越战老兵荣升美国联邦调查局局长

48 越战老兵荣升美国联邦调查局局长

DATE=8-4-2001
TITLE=IN THE NEWS #492 - New FBI Director
 BYLINE=Caty Weaver¹

This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, In The News.
America's (1)Federal (2)Bureau of Investigation² has a new director.  He is a former Marine³ who served with honors in the (3)Vietnam War.  On Thursday the (4)Senate confirmed President Bush's choice of Robert Mueller to lead the F-B-I.  
Mister Mueller is a lawyer in the Justice Department, which includes the F-B-I.  He also held a high-level Justice Department job under President Bush's father. 
Now Mister Mueller will begin a ten-year term as director of the nation's top law enforcement agency.  Almost thirty-thousand men and women work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  More than eleven-thousand of them are special agents.  They investigate hundreds of kinds of federal cases.  These include organized crime, spying and international (5)terrorism.  
A Senate (6)committee held hearings this week on Mister Mueller's nomination⁴.  He answered questions about how he would lead the agency.  Mostly the senators expressed (7)concern about a (8)series of problems at the F-B-I.  
These include the discovery of an agent who, for most of his twenty-five years at the F-B-I, spied for the (9)Soviet Union and Russia.  Robert Hanssen sold information at the same time he (10)supervised other agents in the hunt for spies in the United States.  He faces a life term at his sentencing in January. 
The F-B-I was also sharply criticized this year in the case of Timothy McVeigh, the admitted (11)bomber of a federal building in Oklahoma City.  The F-B-I had thousands of documents that his lawyers should have received for his (12)trial.  That discovery led to a month-long (13)postponement of McVeigh's (14)execution.
And, just recently, the F-B-I announced that hundreds of its weapons and computers had been lost or stolen.  At least one computer contained secret information.
The new F-B-I director replaces Louis Freeh who (15)resigned.  Robert Mueller promised during his confirmation⁵ hearings that he would move quickly to improve the F-B-I.  He said his main goal would be for the agency to re-earn the trust of the American people.  He said the F-B-I must not try to hide mistakes or blame others.  "Nobody is perfect," Mister Mueller told the Senate committee.  He said the F-B-I “must tell the truth and let the facts speak for themselves.” 
He noted⁶ the successful investigations⁷ of terrorist bombings at the World Trade Center in New York and two American (16)embassies in Africa. 
Robert Mueller is leaving his job as head of the United States (17)Attorney's Office in San Francisco, California.  That office had serious problems before he took over.  He carried out a major re-organization.  He put more women and (18)minorities into leadership positions.  More cases came to trial.  Judges, federal agents and defense⁸ lawyers all praised his work.
This VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS, was written by Caty Weaver.  This is Steve Ember.

(1) federal[ 5fedErEl ]adj.联邦的, 联合的, 联邦制的, 同盟的n.(南北战争时期)北部联邦同盟盟员
(2) bureau[ bjuE5rEu, 5bjuErEu ]n.办公桌, 衣柜<美>局, 办公署
(3) Vietnam[9vIEt5nAm]n.越南
(4) Senate[ 5senit ]n.参议院, 上院
(5) terrorism[5terErIz(E)m]n.恐怖主义, 恐怖统治, 恐怖行动
(6) committee[ kE5miti ]n.委员会
(7) concern[ kEn5sE:n ]vt.涉及, 关系到n.(利害)关系, 关心, 关注, 关注, 所关心的是
(8) series[ 5siEri:z ]n.连续, 系列, 丛书, 级数
(9) Soviet Union  n. 苏联
(10) supervise [ 5sju:pEvaiz ]v.监督, 管理, 指导
(11) bomber [ 5bCmE ]n.轰炸机, 轰炸员
(12) trial[ 5traiEl ]n.试验, 考验, 审讯, 审判
(13) postponement[ pEust5pEun ]vt.推迟, 使延期, 延迟
(14) execution[ 7eksi5kju:FEn ]n.实行, 完成, 执行, 死刑, 制作, (武器等的)破坏效果, 杀伤力
(15) resign[ ri5zain ]n.辞去(职务)v.辞去, 辞职
(16) embassy[ 5embEsi ]n.大使及其随员, 大使的派遣, 大使馆
(17) attorney[ E5tE:ni ]n.<美>律师, (业务或法律事务上的)代理人
(18) minority[ mai5nCriti, mi- ]n.少数, 少数民族

 

 

 

 

 

1 weaver   

n.织布工；编织者

参考例句：

• She was a fast weaver and the cloth was very good.她织布织得很快，而且布的质量很好。
• The eager weaver did not notice my confusion.热心的纺织工人没有注意到我的狼狈相。

2 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。

3 marine   

adj.海的；海生的；航海的；海事的；n.水兵

参考例句：

• Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

4 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

5 confirmation   

n.证实，确认，批准

参考例句：

• We are waiting for confirmation of the news.我们正在等待证实那个消息。
• We need confirmation in writing before we can send your order out.给你们发送订购的货物之前，我们需要书面确认。

6 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

7 investigations   

（正式的）调查( investigation的名词复数 )； 侦查； 科学研究； 学术研究

参考例句：

• His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
• He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。

8 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。