US House of Representatives Approves Foreign Surveillance Bill (2/2)


It requires court permission and stablishman establishment of probably probable cause for surveillance of American's oversee Americans overseas, and processing prohibits a process in which the communications of UN a U.S. citizen could be monitor monitored without court approval by targeting a foreigner. House speaker Speaker Nancy Pelosi said while the major measure is not perfect, overall it helps keep Americans safe and does not violate American's constitutional rights.   in last "We must have a bill that does not violate the constitution Constitution of the United States, and this file bill does not . is a former public chillmen of the House community Most not.   "The most important thing is that by bases on a bipartisan basis we have come together on a national security issue to give our intelligence community the tools that they need to keep America safe . safe.  But many democrats Democrats voiced strong opposition, among them Callfornia congress woman Congresswoman Barbara Lee. "It does not strike the probably proper balance between protectional protecting national security and perserve preserving our cherished civil liberties . in liberties.   In advance of the house House votepresident , President Bush said the legislation will help the US U.S. intelligence community protecting protect Americans.
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[BBC新闻听写]6月28日 科学家开发动物追踪技术

British scientist have develop sevilance developed surveillance technology that can identify individual pa penguins and then monitor them over period of long periods of time. The pan penguin recognition system, a computer controlled camera, could also be used to track other species from cheters cheetahs to sharks. Here is Here's our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh. The pan penguin population is decliningscientist . Scientists monitor their numbers by count a counting the number of tracked tagged animals and then estimating the total numbers number that being have been lostbut . But now this there is a more acurate accurate method. A computered controlled computer-controlled camera could that rapidly takes pictures of tens of thousands of the penguins. The system recalls records the partner sports pattern of spots on their chest, which is as unique to each animal as finger prints fingerprints are to us. A data base database is then able to identify each of and every animal that photograph that's photographed


 [BBC新闻听写] 6月29日蒙古大选
A general election is taking place in Mongolia, the fifth in the 18 eighteen years since the large but si polulated countries though of conmmunismthinly populated country threw off communism. Mongolia's potencial Min Mongolia’s potential mineral wealth has been in a campaign issue for with the two biggest parties both promising that review revenue from big mining projects project will be returned to the people. Michael Kohn reports form from the capital Ulan Bator. In urban areas, polling stations have been set up inside schools, libraries and ge while on gymnasiums. While in the remote countrysideruling , voting is taking place inside gears tan like gers, tent-like structures then no man choose at that nomads use as a homefor Mongolians election . For Mongolians’, elections are something of a national holiday, and the general election committee General Election Committee is proecting predicting a turn out turnout at least 70%70 percent. Voting will end at 10pm 10 pm local time on Sunday, and the first result results are expected on Monday morning.


[BBC新闻听写]6月30日 (视频版)圣公会分裂在即

Headlines form The latest headlines from BBC world news World News. President Robert Mugabe has report the offer reportedly offered to hold talks with the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, following presidential one of the presidential run-off election for that passed a few seconds. Mr Tsvangirai has rejected that government impletation invitation to the ignoration inauguration of president Robert President Mugabe for a new term and called on Africa not to recognise recognize Mr Mugabe's re-electionsre-election. One of the lazyest Malaysia’s most of position politician prominent opposition politicians Anwar Ibrahim is taking refugee of at the Turkish embassy. He's facing renewed claims that sexual serve the man he deny sexually assaulted a man. He's denied that claim. The end of the Anglican church could be a step close closer to a permanent split. Traditionalists have agreed to create an organization to combat liberal trends, such as organization the ordination of a gay the clergy. The US secretary state Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has visit China provice visited China's province of sichuan Sichuan where be davestate in the devastating earthquake struck in May.She May. She paid contribute tribute to china's China's efforts to recover from the disaster. Those are the headlines from BBC World News.



