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路透社新闻
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1【Romney attacks Obama on jobs】奥巴马遭罗姆尼攻击称未能解决就业问题
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TEXT:Campaigning in the battleground state of Iowa, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney goes on the offensive - after the release of a weaker than expected jobs report on Friday. The numbers out of the Labor Department showed the unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent - but the drop was because less people looked for work. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney "After the party last night, the hangover today. the jobs numbers were very disappointing. for almost every net new job created approximately four people dropped out of the workforce." The report was released hours after President Barack Obama made his case for re-election at the Democratic National Convention -- dampening hopes of a post-convention bounce. On Friday, the president hit the campaign trail in New Hampshire. U.S. President Barack Obama "We need to create more jobs faster. We need to fill the hole left by this recession faster. We need to come out of this crisis stronger than we went in and there is a lot more that we can do." A recent online Reuters/Ipsos poll gave Romney a 1-point edge over Obama -- with election day 2 months away.
参考译文:周五，继劳工部公布一份略低于预期就业的报告后，在竞选战场爱荷华州共和党总统候选人罗姆尼向奥巴马发起了攻击。该劳工部数据显示尽管失业率降至8.1%，但下降的原因是更少的人愿意去找工作。共和党总统候选人米特·罗姆尼说：“昨晚聚会后，今日宿醉。就业数据很令人失望，每净创造一个新的工作几乎要失去四个劳动人口。”这份报告是奥巴马总统在民主党全国代表大会上宣布连任后数小时发布的，抑制了大会后反弹的希望。周五，奥巴马总统在新罕布什尔州发动竞选。美国总统奥巴马说：“我们要更快的创造更多的工作。我们要更快的弥补经济衰退留下来的问题。走出危机后我们要变得更强大，我们能去做的还有很多。”最近由路透社和艾坡索斯做的一项民意调查显示，在距大选两个月之际，罗姆尼比奥巴马更具一点优势。
2【Members arrive for start of APEC summit】亚太经合组织成员国抵达峰会开幕
TEXT:Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation nations gathered in Vladivostock, Russia for the start of the summit Saturday. The group of 21 nations are meeting to discuss a number of issues to help boost world economic growth. The group is expected to reject limitations on food exports saying open markets help secure world wide food supplies. Earlier, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged the governments of member nations to support high level trade agreements. U.S.SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON, SAYING: "The private sector needs to stand up for the system that will allow you to thrive over the long run. That means pushing governments to support high-standard trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, to drop harmful protectionist policies. It means playing by the rules, respecting workers and opening doors to qualified women." Clinton plans to meet with several APEC member leaders during the summit and is expected to have an informal discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a reception on Saturday evening.
参考译文:周六，亚太经合组织成员国聚集俄罗斯海参崴参加峰会开幕。该组织的21个成员国共同探讨系列问题以促进世界经济增长。该组织期望对食物出口提供开放政策，称开放市场能帮助确保世界食物供应。早些时候，美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿敦促成员国政府支持高层次贸易协定。美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿说：“私营经济需要支持这个体制，这样才能长久的茁壮成长。这意味着需要推动政府支持像跨太平洋合作关系样的高标准贸易协定，降低有害的保护主义政策。也就是在体制下运营，尊重劳工，接纳满足条件的女性。”克林顿计划在峰会期间会见几个亚太经合组织成员领导人，并预计于周六晚上在一招待会上与俄罗斯总统普京展开非正式讨论。
3【Quakes in southwest China kill dozens】中国西南遭遇地震数十人不幸遇难
TEXT:Panic as rubble falls from a damaged building. South-western China was still having aftershocks after of two 5.6 magnitude earthquakes hit on Friday. Early reports said at least 50 people were killed and tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes. State TV said 150 people were injured and authorities had evacuated more than 100,000 people from the area. Buildings in many of China's less developed areas are often poorly built making them susceptible to earthquakes.
参考译文:碎石从毁坏的建筑物上掉下，四处一片恐慌。周五，中国西南部连续发生两次5.6级地震，之后仍有余震。早期报道称至少有50人遇难，数万人被迫逃离家园。国家电视台报道称有150人受伤，当局已经从该地区撤离了十万多人。中国许多欠发达地区房屋建筑经常不符合标准使其易受地震的影响。
4【Russia pushes Syria peace talks】俄罗斯推动叙利亚和平谈判
TEXT:Syrian government soldiers patrol Aleppo streets devastated by fierce fighting. The conflict here has come to a stalemate, with little ground gained in the daily skirmishes on both sides. Syrians fleeing the conflict say they do not support the rebels or President Bashar al-Assad. Instead, they have called on the international community to step in to end the violence. But on Saturday, Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said his country refused to support sanctions against Syria. In a press conference at the APEC meeting in Vladivostok, he said sanctions proposed by Western states are becoming yet more wide ranging and will directly hit Russian business. He added that his country would support joint talks between Syria's government and opposition groups. Syria's bloody 17-month uprising has seen tens of thousands killed and many more seeking refuge in neighboring countries.
