NPR邊聽邊練267：美國會(huì)陷入停滯狀態(tài)

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一、泛聽建議：

1、完整聽一遍，掌握大意。

2、繼續(xù)聽，特別注意關(guān)鍵信息。遇到相似的詞，寫下來。

Congress is at a standstill and still there is no end in sight to the government shutdown. As NPR's Tamara Keith reports, the House spent the day _1_ votes on bills the Senate has already said it will reject.

國會(huì)陷入停滯狀態(tài)，而政府關(guān)門的現(xiàn)狀近期也不會(huì)停止。據(jù)NPR新聞的塔瑪拉·基思報(bào)道，白宮花了一天的時(shí)間對(duì)法案進(jìn)行投票，而參議院已經(jīng)表示會(huì)拒絕這些法案。

First it was World War II veterans not being able to get into monuments, then children with cancer _2_ turned away from clinic trials at the National Institutes of Health. House Republicans donned white lab coats to press the Senate to take up a bill to reopen NIH. Renee Ellmers is a North Carolina Republican, who was a nurse before _3_ Congress.

首先，第二次世界大戰(zhàn)的老兵無法進(jìn)入紀(jì)念碑，患有癌癥的兒童被美國國家衛(wèi)生研究院的臨床試驗(yàn)拒絕。白宮共和黨人穿上白大褂向參議院施壓，要求采納重啟美國國家衛(wèi)生研究院的法案。北卡羅來納州共和黨人蕾妮·埃爾莫斯在進(jìn)入國會(huì)前曾是一名護(hù)士。

"We have taken that hope away, and we need to replace it, and I say to Harry Reid in the Senate: Bring this up for a vote."

“我們已經(jīng)不抱希望，我們需要進(jìn)行替換，我要對(duì)參議院的哈利·里德說：讓它能進(jìn)行投票。”

Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, says he doesn't plan to. The solution to all of the awful _4_ of the government shutdown, he says, is to reopen the government.House Republicans are still insisting on changes to the Affordable Care Act as a condition to _5_ a government funding bill. Tamara Keith, NPR News, the Capitol.

參議院多數(shù)黨領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人里德表示，他并沒有這個(gè)計(jì)劃。他表示，政府關(guān)閉造成的所有糟糕影響的解決方案是重開政府。眾議院共和黨仍然堅(jiān)持以改變平價(jià)醫(yī)療法案作為通過政府撥款法案的條件。NPR新聞，塔瑪拉·基思國會(huì)山報(bào)道。

詞匯解析：

1. in sight

在望;在即;臨近;即將產(chǎn)生;

eg. An agreement on many aspects of trade policy was in sight.

一項(xiàng)涉及到貿(mào)易政策諸多方面的協(xié)議即將達(dá)成。

eg. There is no end in sight to the struggle for power.

權(quán)力的爭斗近期不會(huì)終止。

2. turn away from

棄用(方法、主意);放棄;拒絕;

eg. Not turn away from the old, but turn toward the new.

不是背棄舊的，而是朝向新的。

eg. You cannot allow anything to cause you to turn away from your hopes, dreams & wishes.

任何事都不能夠使你放棄對(duì)夢(mèng)想的追求。

參考答案：

1、taking 2、being 3、entering

4、effects 5、passing