lasted a day, this visit by Lee Myung-bak touched off a diplomatic firestorm with Japan, which also claims the island - and several others in the area. On Saturday, Japan's foreign minister said his country would seek an international ruling on the issue. "We are looking to bring this case to the International Court for Justice," Koichiro Gemba says, "to seek a peaceful solution" South Korea has twice rebuffed smiliar Japanese efforts in the past. The islands, known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea, lie midway between the two countries. Although the island chain is relatively small, it is believed to contain natural gas deposits worth billions of dollars.
参考译文:周五一架直升机搭载着韩国总统登陆了太平洋上一个有争议的岛屿。尽管只持续了一天，但李明博之行引发了一场与日本的外交风暴，因为日本同样声称对这个岛屿以及该地区其它几个岛屿具有主权。周六日本外交部长称将对这一事件寻求国际裁决。“我们计划将这一事件提交国际法庭以求公平，”玄叶光一郎称，“以寻求和平方案”。过去韩国两次断然拒绝日本的类似努力。这些岛屿，日本称为竹岛，韩国称为独岛，坐落在两国之间。尽管这些岛屿链相对较小，但被证实含有价值数十亿美元的天然气矿床。
3【Thousands mourn Sikh victims】数千名哀悼者纪念威斯康辛受害者
TEXT:Thousands of mourners packed into a high school in Wisconsin to pay tribute to the six Sikh worshippers killed in a shooting rampage. The memorial drew several prominent political leaders including U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER SAYING: "But I am here, on behalf of the President of the United States, on behalf of my colleagues at the United States Department of Justice and on behalf of the American people to stand with you, to mourn with you and to pray with you." He described the shooting as an act of terrorism and a hate crime. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER SAYING: "Unfortunately for the Sikh community, this sort of violence has become all too common in recent years. In the recent past, too many Sikhs have been targeted and victimized simply because of who they are, how they look and what they believe. It is wrong, it is unacceptable and it will not be tolerated." The gunmen, 40-year-old U.S. Army veteran Wade Michael Page was shot in the stomach by a police officer before shooting himself in the head, according to authorities. The motive for his attack on the temple is still not clear.
参考译文:数千名哀悼者挤进威斯康辛的一所高中纪念在一次枪击暴行中丧生的六名锡克教信徒。这此纪念活动引来了几名重要的政治领导，其中包括美国司法部长埃里克•霍尔德。美国司法部长埃里克•霍尔德说:“我在这里代表美国总统，代表美国司法部的同事，代表美国人民同你们站在一起，一起哀悼和一起祈祷。”他称此次枪击事件是一起恐怖袭击和仇恨罪。美国司法部长埃里克•霍尔德说:“不幸的是,这种类型的暴力近几年在锡克教社区太常见了。就在不远的过去，太多的锡克教徒遭到袭击仅仅因为他们是谁，他们的长相以及他们的信仰。这是方谬的，不可接受的，也将不会被容忍的。”40岁的枪手韦德迈克尔是美国陆军的老兵，在往自己头上开枪前已经被一警察击中腹部。目前他正该寺院的袭击动机仍不清楚。
4【Australians rally for same sex marriage】澳大利亚同性婚姻集会
TEXT:People take to the streets of Brisbane, Australia, to voice their support for same-sex marriage. Thousands attended similar rallies across the country on Saturday - a show of force that comes as legislators here mull the hot-button issue. Advocates say 11 countries and several U.S. states have already legalized gay marriage, and Australia is falling behind. NATIONAL CONVENER OF AUSTRALIAN MARRIAGE EQUALITY, ALEX GREENWICH, SAYING: "I think the world looks to Australia and is confused. They know that a majority of Australians support this reform and they know that Australians are fair-minded people who value equality. But the problem we have is the interference that our Government puts in." Others had even harsher words for the country's leaders. GAY MARRIAGE CAMPAIGNER, ELISSA DOWN, SAYING: "It's pathetic! I mean, the second country to give women the right to vote and yet we are dragging our feet. Where's that spirit that back in 1901 had women with the right to vote." Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said she is personally against gay marriage. However, she promised to allow her party a free vote on the issue, though a date for that showdown has not been set.
