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英语课


By Cynthia Kirk


Broadcast: October 4, 2003
This is Bob Doughty 1 with In the News, from VOA Special English.
Voters in California will decide Tuesday whether to remove Governor Gray Davis from office. If he is recalled, public opinion studies show the leading candidate to replace him is actor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Mister Davis is a Democrat 2, Mister Schwarzenegger is a Republican. The two have been going city to city in a final effort for votes. Both are leading television campaigns critical of each other.
Yet the two men are not really 1)opponents on the ballot 3 Tuesday. Mister Davis is the only name on the first question. Voters are asked to decide if the governor should stay in office or be recalled. He needs fifty-percent of the votes plus one to stay.
The second question asks voters who support the recall to choose a replacement 4. One-hundred-thirty-five candidates are listed. One of them is Mister Schwarzenegger. Another is Lieutenant 5 Governor Cruz Bustamante. He is considered the leading Democratic candidate. If Mister Davis is recalled, the candidate with the most votes will become governor.
Republicans worry that another Republican on the ballot, state Senator Tom McClintock, could take votes away from Mister Schwarzenegger. Mister McClintock, however, was refusing to withdraw. Republican Congressman 6 Darryl Issa financed the recall effort. He said he would urge people to vote NO on the recall unless one of the Republicans withdrew to avoid 2)splitting the vote.
Opinion studies show that a majority of Californians want to recall Governor Davis. Many people say they are unhappy with the way he has dealt with a budget crisis. California has the largest population in the country and one of the largest economies in the world.
Critics of the recall effort say it is an undemocratic way to try to remove an elected governor from office. Mister Davis is in his second term. He says the recall is a Republican effort to seize power in California and possibly other states.
Eighteen of the fifty states permit special elections to recall the governor. Six of those states say the governor must be guilty of some 3)wrongdoing. California is not one of them. It has some of the easiest rules for recall elections.
Several civil rights groups tried to delay the vote this Tuesday. They said there could be problems with older voting machines in some areas with large numbers of minorities. Those efforts failed.
In developments late this week, the Los Angeles Times reported 4)accusations by six women. They said Mister Schwarzenegger had touched them in a sexual way without permission. On Thursday he apologized for having, in his words, "behaved badly sometimes." He said he would be a "champion for women" as governor.
The Austrian-born actor also reacted to reports that he once expressed praise for Adolf Hitler. Mister Schwarzenegger said he had no memory of such comments and that he hated 5)the Nazi 8 dictator.
In the News, from VOA Special English, was written by Cynthia Kirk. This is Bob Doughty.


注释:
1) opponent [ E5pEunEnt ] n.对手, 反对者
2) split [ split ]v.分裂, 分离
3) wrongdoing [`rCN`dU:iN] n.坏事, 不道德行为
4) accusation 7 [ Akju(:)5zeiFEn ] n.谴责, (律)指控
5) the Nazi dictator  纳粹独裁者



adj.勇猛的,坚强的
  • Most of successful men have the characteristics of contumacy and doughty.绝大多数成功人士都有共同的特质:脾气倔强,性格刚强。
  • The doughty old man battled his illness with fierce determination.坚强的老人用巨大毅力与疾病作斗争。
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。
n.(不记名)投票,投票总数,投票权;vi.投票
  • The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
  • The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。
n.取代,替换,交换;替代品,代用品
  • We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.我们很难找到一个人来代替我们的助手。
  • They put all the students through the replacement examination.他们让所有的学生参加分班考试。
n.陆军中尉,海军上尉;代理官员,副职官员
  • He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
  • He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官,递上了一张简短的便条进去。
n.(美)国会议员
  • He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
  • The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
n.控告,指责,谴责
  • I was furious at his making such an accusation.我对他的这种责备非常气愤。
  • She knew that no one would believe her accusation.她知道没人会相信她的指控。
n.纳粹分子,adj.纳粹党的,纳粹的
  • They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻,并出面求和。
  • Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。
学英语单词
2-bromopropane
acetochloral
acro-cephalosyndactyly
addicts
alvidrez
androgynism
Androni
annualus
anti-cyclin
arbo
arc-weld
as we say
attitude (of strata)
Auger electron spectrometry
back action
battens
be discharged from prison
beatenness
bevel-angle
buffer intensity
burn-off chamber
car hoist and body stands
cloud OS
continuous upseting
control experiments
coordination number
copper minimum content
Cost of Cleaning Pollutants from Ships
Custer City
cylinder casting
data loop transceiver (dlt)
Doppler bank
dynamic loss tensile modulus
electric line of force
farinhas
fastness to heat
five-wire system
flammete
fleece lined
foreign currency statement
fuel lattice
Fulsed
gap-filler input
gaster
generation time
giroflee
gushiness
heartwell
hematopenia
ingrates
integrated square
isobrachial
Kaliningradskiy Zaliv
kerato-iridocyclitis
keyboard lock state
kostelic
laciniatas
least absolute deviation fit
leucodrin
likeglobin
locks her up
maculotriton serrialis
magnetic energy density of magnetostatic field
Melia azedarach L.
metallic color
metric capacity units
milked-fever
no-return point
normal gastric acid curve
not yet due
particulate composite material
Pasteurella septica
payard
pentapetalus
phenoplasts
pollution-related disease
portable automaic data recording equipment
poster paper
preset prism
prevailing visibility
problem statement analizer
regarding henry
rock wreath
saccule
Salmon Bank
scleral ring
scrab
settlement movement
Siheung
soak
steel motor lifeboat
straight tooth
strontium bisulfate
syncephalastrum racemosum
tangshans
tarred-and-feathered
technical economics of forestry
the Keeper of the Exchange and Mint
timing filter amplifier
tixt
Ust-Amginskoye
warp ikat