NPR边听边练55:英国科学家呼吁政府为图灵道歉
时间：2019-01-22 作者：英语课 分类：
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President Obama says he won't go after Washington State and Colorado for legalising marijuana. In a Barbara Walters ABC News interview,Mr. Obama _1_ whether he supports making pot legal. He says he wouldn't go that far but _2_ the issue in the states where voters legalized the use of marijuana in the November's elections. Marijuana remains 1 illegal under Federal Law who was legalized this month in Washington State and Colorado.
总统奥巴马表示将不再缉捕华盛顿和科罗拉多州的大麻使用者。在ABC芭芭拉?沃尔特斯的访谈节目上，奥巴马被问及是否支持大麻合法化。他表示不会同意大麻的合法化，但对于在11月大选投票中已经将大麻的使用合法化的两个州，他将不再追究。虽然本月开始，在华盛顿和科罗拉多州使用大麻已经合法，但按照联邦法律，使用大麻仍然是违法行为。
Some of Britain's most _3_ have called for a government pardon for World War II code breaker Alan Turing. Larry Miller 2 reports he killed himself after _4_ being gay.
一些英国最杰出的科学家们呼吁政府为第二次世界大战中的密码破译大师阿兰?图灵致以歉意。拉里?米勒带来详细报道，阿兰?图灵在被起诉为同性恋后自杀身亡。
Cambridge physicist 3 Stephen Hawking 4 is among 11 signatories to a letter in the Daily Telegraph, urging the prime minister to formally forgive Turing. The scientists described him as a British hero and one of the most brilliant mathematicians 5 of the modern era. Turing's team broke the Nazi's Enigma 6 code. Former colleagues say without him, Britain would have lost the war. In 1952, with homosexuality illegal,Turing _5_ gross indecency after a chemical castration and removal of his security clearance 7, he swallowed cyanide. The British government apologized three years ago but he has been refused a posthumous 8 pardon. There is a bill in the House of Lords that could achieve that. For NPR News, I'm Larry Miller in London.
《每日电讯报》刊登了剑桥物理学家史蒂芬?霍金连同其他11名科学家的签名信，信中督促首相正式向图灵道歉。科学家们将图灵描述为英国英雄和现代最杰出的数学家之一。二战时期，图灵带领团队破译了纳粹密码。图灵早前的工作伙伴表示，没有图灵英国将在战争中战败。1952年，同性恋合法化，图灵被判“严重猥亵罪”，被化学阉割，并被免去职务，接受忠诚度调查，随后他服用氰化物自杀身亡。英国政府曾在三年前向图灵道歉，但并没有免去图灵的罪名。因为只有上议院才有这项权力。NPR新闻，拉里?米勒伦敦报道。
The Pentagon is planning to send Patriot 9 air defense 10 missiles and 400 troops to Turkey. It's all part of a NATO force _6_ protecting Turkish territory from a possible Syrian missile attack. Speaking at a Turkish airbase, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told troops the country might need such weapons.
安全部向土耳其派遣爱国者防空导弹和400名士兵。这是为抵御以色列向土耳其领土进行导弹攻击而向土耳其派遣的部分北约武装力量。说到土耳其空军基地，国防部长里昂?潘内达表示土耳其急需防空导弹。
I'm Windsor Johnston, NPR News, in Washington.
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词汇解析：
1、brilliant. 灿烂的，闪耀的；杰出的；有才气的
She had a brilliant mind. 她有极聪明的头脑。
2、homosexuality. 同性恋
3、gross indecency严重猥亵
4、posthumous. 死后的；遗腹的；作者死后出版的
1、was asked 2、won't pursue 3、eminent scientists 4、being prosecuted for
5、was convicted of 6、aimed at
n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
n.磨坊主
- Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
- The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。
n.物理学家，研究物理学的人
- He is a physicist of the first rank.他是一流的物理学家。
- The successful physicist never puts on airs.这位卓有成就的物理学家从不摆架子。
利用鹰行猎
- He is hawking his goods everywhere. 他在到处兜售他的货物。
- We obtain the event horizon and the Hawking spectrumformula. 得到了黑洞的局部事件视界位置和Hawking温度以及Klein—Gordon粒子的Hawking辐射谱。
数学家( mathematician的名词复数 )
- Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? 你以为我们的数学家做不到这一点吗？ 来自英汉文学
- Mathematicians can solve problems with two variables. 数学家们可以用两个变数来解决问题。 来自哲学部分
n.谜，谜一样的人或事
- I've known him for many years,but he remains something of an enigma to me.我与他相识多年，他仍然难以捉摸。
- Even after all the testimonies,the murder remained a enigma.即使听完了所有的证词，这件谋杀案仍然是一个谜。
n.净空；许可(证)；清算；清除，清理
- There was a clearance of only ten centimetres between the two walls.两堵墙之间只有十厘米的空隙。
- The ship sailed as soon as it got clearance. 那艘船一办好离港手续立刻启航了。
adj.遗腹的；父亡后出生的；死后的，身后的
- He received a posthumous award for bravery.他表现勇敢，死后受到了嘉奖。
- The legendary actor received a posthumous achievement award.这位传奇男星在过世后获得终身成就奖的肯定。
n.爱国者，爱国主义者
- He avowed himself a patriot.他自称自己是爱国者。
- He is a patriot who has won the admiration of the French already.他是一个已经赢得法国人敬仰的爱国者。