CNN Marketplace 2006-02-07

Michelle Wright: President Bush submitted his budget to lawmakers today. And according to White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, the plan focuses on(of) the most important national priorities.

Scott McClellan: "From winning the war on terrorism to strengthening our homeland defenses, (ur), to helping¹ the people of the Gulf² Coast (ur) recover and rebuild their lives and their communities as well as funding important domestic priorities to reduce health care cost and reduce our dependence³ on (ur) foreign sources of energy. "

Michelle Wright: McClellan says that nearly 2.8 trillion-dollar plan also calls for making the president's proposed tax cuts permanent. New Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says he'll do his best to carry out the Central Bank's mission, now that he's been sworn in as its head.

Ben Bernanke: "Our mission , as set forth⁴ by the Congress, is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly. "

Michelle Wright: President Bush says Bernanke will make a superb chairman.

Michelle Wright: Wendy's is revamping its menu as it looks to attract younger people. The fast food chains and restaurants will start offering breakfast as well as new sandwiches, salads, and banana frosties.

Michelle Wright: A few Internet companies say they may soon begin to charge businesses to send commercial emails to their members.
Jean King: Two (of) the world's biggest email account providers, Yahoo and AOL plan to introduce a service that will charge senders a fee to write the email directly to users' mailbox without first passing through junk mail filters. The fees are ranged from a quarter cent to one cent per email. That's the latest tip by the companies to weed out unwanted emails.
CNN's Jean King.

Michelle Wright:And it's now a bit harder to get a job via the Internet. New federal guidelines meant to standardize⁵ how employees track data on their diversity of their job applicant⁶ pools are taking effect for jobs at Federal Contractors⁷ today. Similar rules will kick in later on this year at US companies with more than 50 employees.

With CNN Radio Marketplace. I'm Michelle Wright.

1 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

2 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

3 dependence   

n.依靠，依赖；信任，信赖；隶属

参考例句：

• Doctors keep trying to break her dependence of the drug.医生们尽力使她戒除毒瘾。
• He was freed from financial dependence on his parents.他在经济上摆脱了对父母的依赖。

4 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

5 standardize   

v.使符合标准，使标准化

参考例句：

• We will extend and standardize legal services and provide effective legal aid.拓展和规范法律服务，积极开展法律援助。
• There is a drive both to standardise components and to reduce the number of models on offer.正在为实现零部件标准化和减少推出的型号数量而努力。

6 applicant   

n.申请人，求职者，请求者

参考例句：

• He was the hundredth applicant for the job. 他是第100个申请这项工作的人。
• In my estimation, the applicant is well qualified for this job. 据我看, 这位应征者完全具备这项工作的条件。

7 contractors   

n.（建筑、监造中的）承包人( contractor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• We got estimates from three different contractors before accepting the lowest. 我们得到3个承包商的报价后，接受了最低的报价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia. 赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。 来自《简明英汉词典》