NPR美国国家公共电台 2013-07-01

　　From NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone.

 

　　At the University of Cape¹ Town in South Africa, a warm welcom for President Obama and his family. The president spoke² about his morning visit to Robben Island, where anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela was in prison for 18 years.

 

　　“Nelson Mandela showed us that one man's courage can move the world. And he calls on us to make choices that reflect not our fear, but our hopes.”

 

　　The president is on the final leg of his weeklong African tour, next stop Tanzania. Tomorrow Michelle Obama will attend the First Ladies Summit there hosted by former first lady Laura Bush. NPR's Gregory Warner reports a meeting of the presidents has not been ruled out.

 

　　The the First Ladies Summit hosted by Laura Bush will highlight the role that first ladies in Africa play in empowering women and girls. It will emphasize that investing women and gender³ equality leads to greater political stability in contrywide prosperity. That's the theme that President Obama has echoed in speeches throughout his Africa tour.

 

　　“And I tell you, you can measure how well a country does by how it treats its women.”

 

　　Administration officials did not rull out the possibility of a Tanzania meeting between Presidents Obama and Bush. But nothing of this sort is scheduled. The First Family flies home on Tuesday. Gregory Warner, NPR News, Johannesburg.

 

　　Secretary of State John Kerry says Palestnian and Israeli leaders have narrowed the gap between them and may progress toward starting peace negotiations⁴. As NPR's Emily Harris reports from Jerusalem, Kerry is already planning a return trip.

 

　　Secretary Kerry initially⁵ planned to be in the region for just a couple of days. But he decided⁶ to stay an extra day and said as he left that with a little more effort the start of peace negotiations could be within reach. Kerry worked until the early hour Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and met a third time Sunday morning with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. At least one senior US State Department advisor⁷ is staying on for more discussions, and Kerry expects to be back some time soon.

 

　　“I’m going to come back because both leaders have asked me to, and I think I wouldn’t be asked to and I wouldn’t do it if there wasn’t some hope and possibility in that.”

 

　　He would give no details about demands or concessions⁸ from either side, only saying he knows progress when he sees it. I'm Emily Harris, NPR News, Jerusalem.

 

　　Across Egypt and on the streets of Cairo, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians turned out to protest the regime of President Mohamed Morsi. Supporters, meanwhile, staged a sit-in. Police confiscated⁹ explosives and firearms. Banks and government offices closed early in Egypt.

 

　　This is NPR News in Washington.

 

　　Key senators say the US should make clear to Russia and Ecuador that there would be consequences for any efforts to harbor former contractor¹⁰ Edward Snowden, who's been leaking NSA secrets. Speaking on FOX News Sunday, Arizona Republican John McCain sharply criticized both countries.

 

　　“They are not democratic. They are not friends of ours. And they will do whatever is necessary to damage America's national interest.”

 

　　Meanwhile in an exclusive appearance on ABC's This Week, Wikileaks founder¹¹ Julian Assange called Snowden a hero. Assange spoke from the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he's taking asylum¹² from British authorities.

 

　　In San Francisco, more than a million people are celebrating the city's annual gay pride parade. The parade comes on the heels of a big week at the US Supreme¹³ Court. Emily Green has more.

 

　　The parade is chock-full of people in colorful outfits¹⁴. Some people are in stoles, others are decked out in rainbow colors, and there are lots of families too. This parade has always drawn¹⁵ a crowd in San Francisco, but this year is especially big with an estimated turnout of 1.5 million people. Organizers attribute the large turnout to court rulings that have allowed same-sex marriages to resume after five-year hiatus. The parade ends in front of San Francisco City Hall, where multiple stages have been set up for music and entertainment performances. For NPR News, I'm Emily Green in San Francisco.

 

　　Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy has rejected the petition that same-sex marriages in California come to a halt.

 

　　I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News, Washington.

 

 

1 cape   

n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风

参考例句：

• I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
• She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

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 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。

6 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

7 advisor   

n.顾问，指导老师，劝告者

参考例句：

• They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
• The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。

8 concessions   

n.（尤指由政府或雇主给予的）特许权( concession的名词复数 )；承认；减价；（在某地的）特许经营权

参考例句：

• The firm will be forced to make concessions if it wants to avoid a strike. 要想避免罢工，公司将不得不作出一些让步。
• The concessions did little to placate the students. 让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。

9 confiscated   

没收，充公( confiscate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Their land was confiscated after the war. 他们的土地在战后被没收。
• The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。

10 contractor   

n.订约人，承包人，收缩肌

参考例句：

• The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
• The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样，有几分要看地势而定。

11 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

12 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

13 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

14 outfits   

n.全套装备( outfit的名词复数 )；一套服装；集体；组织v.装备，配置设备，供给服装( outfit的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• He jobbed out the contract to a number of small outfits. 他把承包工程分包给许多小单位。 来自辞典例句
• Some cyclists carry repair outfits because they may have a puncture. 有些骑自行车的人带修理工具，因为他们车胎可能小孔。 来自辞典例句

15 drawn   

v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的

参考例句：

• All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
• Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。