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  • Travis写的口译听力真题评析-09秋高口

    2010-01-19 22:09:10Top 3

    0909高级口译Listening Comprehension部分解析, by Travis
    Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation.
     

    1.     (A) She’s just a city girl and is used to the fast pace of the city.

             (B) She doesn’t have to drive everywhere to buy things.

             (C) She likes to garden and putter around in the house she bought.

             (D) She can go to a whole variety of places to interact with people.

     

    2.    (A) Going to the country for a vacation makes no sense at all.

             (B) Renting a vacation house in the country is cheap.

             (C) People can enjoy the fresh air in the country.

             (D) People can relax better in the country than in the city.

     

    3.    (A) The convenient transportation.

             (B) The interactive social life.

             (C) The whole car culture.

             (D) The nice neighborhood.

     

    4.    (A) You may have fun making barbecues in the garden.

             (B) You won’t feel stuck and labeled as you do in the city.

             (C) It’s more tolerable than living in the city.

             (D) It’s more hateful than living in the country.

     

    5.    (A) Quite lonely.

             (B) Very safe.

             (C) Not very convenient.

             (D) Not particularly dangerous.

     

    Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following news.
     

    6.    (A) Because they might harm the poor people.

             (B) Because their drawbacks outweigh benefits.

             (C) Because they counterbalance other environmental policies.

             (D) Because they cannot achieve the expected environmental objectives.

     

    7.    (A) German business confidence index has risen as much as expected recently.

             (B) The outlook for manufacturing is worsening in foreseeable future.

             (C) Global economic recession will sap demand for German exports next year.

             (D) German business situation is expected to get better in the next few months.

     

    8.    (A) The proposal can cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars to a very low level.

             (B) This action is obviously going to change global temperatures in the long run.

             (C) The reduction in gas emissions is insignificant for addressing global warming.

             (D) The proposal represents a big step in solving the problem of global warming.

     

    9.    (A) $ 60.5 a barrel.

             (B) $ 61 a barrel.

             (C) $ 61.32 a barrel.

             (D) $ 61.67 a barrel.

     

    10.  (A) 92.

             (B) 250.

             (C) 1,500.

             (D) 2,500.

     

     

    1.        C  2. A  3. B  4. D  5. D  6.  A 7. D  8. C  9. B 10. A

     

     

    听力原文：

    Questions 1-5 

    A: Grace, what's interesting to you about living in the city? Why do you like it?

     

    B: Well, I'm just a city girl. One time I bought a house in the country to escape from the urban ills, and then found myself totally bored with country life. Because you have to drive everywhere, and there's not much to do. I'm used to the fast pace of the city. There's a whole variety of museums, movies, coffee shops, and places to interact with people. But sitting alone in the country, you know, unless you like to grow a garden, or putter around and build things with your hands.

     

    A: Okay, but what about your vacation? I mean, a lot of city people rent vacation houses in the country.

     

    B: But to me, going to the country for a vacation makes no sense at all. There's so much work to do. First you have to get there, and then, I don't know. I think I can relax better in the city. Besides, the country has bugs. There you are supposedly enjoying yourself in the fresh country air, but you are been eaten alive by a variety of different bugs. You can't enjoy yourself. You are been stung and eaten to death. You can't relax. Let's put it this way. If you like boredom, you'll like the country. People who like a lot of stimulation, you know, can't hack it. And then there's the transportation thing, I mean, to get a carton of milk, you have to drive three miles. So the whole car culture thing kicks in. Gives me the city any time.

     

    A: Well, what would you say is the one thing you like most about the city?

     

    B: The interactive social life. People get together. I like it when you call up and people say "come on over", and you hang out together. And it's just fun.

     

    A: Yah, and what about the suburbs?

     

    B: Well, that's even more hateful than the country to me.

     

    A: Why?

     

    B: Well, the suburbs don't even have any of the good country air. There's nothing to do. You just stuck there. And for young people, there are all sorts of problems, alcohol, drugs, you have to drive everywhere... Look, I go to my friend's house in the suburbs. Do you ever see anyone walking in the street? No, it's totally zero. There's nothing going on. What can I say?! You know, it's not for me. I do have one or two suburban friends who like it, because they make a barbeque and the birds are chirping, but not me. And then there's another thing I really hate, in the city, you can make mistakes but you always get a second chance; But in the country and the suburbs, you are labeled. You feel like "wow, that's it!" you are labeled. And that label doesn't come off easily.

     

    A: Well, do you think the city is lonely, or dangerous?

     

    B: NO! In the city, people live in little communities, they have interactive social lives. And I don't think the city is particularly dangerous.

     

    Q1 There are several reasons why the woman likes living in the city, which of the following is NOT one of the reasons?

     

    Q2 What does the woman think of vacation in the country?

     

    Q3 What does the woman like most about the city?

     

    Q4 Which of the following is true about living in the suburbs according to the woman?

     

    Q5 How does the woman describe the city life?

     

    【大意】：这段对话的主题是比较城市生活和乡村的生活，最后还涉及了市郊的生活，通过比较各个方面体现出被采访人的明确态度和观点。

     

    【解析】：

    1．    选C， 细节题。对话起始，男生便问女生对于城市生活的看法？女生做了一一列举，用排除法，边听边购正确答案。能迅速选出D，选项。重点关注“连接词”或者“转折词”, 比如回答的最后提到unless you like to …putter around这里的unless需要重点关注。考试中针对这类起到意思转折的词要特别关注，比如：whereas, nevertheless, however, on the contrary等。 词汇积累：putter around: 漫无目的地闲逛

    2．    选A， 细节题。问女生对乡村生活的看法。女生的第一句回答就提及的要点 “makes no sense at all”. 可以直接选出。在整个这段的回答中还有一个需要注意的表达就是can’t hack it，意思是“难以掌控”。通过上下文的意思也可以揣测出。

    3．    选B， 细节题。女生最喜欢城市生活的哪一方面。也是发问之后直接回答“interactive social life” 互动式的社交生活

    4．    选D，细节题。要注意这里对话中引入了suburb的概念，所以要求考生在考试过程做好有效笔记。比如：C-City; Co-Country; S-Suburb; 这样一目了然，不容易混淆几处概念。这一题答案可以直接通过回答选出，并无难度。

    5．    选D， 细节题。最后问到城市的生活。女生的回答no明确了选项D。所以也很容易。

     

     

    听力原文

    Questions 6-10

    London, the United Kingdom

    　　The Left-Leaning Think Tank, the institute for public policy research (IPPR), has warned UK chancellor not to use green taxes to plug the hole in government finances. Its new research shows that the government could gain 3.5 billion pounds a year through a carbon tax on homes and vehicles. But IPPR says this would harm the poor, unless ministers give back all the cash in the form. of benefits, tax breaks and home insulation. IPPR has developed a computer model to assess the benefits and drawbacks of environmental taxes. The preliminary findings suggest that taxes can prove a useful tool and achieving environmental objectives. But IPPR says it would be a mistake to use them to raise money because unless they are counter-balanced, they inevitably hit the poorest hardest and are mistrusted by the public.

     

     

    Munich, Germany

    　　German business confidence rose less than expected in May, as sluggish demand weighed on construction and manufacturing. Go out look for the six-month ahead improved, a closely watched survey showed. The Munich-based IFO institute's business climate index increased to 84.2 points in May from 83.7 points in April. That’s a steady increase from 82.2 points in March, the lowest level in 26 years. IFO said in a release that manufacturers reported a poorer business situation this month than in April, but expecting improvement in the next 6 months. Germany’s economy went into recession last fall as the global economic crisis sapped demand for its exports.

     

     

    Washington, the United States

    President Obama’s tougher new fuel efficiency standards bring industry, environmentalists and states together to start cutting green house gas emissions from cars. But the reductions would represent only a drop in the bucket of what’s needed to address global warming. White House officials say the proposal would cut green house gas emissions by about 9oo million metro tons, as the total reduction of pollution from the 5 model years of cars and trucks covered by the proposal. Environmental protection agency chief Lisa Jackson notes that even though the pollution reductions are big, they are dwarfed by the massive challenge of global warming, "This action alone, I don’t want to mislead anyone, is not going to change global temperatures. " Obviously, it is one step on the long road.

     

    OPEC, Asia

    　　Although it adds lower last week, oil price rose to 61 dollars a barrel Monday in Asia, as investors add an OPEC meeting this week and wait evidence of a global economic recovery. Trading was light because US markets are closed Monday for Memorial Day. Benchmark crude for July delivery was 61 dollars 32 cents a barrel by midday on the New York Mercantile exchange. On Friday, the contract rose to settle at 61 dollars 67 cents. Oil has rallied on investor optimism that the worst of the global economic downturn is over. In Asia, there are signs that the drop in exports has bottomed, although the outlook remains murky.

     

     

    L‘Aquila, Italy

    　　Scores of people were killed and tens of thousands left homeless in central Italy today after a powerful earthquake shook a mountain region, severely damaging a historic city ad leaving hundreds feared trapped in rubble. At least 92 people were known to have died, and more than 1,500 people had been injured, the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, told a press conference in L’aquila, the badly damaged capital of the Abruzzo region, close to the epicenter. The 6.3-magnitude tremor was the country’s deadliest since the Irpinia quake in the south in November 1980, which killed more than 2,500 people.

     

    Q6 Why has the left-leaning IPPR warned the government not to use green taxes to raise money?

    Q7 Which of the following best describes Germany’s current economy?

    Q8 Which of the following statement is true about President Obama’s proposal about new fuel efficiency standards?

    Q9 What price was oil on Monday in Asia?

    Q10 At least how many people were known to have died in the recent earthquake in central Italy?

