NPR美国国家公共电台 NPR 2013-11-22

 After months of tense negotiations¹, the US and Afghanistan have reached an agreement that sets out rules for some US troops to stay beyond 2014. NPR’s Michelle Kelemen reports the text of the deal must to be approved by council of elders gathering² in Kabul.

 

Secretary of States John Kerry says the draft bilateral³ security agreements set up the rules for limited US military rule going forward in Afghanistan.

 

It is entirely⁴ train, equip and assist. There is no combat role for United States forces.

 

Kerry says Loya Jirga still has to approve the agreement which he says properly address concerned by President Hamid Karzai. He has denied the reports that Karzai is seeking an apology for civilian⁵ casualties in US military operations. Michelle Kelemen, NPR News, Washington.

 

There has been 12 days since typhoon Haiyan has landed in the central Philippines, killing⁶ thousands and shredding⁷ almost everything in its path. NPR’s Jonathan Blakeley reports from Tacloban city aid workers are desperately⁸ trying to keep up with needs of survivors⁹.

 

In many parts of damaged areas, water has been at least partly restored or trapped in to recovering neighbor. UNICEF regional director Daniel Toole says getting water back to survivors was critical.

 

It is fantastic to see people drinking and washing their cloths, washing themselves and when you have lost everything those small things in life make it enormous different.

 

However electricity is almost non-existed in areas where the typhoon hit. Large trucks have been deployed¹⁰ to clean up the amount of twisted metal, falling trees and mounting garbage. Almost two weeks after this storm, bodies are still being found beneath the rubble¹¹. Jonathan Blakeley, NPR News, Tacloban.

 

NNNN from a definitive¹² study on the matter by a group of Harvard researchers have spent 30 years, looking at whether people who eat nuts which often called heart-healthy are indeed any healthier. Conclusion after looking 119,000 men and women was that those who ate nuts roughly everyday were 20% less likely to die during the same period of those who never ate them. Doctor Charles S. Fuchs who is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute student says those studies exhibited other behaviors as well.

 

Irregular nut users tend to be leaner and tend to have lower rate of obesity¹³. So it may be the natural of calorie is alternative to the high carbohydrate¹⁴ that people typically enjoy and meals should be affected¹⁵ on metabolic¹⁶ more general. 

 

Studies published in the England Journal of Medicine, the research was fund by the national institutes of the health along with from Grand the nut industry. 

 

Fewer Americans were buying existing homes last month. The National Association of Realtors is announcing today sales of previously¹⁷ owned homes fell 3.2% from the previous month due to seasonally-adjusted rates of 5.12 million. 

 

On Wall Street today, the Dow was down 66 points at close 15,900. The S&P fell six points.

 

This is NPR.

 

Apparently¹⁸ problems within the air force’s nuclear missile force were deeper than some experts have acknowledged that is according to an unpublished air force study which has found that burnout on the part of those launch officers whose finger around the nuclear triggers was higher than has been previously acknowledged. Study conducted by RAND researchers finds court-marshal rates in the nuclear missile force in 2011 and 2012 more than twice as high as for the air force overall. 

 

Congress has awarded its highest civilian honor, the congressional gold medal, to native of American to use their tribal¹⁹ languages to translate message the enemy could not decipher during the World War One and Two. NPR’s Craig Windham reports members of congress gather at the capitol. They tribute to so-called “Code Talkers”.

 

House Speaker John Boehner says the “Code Talkers” use their native tongues to help protect the nation’s battlefield secrets.

 

They mobilized the simplest weapon “language” to thwart²⁰ the fiercest enemy that free people have ever known.

 

And Senate Majority Leader Harry²¹ Reid said the “Code Talkers” deserved all the belated praise they are getting.

 

Their gift save countless²² lives and help win the war, and their willingness to share it made them American heroes.

 

Congress bestowed²³ the gold medal on Navajo code talks over a decade ago. The honor is now also being given to more than two dozen other tribes. Craig Windham, NPR News, Washington.

 

The discovery of the remains²⁴ of young boy who died 24,000 years ago in eastern Siberia is risen new questions about extents of NNNN Europeans in that part of the world. According to article in today’s New York Times, citing DNA²⁵ analysis researchers appears to match western Europeans. Analysts²⁶ who seem to indicate during the last ice age European’s range further across the region than many of them thought.

1 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。

2 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

3 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

4 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。

5 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。

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 shredding   

v.撕碎，切碎( shred的现在分词 )；用撕毁机撕毁（文件）

参考例句：

• Like the Tehran experience, the shredding may be all for naught. 如同德黑兰事件中的情况一样，切碎文件可能是徒劳的。 来自时文部分
• How shredding began is subject to some guesswork. 粉碎处理行业的起源是个有争议的问题。 来自时文部分

8 desperately   

adv.极度渴望地，绝望地，孤注一掷地

参考例句：

• He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
• He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。

9 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

10 deployed   

（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。

11 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

12 definitive   

adj.确切的，权威性的；最后的，决定性的

参考例句：

• This book is the definitive guide to world cuisine.这本书是世界美食的权威指南。
• No one has come up with a definitive answer as to why this should be so.至于为什么该这样，还没有人给出明确的答复。

13 obesity   

n.肥胖，肥大

参考例句：

• One effect of overeating may be obesity.吃得过多能导致肥胖。
• Sugar and fat can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods.糖和脂肪比其他食物更容易导致肥胖。

14 carbohydrate   

n.碳水化合物；糖类；(plural)淀粉质或糖类

参考例句：

• You should not have too much carbohydrate in your diet.你日常饮食中不该有过多碳水化合物。
• Cashew nuts are rich in carbohydrate.腰果含丰富碳水化合物。

15 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

16 metabolic   

adj.新陈代谢的

参考例句：

• Impressive metabolic alternations have been undergone during embryogenesis.在胚胎发生期间经历了深刻的代谢变化。
• A number of intoxicants are associated with metabolic acidosis.许多毒性物质可引起代谢性酸中毒。

17 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

18 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。

19 tribal   

adj.部族的，种族的

参考例句：

• He became skilled in several tribal lingoes.他精通几种部族的语言。
• The country was torn apart by fierce tribal hostilities.那个国家被部落间的激烈冲突弄得四分五裂。

20 thwart   

v.阻挠，妨碍，反对；adj.横(断的)

参考例句：

• We must thwart his malevolent schemes.我们决不能让他的恶毒阴谋得逞。
• I don't think that will thwart our purposes.我认为那不会使我们的目的受到挫折。

21 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

22 countless   

adj.无数的，多得不计其数的

参考例句：

• In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
• I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。

23 bestowed   

赠给，授予( bestow的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• It was a title bestowed upon him by the king. 那是国王赐给他的头衔。
• He considered himself unworthy of the honour they had bestowed on him. 他认为自己不配得到大家赋予他的荣誉。

24 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

25 DNA   

(缩)deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸

参考例句：

• DNA is stored in the nucleus of a cell.脱氧核糖核酸储存于细胞的细胞核里。
• Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code.基因突变是指DNA密码的改变。

26 analysts   

分析家，化验员( analyst的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
• I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。