美国国家电台 NPR 2012-08-14

 The legendary¹ editor of Cosmopolitan² magazine, Helen Gurley Brown, has died at the age of 90. Before her success in the magazine world, she heated big in the 1960s with the book “Sex and the Single Girl.” NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin has this remembrance.

 

Helen Gurley Brown made her name by writing frankly³ about women and sex when that was truly a rare thing. Her 1962 best-seller came out a year before “The Feminine Mystique.” And “Sex and the Single Girl” was its own kind of feminist⁴ text, although most of the book is lighthearted advice on everything from where to find a man to how to invest in stocks. She summed up her greater point in a TV interview 1981.

 

“I'm one of the first people who said for heaven's sake don't live through your man. You’re just as good as they, that other sex, are. Why don't you get some of the spoils and the glory and the rewards.” 

 

Helen Gurley Brown got plenty of all of those things as the head of Cosmopolitan magazine for decades. She made it the sex-centric glossy⁶ we know today. Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR News.

 

President Obama is on a three-day swing through Iowa, pledging more relief to farmers and ranchers during one of the country's worst droughts in a half century. In Council Bluffs⁷ today, he urged Congress’s Republican leadership to do the same. 

 

“The best way to help these states is for the folks in Congress to pass a farm bill that not only helps farmers and ranchers respond to natural disasters, but also makes some necessary reforms and gives farmers and ranchers some long-term certainty. Unfortunately, right now, too many members of Congress are blocking the farm bill from becoming law.” 

 

The new Republican vice⁵ presidential candidate Paul Ryan also campaigned in Iowa, where he told supporters at the state fair in Des Moines that he and presidential hopeful Mitt⁸ Romney would fix the country's budget.

 

“President Obama has given us four years of trillion-dollar-plus deficits⁹. He’s making matters worse, and he is spending our children into a diminished future. We don't have to stand for that. We’re not going to stand for that. And on November the 6th, we’re going to change that.”

 

Romney campaigned today in Florida while Vice President Joe Biden attended a campaign rally in North Carolina. 

 

Doctors say Congressman¹⁰ Jesse Jackson Jr. is being treated for bipolar disorder¹¹. The Mayo Clinic states Jackson is responding well to treatment for his condition which affects parts of the brain controlling thought, emotion and drive. The Democratic Illinois congressman was last seen in public in mid-June. 

 

Before the close on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 38 points at 13,170; NASDAQ up two points at 3,023; S&P 500 down two at 1,404.

 

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The moderators for the presidential and vice presidential debates have been announced. As NPR's Brian Naylor tells us, for the first time in two decades a women will preside over a presidential telecast.

 

The Commission on Presidential Debates says CNN's Candy Crowley will moderate the second presidential debate which will be in the format¹² of a town hall meeting and take place October 16th. The commission had been under pressure to name a woman journalist, which had not done for the presidential debates in 20 years. The other two presidential debates will be moderated by Jim Lehrer of PBS on October 3rd and Bob Schieffer of CBS on October 22nd. The vice presidential debate will also be moderated by a women, ABC's Martha Raddatz, on October 11th. Brian Naylor, NPR News, Washington.

 

A two-year investigation¹³ into researchers who wrote a famous report on drowned polar bear is finally over, according to their lawyer. But as NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports, the scientists have not been able to see its conclusions.

 

Charles Monnett and Jeffrey Gleason are wildlife biologists with an agency of the Department of the Interior. The department's Office of Inspector¹⁴ General has been investigating allegations of scientific misconduct and contract management issues. Investigators¹⁵ repeatedly questioned the scientists about report they wrote on apparently¹⁶ drowned polar bears, which became a symbol of the threat of climate change and melting ice. Attorney Jeff Ruch of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility now says inspectors¹⁷ submitted a final report to the agency in June, but it won't be released while it's still under review. A spokesperson with the agency says it does not comment on personnel matters.  Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR News.

1 legendary   

adj.传奇（中）的，闻名遐迩的；n.传奇（文学）

参考例句：

• Legendary stories are passed down from parents to children.传奇故事是由父母传给孩子们的。
• Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero.奥狄修斯是传说中的希腊英雄。

2 cosmopolitan   

adj.世界性的，全世界的，四海为家的，全球的

参考例句：

• New York is a highly cosmopolitan city.纽约是一个高度世界性的城市。
• She has a very cosmopolitan outlook on life.她有四海一家的人生观。

3 frankly   

adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说

参考例句：

• To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说，我一点也不赞成这个主意。
• Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说，我不反对改革。

4 feminist   

adj.主张男女平等的，女权主义的

参考例句：

• She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
• From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起，男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。

5 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

6 glossy   

adj.平滑的；有光泽的

参考例句：

• I like these glossy spots.我喜欢这些闪闪发光的花点。
• She had glossy black hair.她长着乌黑发亮的头发。

7 bluffs   

恐吓( bluff的名词复数 )； 悬崖； 峭壁

参考例句：

• Two steep limestone bluffs rise up each side of the narrow inlet. 两座陡峭的石灰石断崖耸立在狭窄的入口两侧。
• He bluffs his way in, pretending initially to be a dishwasher and then later a chef. 他虚张声势的方式，假装最初是一个洗碗机，然后厨师。

8 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。

9 deficits   

n.不足额( deficit的名词复数 )；赤字；亏空；亏损

参考例句：

• The Ministry of Finance consistently overestimated its budget deficits. 财政部一贯高估预算赤字。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Many of the world's farmers are also incurring economic deficits. 世界上许多农民还在遭受经济上的亏损。 来自辞典例句

10 Congressman   

n.（美）国会议员

参考例句：

• He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
• The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。

11 disorder   

n.紊乱，混乱；骚动，骚乱；疾病，失调

参考例句：

• When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
• It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。

12 format   

n.设计，版式；[计算机]格式，DOS命令:格式化(磁盘)，用于空盘或使用过的磁盘建立新空盘来存储数据；v.使格式化，设计，安排

参考例句：

• Please format this floppy disc.请将这张软盘格式化。
• The format of the figure is very tasteful.该图表的格式很雅致。

13 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

14 inspector   

n.检查员，监察员，视察员

参考例句：

• The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
• The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。

15 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

16 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

17 inspectors   

n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 )；（英国公共汽车或火车上的）查票员；（警察）巡官；检阅官

参考例句：

• They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过，通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》