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This is VOA News. Via remote, I'm Marissa Melton.

这里是美国之音新闻。玛丽莎·梅尔顿为您远程报道。

The panel of House lawmakers investigating the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol last year heard testimony¹ Thursday that former President Donald Trump² repeatedly pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence to thwart³ Congress from certifying⁴ that Democrat⁵ Joe Biden had won the 2020 presidential election.

调查去年1月6日美国国会大厦骚乱的众议院议员小组周四听取了证词，证词显示，前总统唐纳德·特朗普多次向当时的副总统迈克·彭斯施压，要求阻止国会批准民主党人乔·拜登赢得2020年总统选举。

Pence was presiding over Congress as lawmakers were in the initial stages of the state-by-state count of Electoral College votes to verify Biden's victory when about 2,000 Trump supporters stormed the Capitol Building to disrupt the proceeding⁶.

彭斯主持国会时，议员们正在逐州清点选票，以核实拜登的胜选，当时大约2000名特朗普的支持者冲进国会大厦，扰乱选举进程。

Trump, in both private and in public, implored⁷ Pence to reject the electoral count from states where Biden narrowly won.

特朗普在私下和公开场合恳求彭斯拒绝接受拜登以微弱优势获胜的州的计票结果。

Pence lawyer Greg Jacob described how a Trump lawyer, John Eastman, tried to convince Pence that he had the legal authority to unilaterally upend the election.

彭斯的律师格雷格·雅各布描述了特朗普的律师约翰·伊士曼如何试图说服彭斯，称他有权单方面颠覆选举。

But Jacob said Eastman eventually conceded that the U.S. Supreme⁸ Court would likely reject his legal theory.

但雅各布说，伊士曼最终承认，美国最高法院可能会驳回他的法律理论。

In an Associated Press interview, President Biden acknowledged that Americans are, in his words, "really, really down."

在接受美联社采访时，拜登总统承认，用他的话说，美国人“真的、真的很沮丧”。

AP Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani has more.

美联社驻华盛顿记者Sagar Meghani报道。

From the virus pandemic to economic volatility⁹ and high gas prices, the president says everything Americans count on has been "upset."

总统说，美国人所依赖的一切都“令人沮丧”，比如疫情、经济动荡和高油价。

During a 30-minute Oval Office interview, he told the AP he is optimistic despite warnings from some economists¹⁰ the U.S. could be headed for a recession.

一次在总统办公室长达30分钟采访中，他告诉美联社，尽管一些经济学家警告美国可能正走向衰退，但他仍持乐观态度。

He says that's not inevitable¹¹ and he is dismissing Republican claims that last year's COVID aid plan was fully¹² to blame for four-decade high inflation, calling the argument "bizarre."

他说，这并不是不可避免的，共和党人认为去年的新冠疫情援助计划完全是40年来高通胀的罪魁祸首，他驳斥了该说法，称这一论点“离奇”。

Sagar Meghani, at the White House.

萨加尔·梅格哈尼在白宫发来报道。

From Washington, this is VOA News.

这里是美国之音新闻，来自华盛顿的报道。

1 testimony   

n.证词；见证，证明

参考例句：

• The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
• He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。

2 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

3 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。

4 certifying   

（尤指书面）证明( certify的现在分词 )； 发证书给…； 证明（某人）患有精神病； 颁发（或授予）专业合格证书

参考例句：

• Signed Commercial in quintuplicate, certifying merchandise to be of Chinese origin. 签署商业发票一式五份，证明产品的原产地为中国。
• Other documents certifying the truthfulness of the contents of the advertisements. （三）确认广告内容真实性的其他证明文件。

5 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

6 proceeding   

n.行动，进行，(pl.)会议录，学报

参考例句：

• This train is now proceeding from Paris to London.这次列车从巴黎开往伦敦。
• The work is proceeding briskly.工作很有生气地进展着。

7 implored   

恳求或乞求（某人）( implore的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She implored him to stay. 她恳求他留下。
• She implored him with tears in her eyes to forgive her. 她含泪哀求他原谅她。

8 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。

9 volatility   

n.挥发性，挥发度，轻快，（性格）反复无常

参考例句：

• That was one reason why volatility was so low last year.这也是去年波动性如此低的原因之一。
• Yet because volatility remained low for so long,disaster myopia prevailed.然而，由于相当长的时间里波动性小，灾难短视就获胜了。

10 economists   

n.经济学家，经济专家( economist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
• Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》

11 inevitable   

adj.不可避免的，必然发生的

参考例句：

• Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
• The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。

12 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。