[BBC新闻听写]7月1日 瑞银卷入美国逃税案

The American justice department Justice Department is seeking information from the Swiss Bank bank UBS, about the US tax payers taxpayers who may have used offsure offshore accounts to avid evade avoid paying federally contaxes federal income taxes. From New York Michelle Fleury reports. The US justice department Justice Department wants UBS to turn over the names of wealthy American clients suspected of using secret offsure offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes. The request made in court paper found papers filed in Florida comes into made amid a widing widening investigation into the private banking services often offered by the UBS in the United States. Earlier this month a former UBS excutive executive pleaded guilty to tax vansion evasion. Bradley Birkenfeld held helped clients find hide millions of dollars from the US tax taxman. The United Nations has appionted appointed the French diplament diplomat Alain Le Roy as the new header head of peace keep its peacekeeping operations. Mr Le Roy will oversee the current of diploments deployments of more than 100,000 UN peace keepers into peacekeepers in 20 countries, more than half in Africa and middle east.the Middle East



US House of Representatives Approves Foreign Surveillance Bill (1/2)

In crafting the latest provision revision of the 1978 foreign intelligence surveilance act or file Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), House in Senator law makers give president and Senate lawmakers gave President Bush much of what he thought sought during most months of tough negociations negotiations.   The president wanted to tell the communications company telecommunications companies they cooperated with the government counter terrorist government’s counter-terrorist surveillance progame program he approved at after the September 2001 terrorist attacks he receive rich to received ritual act of community immunity from procecution prosecution.   The programe program, which envolved sruveillance involves surveillance of terrorist terror suspects without acourt war and trager a court warrant, triggered widespread protest untill forty lawsuit to learn protests and at least 40 lawsuits alleging violations of civil liberties. The programe program was publically reviewed publicly revealed in media reports in 2005. The new legislation, which passed a the house by a voter vote of 293 to 129 293-129, does not grand backetive community grant blanket immunity to telicommunications the telecommunitations companies, but there is does provide for court review of certifercation certifications from the US U.S. attorney general that companies acted under presidential orders. A judge could then dismiss a lawsuitamong .   Among key points of the new law, electronic is dropping eavesdropping without court approval were would be permited permitted in what a dizinated are designated as emergencies, allowing the government to submit justifications within one week.
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点击查看大图16.True blue will never stain.


意译:真金不怕火炼。
直译:真正的蓝色无论如何都不会被玷污or正直的人决不会做坏事or纯洁的品德不会被玷污(屠夫为防衣服被血染而常戴蓝色围裙, 因此产生此语)

Meaning: A really noble heart will never disgrace itself. The reference is to blue aprons and blouses worn by butchers, which do not show blood-stains. 原来从前英国屠夫穿的罩衫,围裙都是深蓝色的染了血迹不会显出来也就是“不会给沾污”了.

所以人们用true blue will never stain一语来 比 喻 生 性 高 洁 的 人 是 怎 样 都 不 会 坠 落 的 。

True blue.:This is a Spanish phrase, and refers to the notion that the veins shown in the skin of aristocratic families are more blue than that of inferior persons. 现在true blue二 字 就 指 意 志 坚 定 或 忠 实 的 人 , 例 如 ∶ You can rely on him. He is a true blue.(你 可 以 信 赖 他 。 他 是 一 位 很 坚 定 的 人 。)


例句:if we make up our mind to live a meaningful and fruitful life, we should be prepared to overcome all kinds of difficulties and never draw back. True blue will never stain

点击查看大图这里检验一下喔! 以前我们学过的。同样和染色有关的谚语喔!近朱者赤,近墨者黑。是怎么说的呢?还记得吗?提示一下和沥青有关喔!!如果你碰了沥青,你就会被弄脏。想起来了吧!


点击查看大图17. Many kiss the baby for the nurse's sake.

意译:醉翁之意不在酒or项庄舞剑,意在沛公

直译:许多人是为了护士而亲吻孩子。

例句:"Many kiss the baby for the nurse's sake. Chinese people attach much importance to the Olympic Games, and the Tibet issue is just an opportunity or an excuse for Western countries."

相似表达:have ulterior motives
The drinker's heart is not in the cup.


