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克林顿&老布什携手募捐赈灾

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Anchor: Keeping you up to the minute, NBC's Kelly O'Donnell just finished an interview with former presidents Clinton and Bush who are heading up a fundraising effort for the victims of hurricane Katrina, here's that interview in its entirety.

Kelly O'Donnell: (Yes.)We all remember your partnership1 during the tsunami2, with that experience, how will your approach change now that this crisis is at home. What do you hope to achieve?

Former Presdient Bush: Let me start it, if you...but we hope to achieve the same thing, encourage the outpouring of money, uh, and good wishes from the American people, and that's exactly what is happening and will happen. We are not in the operational business, we are not trying to tell somebody how to drain the, you know, the streets in New Orleans. But what we are gonna try to do is to encourage the innate3 compassion4 of the American people by asking them to contribute to several things. Mainly we are thinking of the funds being set up by the governors of each state. Red Cross money will keep coming in as it should. But there are three organizations that in these three hard-hit states and we will be encouraging people to give too.

Bill Clinton: We also are gonna try to work with some big companies to get them to do some things and we hope to be able to stagger these gives over time. Unlike the tsunami countries, our country is able to pay for most of what needs to be done that will cost huge amounts of money. But still that millions of people have been displaced here. In New Orleans, poverty rate's about 30%. There are people who have no place to live. They're, right now they are a long way from home. If they get a chance to go back to work they're not even in a place where they can live close enough to get to work. So there will be a need for private donations here, and what we hope to do is to spread it out over enough time so that we can get the money where it needs to go. And these governors' funds seemed to offer the best flexibility5 over the long run. Right now, the Red Cross, the Salvations Army, the Catholic relief charity, all these people are getting the water, the food, the basic needs of staying alive. But this thing, we've got to stay with this for a while.

Kelly O'Donnell: When we think of foreign aid, we usually think of the US as a donor6 country. Do you believe this crisis will necessitate7 receiving funds from other countries?

Bill Clinton: I don't know if they wanna necessitate but we wouldn't be surprised if we don't get some help, and over the president just told us that Europeans already changed the way they handle their oil allocations to get us some more gasoline because they realized we have refineries8 shut down. That's really a kind thing. And he said that Sri Lanka's ambassador had offered to organize(Very touching9) the tsunami countries in trying to give what they could back to poor people in America who are hurt. I mean it's really touching. These countries have very low per capita incomes. They want to give something back 'cause they see on the news there are a lot of our people who are hurt are quite poor. So I wouldn't be surprised if we did get some help from some other countries.

Kelly O'Donnell: President Bush, back in 1992, a political year, you were criticized for not responding quickly enough to hurricane Andrew..

Bush: I hated that criticism. It is so grossly, folk go ahead, what we are gonna say…

Kelly O'Donnell: Do you believe that experience is affecting this president how he is responding?

Bush: Well, I think, I think every president learns from every disaster and this president is on top of this, and he's got a wonderful team on the ground and we are gonna stay out of their way in terms of evacuation and bringing in military forces, but I expect to learn from everything, I learn from my own experiences, and seeing, living through hurricane do not have to drill in this. And I expect President Clinton to learn from hurricane Andrew and went on to others when he was president.

Bill Clinton: I think it's important for the American people in 02 (o two)that there is an increasingly professional aspect to this, that is, after Andrew, we had the 500-year flood in the Mississippi, we had the Northridge Earthquake, we had all these natural disasters. They are increasing in frequency not only in the United States but around the world. And FIMA has been overhauled10. This's dramatically improved its capacity to deal with things and the same is true with others . So I think we are just getting better as we go along. And most of us don't see this is a political deal. This is a human issue that just has no political component11 on one way the other, to me at least.

Kelly O'Donnell: About one third of Louisiana and Mississippi's National Guard is deployed12 in Iraq or Afghanistan; do you believe that is in any way compromising the Guard's ability to respond to this domestic need?

Bush: Definitively13, no. It is not. There are plenty of troops, plenty of forces available. And they will be deployed in the best most effective way. So I don't.

Bill Clinton: Now if they need more people they can get from other places, so I think the reserved guards are going down. I know what, you know, my native state Arkansas is next door to Louisiana. We always have a completely subscribed14 National Guard. We can give help. The other states will be happy to send people there if they need more people. I don't think it's a problem.

Kelly O'Donnell: The president said we should expect this temporary disruption in gas supplies. How high will gas prices go?

Bush: I couldn't begin to tell you.

Bill Clinton: I don't think we know. I think it'll vary from place to place, and it will depend on how quickly they, either the refineries get up and start refining oil again or we get to refine products from somewhere else. I do think it's important to the American people understand this problem particlularly in the southeast or the south where the prices have been hit is somewhat devotion of the price of oil. This is about the crash of the refinery15 capacity although some of the oilrigs on the Gulf16 are down too. So we can't predict. No one knows. I think it's important that the government guard against price gauging17. And the President says hes gonna do that. We have a heavy responsibility there. But then if there is less supply than demand, and the price will go up until we get some more supply.

