时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2012年(三月)


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 Romney, Santorum Court Republican Voters Ahead of Illinois Primary



In his small shop on one of the main streets in downtown Pontiac, Illinois, Jon Sear is hard at work fixing computers.


He says he runs his business by following a basic principle.


“You can’t have [a] deficit 1. You take in what you get, you spend what you have, other than that you don’t spend it. It’s common sense,” Sear said.


Sear says that common sense is lacking in the state government of Illinois, where the estimated budget shortfall is over $11 billion.


As Republican presidential candidates campaign throughout the state, Illinois budget woes 2, and federal government spending are on the minds of many voters like Sear and his wife Amy.


“You worry because you don’t understand how spending more money will make things better when that seems like the total opposite. You have to pay your bills as citizens, so you want the government to do the same thing I guess,” Sear said.


Polling shows former Massachusetts governor Mitt 3 Romney is ahead of former U.S. senator Rick Santorum in Illinois. While Romney might easily win the support of Chicago’s large group of moderate Republican voters, Santorum is positioned to do well in places outside the city, like Pontiac, Illinois, population 12,000.


In previous contests, Santorum has emphasized social issues, such as his stand against legalized abortion 4, to help him win more conservative voters over Romney.


But Jon Sear says that’s not how it’s playing out in Illinois.


“They’re important, but I think the budgetary issues are more important,” Sear said.


“I don’t think we have time for social issues,” said Jim McConoughey, the CEO of the Heartland Partnership 5, an organization working to stimulate 6 economic development in Central Illinois. “I think social issues are tie breakers for a lot of folks, but everyone wants to get their neighbors back to work and wants to get places for their kids to work.”


Which is the biggest reason Amy and Jon Sear are so concerned about the future.


“When you have a child, you start to worry about those things. What will life be when they reach adulthood 7? How bad could it be by then? Will they live in a country like we grew up in and be able to raise a family of their own?,” Amy Sear said.


Jon and Amy Sear think Rick Santorum has the best answers to those questions, and want him to fix the country’s economic problems so Sear can continue to fix the computers that keep his town, and his family, in business. It remains 8 to be seen whether enough Illinois Republicans agree or whether they think Romney is the better choice to fix the nation's economic woes. 




n.亏空,亏损;赤字,逆差
  • The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
  • We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。
困境( woe的名词复数 ); 悲伤; 我好苦哇; 某人就要倒霉
  • Thanks for listening to my woes. 谢谢您听我诉说不幸的遭遇。
  • She has cried the blues about its financial woes. 对于经济的困难她叫苦不迭。
n.棒球手套,拳击手套,无指手套;vt.铐住,握手
  • I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日,我送给他一只棒球手套。
  • Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
n.流产,堕胎
  • She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
  • A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。
n.合作关系,伙伴关系
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
vt.刺激,使兴奋;激励,使…振奋
  • Your encouragement will stimulate me to further efforts.你的鼓励会激发我进一步努力。
  • Success will stimulate the people for fresh efforts.成功能鼓舞人们去作新的努力。
n.成年,成人期
  • Some infantile actions survive into adulthood.某些婴儿期的行为一直保持到成年期。
  • Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.如今很少有人能将友谊维持到成年。
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。
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aerophilic algae
aprica
arm-hole
aromatic oxide
Asynchronous.
ATM adaptation layer
banana problem
be merged with
beginning of a month
bellavia
bowl capital
Brandos
bronytska huta
cas(s)ava starch
cassette recording
chlorthal
colonists
color line
communication jamming device
corpora ossis sphenoidalis
court bail
curl plate
Dachrieden
dactylopiidaes
de Rham cohomology group
deck oneself out
deep cardiac plexus
dialectical logic
dideoxy method
direct-exposure film
DISSCON
dissecters
distillatory vessel
domicil
dousings
dragon's eye
emergency filtration train
eyasmuskets
fission reactor
fixed rent
Flemish movement
Fletcher Christian
gerbera hybrida hort.
glial nodule
gliding window
goulart
greenball
ground speed pto
Hardouin Mansart
Harvey Smith sign
heter
hollocellulose
hydromagnetic instabilities
hydrorrhea nasalis
initial longitudinal metacentric height
Ivano-Frankivsk
l.r.t.
lacte
limiting condition
looms
maize groats
maladera liotibia
maravirus
membrane roofing
network modelling
niobium complex
numeric field
outpush
paien
pars chondopharyngea musculi constrictoris pharyngis medii
pas seul
percontation
Phraates IV
pinch assembly
plasmosphere
popularization of good strains
pressurization by steam cushion in boiler drum
primary enterolithiasis
Puccinellia sclerodes
queer-bashing
realistic jurisprudence
receiving set
river type power station
rombs
Shoemaker-Levy
slick finish
squibbler
straighter
suscitations
taxidermists
terne plate
three-phase rectifier
to bring up the rear
two-sided lapping
Uftyuga
unslutty
vibrator conveyer
visible trade gap
vowel harmony
Washita National Wildlife Refuge
whup
World Committee for Christian Broadcasting