美国国家公共电台 NPR Children's Cries Brought Down Walls Of Indifference-英语课

时间：2019-01-17 作者：英语课 分类：2018年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

英语课

(SOUNDBITE OF CHILDREN CRYING)

SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

Cries of children pierce our hearts. Scientists say they're meant to. They move us to love and protect children. Their response is healthy. It's human. And it keeps humanity going. Dr. Marc Bornstein, at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, says the infant cry and the caregiver response have developed together to ensure the survival of the species. Public figures, including the Pope, bishops 1, senators of both parties and every living spouse 2 of a president, spoke 3 out against the Trump 4 administration policy that separated 2,300 children crossing the border from their families. Laura Bush called the policy cruel. It is immoral 5, she said, and it breaks my heart.

But the cries of children from a recording 6 of the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol facility, obtained by ProPublica, seemed to reach into and wrench 7 so many hearts. The cries of children brought down walls of indifference 8. Politicians, including Republicans, rushed to distance themselves - if not outright 9 denounce policies that caused such manifest pain. Governors, including a couple of Republicans, withdrew their National Guard units from border areas to avoid being a part of those policies. Airlines said they would refuse to fly groups of children who had been taken from their families. Several airline attendants said they would walk off any flights that tried to transport those children to keep them from taking off. The cries of children pricked 10 consciences across the country. It made people look into their lives and wonder what they might do - what they should do to help those children.

The executive order signed by the president to end family separation apparently 11 does nothing to reunite the 2,300 children who've already been torn from their parents. Some of those children have been moved hundreds - even thousands of miles away into detention 12 centers that have not been opened to the press - and, public officials say, for a carefully approved visit of the kind Melania Trump made on Thursday. But we know and must find a way to report about the children and families who are still locked up and being kept apart. There are still cries to be heard.

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1 bishops

（基督教某些教派管辖大教区的）主教( bishop的名词复数 )；（国际象棋的）象

Each player has two bishops at the start of the game. 棋赛开始时，每名棋手有两只象。
"Only sheriffs and bishops and rich people and kings, and such like. “他劫富济贫，抢的都是郡长、主教、国王之类的富人。

2 spouse

n.配偶(指夫或妻)

Her spouse will come to see her on Sunday.她的丈夫星期天要来看她。
What is the best way to keep your spouse happy in the marriage?在婚姻中保持配偶幸福的最好方法是什么？

3 spoke

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说