     

    6. 选A

    【新闻大意】：英国政府决定征收绿色能源税(green tax)从而引起左派专家们的反对之声，认为虽然此项措施能够达到环保目标，但如果政府不用这些税收来给大众任何补贴，税收优惠，将会伤害穷人。

     

    【解析】： 关注新闻中的stakeholder利益相关人IPPR，关注它的观点和立场。也就是说关注谓语动词, 比如这里的warn, show, say等。这里新闻中两次提到了，第一次是harm the poor, 第二次是最后总结是说hit the poorest. Hit是“打击”的意思。同harm一致。使第一次没有把握大意的同学还有第二次机会。

    7. 选D

    【新闻大意】 德国的经济衰退，商业信心上升缓慢。利益相关人IFO机构的研究表明制造商目前的糟糕商业环境，但预计在接下来的数月将会有改善。

     

    【解析】 Business confidence是重要的经济指标，升降表明了对一国经济的未来的预期。新闻要关注的通常是首句，是新闻内容的核心。首句里出现了confidence rose, 表明经济情况在好转。除此之外还要关注新闻中的“连接词”比如“转折词”，but就是一个明显的标志。所以听到but expecting improvement in the next 6 months就不难选出答案了。

     

    8.选C

    【新闻大意】 奥巴马政府将实行新燃料效率的标准来减少温室气体的排放，但是效果将不会很明显。

     

    【解析】 首先确定利益相关人， President Obama, environmentalists, and states,共同的目标，即话题是cut gas emissions。重点捕捉连接词 “but”后面的内容,the reductions would represent only a drop in the bucket …中a drop in the bucket“杯水车薪的意思”，说明了选项里的insignificant.但在听力考试中考生可能无法快速领会。这里有个就是听到represent only中的only一词。说明是一种强调，强调后面的“微不足道”，除了only以外，以后考生还要抓诸如even, ever, as well等常用语气词，来辅助理解大意。

     

    9. 选B

    【新闻大意】 由于投资者期待本周的OPEC会议将会带来全球经济复苏的证明，所以石油价格上涨。

     

    【解析】 本题是一道典型的数字题，需要考生在听的过程中做好有效地数字笔记，通常数字笔记包括：数字+对象，这里对象是石油和时间。因为每一天国际油价就和股票，汇率一样会发生fluctuate（波动）, 如果做好了这一点这一题的选择就没那么困难了。比如61 dollars Monday， 就可以61-M, 61 dollar 32 cents by midday， 61.32-Mi; 61.67-F;

     

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  • 金球奖结局：世界之王卡梅隆再度折桂(现场直播)

    2010-01-18 20:36:22Top 3

     



    From NPR...

    The Golden Globe Awards handed out Sunday night didn't hold a lot of surprises, from the pervasive mockery of what you might call the National Beleaguered Company (on whose airwaves, ironically enough, the show was being broadcast) to the names of the winners themselves.

    It should have been startling to no one that high-profile slams on NBC -- currently, as you may have heard, enduring a bit of a public-relations problem related to its late-night lineup -- started before the ceremony even got underway. On the red carpet, Julia Roberts blurted out, "NBC, you're in the toilet right now!"

    After that, Tom Hanks (standing right next to her) followed with "It was going to rain at 10:00, but they moved it to 11:30." It was, in all honesty, kind of a nonsensical joke, but it kept the ball rolling. As an unusual deluge of rain poured down on the red carpet, Tina Fey soon followed with the observation, "It's not rain, it's just God crying for NBC."

    As if that weren't enough, when Julianna Margulies -- who became famous on NBC's ER, after all -- won an award for her leading role in the CBS drama The Good Wife, she pointedly thanked CBS for "believing in a 10 o'clock drama" -- a reference to NBC's failed strategy of "stripping" Jay Leno's comedy show across the 10-p.m. hour five nights a week.

    Host Ricky Gervais didn't take long to jump on the bandwagon, either. After an underwhelming opening, he cracked that they needed to get the show started "before NBC replaces me with Jay Leno."

    The two biggest awards in film went to enormously popular favorites that each made a trunkload of money. The film award for Outstanding Drama went to the monster hit Avatar, while Outstanding Comedy or Musical went to the crowd-pleasing raunch comedy The Hangover. Meanwhile Avatar's James Cameron won the directing prize, acknowledging that he -- like, perhaps, some others -- had anticipated a win for his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, who directed The Hurt Locker. (See here for a complete list of winners.)

    Neither of the lead actors in dramas was a surprise, either. Sandra Bullock won for her lead performance in the surprise hit The Blind Side. (That will be lamented widely, but it's not a shock.) And Jeff Bridges went the other way, rewarded for his much-discussed if not widely seen work as a broken-down country singer in Crazy Heart.

    The closest the Globes came to a victory for an underdog was on the TV side, when Outstanding Comedy Series went to Fox's new hit Glee. But even that's not a huge surprise: Glee might seem like an upset in that it's a new show up against perennial award-winners like 30 Rock, but the Globes have always been a bit more populist than the Emmys -- and more willing to recognize new shows. (See also the victory by Margulies, who's early in her run on The Good Wife.) And a Golden Globe is exactly the sort of award Glee might win, though its cast was shut out in several acting categories.

    Best Drama Series, entirely in keeping with momentum, went to AMC's Mad Men, which has already won two Emmys in the same category.

    The presenters, as usual, ran the gamut as far as the quality of their banter, with an oddly lifeless Harrison Ford, in particular, looking like he resented his own presence at the event. One of the better presenters of the evening when it came to actual jokes, on the other hand, was Paul McCartney. He presented the award for Outstanding Animated Feature Film, noting, "Animation is not just for children. It's also for adults who take drugs." (The award went, unsurprisingly, to Up.)

    As noted, the Globes often reward newer shows than the Emmys, but aside from Glee, the only real example this year was Margulies, who just started a few months ago on The Good Wife.

    The other recognized actors in television have been doing their jobs for a while. Michael C. Hall (who recently announced that he's battling Hodgkins lymphoma) won an award for his lead role in the Showtime drama Dexter, for which John Lithgow won a supporting award as well; Chloe Sevigny won for her supporting role in HBO's Big Love.

    One of the more memorable acceptance speeches came when Meryl Streep had the honor of defeating herself for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy or Musical, with her performance in Julie and Julia defeating her performance in It's Complicated. Streep struggled with her speech, turning part of it over to an observation that the only way she could enjoy the awards was by reminding herself that she's donating money to disaster relief in Haiti and will continue to do so.

    Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical, on the other hand, went to Robert Downey, Jr. for Sherlock Holmes; he went the opposite way, making the broadest and most sarcastic jokes possible about how he has absolutely no one to thank but himself.

    In the end, this year, the Golden Globes stuck very close to what audiences chose. It's inevitable that discussions will now accelerate over whether Avatar will win the Oscar for Best Picture (since, let's face it, The Hangover is not a threat to win that category, and would make for quite a stunning nomination).

    But there's no guarantee of any overlap. Last year, the Globe's Outstanding Drama winner, Slumdog Millionaire, took the Oscar, but before that, it hadn't happened since 2003, with Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King.

    In the interim, The Aviator, Brokeback Mountain, Babel, and Atonement won drama Globes but not Oscars. So the race is far from over.

    Perhaps the biggest surprise of all is that there were so few surprises from Gervais, from whom much was expected. We may be close to learning the lesson -- as we did with David Letterman, for instance -- that not all comics make successful awards-show hosts.

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  • 每日视听-NPR新闻-NFL Merchandising Deal

    2010-01-14 21:18:26Top 3

     

    NFL是国家橄榄球大联盟National Football League的简称，中文也可称之为国家美式足球大联盟。联盟中共有32支队伍，被分为两大联合会：美国橄榄球联合会（American Football Conference ,简称AFC）和国家橄榄球联合会（National Football Conference ，简称NFC）。每个联合会有16支队伍，又分成4个分赛区：东部、南部、西部和北部。每个分赛区有4支队伍。


     

    NPR-NFL Deal.mp3(1.92 MB)

      The U.S. Supreme Court today the justices turned their attention to sports specifically to the NFL and its exclusive deal with Reebok to sell billions of dollars worth of hats, shirts and other apparel.

    justice 最高法院的法官

    exclusive deal 独家交易

    Reebok 锐步： 这个单词的本义，是指南部非洲一种羚羊，它体态轻盈，擅长奔跑。Reebok公司希望消费者在穿上Reebok运动鞋后，能像Reebok羚羊一样，在广阔的天地间，纵横驰奔，充分享受运动的乐趣。

    apparel  成衣，服装

    NPR Legal Affair Correspondent Ni- Reports

      It used to be that lots of different company had NFL licenses to sell stuff with NFL team logos. But in 2001 the NFL decided to award its merchandising license for all 32 teams to just one company: Reebok.

    merchandising license 推销/销售证明

      Among those frozen out(很形象，不妨翻成“被打入冷宫的”) was American Needle Inc., a family-owned company that until 2001 specialized in manufacturing NFL team caps. Indeed, the caps were one-quarter of its business. The company challenged the exclusive licensing deal in court, claiming it amounted to a conspiracy among the teams to fix prices, and noting that cap prices had gone way up since the deal.

    conspiracy 阴谋

    想到一句，倒霉时可以说的抱怨话：I feel like the whole universe is conspiring against me.  

      But a federal appeals court (联邦上诉法院 )ruled that the league is a single entity that operates as one business, not 32 competing businesses. And it tossed the case out of court without a trial.

    entity 实体。

      Antitrust experts saw the decision as an opportunity for the NFL and other sports leagues to gain immunity from lawsuits over more than just merchandising agreements. They saw the ruling as a vehicle to allow sports leagues to potentially at least set prices for tickets, or parking at games, or fees for fantasy football for instance.

    反垄断专家们认为这个裁定对联盟而言是利好消息，意味着更多的自主权，尤其是定价权.

      Today in the Supreme Court, American Needle's lawyer, Glen Nager, told the justices that the NFL shouldn't be able to circumvent the nation's antitrust laws that way. He said the NFL teams are separately owned and operated businesses, and that by construing the league as a single entity, the lower court had approved a merchandising monopoly for the NFL.

    circumvent v. avoid 避开. dodge=get around

      Several justices asked where to draw the line. After all, you need agreement on league rules and a schedule.

    Justice Breyer, noting that he knows baseball better than football, questioned the premise of apparel competition. "You want the Red Sox to compete in selling T-shirts with the Yankees?  I don't know a Red Sox fan who would take a Yankees sweatshirt if you gave it away.”

    premise 前提条件

    Justice Stevens suggested that the real competition for apparel is between sports — football and basketball, for instance — not between teams.

    But the questioning got even more intense when the NFL's lawyer, Gregg Levy, rose to argue.

    He conceded认为 that 32 teams used to individually license their own logos. But he maintained that the purpose of the NFL exclusive deal with Reebok was not to make money, but to promote the game of football.

    Justice Scalia："They don't care whether the sale of the T-shirt promotes the game, they sell it to make money.”

    Justice Sonia Sotomayor say that if the aim is to make money — and she said she could well see that argument — then a league agreement to fix prices would be a violation of the antitrust laws.

    Sotomayor prodded further, what decisions could sports teams make that "would be subject to antitrust scrutiny?"

