时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA双语新闻 2008年3月


英语课

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has resigned following a sex scandal that rocked the state and stunned 1 political observers across the country. The resignation takes effect next Monday in order to give Lieutenant 2 Governor David Paterson time for an orderly transition. Paterson will become the state's first African-American leader.


 


纽约州州长斯皮策辞去了他的州长职位。此前,他的性丑闻震惊了纽约州和全美国的政治观察人士。斯皮策的辞职将于下星期一生效,以便留给纽约州副州长佩特森充足的时间进行权力交接。佩特森将成为纽约州的第一位非洲裔州长。



Spitzer's resignation has been anticipated since The New York Times reported on Monday that the governor was involved in a high-priced prostitution ring. Spitzer is alleged 3 to have spent tens of thousands of dollars on sessions with call girls.


 


自纽约时报星期一报导纽约州州长斯皮策与一个高价卖淫团伙有牵连后,就有人预计斯皮策会辞职。斯皮策被指称花费了几万美元嫖妓。



In a brief statement, Spitzer said he has already begun to atone 4 for his private failings with his family and he apologized to his supporters.


 


斯皮策发表简短声明说,他已经开始为他个人的失败向家人做出补偿,并向他的支持者表示道歉。



"I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me. To every New Yorker, and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for, I sincerely apologize. I look at my time as governor with a sense of what might have been," he said.


 


斯皮策说:“我为辜负人们对我的期望而感到深切的歉意。我向每一个纽约人和所有相信我所代表的价值观的人表示诚挚的道歉。我在反省我作为一个州长的表现。”



Spitzer said his resignation will take effect on Monday at the request of Lieutenant Governor David Paterson to provide time for an orderly transition.


 


斯皮策说,应副州长佩特森的请求,他的辞职将于星期一生效,以便给佩特森足够的时间进行有秩序的交接。



Spitzer's announcement ends a high profile career as a crusader against corporate 5 corruption 6. As a popular state attorney general, he successfully prosecuted 7 cases against Wall Street stock traders, mob leaders and several prostitution rings. He was elected governor in 2006 by a landslide 8. As governor, he signed into law a bill that increased the penalties of those who patronized prostitutes. But his abrasive 9 style also made enemies who were stunned by his fall from grace but not prepared to support any attempt by him to stay in office.


 


斯皮策的辞职结束了他声望很高的州长生涯,他曾经是打击企业腐败的先锋。作为一位深得民心的州检察长,斯皮策成功地起诉了华尔街股票交易商、犯罪团伙头目以及几个卖淫团伙。2006年,他以压倒优势当选纽约州州长。作为纽约州长,他签署了一部法案,该法案增加了对嫖娼者的罚款。但是他的严厉作风使他的敌人对他的失足感到震惊,也使人们无法为支持他继续留任做出任何努力。



Lieutenant Governor David Paterson, who is legally blind, represented Harlem for 20 years in the New York State Senate, where he enjoyed the respect of colleagues on both sides of the political aisle 10. He has deep roots in New York City politics. His father Basil is a well-known political figure who once served as deputy mayor.


 


纽约州副州长佩特森是位法定盲人。他在纽约州参议院代表纽约的哈莱姆黑人区将近20年,并且受到两党人士的尊重。佩特森在纽约市政界有很深厚的根基,他的父亲巴兹尔曾经担任过纽约市副市长,是一位非常有名的政界人士。



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。
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
v.赎罪,补偿
  • He promised to atone for his crime.他承诺要赎自己的罪。
  • Blood must atone for blood.血债要用血来还。
adj.共同的,全体的;公司的,企业的
  • This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
  • His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
a.被起诉的
  • The editors are being prosecuted for obscenity. 编辑因刊载污秽文字而被起诉。
  • The company was prosecuted for breaching the Health and Safety Act. 这家公司被控违反《卫生安全条例》。
n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票;一面倒的胜利
  • Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
  • An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
adj.使表面磨损的;粗糙的;恼人的
  • His abrasive manner has won him an unenviable notoriety.他生硬粗暴的态度让他声名狼藉。
  • She had abrasions to her wrists where the abrasive rope had scraped her.她的手腕有多出磨伤,那是被粗糙的绳子擦伤的。
n.(教堂、教室、戏院等里的)过道,通道
  • The aisle was crammed with people.过道上挤满了人。
  • The girl ushered me along the aisle to my seat.引座小姐带领我沿着通道到我的座位上去。
学英语单词
abatement and exemption from penalty
adding tape
after-tax salary
anterior cardiac vein
anticholesteremic
Astor family
Bohm, David
break through something
breastbands
bunhill
carpentaries
chloropercha
Chocholna-Velcice
chudans
closely coupled (system)
collision-theory
commercial power operation
communication valve
cosmic-ray
data entry display
deglutitio
diagonal test
dicrotic pulse
digital TV image
dome rock mts.
drags into
drain cooling zone
eccentric yarn
electric type flowmeter
energy-momentum pseudo-tensor
environ by/with
epineritic zone
eucrystalline
faggot-stitches
feasiblest
firmus
free-jet
galactanase
grating compound cavity
great job
Halimeda
heading syntax
high attenuation
Himet
Ictidosauria
illegitimate crossing-over
insufficient power
intaken quantity
internal wheel
Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius
letter of indemnity
leukolymphomatosis
liabilities to third parties
Loceryl
macropolyschematic
marcottage
maximum full flow pressure
Meodirax
methene-disulfonic acid
multilayer(ed) thermal insulation system
needle feed rock crank
neeli
netfic
normal profit pricing
old roman letters
parasite rate
patch up a quarrel
permutation representation
plan of operation
Porphyra
property in goods
propjet engine
puketastic
re-count
recessus posterior
redefying
reference stimuli
Rouget's cells
securer
sheet metal strip
sober-minded
Social Fruitfly
spectral absorption
spooniest
Steel Strapping
stemonine
stocking stuffer
straight-sheered ship
swedes
taken for granted
third party motor insurance
transaction civ
tuned out
two-sided printing
vanadometry
vapor riser
Villeveyrac
water softener A
wayside equipment
Wedensky inhibition
wedge-shaped fasciculus
womerar