参考译文:在被激烈战斗摧毁的阿勒颇街道上，叙利亚士兵正在巡逻。因双方在每日的小冲突中很少有领土得失，使得这里的冲突陷入了僵局。逃离冲突的叙利亚人称他们既不支持反叛军也不支持总统阿萨德。相反，他们呼吁国际社会介入以阻止这场暴力。但在周六，俄罗斯外长Sergei Lavrov表示，俄罗斯拒绝对叙利亚实施制裁。在符拉迪沃斯托克APEC会议的一次新闻发布会上，他表示由西方国家提出的制裁措施涉及的方面越来越多，将直接影响到俄罗斯的经济。另外他表示，俄罗斯将支持叙利亚政府和反对阻止进行对话。长达17个月之久的叙利亚暴乱已经造成上万人死亡，许多难民在邻国寻求庇护。
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CNN学生新闻
TEXT:President Obama, Vice President Biden Speak at the DNC
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Madam Chairwoman, delegates, I accept your nomination for president of the United States.
CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: It is Friday, September 7th, and we now officially have this year`s presidential nominees. I`m Carl Azuz. Welcome to CNN STUDENT NEWS.
At this time a week ago, we were reporting on Mitt Romney accepting the Republican Party`s presidential nomination. Last night, the Democratic National Convention wrapped up when President Obama did the same thing for his party. The day before that, the convention heard from the last Democrat in the White House, former President Bill Clinton.
BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.: President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, no president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years.
AZUZ: In Tampa last week, the Republican vice presidential nominee, Paul Ryan, gave a speech on Wednesday. His Democratic counterpart, Vice President Joe Biden, spoke yesterday.
JOSEPH BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We`re on a mission to move this nation forward. From doubt and downturn to promise and prosperity. A mission I guarantee you we will complete.
AZUZ: The evening and two weeks of political conventions came to a conclusion with President Obama taking the stage in Charlotte and making his case for reelection.
OBAMA: Our problems can be solved. Our challenges can be met. The path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place, and I`m asking you to choose that future. I`m asking you to rally around a set of goals for your country. Goals in manufacturing, energy, education, national security, and the deficit. Real, achievable plans that will lead to new jobs, more opportunity, and rebuild this economy on a stronger foundation. That`s what we can do in the next four years, and that is why I am running for a second term as president of the United States.
AZUZ: A lot of people you`ve seen at these conventions are delegates, representing their home states. Hannah McCarley is a delegate from West Virginia, who celebrated her 18th birthday in Charlotte on Monday. She talked with us about the experience of being a delegate.
HANNAH MCCARLEY, WEST VIRGINIA DELEGATE: At our county conventions, we were selected to go to the state convention. You could be nominated, and you could file your paperwork and have your name placed on the ballot at the state convention, where you could run to be a delegate for the national convention. So I had to campaign and talk with people, and I had to have enough votes to be able to go.
It means a lot for me, because I`ve always worked on politics on a local level, and this summer I got the opportunity to do something on the national level, and I think it means a lot, both as a young woman and as a youth going into education and going into the college admissions process to have a voice in politics.
As far as education policies, health care policies, women`s rights and equality, I think that Barack Obama is ready to move this country forward, and I think that everyone deserves their given rights, and I don`t think that people should be telling, you know, the rest of the country what they can and cannot do, health-care wise, education-wise, what opportunities they can and can`t have. And I think President Barack Obama will give us more of these opportunities that will allow us to live our -- each live our American dreams.
AZUZ: On our show from August 29th, we heard from 17-year-old Evan Drame (ph). He`s the youngest Republican delegate in Tampa, and you can check out what he had to say in the transcript archives of our home page.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s time for the Shoutout. How many hurricane categories are on the Saffir-Simpson scale? If you think you know it, then shout it out. Is it 10, 8, 5, or 3? You`ve got three seconds, go.
The Saffir-Simpson scale rates hurricanes on a 1 through 5 scale, based on their intensity. That`s your answer and that`s your Shoutout.