    Answer: "the NFL clubs are not separate sources of independent power. They are a unit ... a single entity.”

    Justice Sotomayor, "So you are seeking, through this ruling, what you haven't gotten from Congress: an absolute bar to an antitrust claim."

    Justice Breyer analogized the situation this way: A joint venture to play football is one thing; a joint NFL venture to build houses is another.

    Chief Justice John Roberts: "And the other side says selling logos is closer to selling houses than it is to playing football.” So if there is a factual dispute about whether a particular activity of the league is designed to promote the game or is designed simply to make money, then that is the sort of thing that should go to trial.

    Justice Scalia: "you say that the trademarks have no value apart from the game. I guess you can say the same thing for each of the 32 franchises. They are worthless if the NFL disappears. So does that mean they can agree to fix the price at which their franchises will be sold?"

    Lawyer Levy didn't directly answer that question but contended that the NFL is much like a law firm that sets the prices charged by its lawyers.

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  • 67届Golden Globe金球奖预告片和Ricky Gervais

    2010-01-14 20:51:34Top 3

    Trailer


     

    这次的主持人居然是大名鼎鼎的Ricky Gervias爵士

     

    观看指南！！

    有“奥斯卡风向标”之称的第67届金球奖颁奖典礼将在美国洛杉矶举行。本届金球奖共有173部影片参赛，《阿凡达》、《拆弹部队》、《无耻混蛋》、《真爱》、《悬而未决》等5部大片将决战金球最佳剧情片。詹姆斯·卡梅隆的《阿凡达》无疑是目前最受关注的影片，他也因此获得了金球奖最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳原创歌曲、最佳音乐等4项提名。《阿凡达》的最大对手是获得6项提名的《悬而未决》，和获得5项提名的歌舞片《九》。《悬而未决》由乔治·克鲁尼主演兼制片，《九》则云集了妮可·基德曼、佩内洛普·克鲁兹、玛丽昂·歌蒂亚等3位世界级巨星。18日22：35，电影频道将全程转播本届金球奖颁奖典礼。


    关于Ricky Gervais Show

    这三位其貌不扬的老兄就是时下英美风头最劲的播客，其中：

    　。Ricky Gervais：英国喜剧“办公室”（The Office）的编剧和明星
    　。Stephen Merchant：喜剧“办公室”的另一名编剧
    　。Karl Pilkington：前广播播音员

    这三剑客的 Podcast 每周一档，每档半小时，开播后人气急升，迅速成为苹果音乐店( iTunes Music Store)中最热门的音频播客节目，据说其下载量将被2007年版吉尼斯正式收录。由于极大的成功，目前该节目转成收费模式，包括已发布的版本也被打包后在 iTunes 和 Audible 网站上开卖。



    摘引《维基百科》关于 The Ricky Gervais Show :

    The Ricky Gervais Show is a humorous audio show starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington. The show started in November 2001 on XFM, and aired in weekly periods for months at a time throughout 2002, 2003, 2004, and the summer of 2005. In November 2005, the Positive Internet Company hosted the show on behalf of The Guardian as a podcast as a series of 12 shows. Throughout January and February of 2006, the podcast was consistently ranked the number one podcast in the world; it may appear in the 2007 Guinness World Record for the world's most downloaded podcast, having gained an average of 261,670 downloads per episode during its first month.

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  • 每日视听-NPR新闻-Criminal Prosecutors Pin Hopes On Sotomayor

    2010-01-11 21:32:36Top 3

     

    关于Sonia Sotomayo:

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/index.php?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-3859

     

    Planet Money:

     

    Today, the U.S. Supreme Court revisits an issue it appeared to resolve just months ago. And that issue is crime labs

    Question is whether the prosecution in criminal cases has a constitutional duty to produce crime lab analysts to testify about their findings.

    NPR’s legal correspondent Ni--- reports

    Until last year, prosecutors in all but 10 states could introduce a notarized affidavit from crime lab experts, attesting to their findings with respect to critical evidence. The white powder found on a defendant was indeed cocaine, or that a defendant's DNA matched that found on a rape or murder victim. Forensic analysts only appeared if subpoenaed by the defense.

    But in June, the U.S. Supreme Court by a narrowed 5-to-4 vote ruled that the clause of the Constitution requiring the accused to be confronted by the witnesses against him puts the burden on the state to produce not just paper certificates, but live forensic witnesses, who can be cross-examined. And without whom, the evidence cannot be introduced.

    The opinion, written by conservative justice Antonin Scalia, did provide something of an out. It said that the state could let the prosecutors notify defense lawyers pre-trial of the intent to introduce an affidavit so that the defense could demand live witnesses if he wants to.

    Four justices were outraged by the decision, predicting that it would result in a windfall for the defense, huge expense for the states and the release of guilty defendants. The four led by Justice Anthony Kennedy served notice that they wanted the decision reversed.

    Today's case offers that opportunity, testing two Virginia drug convictions based on lab analyst affidavits. So why revisit the issue so soon after a decision?  Only one thing is changed since June. One member of that five-justice majority — David Souter — has retired, replaced by Sonia Sotomayor, a former Manhattan Prosecutors.  Some 24 states are asking the court to reverse itself, citing backlogs, costs and other problems the decision has created.

     

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  • 61届艾美奖开场曲-Put Down the Remote, 封闭营开营曲吗？！

    2010-01-10 21:37:30Top 3

     

        今天在开心网上遇到了08年暑假班的小树同学，聊天之际说到08年那个疯狂的夏天，那年夏天我初出茅庐，有如下山猛虎。。。。首次暑假百人班上课就打到最高分。

        当时第一个班级的首课我走进教室竟然只说了一句话
     
      “你们要Linkin Park， 还是圣经？ 说吧”， 此时安静的老米·哥坐在最后一排，内心骚动不已。（事后告诉我，如此“Awesome Hooligan”的事情，也只有我做得出来。）
     
        接着我便一口气将Linkin的经典歌曲的说唱选段扔了出来，雷倒了全班一大片同学，to be precise, 是被overwhelmed了。
     
      2年过去了，当时我的现在已经更加理性，更加沉稳。
     
       小树聊到当年我推荐的美剧How I Met Your Mother<老爸老妈浪漫史>现在已经更到了第5季，十分喜欢，尤其是剧中的Barney, "他已经是美国喜剧届的核武器" ， 然后聊到了我，说我当时给人一种“十分难忘”“充满霸气”“awesome”的感觉。希望我也能成为核武器。

     
      
     
    2年过去了，发现现在的学生很少会这样和我聊天。是不是我老了呢？不知是该开心还是缅怀过去呢？还是应该重新再年轻一次呢？可以吗？
     
     
       放下遥控器Put down the remote欣赏。
     
     
      也许我应该在寒假封闭营的首课再一次rekindle我的小宇宙。
     

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  • 每日视听-NPR新闻-Dog-walking, a way to be recession-proof?

    2010-01-10 19:14:29Top 3

     

      眼下金融危机，除了上次分享的“Play means pay”这样的新奇事

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-6455

      居然在纽约的街头出现更加“羡煞人”的美差，而且是“肥差”。

      只要你符合以下条件：

    1. 足够强壮，每天能牵着至少350磅的重量跑步。

    2. 你是一个poop person,  善于与狗打交道。

    就一定能够胜任这个工作----Dogwalking!

    Check it out~~

    NPR-Dog Walking.mp3(1.84 MB)

     There's a job that pay's in the low six figures. （六位数的薪酬）

     There's no dress code, no cubicle, no office politics, and it's a job that even in the recession is pretty secure. Now the customers can be a bit of handful, but it's nothing a few treats and a long walk can't satisfy.

    我们每天都在dress code, 服装要求;  cubicle 办公室隔间；office politics 办公室权术等环境里lose ourselves... 

    satsify 用的很妙，以后要表达说一个工作很简单，只需要完成A, B,C 就足够了，不用说 that's enough, Too LAME


      Reporter J-... got an insight look at the business that's bucking the recession or at least walking it off.

    buck 抵御，抵制-counter, resist

    walk it off 用散步的（方式）消除...困扰等


      Casey哥的美差！

       It's 10 a.m. in downtown New York and Casey Butcher is ready for work, but he's forgotten his paper. A lot of New Yorkers start the day with the morning paper. For Casey, the newspaper serves a different purpose. May be not for him but for his first client of the day, Mochi, a French bulldog puppy who is about to take care of his own business. Casey works for a company called Club Pet NYC. He’s in the dog walking business and Mochi is about to take care of his own business.
    "A lot of dog walkers invest in the blue poop bags, but I try to use an AM New York when I can, I'm a little aware of my carbon footprint — I can go through, like, 20 bags a day." 


       It's not the most glamorous way start to a day, but even in this economy, poop pays. Poop pays. How much it pays? Well, that can be a little controversial.

       “这可不是什么光彩的活，但即使是如此糟糕的经济环境下，狗狗缺能带来生财之道。”


      An article in a 2004 New York Daily News asked people how much do you make? A dog walker named Sammy Swale reported about $50,000, which prompted some pretty dismayed online responses such as, "I went to grad school for five years for a Ph.D. and I still make less than the dog walker!" Then someone else wrote in, "The dog walker is lying, we make much more than that!"

    dismayed: discouraging ; frustrating

    prompt:  导致；刺激了 

    没想到读了5年Ph.D. 还不如遛狗的家伙赚的多，狠！我也报名了！

      Casey agrees. “My friend got me this job. He’s making, right, just about 6 figures somewhere between 90 and 100,000 dollars, and that’s with the company taking half. So just the work he working dogs generates, you know, a little under 200,000 dollars a year.”

    (That would be a pretty good income even with Manhattan's high cost of living.) !!!

      But not just anyone is cut out for this line of work. Walkers say it’s a lot harder than it looks. First, there's the physical toll.
    Sherman Ewing, the guy who started Club Pet NYC, said his foot grew a size and a half in his first year from walking dogs. He walked about 10 miles a day.
     

    多跑步会发胖？真的么？

    line of work  行业； 工作

    be cut out for.... 很适合...

    physical toll 付出身体劳累/受伤的代价

      There are also the logistics. Like the keys to 200 apartments.
    "I can tell if any are missing just from the sheer weight of it." That’s Eric Hahn, who has worked for Ewing for the past seven years. He considers himself somewhat of an expert walker. Even so, walking five dogs at a combined weight of 350 pounds, that can be a little tricky.

     

    loistics 物流；后勤；统筹安排 Logistics counts in daily operation.

    积累：

    I can tell if I'm charged right from the sheer weight of  the goods.