Kelly O'Donnell: President Bush, President Clinton. Thank you for your time.

Former presidents: Thank you.


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1 partnership NmfzPy     
n.合作关系,伙伴关系
参考例句:
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
2 tsunami bpAyo     
n.海啸
参考例句:
  • Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
  • Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
3 innate xbxzC     
adj.天生的,固有的,天赋的
参考例句:
  • You obviously have an innate talent for music.你显然有天生的音乐才能。
  • Correct ideas are not innate in the mind.人的正确思想不是自己头脑中固有的。
4 compassion 3q2zZ     
n.同情,怜悯
参考例句:
  • He could not help having compassion for the poor creature.他情不自禁地怜悯起那个可怜的人来。
  • Her heart was filled with compassion for the motherless children.她对于没有母亲的孩子们充满了怜悯心。
5 flexibility vjPxb     
n.柔韧性,弹性,(光的)折射性,灵活性
参考例句:
  • Her great strength lies in her flexibility.她的优势在于她灵活变通。
  • The flexibility of a man's muscles will lessen as he becomes old.人老了肌肉的柔韧性将降低。
6 donor dstxI     
n.捐献者;赠送人;(组织、器官等的)供体
参考例句:
  • In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下,接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
  • The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。
7 necessitate 5Gkxn     
v.使成为必要,需要
参考例句:
  • Your proposal would necessitate changing our plans.你的提议可能使我们的计划必须变更。
  • The conversion will necessitate the complete rebuilding of the interior.转变就必需完善内部重建。
8 refineries f6f752d4dedfa84ee0eead1d97a27bb2     
精炼厂( refinery的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The efforts on closedown and suspension of small sugar refineries, small saccharin refineries and small paper mills are also being carried out in steps. 关停小糖厂、小糖精厂、小造纸厂的工作也已逐步展开。
  • Hence the sitting of refineries is at a distance from population centres. 所以,炼油厂的厂址总在远离人口集中的地方。
9 touching sg6zQ9     
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
参考例句:
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
10 overhauled 6bcaf11e3103ba66ebde6d8eda09e974     
v.彻底检查( overhaul的过去式和过去分词 );大修;赶上;超越
参考例句:
  • Within a year the party had drastically overhauled its structure. 一年内这个政党已大刀阔斧地整顿了结构。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • A mechanic overhauled the car's motor with some new parts. 一个修理工对那辆汽车的发动机进行了彻底的检修,换了一些新部件。 来自《简明英汉词典》
11 component epSzv     
n.组成部分,成分,元件;adj.组成的,合成的
参考例句:
  • Each component is carefully checked before assembly.每个零件在装配前都经过仔细检查。
  • Blade and handle are the component parts of a knife.刀身和刀柄是一把刀的组成部分。
12 deployed 4ceaf19fb3d0a70e329fcd3777bb05ea     
(尤指军事行动)使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 ); 施展; 部署; 有效地利用
参考例句:
  • 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。
13 definitively bfa3c9e3e641847693ee64d5d8ab604b     
adv.决定性地,最后地
参考例句:
  • None of the three super-states could be definitively conquered even by the other two in combination. 三个超级国家中的任何一国都不可能被任何两国的联盟所绝对打败。 来自英汉文学
  • Therefore, nothing can ever be definitively proved with a photograph. 因此,没有什么可以明确了一张照片。 来自互联网
14 subscribed cb9825426eb2cb8cbaf6a72027f5508a     
v.捐助( subscribe的过去式和过去分词 );签署,题词;订阅;同意
参考例句:
  • It is not a theory that is commonly subscribed to. 一般人并不赞成这个理论。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I subscribed my name to the document. 我在文件上签了字。 来自《简明英汉词典》
15 refinery QiayX     
n.精炼厂,提炼厂
参考例句:
  • They built a sugar refinery.他们建起了一座榨糖厂。
  • The purpose of oil refinery is to refine crude petroleum.炼油厂的主要工作是提炼原油。
16 gulf 1e0xp     
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
参考例句:
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
17 gauging 43b7cd74ff2d7de0267e44c307ca3757     
n.测量[试],测定,计量v.(用仪器)测量( gauge的现在分词 );估计;计量;划分
参考例句:
  • The method is especially attractive for gauging natural streams. 该方法对于测量天然的流注具有特殊的吸引力。 来自辞典例句
  • Incommunicative as he was, some time elapsed before I had an opportunity of gauging his mind. 由于他不爱说话,我过了一些时候才有机会探测他的心灵。 来自辞典例句
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