参考译文:人们纷纷前往澳大利亚布里斯班街表达他们对同性婚姻的支持。随着立法者开始考虑这个热点话题，周六全国上下有数千人参加了类似的集会。倡导者称目前有11个国家以及美国的几个州都已经将同性恋婚姻合法化，澳大利亚正落后了。澳大利亚全国婚姻平等召集人亚历克斯·格林说：“我想世界看待澳大利亚是矛盾的。他们知道大部分澳大利亚人支持这项改革，他们知道澳大利亚人公正尊重平等，但我们现在的问题是来自政府的干扰。”其他一些人更严厉的指责国家领导者。同性恋婚姻活动家Elissa Down说：“这太可悲了！我的意思是，我们是第二个给予妇女投票权的国家，现在却畏首畏尾，1901年给予妇女投票权的精神哪去了。”澳大利亚总理朱莉娅·吉拉德曾表示她个人反对同性恋婚姻。然而她承诺允许她的政党对这一事件自由表决投票，尽管目前具体表决日期还没确定。
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VOA常速新闻
【Female Olympians Get Motivated for 2016 Games】
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TEXT:Ije Enwerem has been throwing the discus for four years. She's thought to be a contender for the next summer Olympics, in Rio, four years from now.
Being female, she says, has made her work harder. "No-one ever really pays attention to throwers, let alone to the women, so you always want to be as good as the men to prove that there is talent out there," she said.
Enwerem is one of a group of young athletes who went to a motivational talk in East London, where this year's Olympics are taking place.
The speaker was Teresa Edwards, a four-time Olympic champion in women's basketball and Team USA's chief of mission.
She says in the past women were shunned from the sporting world. "Participation was thought to kill us or to take us backwards or to threaten our abilities to have babies and things like that," she explained. "That's where we have come from in the past. It's not about that anymore. We have definitely proven that fact."
But today women are competing in every Olympic sport. And many countries are sending more women than men to the Games.
Edwards says doors have been opened to female athletes that were often closed in the past.
It's progress, she says, but there are still some girls who are left behind. "It's sad to think that we live in a day and age that someone is actually telling a little girl that she can't participate in sport for whatever reason, I don't know what that would be," Edwards stated. "So all we have to do is continue to do what we do as female athletes -- our participation, be an example and a role model and hopefully they will follow and know that all is well."
For Enwerem, she says it's her female sports idols that keep her focused and will help her make it, she hopes, to the 2016 Games.
VOA慢速新闻
【Young, and Training for a Good Job -- at Sea】
TEXT:This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。
Many new college graduates in the United States have trouble finding a job in the weak economy. But not graduates from the California Maritime Academy.
在经济疲软期间，美国许多大学新毕业生很难找到工作。但这不包括加州海事学院的毕业生。
The academy is the only school of its kind on the West Coast. Students attend classes on the university campus in northern California. But they also gain experience by going to sea in a floating classroom, the training ship Golden Bear.
该学院是西海岸唯一一所此类型的学校。 学生们在加利福尼亚州北部的大学校园中上课，但他们同时也通过金熊训练舰，该海上浮动教室出海来获得经验。
Two hundred eighty-eight cadets recently sailed on a two-month international training cruise. The ship travels south to the Panama Canal. Along the way, it visits countries in Central America and the Caribbean.
最近，288名学员开始了为期两个月的国际训练航行。该船向南前往巴拿马运河，沿途将访问中美洲和加勒比国家。
Vasile Tudoran is a mechanical engineering student at the California Maritime Academy.
Vasile Tudoran是加州海事学院机械工程专业的学生。
He spends much of his time working deep in the heart of the ship.
他大部分时间都在船舶心脏深处工作。
VASILE TUDORAN: “I knew I wanted to fix stuff since I was a little kid.”
VASILE TUDORAN：“我从小就知道自己想干什么。”
He says he is not worried about finding a job.
他说，他不担心找不到工作。
VASILE TUDORAN: “When we get out of school you are basically guaranteed a job. There are not enough bodies for the positions that are needed to be filled.”
VASILE TUDORAN：“当我们离开学校时，工作就基本有了保证，毕业生供不应求。”
Robert Jackson is one of his teachers.
Robert Jackson是他的老师之一。
ROBERT JACKSON: “I would say the majority of our students have between one to two job offers before they graduate."