    买东西时候，有经验的买家凭借目测就能确定东西的份量，以避免被黑老板“坑”

     

      "There is a method. Everybody kind of sees you with a bunch of dogs and they think it's just random, but whoever is full and has not been emptied yet is on the outside of you — it's a matter of rotation. I need to keep track of who's empty and who’s full because if a dog's about to go and you go into a lobby ... ."

     

      Well, you can imagine what happens next. But what makes dog walking truly challenging is that you have to be good with both dogs and with people.

      

       "I have people where their kids call me Uncle Eric. I've had dinner with my clients. Really, you know, it's not like I'm the help, necessarily; you know, it's more of an extended member of the family."


      The people at Club Pet NYC won't call dog-walking recession-proof. But it certainly will never require a government bailout or a stimulus package, because unlike the banking industry, dog walkers can always count on a high rate of deposit.

    资金之雄厚呀！

    recession-proof 抗衰退

    bailout 救援资金

    NPR News 1/9

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  • 每日视听-NPR新闻-When Play Means Pay， 游戏产业急速突进

    2010-01-08 11:04:07Top 3

    January 7, 2010

    早上浏览NPR， 被这个有趣的标题grab，和大家分享一下。

    在后金融危机的日子里，天下居然有那么爽的工作？！I'm totally signing up for it. Goddamn it!

    电子游戏产业的快速发展，已经使一个新的就业局面浮出，“玩游戏”也可以成为一项富有创意的和挑战的工作。

    Play means Pay很好的诠释了这个新的前景。

    全民游戏的时代，也许有一天打Wii也能赚钱，谁有知道呢？

    看一下极富创意的XBOX广告吧~



    Imagine having a boss who encourages you to play games during the workday.

    It's a reality for many people in the video game industry, including Todd Howard. At midday on a recent Friday, he was playing Fallout 3 in his office. When Howard, 39, first started at Bethesda Softworks in Rockville, Md., 15 years ago, his parents told him to have a backup plan.

    He didn't need one.

    Now he's the company's game director. Howard oversaw the creation of Fallout 3, a popular coming-of-age video game. As he demonstrates the game to a visitor on his Xbox 360, his avatar, a 10-year-old boy, is treated to a birthday party.

    A woman's voice chimes in and remarks: "He's growing up so fast."

    The company — a division of ZeniMax Media — is also having a teenage growth spurt of its own.

    "For our company, there are certain areas where we are hiring very aggressively because we are growing rapidly," Howard says.

    The recession forced some game studios to close or make sizable layoffs. But ZeniMax nearly doubled in size during the past year, growing from about 250 employees to more than 400, in part owing to its acquisition of another video game company.

    Finding a job in the video game industry is a dream come true for many people who grew up playing games on computers and consoles. And the field is swiftly expanding as people turn to mobile devices like the iPhone and social networking sites like Facebook for entertainment.

    Emerging From Adolescence

    Analysts and developers point to a common thread: The entire video game universe is maturing.

    "I'd say game industries are sort of coming out of their adolescence," says Drew Davidson, the director of the entertainment technology center at Carnegie Mellon University. "They're in their late teens and so there's still a lot of growing to do."

    Game Developer Research says there are about 45,000 total employees in the U.S. video game industry, with an average salary of close to $80,000. Salaries can reach into the six figures, and programmers are among the highest-paid. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment for computer software engineers, some of whom develop video games, will grow by nearly a third in the next decade.

    Video Gaming Degrees

    Davidson says colleges around the country are tuned in. "We're seeing a huge upswing in terms of universities trying to offer degrees that focus around games or interactive media ... just because they're so popular."

    More than 200 institutions from MIT to DigiPen Institute of Technology are offering courses or degrees in video games, according to the Entertainment Software Association, a trade group for the video game industry.

    "The U.S. is the No. 1 video game market in the world," says Michael Gallagher, the chief executive officer for the ESA. "So, here at home we have a very strong market for employment in video games."

    The hubs for the industry include Austin, Texas; Boston; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Seattle; North Carolina; and the Washington, D.C., metro area.

    The job market is growing because of mainstream demand. Just look around — you can see people of all ages playing games on mobile phones. Social networking games are also wildly popular on Facebook. Some of the companies focused on this niche include Playdom, Playfish and Zynga, which created the popular game FarmVille.

    Broadband access and new digital distribution channels for games have also made it possible for small teams to develop games by working out of a coffee shop or someone's garage, Davidson says.

    A Casual Culture

    Howard, of Bethesda Softworks, says people also want jobs in the video game industry because a day at the office is casual — not corporate.

    "Sometimes I equate it to an organized fraternity," Howard says. "We play games at lunch, we have a giant movie theater in the building, we have a pool table, [and] we have multiple video game setups."

    They also have their own chef. So, employees effectively live at the office. It's an industry that values creative collaborations among artists, designers and programmers. The majority of jobs are full time with benefits, and it's a fluid career with people moving across the country, or the world, to take on new projects. But recruiter Mary-Margaret Walker says these patterns may change.

    "I think we will see more consulting and more contracting and more virtual working," Walker says.

    That means video game development teams may no longer work and play in the same physical space.

    At the Bethesda Softworks headquarters, Howard works near his team of nearly 100 developers.

    With an Xbox 360 controller in his hands, he says, "The greatest feeling in the world is making a game and then going to the store and seeing somebody buy it. It's very special."

    The journey from start to finish for a big console game can easily take about three years and cost more than $100 million. These high stakes — and new gaming platforms — are among the reasons smaller, independent companies are taking root to produce games for the future.

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  • 经济学课堂-Unemployment Index

    2010-01-08 10:32:09Top 3

    January 7, 2010

    Investors and economists are nervously anticipating Friday's release of new data on unemployment, but for the non-experts out there, what do those statistics really say?

    The two most talked-about numbers when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its employment report each month are the unemployment rate（失业率） and the number of jobs created or lost（就业创造/损失）.

    First, let's talk about the 1. number of jobs lost or gained.

    The most recent employment report showed payrolls（工资单，薪水总额） at U.S. businesses declining by just 11,000 jobs in November of last year. But Tom Nardone of the BLS says that doesn't mean just 11,000 people lost their jobs.

    Every month, there's a huge churn of millions of job losses and gains in the economy, he says. The headline number is "the net change of that," Nardone says.

    During the depth of the recession last January — when the employment report showed 741,000 jobs being lost — far more people than that were being hired.

    "In January, the worst month in terms of jobs loss, you had approximately 4.3 million hires going on in the economy," Nardone says.

    But that number of hires was overwhelmed by the more than 5 million people who either lost their jobs or left them for other reasons. So, the number of people feeling the pain of job loss was far greater than the net of 741,000 job losses in the headline number. But millions of people were also experiencing the joy of getting a new job even in the gloom of the recession.

    The unemployment rate — which was 10 percent in the most recent report — is also a less-than-definitive number(非最终定数).

    Different groups experience it differently. Blacks and Latinos have higher unemployment rates than whites. Teens have higher rates than older workers, and education makes a big difference, Nardone says. For example, he notes that the unemployment rate for Americans with less than a high school diploma was 15 percent in November. By comparison, workers with four-year college degrees had an unemployment rate just under 5 percent.

    The headline unemployment rate also doesn't capture everyone who has lost a job. Take Leslie Leigh Jividen of Akron, Ohio, who lost her job on Dec. 29, 2008.

    Jividen, who had been employed by a lighting firm doing customer service and sales support, immediately began looking for another job.

    "I'd never not worked," Jividen says. But, she says, "there just wasn't a lot out there."

    So she stopped looking and decided to stay home with her children.

    But despite the fact that she lost her job and couldn't find another one, Jividen wasn't counted as unemployed when the unemployment rate broke 10 percent last fall. And there are millions more like her: people who have lost their jobs and become too discouraged to continue looking.

    These so-called discouraged workers are considered in another number BLS produces. It adds them, along with part-time workers who would like to work full time, to the total number of unemployed. When BLS added up all those numbers for November, it came up with a 17.2 percent rate of unemployment and underemployment(未充分就业) in the United States.

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  • 实战口译-张学友接受CNN访谈

    2010-01-08 09:17:31Top 3

      他是获得无数肯定的“歌神”，他是“四大天王”中的模范，他是完美老公，他是绝世好爸；他的努力，他的乐观，他的从容，他的激情，他的坚定，他的爱心，他是娱乐圈中“不老的神话”。原来早在5年前，张学友就接受CNN Talk Asia节目的采访，现在就和小编一起来回顾歌神走过的岁月吧。

     

    Airdate: November 20th, 2004

    LH: Lorraine Hahn （前CNN主播）
    JC: Jacky Cheung 张学友



    学友的音乐感悟

    LH: This week on TalkAsia, a Hong Kong superstar whose soulful songs melt hearts across the world. This is TalkAsia.

    Welcome to TalkAsia, I'm Lorraine Hahn, my guest this week is Hong Kong superstar Jacky Cheung. It all began with a singing competition in 1984, beating 10,000 contestants; Cheung walked away with first prize and was snapped up by a record label. His breakthrough came in 1991 with the mega-Canto-pop hit 'Loving you a little more every day'. Two years later, Cheung became the first Hong Kong singer to win over the lucrative mandarin-speaking market, with the album 'Goodbye kiss'. Since then, he's been showered with multiple singing accolades. And as if releasing more then 60 albums so far isn't enough, Cheung has appeared in dozens of films to critical acclaim. Music critics say that at 43, Cheung is without doubt one of the four if not quote 'the heavenly king' of canto-pop. Jacky joins me now to tell me how he does it and much much more...

    LH: It's good to see you thank you very much for coming in

    JC: No, I've been looking forward to talking

    LH: Why do you think you have continued to endure and be as popular as you are -- for so long?

    JC: I don't know. Well, the one theory that I believe is that you have to keep working. Well, as in artist people just look at the work. New people might love your new things and some people might love the old things, so you've got to keep doing something, keep exploring yourself.

    LH: You know there's so much new talent coming into the markets these days, is that a concern for you? Does that mean you have to be more on the ball, more on the edge?

    JC: Why, I mean, once I was new to the other singing sections, now I'm one of the very...(LH: veteran. Laughs) senior -- senior singer, ok?! -- so, that's quite normal to me actually. And I think the scenes need more new blood.

    LH: You are known for your ballads, the songs that you sing...(JC: I sing fast number. Laughs LH: Yes, you know) I don't know why but you seem to be associated with, you know, these slow, romantic songs Why is this? Does it reflect you as a person more so than the fast pumping songs?