点击查看大图18.Short pleasure, long lament.
意译:一失足成千古恨
直译:欢娱片刻,悔恨终生。

点击查看大图19. Late fruits keeps well.
意译:大器晚成
直译:晚熟的水果保存的好

找不到关于这个谚语的资料喔!就补充点中文知识好啦!感兴趣的去看看!哈哈
《老子》:“大方无隅,大器晚成。”(挺深奥的一本书,不过看看可以静心。汉朝初的时候十分推崇老庄,主张无为而治,到汉武帝的时候才开始尊儒的。老子的主张太脱俗了,像是世外高人的感觉。而庄子逍遥游里尧让天下于许由那一段就让我感慨万千了。如今肯定没有这样的人了吧!)
三国时,魏国有名崔林者,少时无才,默默无闻,亲友轻之,唯堂兄崔琰甚重之。琰常语人曰:“此所谓大器晚成者也,终必远至。”后果于魏文帝曹丕时作司空,并封为安阳乡侯。

相似表达:great talent takes time to mature
A great vessel will be long in completion.-A great man will take time to shape and mature




点击查看大图20. Fish in troubled waters.
意译:浑水摸鱼;趁火打劫;
直译:浑水摸鱼 (又一个直译意译相同的谚语喔)

troubled waters n. 混乱状态, 波涛汹涌的水

例句:It is good fishing in troubled waters.
They were clearly seeking to fish in troubled waters.
显然他们意图混水摸鱼。
All they wanted was to make bad blood between them and fish in troubled waters.
他们所要做的就是挑拨离间,混水摸鱼。.


相似表达
To try to take advantage of a confused situation.


联想:浑水摸鱼是三十六计的第二十计。原文是:乘其阴乱,利其弱而无主。随,以向晦入宴息。(有兴趣的可以去了解一下)

点击查看大图这里检验一下喔!以前我们学过的。同样是直译意译相同的谚语喔!肯定还记得吧!

Original:
There used to be a fisherman who was fishing with his fishnet in a river. He put his fishnet across the river way and then flapped (slapped) the river water a rope. The rope was attached with a stone at the end in the water. The sediment was stirred up and the water got muddy, so the fish confusedly hurled themselves willingly into the net one after another. The fisherman got so much fish in this way. However, the nearby inhabitants rebuked the fisherman:" We rely on the river for fresh drinking-water, and how can you make the water so muddy and where else can we get the clean water to drink?" The fisherman said helplessly: "But if I don't stir the water I would not get the fish and would be starved to death.

出自《伊索寓言•渔夫》 
这篇寓言江的是:有个渔夫在河里张网捕鱼,他把鱼网横栏在河道里,然后拿了一条缚着石块的绳子,不停的拍击河水,使泥沙泛起,河水浑浊,鱼儿在慌乱中纷纷自投罗网,渔夫用这个方法捕得了好多鱼。但住在附近的人指责渔夫说:“我们饮水全靠这条河,你把水搞得这么浑,叫我们到哪里去找清水饮用呢?”渔夫回答说:“可是,我若不把水搞浑,那就非饿死不可了”因此,人们常用to fish in trouble waters 比喻to try to win advantages for oneself from a disturbed state of affairs; to make use of sb's misfortune to serve one's own ends.并因此产生了谚语it’s good fishing in troubled waters(混水好摸鱼)。
to fish in troubled waters 也可写成to fish in the muddy waters,而且water必须做waters。


  例句1:The man who interferes in South American politics is fishing in troubled waters
  例句2:I refused to let them come here because I knew they only wanted to fish in troubled waters
  例句3:Those who made large profits out of illegally selling rationed goods during World War II were fishing in troubled waters.


答案:Touch pitch, and you will be defiled或者You can't touch pitch without being defiled也是可以的~~~~
One swallow does not make a summer

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21A watched pot never boils

意译:心急吃不了热豆腐

直译:守着的水壶老不开

MeaningSomething we wait for with impatient attention seems to take forever.

A pot will, in fact, boil even if you watch, but it will seem to take forever, and that is really the point of this amusing proverb. So if you must wait for something to happen, take your mind off the waiting by doing something else. It's amazing how much faster 'the pot' seems to reach a boil.