AZUZ: When a hurricane`s winds hit a certain speed, the storm moves up a category on that scale. On Thursday, Hurricane Leslie was a category 1, but forecasters are saying it could get stronger as it moves toward Bermuda. Experts think it could hit the Caribbean island nation this weekend. Officials there are telling residents to prepare for the worst. Hurricane Michael formed on Wednesday. It got big in a hurry. By early Thursday, Michael was already a category 3. That made it the first major hurricane of the season, but forecasters are saying it`s not likely to pose any immediate threat to land.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See if you can ID me. I`m a musical instrument that`s existed for hundreds of years. There is some debate about whether I`m a string or a percussion instrument. I come in grand and upright varieties. I`m a piano, and I make music when hammers hit my strings.
AZUZ: Well, whether it`s part of the string or the percussion family, one thing we know for sure is that Benjamin Grosvenor can play it. He`s performed in the U.S., the U.K., Japan, Australia. The young virtuoso says it takes talent, hard work and dedication. Check out his story.
BENJAMIN GROSVENOR, CONCERT PIANIST: There are concerts for which you have about a half hour. You just feel pretty awful. During that time, you`re questioning, why am I doing this to myself again? When I walk out onto the stage, it is a realization of weeks and months of work. This has been a long process to get there. A lot of time spent just me alone in a practice room with a piano.
I think being a concert pianist is probably the most -- one of the most difficult things that human beings can do. Because you have the physical aspect to it. To an extent, we`re athletes using our fingers, and then you also have this sort of intellectual side of it, learning how to memorize pieces of music. And then there`s the emotional side to it as well.
I had my first lesson at the age of 5. I had no great desire to practice, and then some friends at school started playing, and I was spurred on to work by all of them catching me up. And then I think from that moment onwards, like, you know, gradually fell in love with playing for what it was.
Being good at it isn`t just about talent. It requires a lot of work. And a lot of practicing.
There are really two sides to playing the piano, I suppose. There`s the ability to just play the notes. And the ability to sort of find meaning in them. Generally, I practice about 8 hours a day, playing same things over and over again, to get them under your fingers and to get them in your muscle memory. There are times when I get very frustrated with certain passages. I`m very obsessive about it, and there are those moments when it`s very difficult to leave the piano alone.
I think now what really appeals to me about music is the ability it has to communicate emotions to people. And I think that`s what it`s all about.
AZUZ: You might have grilled some burgers on Labor Day, but we`re guessing none of them measured up to this mammoth. It`s the world`s biggest burger, weighing in at more than 2,000 pounds, and it`s bigger than a king-size bed. The chefs needed a construction crane to flip the thing while it cooked, and they didn`t skimp on the fixings. 60 pounds of bacon, 50 pounds of lettuce, 40 pounds each of cheese and pickles.
With a story like that as our "beef-ore we go," there`s plenty of opportunity for a good bun. You know we relish those, even if they are a little bit cheesy. They still are a ton of fun, as long as we don`t bite off more than we can chew.
We hope you all had a great weekend, and that you`ll let us bring you more headlines on Monday. I`m Carl Azuz.
VOA慢速新闻
【IB Program Aims to Form 'Students of the World'】
TEXT:This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。
The International Baccalaureate Organization was founded in nineteen sixty-eight. It works with schools in one hundred forty-three countries to offer programs for students age three to nineteen. Thes
e programs, it says, "help develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills to live, learn and work in a rapidly globalizing world."
国际文凭组织成立于1968年。它与143个国家的学校合作，为3到19岁的学生提供课程。它称，这些课程“有助于开发在一个迅速全球化世界中生活、学习和工作的智力、个性、情感和社会技能。”
The organization says IB programs are in more than three thousand schools. The majority of these schools offer IB diploma programs.
该组织称， 3000多所学校开设了IB课程。这些学校大多数提供IB文凭课程。
High school students have to complete six courses, pass exams and write a twenty-page paper to earn an IB diploma. The courses are in humanities, science, arts, math, a second language and their own language.
高中生们必须完成六门课程，通过考试，并写一篇20页的论文才能获得IB文凭。这些课程涉及人文、科学、艺术、数学、母语及外语。
Students can also attend special events. Recently more than three hundred IB diploma students from thirteen countries attended a conference at the University of British Columbia in Canada. The five-day conference was called "The New Sustainability: Making Things Better, Not Just Less Bad."
学生们还可以参加特别活动。最近，来自13个国家的三百多名IB文凭课程学生参加了在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学举行的一次会议。这次为期五天的会议被称为“新可持续发展：让事情变得更好，不只是不坏。”
The students heard from professors, graduate students, activists and others. One of the speakers was Drew Deutsch, director of IB Americas. He says the conference was meant as a way for students not only to learn about the environment, but also to develop lasting relationships.