    JC: I think the first thing is I didn't dance as good as Aaron Kwok, that's why! And secondly I think I did have a few very, very popular ballad songs and that's why (LH: People associate with that) people might easier associate me with that.

    LH: You have also very successfully broken into the mandarin-speaking market -- Taiwan and then China -- was it difficult to make that transition?

    JC: It's not why...I have little advantage, because I was brought up in a mandarin-speaking family actually -- yeh my family is from Tianjin. So my Grandma is speaking mandarin only

    LH: You've done different fast songs, rap albums, an English album to you name as well -- why the diversity, is it a challenge for you or...?

    JC: I love to keep moving actually, that's why I've been trying different things. I believe in that, it keeps me alive. I mean, as I said, you need to explore yourself, find more about yourself and try more new things that keep you alive. That's why I'm doing...and I still believe in this, that's why I'm still doing it.

    LH: In your last album you wrote all the songs, correct? (JC: Yes. Laughs LH: Wow) I mean, why write, why start writing?

    JC: It's all because of...ok, for a certain time there was a feel quite lost in the market and what am I going to do? Ok, if you consider the kind of market -- what kind of album can sell in the market now? There might be a lot of reason for not very ideal market sales now, there might be a lot of reason. One thing I think is you really need to be yourself in the market. That's why I started to write something. The best way to tell people who you are is to write something about yourself, and tell them about yourself. So I started writing some lyrics and some songs.

    LH: And you dedicated one of them to friends, your very close friends right -- Anita Mui（梅艳芳） and Leslie Cheung（张国荣）-- who both passed away?

    JC: Well, this is uhh...I think 2003 is quite a terrible year for many people in Hong Kong, of course, in our scenes we lost quite a few friends, actually. It affected me a bit and I just reflected in my album

    LH: If you had person in this world -- anyone in this world -- who would you sing with?

    JC: Elton John

    LH: Elton John? Wow, you know I interviewed him recently, right? When he was in Hong Kong. Yeh, he's wonderful. Why Elton John?

    JC: Well, he used to be my idol for so many years, actually, since I was in my teenage. And he's still standing there remember his song "I'm still standing", he's been struggling and this is the way I look into life. He's great, he can hold a concert without any other musicians, just give him piano he can sit there sing for three hours (LH: or even more, hit after hit)

    LH: Jacky, we're going to take a very short break. Just ahead on TalkAsia, a clip of Jacky's breakout role, and his earlier days. That's coming up.

    学友的电影



    LH: Welcome back to TalkAsia - that is a clip from the 1988 movie 'As Tears Go By'. Jacky Cheung's performance as a frustrated, low-level triad member won him that year's Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

    LH: Jacky you've obviously done a number of films and obviously won accoladesfor it, but what takes precedence  -- singing or acting?

    JC: I love singing...if I had to chose one between singing and acting, I would have to chose singing, of course it's more personal. But I like acting, too. You can be another person, that's kind of fun.

    LH: Now, you had several desk jobs, one I read was with Cathay Pacific when you first started. How did you keep that dream going that maybe one day you would make it in the entertainment business?

    JC: That's not my dream (LH: really?) and I dare not to dream about it, you know. I have no relations, I never know any people that were related to this business so you had no way in actually, so I love join singing contests because I loved the excitement that I can get through the process. So, that's the only thing I can get, I think. And accidentally I got a contract and that's how I'm in. I'm a practical person actually, so I stayed with my job until I really got a big success with my first album. Then I start creating it. So I was in both careers (LH: at the same time?) for the same time, for a few months, actually.

    LH: Wow amazing. Now what about your parents, what did they think from suddenly desk job to, you know, a singing sensations?

    JC: As long as I can give enough money back to support family. My mum always says 'it's ok for a boy to get into the business'. We heard a lot of rumors about the business for the girl, better think more think deeply. You might have to give up a lot of things. But for boys, what you got to lose? Just go!

    LH: So they were supporting you all the way?

    JC: My mum, yes, all the way. (LH: Good, your Dad?) My daddy is an engineer on board -- he's traveling everywhere and all year. So I didn't have much time to talk to him and of course he didn't say anything - didn't say any 'no' this (LH: right, right)

    LH: Now, I've read that in the 80s, latter part of the 80s, you had some tough times, and things weren't doing so well. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but you started drinking and your career was going down -- is that true and how didn't you manage to pull back up?

    JC: That's true, and it's all printed (LH: you never believe what you read, right?) Well, those days you can believe some. Well yes and I picked up some bad habits at those times I started drinking with some friends. The worst part was I couldn't control myself after drinking. Yes, and at that time my career was going down, but it's a normal trend, I think. You couldn't just keep your career all the way up there, so it goes down a bit then you start to pick up something...somebody's mistake, you know what's wrong and then you correct and you climb up again, so this is how it goes. Again, the thing is, you've gotta keep working you know that movie that you just showed, that year that's the worst year of my singing career actually, but I'd been doing a lot of movies at that time. So you've got to keep yourself busy, either doing this or doing that. So, of course, if you have a chance you've got to grab it and keep doing it -- no matter what it is.

    LH: And how did you pull yourself back up again?

    JC: Face. You've got to face the reality; I mean you can't just bury your head into those bottles. After you're awake, you're still the same person. You're still facing the same problems and the same difficulties. So you just stand up and face it, and start doing everything from the very beginning, check what's wrong and fix it.

    LH: What has been the biggest price -- you would say -- that you have had to pay for fame?

    JC: Well, I'm not this "star" kind of person -- I don't want to be a star. I love singing and I love acting, and I want to live a normal life. And that's why I'm actually sending my kids to school and doing every what all the parents did. If I had to say one thing, that I couldn't be as normal as everyone (LH: so privacy would be...) I'm ready to give up some of my own privacy, but not my family -- that's the bottom line.

    LH: and what is the best part of being who you are?

    JC: The best part is you are doing something you really love to do. That will give you a better standard of living and that's good (LH: And making money for it?) Well, of course, I have to clear this point that I'm the lucky one and there's a lot of other singers that I know, or knew before and they've just gone (LH: who didn't make it, who didn't survive).

    LH: Jacky, we're going to take another very short break when we return a brand new role for Jacky Cheung

    学友的家庭



    LH: That's another one of Jacky Cheung's famous hits, 'A thousand heart-breaking reasons'. Luckily his real life is not so heartbreaking, he's happily married and a proud father of a four-year-old daughter. Earlier this year, Hong Kong Disneyland appointed Jacky as their spokesperson and they say Jacky stands for everything that makes Disney so special.

    LH: Jacky, why Disneyland? Why be a spokesperson for them?

    JC: They come and look for me and I think, I've been watching a lot of Disney movies with my kids. I think it's about time for me to do something that I can share with my kids.

    LH: What do you hope to achieve, raising the profile or bringing to the attention?

    JC: I just want to do something that I - you know, I've been in over 60 movies and sing a lot of songs, but most of them I couldn't share them with my kid -- for the moment, actually. Now, as a spokesperson of Disneyland I can tell my kid what I'm doing now (LH: and she can relate to it, right? JC: Yes, she can totally understand and I can show her everything that I'm doing for them

    LH: You have done so many things in your life, acting, singing, and musicals. Is there something else that you'd like to do that you haven't done yet?

    JC: A lot. I don't know, I'm thinking of traveling. Really looking into the world. Yes, I've been traveling to many many countries -- most part of the world, yes but I just work (LH: that's not the same, yes). When I have some time off, I would like see the world with my family, maybe when my kid is getting...(LH: a bit older, yes so she can appreciate it, right?)

    LH: When somebody picks up a Jacky Cheung CD -- anywhere in this world -- what do you hope they will get out of it? What do hope they will feel when they get into your music?

    JC: I just want them to feel what they feel. I mean, what's important about songs, it can make you feel something from it. If you can feel something from it - that's what I want actually. You can feel from my album. It might dig up some of your own feelings about something, about memories or whatsoever. It can ease your pain, or it can make you happy for a while or make you relaxed for just a second and that's good enough, that's what I want.

    LH: And it's also so amazing that some people don't understand, let's say, Cantonese or mandarin, but still buy your albums and still listen to you

    JC: Well, that's good when you've heard something about it they don't just buy your albums for who you are, but just because of your music your voice and that makes you feel good.

    LH: Jacky, thank you so much for coming in to talk to us we really appreciate it. Thank you, thank you.

    JC: No, no I was really happy to talk to you

    LH: Devoted entertainer, philanthropist, husband and father - Jacky Cheung. And that is TalkAsia this week, be sure to check out our website at cnn.com/talkasia for upcoming guests. And you can let us know who you'd like to see on the show at that address talkasia@cnn.com. Thank you very much for joining us, I'm Lorraine Hahn, let's talk again next week.


     

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  • 每日视听-CBS新闻-the White House Crashers

    2010-01-07 09:59:19Top 3



         09年11月24日，萨拉希夫妇走进白宫，出席为印度总理辛格举行的国宴。

         美国一对夫妇未受邀请但24日通过白宫层层安检关口，混进总统贝拉克奥巴马为印度总理曼莫汉辛格举行的欢迎晚宴，与副总统约瑟夫拜登等各界名流拍照合影。

    　负责白宫安检工作的美国特工处25日正在对事件展开全面调查，查看安检是否出现疏漏。


     

    News Breifing:

    1.       the White House Crashers, sneak into the dinner, meet the president, whether to press criminal charges

     

    2.      Tiger Woods big scare: car crash, sent world’s highest earning athlete to the hospital

     

    3.      Black Friday: millions hit the mall on Friday, retailer say if you plan to wait for better deals, you might be out of luck.

     

    4.      The American Spirit: a high school drama teacher who’s bridging the racial divide by teaching his students the American spirit.

