时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2018年6月


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Our first report: soldiers with the U.S. National Guard, part of the military, are headed to the border between America and Mexico. President Donald Trump 1 signed a memorandum 2 earlier this week to deploy 3 the guard there. He wrote that under former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the National Guard supported efforts to secure America's southern border, and that the crisis there once again calls for the guard to help protect the border and the U.S. homeland.


The president also says gangs and large amounts of illegal drugs flowing across that border. In December, the government reported that illegal border crossings were at a 46-year low for the last fiscal 4 year under President Trump.


But a separate report released this week said the number of people trying to illegally cross the border increased dramatically in March, more than 200 percent over the number from last March. The Trump administration says historically, border crossings increased in the spring months.


But critics say the president is inappropriately using the military to secure the border because he's frustrated 5 that Congress hasn't approved funding yet for the new wall he wants to build there.


The number of National Guard soldiers, the cost of sending them, their exact locations and the length of their deployment 6 are all still being worked out.


Another announcement by President Trump we've covered recently involves the new U.S. tariffs 7 on certain goods from China. Part of the reason for that, the Trump administration blames China for stealing $300 billion of U.S. intellectual property, things like books, clothing, designs, music, photographs and art. This could include illegally reproducing goods that were patented in the U.S. or the act of pirating, illegally copying or distributing movies and TV.



1 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
2 memorandum
n.备忘录,便笺
  • The memorandum was dated 23 August,2008.备忘录上注明的日期是2008年8月23日。
  • The Secretary notes down the date of the meeting in her memorandum book.秘书把会议日期都写在记事本上。
3 deploy
v.(军)散开成战斗队形,布置,展开
  • The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
  • The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。
4 fiscal
adj.财政的,会计的,国库的,国库岁入的
  • The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
  • The government has two basic strategies of fiscal policy available.政府有两个可行的财政政策基本战略。
5 frustrated
adj.挫败的,失意的,泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 );挫败;使受挫折;令人沮丧
  • It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
  • The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 deployment
n. 部署,展开
  • He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
  • Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。
7 tariffs
关税制度; 关税( tariff的名词复数 ); 关税表; (旅馆或饭店等的)收费表; 量刑标准
  • British industry was sheltered from foreign competition by protective tariffs. 保护性关税使英国工业免受国际竞争影响。
  • The new tariffs have put a stranglehold on trade. 新的关税制对开展贸易极为不利。
学英语单词
acetyl-p-aminophenol
ad verecundiam
adiponectinemia
aerugin
aleurotrachelus fissistigmae
aminoacetonitriles
arawhata hill
auditory psychophysics
avicular seta
base defect
battles of hastings
bonus bond
cabbage yellows
cannot stand the sight of
capture-radiation dose
center of rudder pressure
certification program
channukkahs
check up on land distribution
chlorine fogging
Cistales
class Arachnida
commenliche
congenital vertical talus
copper silver alloy
deliciates
diffracted beam
diphthongations
Don't judge a book by the cover
eccs area fan cooler
Erianthus hookeri
faunal province
ferrite inductor
fly-away cost
gas poker
GM_hard
gregorian calendars
half-volleyer
honey mushroom
hydroxylic acid
industrial management techniques section
interframe time fill
jaque
Kadanai R. (Kadaney Rūd)
kinetic instability
labouring oar
let dab
long-endurance
Los Cochinos Is.
lubarsh-pick disease
macaroons
Maesa argentea
mainwin
minauderie
muckraking journalism
multipolarization
Noah's flood
nodus lymphaticus
non-polluting
nonseparable graph
not very swift
nunataq
octopyranoses
olfactory fossa
Open-market rates
oxycheilinus celebicus
phluometry
Pirandellian
point of break
protecting glass
Qatari
raimentless
relative-displacement
rise over run
root-radius
S-invariant
secondary victimizations
self-recording compensator
sense-impressions
shore protection embankment
single-particle excitation
small memory
spiral-threaded roofing nail
spirillum fever
ST_farming-and-forestry_fertile-or-infertile-land
subscapular nerves
suzen
Svend
swamp laurel
syrian bears
table reference character
transitives
under-exposure
unplotted
virtual link packet switching
watertight flat
wave height recorder
wavelike wall
well-beseeming
wet granulation
workhomes
Zanthoxylum liboense