ROBERT JACKSON：“我想说，我们大多数学生在毕业前就获得一到两个工作机会。”
He says most of those job offers are between sixty and one hundred twenty thousand dollars a year. In addition to working on ships, he says, engineering graduates from the academy also get jobs with power companies and satellite companies.
他说，这些工作机会大多年薪为6万到12万美元。除了船舶上的工作，他说，该学院工程专业的毕业生还得到了电力公司和卫星公司的工作。
Instructor Bill Schmid says the situation for marine transportation students is not as bright as it was before the economic downturn, but it is recovering.
导师Bill Schmid说，海上运输专业学生的情况没有经济衰退前光明，但它正在复苏。
BILL SCHMID: “I think probably the vast majority of our graduates are employed in the industry, if they want to be, now.”
BILL SCHMID：“我想可能我们绝大多数毕业生都在同行业中工作，现在只要他们愿意。”
He says the coursework is demanding because ship's officers are kind of like surgeons or airplane pilots.
他说，见习是必须的，因为船上工作人员和医生或飞行员有点类似。
BILL SCHMID: “You do not want them to be right only seventy percent of the time. We pretty much have to be right all the time, so that is a hard thing to teach young people, that there is zero tolerance for mistakes.”
BILL SCHMID：“我们不希望他只有70%的正确率，我们任何时候都需要百分之百正确。所以教导年轻人是一件困难的事情，我们对失误零容忍。”
The California Maritime Academy has a ninety-four percent job placement rate. Still, only about nine hundred students are currently studying there. Cadet Andrew Di Tucci says he understands why.
加州海事学院的就业率为94%。尽管如此，目前只有约九百名学生在那里学习。学员Andrew Di Tucci说，他知道为什么这样。
ANDREW DI TUCCI: “The school, it is not like your normal college experience would be. We are a paramilitary school. We have uniforms. We have formations. Just disciplining yourself to show up and keep grooming standards and be where you need to be, sit down, buckle your belt and study.”
ANDREW DI TUCCI：“这所学校不像普通的大学，我们是一个准军事学校。我们有制服，我们有编制。严格要求自己，保持仪容标准，到你应该在的位置，坐下，扣紧皮带并学习。”
Andrew Di Tucci is majoring in marine transportation. He says when he was growing up, he was always told it takes a special person to want to go to sea for a living.
Andrew Di Tucci主修海洋运输。他说，当他长大时经常被告知，想去海上谋生就得超乎常人。
ANDREW DI TUCCI: “My favorite thing about it is waking up every morning and seeing nothing but the ocean on all sides of you. I get a thrill out of that.”
ANDREW DI TUCCI：“我最喜欢的事情就是每天早上起床，周围就只看得到大海。我从中得乐。”
词汇解析
1.grievance
n.委屈, 苦衷, 不满, 怨恨
He will not easily forget his grievance.
他不会轻易忘掉他的委屈。
2.touch down
降落, 着陆
We should touch down very soon now.
我们很快就要着陆了。
3.rebuff
n.粗暴拒绝,轻蔑回绝
Her efforts were met with a sharp rebuff.
她的努力遭到了断然拒绝。
His rude behaviour subjects him to frequent rebuffs.
他的粗鲁行为使他经常遭受冷遇。
She suffered a rebuff from her manager when she raised the matter.
她向经理提出这个问题时碰了一鼻子灰。
vt.粗暴拒绝;冷落
4.tribute
n.贡金, 贡物
Many conquered nations had to pay tribute to the rulers of ancient Rome.
许多被征服的国家必须向古罗马的统治者纳贡。
称赞, 颂词
She accepted their tribute graciously.
她慈祥地接受了他们的致意。
We pay tribute to his courage.
我们赞赏他的勇气。
5.mull
vt.将(葡萄酒、啤酒等)制成热饮(加糖、香料等)
We had mulled wine at the party.
我们在晚会上喝热葡萄酒。
思索或思考(某事物)
6.mull over
认真琢磨；反复思考
I’ve been mulling over what you said last night.
我昨晚一直在琢磨你的话。
I have not decided yet,I am mulling it over in my mind.
我还没决定,一直在仔细考虑。
n.岬,海角
7.showdown
n.摊牌, 一决胜负
I’d like to avoid a showdown with my boss if I possibly can.
我尽可能地避免同老板摊牌。