     

     


    CBS News Hours -the white house crashers 





     

    现年40多岁的萨拉希夫妇本已是国内 “风云人物”。


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  • 每日视听-CBS新闻-Attempted Explosion/Systemic Failure

    2010-01-06 22:03:52Top 3


     

    今天开始决定重新捡起多时没有涉猎的精听训练板块，以前做过“大家来精听”“ABC News Navigation”“Travis实战口译笔记练习“等栏目，大都是关于精听，听抄， 对于大家可能都有比较大的barrier, 毕竟现在的学友们更愿意一些instant gratification的stuff. 自己DIY的却很少，更愿意被 feed 的感觉。

     

    所以现在我其实更愿意和大家分享一些有我个人认为比较实用的，时新的信息和英语，让我们抛开原本强调的英语理论和技能。更多从实用的角度来提升我们队语言的认识，看一点最近的新闻，学习一些词汇和表达，品味语言，咀嚼文化。

     

    每天将会推荐一个欧美的电视节目：新闻，特写，访谈，美剧。

    让我们一起go global！

     

        PS. 最近开心网上遇到了不少以前的同学，好友，谢谢大家对我一贯的支持！I won’t come this far without your earnest support and friendship

     

    CBS News

     

    0’0’’---2'14''

    新闻简介 News Briefing

     

    Tonight no time to waster, President Obama wants answers this week on why authorities missed warning signs before Christmas Day terror attack. “A systemic failure has occurred and I consider that totally unacceptable”. Plus a CBS News Exclusive: the CIA was actually tracking…..months ago.  

     

    I’m Harry Smith, also tonight, the debate over high-tech scanners. Experts say this one might have detected the explosives but critic says it robs innocent passengers of their privacy.

     

    And from lemons to lemonade, they’ve lost their jobs and not the American spirit.

     

    PS. Lemon在美国俚语里是‘瑕疵品﹑破烂货’的意思，比如：His new car turned out to be a lemon. 老美有句很有意思的话﹕When you get lemons, make lemonade. 意思是﹕‘在逆施中求进步﹑求成长’ 或‘化劣势为优势’。主播harry这里指的是美国人在糟糕的经济环境中毅然体现出美国精神。

     

    Good evening, Katie Couric is off tonight. 精简的表达，赞！Katie Couric，CBS新闻当家花旦，美国最目前最具人气的女主播。

     

     

    It was the strongest statement yet（到目前为止的） we heard from President Obama since the Christmas attempted blow of flight 253. (attempted 在犯罪报道中常见，比如attempted murder，翻译成“谋杀未遂“)

     

    Speaking in Hawaii today, the President said a systemic failure allowed the attack to take place, warning signs were missed. He wants preliminary result from two investigations in his hands by Thursday. This has CBS news learn exclusively the CIA began tracking the suspect Abdul Farouk Umar Abdulmutabin August, three months before his father warned authorities about him. But the investigators failed to connect the dots. (这个表达常常用，Steve Jobs演讲的第一个小故事的主题句). More on that in the moment (新闻常见过渡句)

     

    But we began with Chip Reid who is travelling with the President in Hawaii.

     

    “ After three days of silence, and a very matter-of-fact tone(务实的语调) yesterday, today, President Obama was surprisingly harsh(表达中的常见结构: “suprisingly+a”) as he criticized failure that led to what he called a potentially catastrophic breach of security. (打破安保)

     

    “when our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been. So this extremist boards a plane with dangerous exposes that could’ve cause nearly300 lives. A systemic failure has occurred and I consider that totally unacceptable.

       时间关系，先学到这里，to be continued....

     

    关于客机爆炸未遂事件的后续报道，还可以关于Roy老师的“精听系列”

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/index.php?uid-5-action-viewspace-itemid-6371

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  • 我加入了“开心网”，有兴趣的朋友可以加我！

    2010-01-05 20:31:29Top 3

     

        寒假封闭营近在本月底即将拉开帷幕，不过朋友们说官网上对我的宣传照显然有一种让学友们望而却步的趋势，用老米·哥的经典话说：“侬额马相owe me an apology"

       所以小T为了弥补这个小小的遗憾，也为了配合“老米·哥”(Michael老师)和S（王琛Stella）最近的声势，我就义不容辞的开了一个“开心网”的账户,各位有兴趣的学友，好友都可以加我！

      我的注册名：裴晓栋, （头像就是博客上的这个）, 有另外一个的，可是加满了。

      P.S. 马上就要“进去了”，史上最为疯狂的演出即将开始。。。To be continued....

     

     

    推荐“闷骚男”の进去了2：

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/?uid-659-action-viewspace-itemid-5762

     

     

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  • 关于口译和英语专业考试备考的邮件回复

    2009-12-18 10:34:09Top 3

     

    裴老师：

         您好~
         英语考试诸多，针对上海中高口 和专四专八，您觉得怎么准备可以全都顾牢？每样考试都有大量的参考书，如果目前面对很多考试，每种考试的参考书都买么，实在没必要吧，又浪费的，英语似乎没有完全的能力区分，很多都是重叠的~~
     
      08考了次中口，后来准备日语考试了就没再考过了，六级么436，专四么才58，2010.3.6专八终于来了，我目前的水平估计通过也需要花比别人多的多精力的，目标争取报过争良~`我看过中高口和专四专八的考试题型，的确这样考试题型各不相同的，难道就没有什么方法，只看一种来兼顾这些个考试？比如就拿中口的真题和官方的听力教材 精听搞透每个单词句子来同时准备中口与专八？或者用高口的来准备中口，高口，专八的听力专项或者全部？不久前在网上看到 用托福历年真题听力练习 准备口译和专八的？时间短，要达成的目标多，如果每种类型考试的参考书都买来，make a list,算算帐的，平均到每天要看的页数根本是超负荷的类？裴老师您认为关于我提到的这些考试可以怎么兼顾复习准备吗？比如听力、阅读、作文可以各用什么考试的参考书，或者整个兼顾？关于专八考试，您推荐用什么复习书？真题肯定任何考试的必备品~
     
        By the way,我的阅读这块是弱项的，多半受高中英语老师影响分析句子结构的，搞得我惯性思维的，拿到文章就潜移默化得在分析句子结构的，结果导致阅读速度上不去。。我也有意识的在改变，可是效果甚微~裴老师有什么建议啊？帮我脱离这个死角~~还想问下英语报纸上文章有必要通过分析句子结构来提高吗？报纸上出现的词汇是特有的新闻词汇吧，这个是不是只需要在看报的时候明白就行？关于VOA BBC CNN 等电台英语中出现的词汇是不是就和普通日常英语通体系啦？
     
        （偶们半路出家，请允许我问了些本该知识却不知道的问题？）期待老师的早日回复啊~~
     
         Merci~
     
    我的答复：
     
    你好，XXX学友,
     
      你应该是英语专业吧。对于你的情况，我的建议是首先是不要“乱”，因为我发现你的concerns比较多，然后要知道concerns有major和minor之分。你应该先抓住重点要，比如你提到的2010年3月的专八, 这应该是你的primary concern，然后应该是口译考试。
     
      这里就专八，稍微做一点分享。首先本人专八也只是达到良好的标准，远算不上专八考的特别出色。但是经验告诉我：对于这类学术类的测试，最重要的还是通过，毕竟关系你的学位证书。这一点你要清楚，也就是说不要花太多时间在做题上，题是肯定要做的。应该更多关注能力的提高，否则你会陷入"maze of questions"
     
      对于听力，建议你好好的把外研社的<英语中/高级听力教程>和<中高口译听力教程>做一遍，再认真读一遍文本。圈画没有听出和理解的关键词句，把里面的细枝末节能够复听一遍。（PS.这里你已经找到了两个考试的焦急，专八和口译都有听写，和笔记填空这两个板块。而这两本书都能帮你提高这些能力。）
     
      对于听力中比较难的新闻，我建议是每天坚持听VOA或者BBC标速
    这里推荐一个比较细腻有趣的BBC中文网站，内容丰富：http://bbcchina.com.cn/ 
     
       建议把老的新闻一条条找出来“啃，品味语言”。也同时提升你的阅读，和遣词造句的能力。
     
      VOA的标速是为了适应考试要求，因为专八和高口中都有新闻选择题。
     
      此外一个可以联系起来的办法是，每天坚持阅读新闻：可以购买shanghaidaily和chinadaily(不建议上网阅读，容易distraction)
     
      这里推荐重点读里面的：Opinion或者Comment Section, 都是热门话题，比如前两天SH Daily中的关于在Global Climate Summit in Copenhagen背景下的low-carbon lifestyle。 这些都能帮你打开思路，而且都是时新的术语，作为英语专业的同学一定要在这一块体现出你的优势，用词造句够专业！
     
       建议读完后摘抄关键词和短语，生词。
     
      PS.并且还要大声朗读出，用录音软件录下更好，这样才能达到“内化”前的语音输入效果。
     
       接下来就是针对性的做真题了，每次做真题还是尽量恰好时间，最适当的量，是每周1-2套。通常专八考试是在下午进行，所以最好还是下午模拟为好。注意调节好身体状态，务必保证精神状态和身体情况达到最佳，否则在将近3小时的考试里很容易产生疲乏和厌倦感。
      此外推荐的专八辅导书有真题可以用交大的，封面有只青蛙，范文优秀，错题率小。建议背诵几篇备用。冲击波系列丛书也可以选择。最后再建议还要看点中文，因为翻译不能光靠英语，专八的翻译还是片中在文学上一点的。
     
       希望我的建议能给你带来一点启发，也祝你好运！加油哦！
     
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  • Travis看美剧---绯闻女孩第三季11

    2009-12-01 20:27:56Top 3



     

    上东区的感恩季总有闹心的事儿发生。Blair怀疑她妈妈有什么事儿瞒着她，结果却发觉完全不是那么回事。V本来打算回去和父母一起共度佳节，可是她同她妈妈吵了一架，结果她就跑来找Dan了。Rufus得知Lily向他隐瞒了Cece的真相。Chuck告诉Nate说他有个坏消息会让某位好友崩溃。Jenny得知她在沙龙舞会上的出糗全都是Eric搞的鬼，恨不得马上报仇雪恨。Lily邀请了Trip与Maureen过来吃感恩大餐，闹得S超级尴尬。

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  • 史上最强的政治演说-Mario Cuomo1984"Tale of Two Cities"

    2009-10-27 19:10:26Top 3

     

        今天下午的课上同众学友们一起聆听了一段前纽约州州长，著名的银舌参议员Mario Cuomo(一般超强的演说家会被认为是Silver-tongued Orator)在1984的民主党全文大会上的基调讲话Keynote Address。

       这篇演讲的题目是Tale of Two Cities， 借著名作家Charles Dickens的名作来抨击里根政府“星球大战”的政策，呼吁美国选民站出来抵制共和党的统治，虽然民主党在最后的选举中没能获胜，但这段Keynote Address却永载史册。

        该演说在美国20世纪最强演讲中位列第11位，超过了我们熟悉的奥巴马的Victory Speech。不过在T的心中Mario Cuomo老先生永远是当之无愧的演讲之王！

        他的即兴演讲术较目前风头正盛的Obama更为学术，引经据典，妙语连珠, 拍案叫绝。而且老先生不苟言笑，颇有“冷面杀手”之感。 

        P.S. 建议大家好好研磨他的演讲术，我已经背出，follow my lead....