 

OriginIf you hang around, waiting for something to happen, it never will.As  for the saying itself, the English novelist Elizabeth Gaskell first rendered it in 'Mary Barton' (1848), giving the exact wording of the current version." From "Wise Words and Wives' Tales: The Origins, Meanings and Time-Honored Wisdom of Proverbs and Folk Sayings Olde and New" by Stuart Flexner and Doris Flexner (Avon Books, New York, 1993).: The hands of a clock never seem to move when you stare at them, especially on Christmas Eve. You can sit beside the phone for hours without it ringing.

 

补充:

It's a cautionary statement, preaching the value of patience. It's the sort of    thing mothers tell their children. Waiting for a pot to come to boil can seem interminable if you stare at it. Better to go busy yourself with some other task, and the time will (seem to) go faster. Applied metaphorically to any activity where you waste energy doing nothing, fighting, waiting for something to happen when you could better apply your time doing something useful. Literally, of course, the boiling takes the same amount of time whether you watch or not, but time does drag on interminably when you're over-anxious.
 (The phrase has nothing to do with boiling over.)

 

 

22. The style is the man.

意译:文如其人

直译:文如其人 第三个意译直译相同的谚语罗,前两个是什么呢?忘不了了吧!)

Origin

 Style Is the Man: Manners, Dress, and Decorum

Sir Walter Raleigh's oft quoted dictum "Style is the man" confronts the cultural historian with an apparent paradox. What kind of style, let alone what kind of proper man, is compatible with those starched and showy Elizabethans who strutted and preened like so many self-satisfied peacocks, dressed in clothing that was not only vulgar, exhibitionistic, and hopelessly impractical but also condemned by almost everyone as un-English, immoral, and economically harmful to the kingdom? Raleigh himself was one of the worst examples of Tudor sartorial and theatrical ostentation, but when he spoke...

 

成语出处:

宋朝苏轼《答张文潜书》 子由(苏辙)之文实胜仆,而世俗不知,乃以为不如。其为人深不愿人知之,其文如其为人,故汪洋澹泊,有一唱三叹之声,而秀杰之气终不可没。

 

23. Common fame is a liar.

意译:盛名之下,,其实难副。

直译:徒有虚名。

这里检验一下喔!以前我们复习过的。同样是与名声有关的,树大招风怎么说呢!

补充:

阳春之曲,和者必寡;盛名之下,其实难副。

A good fame is better than a good face. 美名胜过美貌。

 

 

24. Out of office ,out of danger.

意译:无官一声轻

直译:离开官场,离开忧虑。(查了一下danger应该没有焦虑,忧虑的意思,但这里danger翻成危险似乎不太恰当。这个谚语可以直接翻成无官一声轻,也是比较好记的。)

MeaningWhen one is relieved of official duties one feels completely carefree

 

补充:

Out of debt, out of danger. 无债一身轻。

 

联想:无官一身轻的典范应该是陶渊明啦!在欣赏下他的归去来兮词吧!中学学过的!

归云来兮田园将芜胡不归。既自以心为形役,奚惆怅而独悲。悟已往之不谏,知来者之可追。实迷途其未远,觉悟今是而昨非。舟遥遥以轻飏,风飘飘而吹衣。问征夫以前路。恨晨光之熹微。

 

·苏轼《贺子由生第四孙》诗:无官一身轻,有子万事足。()

 

归去来兮归去来(我挺喜欢的一句话,读起来就感觉很潇洒哈!!)

青山白云好居住,劝君归去来兮归去来。

归去来兮归去来,长安纵好休徘徊。

 

 

25.Man proposesGod disposes.

意译:谋事在人,成事在天。

直译:计划取决于人,决定取决于天。

MeaningPeople can make plans; God determines how things will turn out.

Origin

The quotation Man proposes but God disposes may come down to us as a direct translation from a work of devotion written in Latin by Thomas a Kempis.
This work, his celebrated Of the Imitation of Christ, is the second most widely read christian text after the Bible itself. It contains many sensitively and wisely expressed insights into spirituality and morals.

