NPR边听边练310：两党预算协议达成一致
时间：2018-12-26 作者：英语课 分类：NPR边听边练
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一、泛听建议：
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2、继续听，特别注意关键信息。遇到相似的词，写下来。
Congressional budget negotiators in Washington _1_ a deal to avert 1 a January 15th government shutdown. Democratic Senator Patty Murray, Republican representative Paul Ryan _2_ negotiate the deal. Murray says it reduces the effects of the budget cuts known as a sequester 2 by $63 billion.
国会预算谈判代表在华盛顿达成协议，从而避免政府在1月15日关门。民主党参议员帕蒂·穆雷和共和党代表保罗·瑞安帮助协议达成。穆雷表示，这份协议将降低预算缩减的影响，将自动减支计划规模减少630亿美元。
"Our deal puts jobs and economic growth, first by rolling back sequestration's harmful cuts to education and medical research and infrastructure 3 investments and defense 4 jobs for the next two years."
“我们的协议会推动就业并促进经济增长，首先在未来两年内，减少自动减支计划对教育、医学研究、基础设施投资及国防工作的损害。”
One of the issues in the _3_ reductions in federal workers retirement 5 benefits will help pay for slightly higher government spending on programs, _4_ military programs. Republican Paul Ryan says he is confident the deal will be approved.
其中一个建议是缩减联邦工人的退休福利，这将帮助支付政府在一些项目上稍高的支出，这些项目就包括军事项目。共和党人保罗·瑞安表示，他对这份协议获得批准有信心。
"I expect we are going to have a healthy vote in the House Republican Caucus 6. I think we will pass this to the House."
“我希望我们在众议院共和党核心会议上进行一场顺利的投票。我认为我们会在众议院通过这项协议。”
In a statement, President Obama _5_ the agreement, calling on lawmakers from both par 7
ties to move to approve it.
奥巴马总统发表了一份声明，称赞了这份协议的达成，并呼吁两党议员推动协议获得通过。
词汇解析：
1. roll back
逐渐减少；逐步结束；降低，削减（价格、税收、收益等）；
eg. Environmentalists regard these moves as the government taking advantage of the national mood to roll back protective measures.
环保主义者认为这些是政府利用国民情绪来减少保护措施的举措。
eg. One provision of the law was to roll back taxes to the 1975 level.
这部法律其中一项条款是将税收降低到1975年的水平。
参考答案：
1、have reached 2、helped 3、proposed
4、including 5、praised
1 avert
v.防止，避免；转移(目光、注意力等)
- He managed to avert suspicion.他设法避嫌。
- I would do what I could to avert it.我会尽力去避免发生这种情况。
2 sequester
vt.使退隐，使隔绝
- Everything he owned was sequestered.他的所有财产都被扣押了。
- This jury is expected to be sequestered for at least two months.预计这个陪审团将至少被隔离两个月。
3 infrastructure
n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施
- We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
- We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。
4 defense
n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
5 retirement
n.退休，退职
- She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
- I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。