     


    Mario Cuomo

    Democratic National Convention Speech

    July 16, 1984

    演说人介绍：

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Cuomo

    著作：

     

    演说全文：

    On behalf of the Empire State and the family of New York, I thank you for the great privilege of being able to address this convention. Please allow me to skip the stories and the poetry and the temptation to deal in nice but vague rhetoric. Let me instead use this valuable opportunity to deal immediately with questions that should determine this election and that we all know are vital to the American people.

    Ten days ago, President Reagan admitted that although some people in this country seemed to be doing well nowadays, others were unhappy, even worried, about themselves, their families and their futures. The president said that he didn't understand that fear. He said, "Why, this country is a shining city on a hill." And the president is right. In many ways we are a shining city on a hill.

    But the hard truth is that not everyone is sharing in this city's splendor and glory. A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another city; there's another part to the shining the city; the part where some people can't pay their mortgages, and most young people can't afford one, where students can't afford the education they need, and middle-class parents watch the dreams they hold for their children evaporate.

    In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it. Even worse: There are elderly people who tremble in the basements of the houses there. And there are people who sleep in the city streets, in the gutter, where the glitter doesn't show. There are ghettos where thousands of young people, without a job or an education, give their lives away to drug dealers every day. There is despair, Mr. President, in the faces that you don't see, in the places that you don't visit in your shining city.

    In fact, Mr. President, this is a nation --. Mr. President you ought to know that this nation is more a "Tale of Two Cities" than it is just a "Shining City on a Hill."

    Maybe, maybe, Mr. President, if you visited some more places. Maybe if you went to Appalachia where some people still live in sheds, maybe if you went to Lackawanna where thousands of unemployed steel workers wonder why we subsidized foreign steel. Maybe, maybe, Mr. President, if you stopped in at a shelter in Chicago and spoke to the homeless there; maybe, Mr. President, if you asked a woman who had been denied the help she needed to feed her children because you said you needed the money for a tax break for a millionaire or for a missile we couldn't afford to use.

    Maybe, maybe, Mr. President. But I'm afraid not.

    Because, the truth is, ladies and gentlemen, that this is how we were warned it would be. President Reagan told us from very the beginning that he believed in a kind of social Darwinism. Survival of the fittest. "Government can't do everything," we were told. "So it should settle for taking care of the strong and hope that economic ambition and charity will do the rest. Make the rich richer -- and what falls from their table will be enough for the middle class and those who are trying desperately to work their way into the middle class."

    You know, the Republicans called it trickle-down when Hoover tried it. Now they call it supply side. But it's the same shining city for those relative few who are lucky enough to live in its good neighborhoods. But for the people who are excluded -- for the people who are locked out -- all they can do is to stare from a distance at that city's glimmering towers.

    It's an old story. It's as old as our history. The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind by the side of the trail. The strong, the strong they tell us will inherit the land.

    We Democrats believe in something else. We democrats believe that we can make it all the way with the whole family intact. And, we have more than once. Ever since Franklin Roosevelt lifted himself from his wheelchair to lift this nation from its knees -- wagon train after wagon train -- to new frontiers of education, housing, peace; the whole family aboard, constantly reaching out to extend and enlarge that family; lifting them up into the wagon on the way; blacks and Hispanics, and people of every ethnic group, and native Americans -- all those struggling to build their families and claim some small share of America.

    For nearly 50 years we carried them all to new levels of comfort, and security, and dignity, even affluence. And remember this, some of us in this room today are here only because this nation had that kind of confidence. And it would be wrong to forget that.

    So, here we are at this convention to remind ourselves where we come from and to claim the future for ourselves and for our children. Today our great Democratic Party, which has saved this nation from depression, from fascism, from racism, from corruption, is called upon to do it again -- this time to save the nation from confusion and division, from the threat of eventual fiscal disaster, and most of all from the fear of a nuclear holocaust.

    That's not going to be easy. Mo Udall is exactly right, it's not going to be easy. In order to succeed, we must answer our opponent's polished and appealing rhetoric with a more telling reasonableness and rationality.

    We must win this case on the merits. We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship - to reality, to the hard substance of things. And we will do that not so much with speeches that sound good as with speeches that are good and sound. Not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses. We must make the American people hear our "Tale of Two Cities." We must convince them that we don't have to settle for two cities, that we can have one city, indivisible, shining for all of its people.

    Now we will have no chance to do that if what comes out of this convention is a babel of arguing voices. If that's what's heard throughout the campaign - dissident voices from all sides - we will have no chance to tell our message. To succeed we will have to surrender small parts of our individual interests, to build a platform. we can all stand on, at once, comfortably - proudly singing out the truth for the nation to hear, in chorus, its logic so clear and commanding that no slick commercial, no amount of geniality, no martial music will be able to muffle the sound of the truth. We Democrats must unite.

    We Democrats must unite so that the entire nation can unite because surely the Republicans won't bring this country together. Their policies divide the nation - into the lucky and the left-out, into the royalty and the rabble. The Republicans are willing to treat that division as victory. They would cut this nation in half, into those temporarily better off and those worse off than before, and they would call that division recovery.

    We should not, we should not be embarrassed or dismayed or chagrined if the process of unifying is difficult, even wrenching at times. Remember that, unlike any other party, we embrace men and women of every color, every creed, every orientation, every economic class. In our family are gathered everyone from the abject poor of Essex County in New York, to the enlightened affluent of the gold coasts at both ends of the nation. And in between is the heart of our constituency. The middle class -- the people not rich enough to be worry-free, but not poor enough to be on welfare. The middle class, those people who work for a living because they have to, not because some psychiatrist told them it was a convenient way to fill the interval between birth and eternity. White collar and blue collar. Young professionals. Men and women in small business desperate for the capital and contracts that they need to prove their worth.

    We speak for the minorities who have not yet entered the mainstream. We speak for ethnics who want to add their culture to the magnificent mosaic that is America. We speak, we speak for women who are indignant that this nation refuses to etch into its governmental commandments the simple rule "thou shalt not sin against equality," a rule so simple -- I was going to say, and I perhaps dare not but I will, it's a commandment so simple it can be spelled in three letters -- E.R.A.!

    We speak for young people demanding an education and a future. We speak for senior citizens who are terrorized by the idea that their only security - their Social Security - is being threatened. We speak for millions of reasoning people fighting to preserve our environment from greed and from stupidity. And we speak for reasonable people who are fighting to preserve our very existence from a macho intransigence that refuses to make intelligent attempts to discuss the possibility of nuclear holocaust with our enemy. They refuse. They refuse, because they believe we can pile missiles so high that they will pierce the clouds and the sight of them will frighten our enemies into submission.

    Now we're proud of this diversity as Democrats. We're grateful for it. We don't have to manufacture it the way the Republicans will next month in Dallas, by propping up mannequin delegates on the convention floor. But while we're proud of this diversity as Democrats, we pay a price for it. The different people that we represent have different points of view. And sometimes they compete and even debate, and even argue. That's what our primaries were all about. But now the primaries are over and it is time when we pick our candidates and our platform. here to lock arms and move into this campaign together. If you need any more inspiration to put some small part of your own differences aside to create this consensus, all you need to do is to reflect on what the Republican policy of divide and cajole has done to this land since 1980.

    Now the president has asked us to judge him on whether or not he's fulfilled the promise he made four years ago. I believe that as Democrats, we ought to accept that challenge. And, just for a moment let us consider what he has said and what he's done. Inflation is down since 1980. But not because of the supply- side miracle promised to us by the president. Inflation was reduced the old-fashioned way, with a recession, the worst since 1932. We could have brought inflation down that way. How did he do it? Fifty-five thousand bankruptcies. Two years of massive unemployment. Two hundred thousand farmers and ranchers forced off the land. More homeless than at any time since the Great Depression in 1932. More hungry, in this nation of enormous affluence, the United States of America, more hungry. More poor - most of them women - and he paid one more thing, a nearly $200 billion deficit threatening our future.

    Now we must make the American people understand this deficit because they don't. The president's deficit is a direct and dramatic repudiation of his promise to balance our budget by 1983. How large is it? The deficit is the largest in the history of this universe; President Carter's last budget had a deficit of less than one-third of this deficit. It is a deficit that, according to the president's own fiscal adviser, may grow as high as $300 billion a year for "as far as the eye can see."

    And, ladies and gentlemen, it is a debt so large that as much as one-half of our revenue from the income tax goes just to pay the interest. It is a mortgage on our children's future that can be paid only in pain and that could bring this nation to its knees.

    Now don't take my word for it - I'm a Democrat.

    Ask the Republican investment bankers on Wall Street what they think the chances of this recovery being permanent are. You see, if they're not too embarrassed to tell you the truth, they'll say that they are appalled and frightened by the president's deficit. Ask them what they think of our economy, now that it has been driven by the distorted value of the dollar back to its colonial condition - now we're exporting agricultural products and importing manufactured ones. Ask those Republican investment bankers what they expect the rate of interest to be a year from now. And ask them, if they dare tell you the truth you will hear from them, what they predict for the inflation rate a year from now, because of the deficit.

    Now, how important is this question of the deficit.

    Think about it practically: What chance would the Republican candidate have had in 1980 if he had told the American people that he intended to pay for his so-called economic recovery with bankruptcies, unemployment, more homeless, more hungry and the largest government debt known to humankind? Would American voters have signed the loan certificate for him on Election Day? Of course not! That was an election won under false pretenses. It was won with smoke and mirrors and illusions. And that's the kind of recovery we have now as well.

    And what about foreign policy? They said that they would make us and the whole world safer. They say they have. By creating the largest defense budget in history, one that even they now admit is excessive. By escalating to a frenzy the nuclear arms race. By incendiary rhetoric. By refusing to discuss peace with our enemies. By the loss of 279 young Americans in Lebanon in pursuit of a plan and a policy that no one can find or describe.

    We give money to Latin American governments that murder nuns, and then we lie about it. We have been less than zealous in support of our only real friend, it seems to me, we have in the Middle East, the one democracy there, our flesh and blood ally, the state of Israel. Our foreign policy drifts with no real direction, other than an hysterical commitment to an arms race that leads nowhere - if we're lucky. And if we're not, it could lead us into bankruptcy or war.

