NPR 2012-07-08

 This is NPR News in Washington I'm Korva Coleman. A heat wave has been pressing the states from Iowa to New Jersy. Tempretures are soaring to the triple digit¹. Or some people in mid-Atlantic states are still waiting for air conditioning. This far, the last weekends, damaging storms that cut power. In Ohio, excessive heat is blamed for the death of three people, found alone in their homes this week. Fred Kight of member station WOUB reports it fears that number could grow. 

 

In Ohio coroner says the the three people who died are suffering from heartt desease, died from stress caused by high tempretures in their houses, they were older and lived in rural areas. Tempreture inside the homes were said to be stifling², with window closed and dead evacuation, all were without power through the recent restore outages. The coroner reports the three likely could have survived if they'd been in cooler places. The forecast calls for tempretures to again exceed 100 degrees. State Officials are urging Ohio residents to take precautions against the severe heat and check on their neighbors to see if they need help.      

 

From NPR News I'm Fred Kight in Athens Ohio. 

 

Employees for the city of Scranton Pennsylvania now make $7.25 per hour. NPR's Jeff Brady reports Scranton's mayor says he cut publican employee salaries because there's not enough money in the bank to pay for wages. 

 

The judge ruled against the pay cut, but the mayor Chris Doherty said when the tax went out, he had no other choice. 

I want employees to get paid off, people worked hard .. I just don't have enough money, and I can't print it in the basement. 

Mayor Doherty and the city counsler are locked in a battle of whether the Scraton should raise taxes or buy a loan to fill a budget gap. John J as president at the local firefighters union. This is the power struggle as it's factually what it is with workers caught in the middle. Judge says the unions will take the issue back to court on Monday. Jeff Brady, NPR News.

 

The Obama administration has declared Afganistan a major none NATO ally. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton stopped at Kabul for a brief unannounced visit today. Clinton says this will promote close defensive³ cooperation between the countries, when US troops leave Afganistan in 2014. Clinton and Afganistan president Hamid Karzai. are now heading for Japan, they'll attend international conference on civilian⁴ assistance for Afganistan.  

 

Lybians are celebrating their first free election, since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi who controlled the country for decades. Voters are choosing members of a 200 seat parliament, it will create a new Lybian government, but there's been problems.  A helicopter carrying ballot⁵ was shut down this week over Benghazi, killing⁶ one election worker. Ballots⁷ have been burnt and polling stations were attacked. There're also disagreements over who will win the election.

 

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One person has been gored⁸ in the leg, several others injured in the annual running of the bull festival in Pomplona Spain. Despite the threat of injury and even death, the tradition lives on. As Lauren Frayer reports on Madrid. 

 

Up to a million runners packed Pomplonaeach each July for the San Fermin festival, who tells .. for their crisis and fill up months in advance. In the mist of B Spanish local counsling kicked off the San Fermin festival on Friday. Because during the next weekend with the running of the bull each morning, parties through the day and will fight by night. with Bulls floting in sometimes tre.. K streets, there are injuries every year. At least 15 people have died the past century including an America in 1995.

From NPR News I'm Lauren Frayer in Madrid.

 

Flooding in Southern Russia has killed nearly 100 people near the black sea region. Up to a foot of rain may have fallen on cross region, about 750 miles south of Mosco. The rain hit when most people were sleeping and had to flee their lives, a provincial⁹ government says there hasn't been nothing like this for the past 70 years. Photograph from the region show the recked cars, debris¹⁰ and waters high as the roofs of some houses.

 

British police have arrested a seventh person today in connection with an alleged¹¹ to terror plot. The police say they detained a 22 year old woman. She joins the six other people who were arrested on the same charges last Thursday. Including three brothers who live in the Olympian park in London.

1 digit   

n.零到九的阿拉伯数字，手指，脚趾

参考例句：

• Her telephone number differs from mine by one digit.她的电话号码和我的只差一个数字。
• Many animals have five digits.许多动物有5趾。

2 stifling   

a.令人窒息的

参考例句：

• The weather is stifling. It looks like rain. 今天太闷热，光景是要下雨。
• We were stifling in that hot room with all the windows closed. 我们在那间关着窗户的热屋子里，简直透不过气来。

3 defensive   

adj.防御的；防卫的；防守的

参考例句：

• Their questions about the money put her on the defensive.他们问到钱的问题，使她警觉起来。
• The Government hastily organized defensive measures against the raids.政府急忙布置了防卫措施抵御空袭。

4 civilian   

adj.平民的，民用的，民众的

参考例句：

• There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
• He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。

5 ballot   

n.（不记名）投票，投票总数，投票权；vi.投票

参考例句：

• The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
• The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。

6 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

7 ballots   

n.投票表决( ballot的名词复数 )；选举；选票；投票总数v.（使）投票表决( ballot的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• They're counting the ballots. 他们正在计算选票。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The news of rigged ballots has rubbed off much of the shine of their election victory. 他们操纵选票的消息使他们在选举中获得的胜利大为减色。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 gored   

v.（动物）用角撞伤，用牙刺破( gore的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was gored by a bull. 他被公牛顶伤。
• The bull gored the farmer to death. 公牛用角把农夫抵死了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 provincial   

adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人

参考例句：

• City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
• Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。

10 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
• Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

11 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为