NPR 2010-12-19
时间：2018-12-17 作者：英语课 分类：2010年NPR美国国家公共电台12月
From NPR News in Washington, I’m Nora Raum.
The Senate is set to vote in about an hour on whether to overturn a ban on gays serving openly in the military. A major opponent is John McCain of Arizona, who said there's no evidence the policy has failed.
"To somehow allege 1 that it has harmed our military is not justified 2 by the facts."
But Senator Patty Murray of Washington said the time has come to move a step forward toward being proud of all who serve.
"For far too long, men and women with courage and commitment to serve our nation have been asked to hide the truth about who they are. Shameful 3. It’s a bad policy. Today, it will end."
President Obama says the end of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" will mean the nation will no longer be denied the service of thousands of patriotic 4 Americans forced to leave the military, depite years of exemplary performance, because they happen to be gay.
The Pakistani area known as the Khyber Agency remains 5 tense today, as relatives buried dozens of suspected militants 6 killed yesterday in a series of US drone missile strikes. From Islamabad, NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that 54 people were killed in three of the attacks.
The local administration in Khyber said a cluster of attacks Friday occured in Tirah valley, a forested mountainous area. Several groups of extremists were said to be targeted, but the greatest loss was sustained by an outfit 7 known as the Lashkar-e-Islam. The group seeks to impose strict Sharia law on Khyber Agency. Local authorities said two important commanders of the group were killed...
- The newspaper reporters allege that the man was murdered but they have given no proof.新闻记者们宣称这个男人是被谋杀的，但他们没提出证据。
- Students occasionally allege illness as the reason for absence.学生时不时会称病缺课。
- She felt fully justified in asking for her money back. 她认为有充分的理由要求退款。
- The prisoner has certainly justified his claims by his actions. 那个囚犯确实已用自己的行动表明他的要求是正当的。
- It is very shameful of him to show off.他向人炫耀自己，真不害臊。
- We must expose this shameful activity to the newspapers.我们一定要向报社揭露这一无耻行径。
- His speech was full of patriotic sentiments.他的演说充满了爱国之情。
- The old man is a patriotic overseas Chinese.这位老人是一位爱国华侨。
- 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。