 

In Chapter 19 of Book 1 we find :-
"For the resolutions of the just depend rather on the grace of God than on their own wisdom; and in Him they always put their trust, whatever they take in hand.
For man proposes, but God disposes; neither is the way of man in his own hands".

The exact Latin phrase translating as man proposes, but God disposes; being Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit;

Many of the numerous insights contained in the Of the Imitation of Christ are very well phrased and judiciously expressed restatements of insights that themselves originate in the Bible.
In relation to this insight that man proposes but God disposes there are several originals in the Bible to chose from:-

Thus in the Book of Proverbs, attributed to Solomon the Wise, we read:-

A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. Proverbs 16:9

and again in Proverbs
19:21:-

"There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand."

With these verses we may also compare Jeremiah 10:23:-

O Lord, I know, that the way of a man is not in himself; it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

Shakespeare, too, gets in on the act:- “There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will沙翁说的都是名句喔! 背下来好了,有事没事引用一下好了,有必要的时候可以来个浑水摸鱼!哈哈

 

这里检验一下喔!以前我们学过的。既然说到浑水摸鱼,我们刚复习过的喔。没忘记吧!

 

例句:

You cannot control circumstances, my dear sir; 'man proposes, and God disposes.'

相似表达

The planning lies with man, the outcome with Heaven.

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 [BBC新闻听写]6月27日 美国解除禁枪令



BBC news News with Marian Marshall. In a landmark judgement judgment, the United States supreme court Supreme Court has a law ruled that individual of Americans have the right to own guns. The ruling overturns a ban on hand guns on handguns in the captial capital Washington which has been in force for more than 30 years. Although the US consititution serve Constitution asserts the rights right for well regulated miliary militias to bear arms, opponents of American's America's liberal gun laws had have always said it that they shouldn't applied apply to individual citizens. But , but one of the lawers lawyers, who brought the case to the supreme court Supreme Court, Alan Gura welcome welcomed the vidict It's an verdict. A fantastic day for civil rights in our countryto . It's a great even day for the city of Washingtonthe , and for all law abiding Americans, who've had their second Amendment right to keep their and bear arms restored by this point court. The court today did its duty, by striking down legislation that interfear interfered the individual liberity this liberty. This is why we have a Supreme Court. It's gratifying to see the supreme court to engage civil rights issues distract the in a constructive way.
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偶感无事
现在不可怕 过去也不可怕
可怕的是 站在现在 计划一个太过美好的未来
你总不能 让自己沉溺其中
总不能 摆脱虚幻的月光
不能停止幻想
说再见 不会太远

你站在风语流逝 不可阻挡的洪流之中
大地似将淹没
但没有人 愿意相信未发生的事
毁誉天下终负重而行
忍辱负重然心思慷慨 

普天之下无有识你之人
流传四海无有感同之士
生时如清流静默
死后亦无身后之名

人间竟有此人走过
古今未有如你孤独
天未怜你清苦
只赠你无尽的寂寞

天悯苍生
谁惜英雄
爱恨何穷
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[BBC新闻听写]6月25日 梅德韦杰夫再掀反腐风暴


Russian president President Dmitry Medvedev has decribe described corruption as a threat to his country's national security. Mr Medvedev made a the comment in an interview with a v news agency the Reuters News Agency, his first with western media since it he took office last month. Here is Here's our Moscow correspondent James Rodgers. "Mr Medvedev has made a frank accessment assessment of the problems which played plagued the country he has just uted started to lead. Despite going whether growing wealth as Russian Russia has change changed from broken down a broken-down former super power superpower into a global energy joint giant, challenges remain. Ending widespread corruption is one of them. Mr Medvedev called Medveedev calls the problem a threaten threat to national security which, he says, leads to a lack of faith among citizens in the ability of the government to bring order .order." World news form from the BBC.

