VOA标准英语2011--Smile, You’re on a Candid Speed Camera
时间：2018-12-08 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2011年(四月)
Smile, You’re on a Candid 1 Speed Camera
This is NOT a birdhouse! In a familiar old-time movie scene, a policeman on a motorcycle hides behind a billboard 2, waiting to roar out, siren wailing 3, after a driver who's speeding past. In the 1950s, car-mounted radar 4 became law enforcement officers' preferred tool for catching 5 speeders.
Nowadays in towns and cities across America, patrol cars are deployed 6 elsewhere because unattended, fixed 7 cameras are nabbing speeders in record numbers.
The cameras record the speed limit in the area, how fast the vehicle is going, and the date and time of the offense 8. And they snap a close-up digital image of the vehicle's license 9 plate as it whizzes past.
And these cameras -- as well as those that catch drivers who zoom 10 through red lights at intersections 11 -- are lucrative 12 sources of revenue for cash-strapped communities. For example, last year alone, fines paid by drivers caught by speed cameras in a county outside Washington, D.C., brought in more than 13 million dollars.
Police chiefs laud 13 the cameras as life-savers. According to Washington's chief, Cathy Lanier, traffic deaths in the city have been cut in half in four years. "We see fewer high-speed crashes," she said. "And because of speed enforcement, when people do crash, it's at a slower speed, so there are less likely to be fatalities 14."
But opposition 15 to speed cameras is fierce and loud. People across the country argue that the devices are just money makers 16 and that time spent processing images, sending out tickets, and collecting fines pulls police away from crime-fighting.
Besides, the critics argue, habitual 17 speeders quickly learn where cameras are mounted. They slow to the speed limit when passing them, then resume their reckless ways.
Other bitter opponents of speed cameras complain that they violate citizens' rights. They argue that many times the car's owner, who's sent the ticket, wasn't driving and in some cases didn't even know someone was using the car.
They point out that the Sixth Amendment 18 to the U.S. Constitution guarantees Americans the right to face their accusers in a court of law. And for sure the camera will be busy elsewhere should the accused decide to fight the ticket in court.
- I cannot but hope the candid reader will give some allowance for it.我只有希望公正的读者多少包涵一些。
- He is quite candid with his friends.他对朋友相当坦诚。
- He ploughed his energies into his father's billboard business.他把精力投入到父亲的广告牌业务中。
- Billboard spreads will be simpler and more eye-catching.广告牌广告会比较简单且更引人注目。
- A police car raced past with its siren wailing. 一辆警车鸣着警报器飞驰而过。
- The little girl was wailing miserably. 那小女孩难过得号啕大哭。
- They are following the flight of an aircraft by radar.他们正在用雷达追踪一架飞机的飞行。
- Enemy ships were detected on the radar.敌舰的影像已显现在雷达上。
- There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
- Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。
- Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
- The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。
- Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
- Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。
- I hope you will not take any offense at my words. 对我讲的话请别见怪。
- His words gave great offense to everybody present.他的发言冲犯了在场的所有人。
- The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
- The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
- The airplane's zoom carried it above the clouds.飞机的陡直上升使它飞到云层之上。
- I live near an airport and the zoom of passing planes can be heard night and day.我住在一个飞机场附近，昼夜都能听到飞机飞过的嗡嗡声。
- Traffic lights have been placed at all major intersections. 所有重要的交叉路口都安装了交通信号灯。
- Intersections are of the greatest importance in highway design. 在道路设计中，交叉口占有最重要的地位。 来自辞典例句
- He decided to turn his hobby into a lucrative sideline.他决定把自己的爱好变成赚钱的副业。
- It was not a lucrative profession.那是一个没有多少油水的职业。
- Kathy was very pleased to have graduated cum laud in her class.凯西在班上以优等成绩毕业，她为此而非常高兴。
- We laud him a warmhearted man.我们称赞他是个热心人。
- Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. 有几个人受伤，但没有人死亡。
- The accident resulted in fatalities. 那宗意外道致多人死亡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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。
- The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
- The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》