时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(七月)


英语课
By Scott Stearns
Washington
08 July 2006

President Bush says the U.S. economy is strong, and he wants Congress to keep it that way by boosting funding for research into new technologies. Opposition 1 Democrats 2, meanwhile, say the president's plan to change the federal retirement 3 system would increase government debt.


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President Bush says a growing economy is creating jobs and delivering prosperity to more Americans. In his weekly radio address, he said workers are keeping more of what they earn because of his tax cuts.


To ensure continued growth, Mr. Bush says, he wants Congress to make those cuts permanent.


 
President Bush 
  
"Our economic expansion is lifting the lives of millions of Americans, and to keep this expansion going, we must maintain the pro-growth, low-tax policies that helped to launch it in the first place," said Mr. Bush.  "The tax relief we delivered has helped unleash 4 the entrepreneurial spirit of America, and kept our economy the envy of the world. So, I will continue to work with Congress to make that tax relief permanent."


The president also wants Congress to double federal funding for research into emerging technologies, including supercomputing and alternative energy sources. He says that will encourage bolder private sector 5 investment, and help ensure that American children have the math and science skills needed for the jobs of the future.


The Republican-controlled House of Representatives last month approved funding for the basic research component 6 of what the president calls his American Competitiveness Initiative. Mr. Bush wants the Senate to do the same.


Opposition Democrats say a Republican plan to privatize the federal retirement program threatens economic growth.


In the Democratic radio address, Iowa Congressional candidate Bruce Braley said Republican plans for the program known as Social Security could cause huge debt for decades.


"They are spending the money seniors rely on, while making no effort to balance the budget or protect the limited funds we have for retirement security," said Mr. Braley.


Reforming Social Security was the key domestic priority of the president's second term, but ran into opposition from both Republicans and Democrats in Congress over how future retirement payments should be funded.


President Bush says he intends to pursue the issue after November's Congressional elections.



n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.退休,退职
  • She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
  • I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。
vt.发泄,发出;解带子放开
  • They hope to create allies to unleash against diseases,pests,and invasive species.他们希望创造出一些新群体来对付疾病、害虫和一些有侵害性的物种。
  • Changing water levels now at times unleash a miasma of disease from exposed sewage.如今,大坝不时地改变水位,从暴露的污水释放出了疾病瘴气。
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
n.组成部分,成分,元件;adj.组成的,合成的
  • Each component is carefully checked before assembly.每个零件在装配前都经过仔细检查。
  • Blade and handle are the component parts of a knife.刀身和刀柄是一把刀的组成部分。
学英语单词
Alagia
arinc
atabrine psychosis
automatic data-processing equipment
autorouter
B chromosomes
ball hockey
bassoran
benzo-light rubine
biorientable
bran gluten
Burmah
buyer control
candle-like
canteen culture
cermocination
ceroplastes floridensis
checkpoint file
choilopoda disease
closed loop program
cluster size
condensing rate
CONTD(continued)
contention issue
convergency
coppage
dedekinds
defective circuit
demographic statistics
desktop
deviation rate
dilution agent
dinner party expenses
djakartas
downfold
enterprise-class
Erysimum aurantiacum
feminination
fight one's quarrels for sb.
free-borns
gastrogavages
Gelarose
growth twinning
high fat diet
homogenizable
impulsive insanity
invaccination
irish national liberation armies
isobole
janking
kambaraite
l(a)evulose
lake beds
libete
limit in the mean
Lusewa
Massachusetts Bay Company
maukish
mela-kalisyenite
methyl sulphate
Montes Claros
mullahism
multidecker sandwich complex
musculi obliquus externus abdominis
musculus maxillaris
oncogene(onc)
optical amplifier noise
p-bromoaniline hydrochloride
perimetry
pollen wall stratification
powters
print attribution
procaviidaes
quarter-wave whip antenna
renew
resume requirement
several states
silicone-selective detector
snap head bolt
spring wood
statistical coverage interval
strongback piece
structural mechanics of the ship
summa theologica
superacidity
superunmerary
system degradation
testing anvil
tomfools
touch off something
trachipterids
transistorised
tubing check
unit tube vulcanizer
unplanning
uplifts
videoconferenza
wave-energies
who am i
work curve
xantho salt
Zayathla