    Of course we must have a strong defense!

    Of course Democrats are for a strong defense. Of course Democrats believe that there are times when we must stand and fight. And we have. Thousands of us have paid for freedom with our lives. But always - when this country has been at its best - our purposes were clear. Now they're not. Now our allies are as confused as our enemies. Now we have no real commitment to our friends or to our ideals - not to human rights, not to the refuseniks, not to Sakharov, not to Bishop Tutu and the others struggling for freedom in South Africa.

    We have in the last few years spent more than we can afford. We have pounded our chests and made bold speeches. But we lost 279 young Americans in Lebanon and we live behind sand bags in Washington. How can anyone say that we are stronger, safer, or better?

    That is the Republican record.

    That its disastrous quality is not more fully understood by the American people I can only attribute to the president's amiability and the failure by some to separate the salesman from the product.

    And, now it's up to us. Now it's now up to you and me to make the case to America. And to remind Americans that if they are not happy with all the president has done so far, they should consider how much worse it will be if he is left to his radical proclivities for another four years unrestrained. Unrestrained.

    If July brings back Ann Gorsuch Burford - what can we expect of December? Where would another four years take us? Where would four years more take us? How much larger will the deficit be? How much deeper the cuts in programs for the struggling middle class and the poor to limit that deficit? How high will the interest rates be? How much more acid rain killing our forests and fouling our lakes? And, ladies and gentlemen, the nation must think of this: What kind of Supreme Court will we have? We must ask ourselves what kind of court and country will be fashioned by the man who believes in having government mandate people's religion and morality?

    The man who believes that trees pollute the environment, the man that believes that the laws against discrimination against people go too far. The man who threatens Social Security and Medicaid and help for the disabled. How high will we pile the missiles? How much deeper will the gulf be between us and our enemies? And, ladies and gentlemen, will four years more make meaner the spirit of  the American people?

    This election will measure the record of the past four years. But more than that, it will answer the question of what kind of people we want to be. 

    We Democrats still have a dream. We still believe in this nation's future. And this is our answer to the question, this is our credo:

    We believe in only the government we need but we insist on all the government we need. We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise things that we know we can't do.We believe in a government strong enough to use the words "love" and "compassion" and smart enough to convert our noblest aspirations into practical realities. We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.

    Our government should be able to rise to the level to where it can fill the gaps left by chance or a wisdom we don't fully understand. We would rather have laws written by the patron of this great city, the man called the "world's most sincere Democrat" - St. Francis of Assisi - than laws written by Darwin.

    We believe, we believe as Democrats, that a society as blessed as ours, the most affluent democracy in the world's history, one that can spend trillions on instruments of destruction, ought to be able to help the middle class in its struggle, ought to be able to find work for all who can do it, room at the table, shelter for the homeless, care for the elderly and infirm, and hope for the destitute. And we proclaim as loudly as we can the utter insanity of nuclear proliferation and the need for a nuclear freeze, if only to affirm the simple truth that peace is better than war because life is better than death.

    We believe in firm but fair law and order. We believe proudly in the union movement. We believe in privacy for people, openness by government, we believe in civil rights, and we believe in human rights. We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a proper government should be. The idea of family. Mutuality. The sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all. Feeling one another's pain. Sharing one another's blessings. Reasonably, honestly, fairly - without respect to race, or sex, or geography or political affiliation.

    We believe we must be the family of America, recognizing that at the heart of the matter we are bound one to another, that the problems of a retired school teacher in Duluth are our problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is our future. That the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive, and live decently, is our struggle. That the hunger of a woman in Little Rock is our hunger. That the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might, to avoid pain, is our failure.

    Now for 50 years, for 50 years we Democrats created a better future for our children, using traditional Democratic principles as a fixed beacon, giving us direction and purpose, but constantly innovating, adapting to new realities: Roosevelt's alphabet programs; Truman's NATO and the GI Bill of Rights; Kennedy's intelligent tax incentives and the Alliance for Progress; Johnson's civil rights; Carter's human rights and the nearly miraculous Camp David Peace Accord.

    Democrats did it, Democrats did it - and Democrats can do it again. We can build a future that deals with our deficit. Remember this, that 50 years of progress under our principles never cost us what the last four years of stagnation have. And, we can deal with the deficit intelligently, by shared sacrifice, with all parts of the nation's family contributing, building partnerships with the private sector, providing a sound defense without depriving ourselves of what we need to feed our children and care for our people.

    We can have a future that provides for all the young of the present, by  marrying common sense and compassion. We know we can, because we did it for nearly 50 years before 1980.

    And we can do it again. If we do not forget. If we do not forget that this entire nation has profited by these progressive principles. That they helped lift up generations to the middle class and higher: gave us a chance to work, to go to college, to raise a family, to own a house, to be secure in our old age and, before that, to reach heights that our own parents would not have dared dream of.

    That struggle to live with dignity is the real story of the shining city. And it's a story, ladies and gentlemen, that I didn't read in a book, or learn in a classroom. I saw it, and lived it. Like many of you. I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. I learned about our kind of democracy from my father. And, I learned about our obligation to each other from him and from my mother. They asked only for a chance to work and to make the world better for their children and they asked to be protected in those moments when they would not be able to protect themselves. This nation and this nation's government did that for them.

    And that they were able to build a family and live in dignity and see one of their children go from behind their little grocery store in South Jamaica on the other side of the tracks where he was born, to occupy the highest seat in the greatest state of the greatest nation in the only world we know, is an ineffably beautiful tribute to the democratic process.

    And, ladies and gentlemen, on January 20, 1985, it will happen again. Only on a much, much grander scale. We will have a new president of the United States, a Democrat born not to the blood of kings but to the blood of pioneers and immigrants. And we will have America's first woman vice president, the child of immigrants, and she, she, she will open with one magnificent stroke, a whole new frontier for the United States. Now, it will happen.

    It will happen - if we make it happen; if you and I can make it happen.

    And I ask you now - ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters - for the good of all of us - for the love of this great nation, for the family of America - for the love of God. Please, make this nation remember how futures are built.

    Thank you and God bless you.


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  • Travis二阶段备考专题贴（冲刺11月，阶段总结，最新的公告）

    2009-10-13 21:42:28Top 3 Digest 3

     

       这是Travis的二阶段备考专题贴，包括了中高口每日一练的汇总贴，大家以后只要通过这个贴就能查到口试的重点篇章，并且附有本人录制的MP3，以供更好的练习。

       我会不断完善这个专题，大家也可以踊跃地发言，一起共同探讨二阶段备考中纠结的问题，对于书本的理解，对于不同翻译版本的分享。

     

       距离考试还有1个月，各位加油吧，我们要力争考好，不枉过去几个月的辛劳，还有T对大家的期望。

     

       欢迎！I'm open to everyone.

      P.S. 已更新至10/14号的练习。10/14，本人有讲座任务在身，恐怕没有时间更新了，故今晚发布。特此说明。

     PS.  最新通知，由于本人这段时间很忙，录音工作暂时会放缓，不过每天还是会坚持更新，谢谢各位的理解。继续加油吧。

     

    最新通知：

          各位学友，我的口译二阶段备考专题贴目前已累计发布重点考试篇章中高口部分各十篇，皆为典型代表文章。希望对大家的备考有一定帮助。接下来的日子里，T将有更重要的任务要去完成，希望各位按照我为大家准备模式，去给自己录音。实战，模拟，练习。

     

          大家也可以关注即将开始的二阶段考前大讲座：

      http://www.onlycollege.com.cn/Thematic/0910kouyi/

     

    还有晓波老师准备的考前专用贴， 有详细的备考程序和推荐书籍：

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/index.php?uid-5-action-viewspace-itemid-3455

     

    一周之后将会有热门话题和主题分类，敬请期待

    ？？？

    PS. 希望大家一路顺风，期待各位学友的好消息

                                                                                  昂立教育  Travis敬上

                                                                                联系方式：travispei@gmail.com

     

    高口专题：

    1. 中华崛起---重要性：★★★★★

    口译每日一练操作步骤要领

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/index.php?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5057

     

    2. 中美贸易（摩擦）---重要性：★★★

    操作时两点强调

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/index.php?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5062

     

    3. 泰山---重要性：★★★

    四字格翻译的把握

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/index.php?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5069

     

    4. 北京世界公园--重要性：★★★

    模拟导游思维

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/index.php?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5085

     

    5. G20国集团--重要性：★★★

    热门经济话题，全球一体化

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5099

     

     

     

    6. 北京简介---重要性：★★★★

     

    热门北京，必须熟悉

     

     

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5126

     

    7. 上海简介---重要性：★★★★★

    城市介绍历来就是考点的中心，上海近两年来一定是常考话题，必须积累相应的知识，保证考试前作好充分准备，万无一失。

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5144

     

    8. 中国文化在海外---重要性：★★★★

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5164

     

    9. 复旦大学介绍--重要性：★★★

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5177

    10. 上海博物馆---重要性：★★★

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5198

     

    中口专题：

    1. 上海本帮菜--重要性：★★★

    特色菜名，四字格处理

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/index.php?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5061

     

    2. 中美文化差异--重要性：★★★

    思想文化

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/index.php?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5068

     

    3. 政府职能--重要性：★★★

    政府&NGO

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/index.php?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5087

     

    4. 春节--重要性：★★★

    传统佳节

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/index.php?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5098

     

    5. 香港中文大学--重要性：★★★★

    大学院校介绍历年来时考试的一个切入点，09年5月的高口考试中就有这样一段。

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5125

     

    6. 中国国际出版集团---重要性：★★★

    出版业相关词汇，局，署等单位词汇，以及在全球化背景下的运作。

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5142

     

    7. 中国的宗教情况---重要性：★★★★

    由于近些月来得一些爆发出的一些名族问题，这个话题现在也被给予一定的关注度，需要考生熟悉中国的几个主要的少数名族，在宗教这个话题里就涉及了一二。

     

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/index.php?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5165

     

    8. 环境保护---重要性：★★★★

    环保是一个永恒的主题，尤其是当奥巴马政府的倡导的新能源计划后又成为了世界的focal point

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5176

     

    9. 儿童权益---重要性：★★★

    对于中国古话的翻译和临场应变！

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5195

     

    10. 中华武术---重要性：★★★

    http://blog.onlycollege.com.cn/?uid-683-action-viewspace-itemid-5209

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  • 现场听力-奥巴马获诺贝尔和平奖后的发言

    2009-10-10 21:19:27Top 3


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