Britain to Freeze Iranian Bank Assets in Nuclear Dispute (2/

President Bush welcome welcomed the news, and said Gorden Gordon Brown is living up to his commitments, despite pressure form from the British public to pull out of Iraq.   "He has left more troops in Iarq Iraq than inicially originally anticipatedand , And like me, we been make will be making our decision as upon decisions based on the conditions on the ground, the recommendation of our commanders, without a an artificial timetable said set by politics . politics."   There was also a joint denouciation form denunciation from the tour two leaders of the government of Zimbabewe both express Zimbabwe. Both expressed concern about the ourlook outlook for the upcoming run off president runoff presidential election.   Gorden Gordon Brown said whether Mogabe Robert Mugabe must not be allowed to still steal another turn term in office.   "And that is why we call for Zimbabewe troops set Zimbabwe to accept a united Nations United Nation's human rights invoid envoy to visit Zimbabewe Zimbabwe now and to except accept the international moniters form monitors from all parts of the world who are available to ensure that the this is a free and fair election. election.   The Bush Brown Bush-Brown talks also covered Burma, world price oil prices, trade, and the war on terrorismduring accesstion .   During the session with borders reporters, Mr. Bush was asked about Afghan president President Hamid Karzai's threat just to send troops into the border in bordering Pakistan to target terriorist terrorists.


Conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan Drive Up World Refugee Numbers (1/2)

Launching the report, the UN high commissioner U.N. High Commissioner for refugees on T Refugees, Antonio Guterres, said it that for the second year in a row the number of people flee fleeing their countries and deplaced form displaced from their home homes is on the rise.   "We have today 11.4 millions million refugees were dwell worldwide, but together we have 26 million people displace in displaced within the borders of better off countiestheir own countries," he said.   Guterres says conflicts are largely to blame. Refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan along alone make up half the world's totalthe . The 11.4 million t tally does not include the millions of Plestinians Palestinians living as refugees in the middle east Middle East and else where elsewhere in the worldG . Guterres describes a bend band of conflict and instablity instability that includes mostly Muslim countries.   Now "Now, together with the Palestians Palestinians more than half of the group of refugees are concentrated in the same areathat . That area starts in Afghanistan, it includes IraqPlestanian , Palestine, Sudan, Chad and Somaliaand . And this is an area of great concern for us all and I can only ask the international community to be more and more involved togetheraction , acting together to make sure that this these conflicts finds find an end,end."


Conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan Drive Up World Refugee Numbers (2/2)

While Afghanistan, Iraq and the Durfur Darfur region of Sudan are highly publisized hot spots UN HCR publicized hotspots, UNHCR's Guterres says many other refugees are created by less lesser known conflicts and hardships - often forgotten by the international community.   look on the "And looking only confidence at one continent Africa, we are have been having since the beginning of the year, with people crossing their borders in bigger big numbersof , in thousands we are having new livers arrivals of Darfur Darfurians in Chad and Central African republic Republic, of travellings Chadians in come along republicans Cameroon, of Central African Republicans in Susdan Chad and in Cameroon, of Somalians Eritreans in Sudan and in Ethiopia, of Somalis in Yemen, in the Kenya, in J . We Djibouti, we have Kenyans crossing the border into Uganda and we are now witnessing the worst worsening situation in Zimbabwe. Nowthese , this demonstrates crisis a trend that represents a multiplication of crises, with more and more people on the move." The UN U.N. agency says global refugee numbers had fallen for five years before rising again in 2006 and 2007while . While conflicts are largely to balme .UN HCR blame, UNHCR says climate change, the rise in engergy energy and food prices and in ensuing poverty are also factors.VOA news London.



Polls Suggest Close Race Between Obama, McCain
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Recent surveys give Senator Obama a leader lead of between three and six percetage percentage points over Senator McCain with the election a litte little more than four month months away.   Democrats are encouraged about their chances of winning back the White House this year after 8 eight years of republic Republican control under President Bush.   But some republicans Republicans are presently pleasantly surprised at the closeness of the race given the publics public's general unhappiness with the economy, the war in Iraq and Mr. Bush's teniertenure.   university Quinnipiac University pollster Clay Richards says a large number of voter voters apparently have already made up their minds about which candidates candidate to support in November.   "Between 75 and 80 percent of the voters said that their minds are made up so that is