The two collections are housed in a huge and historic building of white stone. The building dates back to eighteen thirty-six. It was where inventors established claims for their inventions.
这两件收藏品安置于一座大的历史性用全体为白色石头的建筑物中.这座建筑物的建造年代可以追溯到1836年.这里也正是发明家展示他们的发明的地方.

The Old Patent Office Building became part of the Smithsonian Institution in nineteen sixty-two. It is now the Smithsonian Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture.
原专利局与1962年成为史密森机构的一部分.如今它是致力于美国艺术和肖像画德的史密森.唐纳德 W.雷诺兹中心.

The renovations cost more than two hundred eighty million dollars. Congress and private donors provided the money. There is no charge to visit the museums.
这像革新耗费了起码280,000,000美元.款项来自国会和私人捐赠.参观博物馆是免费的.

Space for showings is much bigger now with the new look. The roof is new. Workers also redid the floors. Hundreds of windows have been improved. Skylights have been re-opened.
如今以崭新面貌出现的展览的空间比以前大得多了.其中,屋顶是新的,工人们也修复了楼梯,上百座窗户已经加固改进,天窗重新打开了.

Elizabeth Broun is director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She talks about the importance of the additional natural light. This is especially true for some works, like the colored glass windows by the artist John La Farge, who died in nineteen ten.
Elizabeth Broun是史密森美国艺术博物馆的主管.她谈到附加自然灯光的重要性.这对于一些工作是尤其有效的,比如死于1910年的艺术家John La Farge所创造的有色玻璃.

Many people used to make separate visits to see the two collections. Now, the museums share a common main entrance. In fact, they seem to melt into each other.
许多人曾经要到两个不同的地方参观两个收藏品.如今,博物馆提供了一个共同的主要入口.其实,它们看上去已融成一体

The National Portrait Gallery is on the east side of the first floor of the building. The Smithsonian American Art Museum, known as SAAM, is on the west side.
国家肖像画走廊位于这座建筑物第一层的东边.缩写为SAAM的史密森美国艺术博物馆位于西边.

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But Mister Bush said the first goal was to finish the space station by two thousand ten, to study the long-term effects of living in space. Fifteen other nations are also involved in the space station.
但是布什总统说第一个目标是在2010之前完成太空站,以研究太空居住环境的长期任务.其余15座国家也在参与太空站的建设.

NASA plans to retire its three remaining shuttles once the station is completed.
美国国家航空和宇宙航行局计划当太空站完成的时候就将剩下的三架航天飞机退役.

This week, Discovery became the first shuttle launched on America's Independence Day. It lifted off with a crew of seven on Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
这个星期,发现者号成为了在美国独立日发射的第一架航天飞机.它载着七名机组成员在佛罗里达的肯尼迪太空中心中发射进入太空.

Bad weather had delayed the launch. Also, there had been some concerns about the safety of the foam protective material on the external fuel tank.
坏天气延误了发射时间.同时,还有对于制作燃料槽外表明的泡沫保护材料的安全性的担忧.

During the Columbia launch, a piece of material fell off the fuel tank and struck a wing. The piece weighed more than seven hundred grams. It put a hole in the heat shields and the shuttle came apart on re-entry.
在哥伦比亚号的发射期间,一片材料从燃料槽上掉下来并击中了机翼.这片材料有超过700克重.它使得加热壳留下一个凹洞而且该航天飞机重新分离.

A small amount of foam did come loose from the fuel tank on the Discovery. But officials decided it was not enough to be dangerous. Also, astronauts are examining the heat shields while at the space station.

发现者号燃料槽的一部分燃料确实是比较松了.但是官员决意认为这不会构成危险.同时,宇航员正在太空站检查加热外皮.

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The decision by investor Warren Buffett to give away most of his wealth has raised the hopes of public health officials especially. The biggest gift will go to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. More than sixty percent of its giving last year went to projects related to health.
投资者Warren Buffett作出一项捐赠他的大部分财产的决定,这个决定特别提高公共卫生官员的希望.最大的赠款将会赠与比尔及梅林达—盖茨基金会.去年超过60%的赠款将赠与和健康有关的工程.

The Gates Foundation is known, among other things, for supporting the development of drugs for AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases. But there is also demand for more money for projects that aim to save lives now instead of in the future.
盖茨基金会在其他支持治疗AIDS,肺结核以及其他疾病药物进展的基金会中是有名的.但是他也向旨为如今拯救生命还不是为未来拯救生命的项目提供资助.

The foundation will receive yearly gifts of stock. The first gift next month will be worth about one and one-half thousand million dollars. The charity organization gave away almost as much last year.
基金会将接收了每年捐赠的股票.第一批下个月的股票将值1500,000,000美元.慈善机构将赠送和去年相当的赠款.

Mister Buffett's gift is expected to double the size of the foundation, already the largest in the world. It is currently valued at thirty thousand million dollars.
人们期望Buffett先生的赠款会给基金会的规模扩大两倍,并成为世界上最大的基金会.现在这个基金会有3000,000,000美元.

Bill and Melinda Gates say they will use the gift announced last week to strengthen their work in world health and education. Mister Gates said: "There is no reason we can't cure the top twenty diseases."
比尔及梅林达说他们将会使用上个星期已承认得赠款来扩大世界卫生以及教育的工作.比尔先生说:"我们没有治疗排在前二十位疾病的理由了"
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This week, we report on a new warning about the worldwide problem of counterfeit medicines. Scientists warn of a growing industry that is producing illegal copies of the anti-malaria drug artesunate. They say these counterfeits are spreading quickly through mainland Southeast Asia.
这个星期,我们报道了一条关于假药的全球性问题的警告.科学家警告一家工厂生产反疟疾药品青蒿素的违法复制品.他们说这些假药正风靡亚洲东南部大陆地区.

Counterfeit drugs are sold under the names of real medicines. They often contain no active substance, or not enough to work.
假药是顶着真药的头衔出售的.其通常不包含有效物质或者不能起有效的作用.

Paul Newton of the University of Oxford in England led an investigation. The researchers tested artesunate tablets that were used to treat a man at a hospital in eastern Burma last year. Artesunate is normally effective, but the twenty-three-year-old man died from common malaria.
英格兰牛津大学的保罗.牛顿发出一项调查.研究者测试去年曾经用来在缅甸东部的医院治疗某一个医患的青蒿素药剂.青蒿素通常是有疗效的,但是这个23岁的人死于疟疾.

The fake tablets were sold as a real product made by Guilin Pharmaceutical of China. The scientists discovered that the tablets contained only ten milligrams of artesunate. The real product contains fifty milligrams.
假药在中国桂林药物以真药的名义出售.科学家们发现这些药剂只包含10毫克的青蒿素.而真药包含15毫克的青蒿素.

The hospital had bought a large supply of the drug. It was all fake.
医院购买了大量的药品.这些都是假冒的.

The researchers say there are now at least twelve different kinds of counterfeit artesunate. They say that in Southeast Asia, between forty and fifty percent of drugs identified as artesunate may contain no active substance.
研究人员说现在起码有12种不同的假冒青蒿素.他们说在亚洲东南部地区,40%到50%地药品被查出可能没有含有有效治疗物质.

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1, Countries that may fall back in their progress are placed on a Tier Two "Watch List.

2, It says the report was a political move against the government of President Hugo Chavez.

3, The report also notes concerns about possible increases in human trafficking for the sex trade in Germany during the World Cup.

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