时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


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ANNCR: The Marshall Plan — on Today's Congressional Moment. Europe lay devastated 1 at the end of World War II. Its major cities were damaged or destroyed. Its infrastructure 2 — roads and bridges, power plants, communications — was ruined. Many of its people were destitute 3 and hungry. Secretary of State George Marshall was convinced the United States needed to intervene to stave off “hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos 4.” In a speech at Harvard, he outlined a massive effort to rebuild Europe's economy. His proposal that day is known to history as the “Marshall Plan,” but at the time it was little more than an idea. What gave it shape was its passage through Congress. Marshall served President Harry 5 S Truman, a Democrat 6. The House and the Senate, however, were controlled by Republicans, and the congressional majority was dubious 7 about spending billions of dollars to help other countries, especially countries like Germany, that had been our enemy. “We are through being 'Uncle Sap,'” one senator declared. Marshall found one indispensable ally, Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, chair of the foreign relations committee and a Republican leader. Talking daily, they shaped the Marshall Plan into a business–like, $13 billion operation that got the congressional approval it needed. Today, 60 years later, their work is remembered for helping 8 lift Europe from its knees and helping create the post–war economic prosperity that followed.


 

1 devastated
v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词);摧毁;毁灭;在感情上(精神上、财务上等)压垮adj.毁坏的;极为震惊的
  • The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
  • His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。
2 infrastructure
n.下部构造,下部组织,基础结构,基础设施
  • We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
  • We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设,发展各类群众文化。
3 destitute
adj.缺乏的;穷困的
  • They were destitute of necessaries of life.他们缺少生活必需品。
  • They are destitute of common sense.他们缺乏常识。
4 chaos
n.混乱,无秩序
  • After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后,城市一片混乱。
  • The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
5 harry
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
6 democrat
n.民主主义者,民主人士;民主党党员
  • The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
  • About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后,他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。
7 dubious
adj.怀疑的,无把握的;有问题的,靠不住的
  • What he said yesterday was dubious.他昨天说的话很含糊。
  • He uses some dubious shifts to get money.他用一些可疑的手段去赚钱。
8 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
学英语单词
Amritsaris
anode electro-coating
antepygidial seta
ashna
associated complex
automatic recording x-ray spectrometer
autonomic imbalance
baryon-exchange model
be doormat under someone's feet
bedazzles
bicompact set
brass-pounder
brookhavens
by-office
Bych'ye
Campo Maior
caraven
Cariocan
case restore
censorship
cholicky
cigars
coacervate
cohomology of a coproduct
compartmentalized
Cooper test
desmic surface
diampromide
digital and analog output basic
digital distance measurement unit
dry your eyes
Dundrum
equivalent stopping cross-section
fallen back on
fighter (f)
flow statement
fomecin
for the benefit of
full-ended ship
galvanized iron water bucket
genus diacalpas
gross population density
gulen
gunson
international consultancy services
irradiated
irrigation level
junc
Jījīrūd
key protrusion
Kinoyoun stain
kump
Kâmed el Laouz (Kāmid al Lawz)
lady's leek
laminarities
laplaces integral
Lugovskoy
malfunction analysis detection and recorder
many-one function table
MChem
mesoridazine
milk shake
mimetick
monetisations
myciguent neobiotic
negs
nemo judex in causa sua
nodulation
Nuevo, G.
opti
oral liquid
oxygen-Bessemer
paedobaptisms
plagiostome
Planning-theory
preservers
president tafts
prom-goers
quick record
radar images
recursion
redeployment of personnel
redescribed
reserved seat
rigid-shank applicator
sandlers
self-realizations
sinuses praecervicalis
spents
standard freight scale
step recovery diode frequency multiplier
Sulfoil
Temiar
thermophilic plant
time interval indicator
toolsman
two-stage light gas gun
varnish colour
Yorkshires
Yun-ling
zonule of Zinn
ZTIP(2nd-order tangential in-phase)