学生们听取了教授、研究生、活动家和其它学生的观点。其中一名发言者是Drew Deutsch，他是美洲IB课程的负责人。他说，这次会议对学生们来说不仅是了解环境，还是发展持久关系的一个途径。
DREW DEUTSCH: "We want to send the students back to their schools to highlight issues surrounding protecting the environment, but also make sure these students become more students of the world, and that they form bonds with peers their own age from around the world. And, obviously, with social networking and the tools that are available to students today, we expect that they will have formed these bonds really for life."
DREW DEUTSCH：“我们希望把这些学生送回他们的学校，突出保护环境周边的一些问题，但也要确保这些学生和世界各地的同龄人结成同盟，成为世界上的多数派。而且，很显然，通过社交网络和现如今学生们可以获得的一些工具，我们希望他们能够造就终生的同盟。”
Seventeen-year-old Itzel Chavez is a student at the International School of Beaverton, in the American state of Oregon. She was one of twenty-one IB students who received scholarships to be able to attend the conference.
17岁的Itzel Chavez是美国俄勒冈州比弗顿国际学校的一名学生。她是获得奖学金得以出席这次会议的21名IB课程学生之一。
ITZEL CHAVEZ: "I really wanted to go. So I applied for a scholarship and I had to write an essay. And in my school they chose one person, and I got chosen for the scholarship. So I got to go."
ITZEL CHAVEZ：“我真的很想去。所以，我申请了奖学金，不得不写了一篇论文。他们在我们学校挑选一人获得奖学金，而我被选中了。所以我就参加了。”
She says the main speakers would describe a sustainability program or tell how a special project improved the environment in their community. Then the students had to choose a project to present to the conference.
她说，主发言人描述了一个可持续发展计划，或讲述一个特殊项目如何改善他们社会环境。然后学生们必须选择一个项目向会议展示。
ITZEL CHAVEZ: "We would get into groups of about nineteen or twenty students and we would have to come up with a project for the end of the week that showed what we learned."
ITZEL CHAVEZ：“我们被分入一个19或20人的学生群体，我们不得不在本周结束前提出一个项目，来表明我们所学的东西。”
Itzel worked on a video. It asked students three questions about sustainability and how they would make it happen in their own communities. After showing it, the members of the group went on stage to tell what they themselves would do to protect the environment.
Itzel参与了一个视频。该视频向学生提了三个有关可持续发展的问题，以及他们如何让它在自己的社区中变成现实。展示完视频之后，该组成员来到舞台上，讲述了他们自己会如何保护环境。
词汇解析
1.dampen
vt.使湿
The rain hardly dampened the ground.
这场雨连地面也没有打湿。
抑制，控制，减弱（感情、反应等）
Don't dampen the enthusiasm of the masses.
不要损伤大家的积极性。
2.bounce
vt. & vi.弹回
A rubber ball bounces well.
橡皮球弹力好。
She bounced the ball against the wall.
她把球掷到墙上让它弹回来。
n.弹跳；活力, 生气
She's got a lot of bounce.
她浑身都是劲。
3.trail
vt. & vi.(使某物)被拖在后面
The wounded soldiers trailed past us.
伤员们拖着步子走过我们身边。
vt.跟踪, 追踪
vi.(在比赛等中)输, 失败
The party trailed in the election.
该党在选举中大大落后。
n.足迹; 臭迹
The hound found the trail of the rabbit.
猎狗发现了兔子的踪迹。
小径
The men had followed desert trails for days.
那些人沿着沙漠小道走了数日。
一缕, 一股
The car raised a trail of dust.
汽车掀起了一股尘土。
4.devastate
vt.毁坏;使荒芜
A storm devastated the island.
一场暴风雨使这个岛遭到彻底破坏。
在感情上(精神上、财务上等)压垮
He was devastated by the rude remark.
他被粗鲁的言论搅昏了头。
I was devastated by the news of the crash.
我获悉失事的消息感到十分震惊。
5.stalemate
n.(国际象棋的)和棋；(争执的)僵持,僵局
a stalemate between management and unions
资方与工会间的僵持
a stalemate in the peace process
和平进程中的僵局
a stalemate over economic union
关于经济联盟的僵局
6.propose
vt. & vi.提议; 建议
They proposed to make arrangement beforehand.
他们提议事先做好安排。
I proposed to go to London on Tuesday.
我打算星期二到伦敦去。
I propose resting for an hour.
我建议休息一小时。
