美国国家电台 NPR 2012-10-22

 There has been a mass shooting in suburban¹ Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Police say a gunman began shooting at a spa near a popular mall in Brookfield, Wisconsin. He wounded seven people. Lieutenant² Mark Miller³ with the Brookfield police says the suspect is still at large and he is asking for help to locate him. 

 

The photograph of the suspect and his particulars, date of birth and age that sort of information will be coming to this location, that photo will be released to the media and we are asking if there is any information on this person to contact us.

 

Beth Strohbusch is a spokeswoman for Froedtert Memorial Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This facility is getting all seven of the shooting victims.  

 

Froedtert Hospital received four victims, all gunshot wounds and now is expecting three additional patients. None of the four that are here are in critical condition. Spokeswoman Beth Strohbusch. The condition of the other three victims is not known. 

 

Both the White House and Iran are denying a New York Times report that says the two countries planned one on one talks over Iran's nuclear program. NPR's Allison Keyes reports. 

 

The White House said last night there was no agreement to meet with Iran after the election and Iran's foreign minister says there are no discussions or negotiations⁴ with the U.S. other than ongoing⁵ talks with the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. Campaign surrogates were cautious on Sunday's talk shows. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the president's former Chief of Staff told ABC it wasn't his call on whether it's time for direct talks with Iran, but credited the Obama Administration was forcing sanctions to pressure Iran. Also on ABC, Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio declined to comment on the issue, but did say Iran is closer today than ever to nuclear capability⁶. Allison Keyes, NPR News, Washington.

 

For the second straight month, the Super PAC founded by aides to President Obama outraced the Super PAC founded by aides to Republican candidate Mitt⁷ Romney. NPR's S.V. Date reports. 

 

Priorities U.S.A. Action took in $15.3 million in September, 400,000 more than Restore Our Future, thanks to seven donations of at least $1 million. Among those donors⁸, filmmaker Steven Spielberg, Trial Lawyer David Boies and the United Auto⁹ Workers Union. The new money will help priorities reprise an ad from the summer that features a worker from Indiana paper company that was shut down after it was purchased by Romney's Bain Capital.

 

Turns out that when we build that stage it was like building my own coffin¹⁰ and it just made me sick. Priorities U.S.A Action is responsible for the content. Even Republicans ad helped drive up Romney's unfavorable ratings over the summer. Priorities co-founder Bill Burton says the ad will start airing in seven battleground states. S.V. Date, NPR News.

 

Former South Dakota Governor and presidential candidate George McGovern has died. He was 90. 

 

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A judge in Sanford, Florida says lawyers for neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman may subpoena¹¹ school and social media records of Trayvon Martin. NPR's Greg Allen reports from Miami Zimmerman's lawyers say the records may help support their client's claim that when he shot and killed Martin, he was acting¹² in self-defense.  

 

This was Circut Judge Debra Nelson first hearing in the case. She recently took over after Zimmerman's lawyers had the previous judge removed. Judge Nelson ruled that Zimmerman was entitled to subpoena Trayvon Martin's school disciplinary records, also with Facebook and Twitter accounts. Zimmerman's lawyer  Mark O'Mara says the records may provide information about Martin's past behavior that could be relevant to the events of February 26th. The judge also said prosecutors¹³ should have access to George Zimmerman's medical records. But those records and Trayvon Martin's school records will not be made public. Martin's mother and father attended the hearing and condemned¹⁴ Zimmerman's efforts to get access to their son's school and social media records, saying it's part of the strategy to blame the victim. Greg Allen, NPR News, Miami.

 

The Roman Catholic Church has seven new saints and two of them were from North America. The first is a catholic nun¹⁵ who cared for people suffering from lepers in the late 1800s. The second was a native American woman born in the mid-1600s. She converted to Catholicism and eventually moved north to Canada because she was persecuted¹⁶ for her faith. 

 

There's unrest at central Beirut as hundreds of protestors tried to march on the Lebanese government headquarters today. They were enraged¹⁷, following a car bomb last week that killed one of the government's top intelligence officers. Some Lebanese officials blamed the bombing on neighboring Syria which is the middle of the civil war.

1 suburban   

adj.城郊的，在郊区的

参考例句：

• Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
• There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。

2 lieutenant   

n.陆军中尉，海军上尉；代理官员，副职官员

参考例句：

• He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
• He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官，递上了一张简短的便条进去。

3 miller   

n.磨坊主

参考例句：

• Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
• The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。

4 negotiations   

协商( negotiation的名词复数 )； 谈判； 完成（难事）； 通过

参考例句：

• negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
• Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。

5 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

6 capability   

n.能力；才能；(pl)可发展的能力或特性等

参考例句：

• She has the capability to become a very fine actress.她有潜力成为杰出演员。
• Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.组织整个部门是他能力以外的事。

7 mitt   

n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手

参考例句：

• I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
• Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

8 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 auto   

n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车

参考例句：

• Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
• The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。

10 coffin   

n.棺材，灵柩

参考例句：

• When one's coffin is covered,all discussion about him can be settled.盖棺论定。
• The coffin was placed in the grave.那口棺材已安放到坟墓里去了。

11 subpoena   

n.（法律）传票；v.传讯

参考例句：

• He was brought up to court with a subpoena.他接到传讯，来到法庭上。
• Select committees have the power to subpoena witnesses.特别委员会有权传唤证人。

12 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

13 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

14 condemned   

adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
• The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

15 nun   

n.修女，尼姑

参考例句：

• I can't believe that the famous singer has become a nun.我无法相信那个著名的歌星已做了修女。
• She shaved her head and became a nun.她削发为尼。

16 persecuted   

（尤指宗教或政治信仰的）迫害(~sb. for sth.)( persecute的过去式和过去分词 )； 烦扰，困扰或骚扰某人

参考例句：

• Throughout history, people have been persecuted for their religious beliefs. 人们因宗教信仰而受迫害的情况贯穿了整个历史。
• Members of these sects are ruthlessly persecuted and suppressed. 这些教派的成员遭到了残酷的迫害和镇压。

17 enraged   

使暴怒( enrage的过去式和过去分词 )； 歜； 激愤

参考例句：

• I was enraged to find they had disobeyed my orders. 发现他们违抗了我的命令，我极为恼火。
• The judge was enraged and stroke the table for several times. 大法官被气得连连拍案。