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英语写作借鉴词、句、段
Preventable Deaths
The New York Times Editorial May 29, 2009
首段：表明观点
These are hard times everywhere. But developed countries must not overlook the particular vulnerability of the world’s poor. A new report by the World Health Organization shows that far too many people are still dying of preventable causes in the poorest countries.
尾段：重述观点
Wealthy countries promised nearly a decade ago to help the world’s poorest to emerge from the deepest poverty. This is the wrong time to stop.
比1990年减少了350万人下降了百分之二十七减少到千分之六十七
The good news is that in 2007, only nine million children died before their fifth birthday —3.5 million fewer than in 1990. The under-5 mortality rate has fallen 27 percent since then, to 67 deaths per 1,000 live births.
rise by ---, to ---
In Congo, the child mortality rate rose by about 25 percent, to 125 deaths per 1,000 live births.
产妇死亡率为--- 与1990年相比几乎没有改变似乎
Maternal mortality remains at around 400 deaths per 100,000 live births, virtually unchanged from its level in 1990. Globally, the proportion of undernourished children under 5 has fallen to 20 percent from 27 percent, seemingly on track to meet the goal of halving the prevalence of malnutrition by 2015. But many countries — from Armenia to Morocco to Burkina Faso — have seen no improvement at all.
Forests and the Planet
The New York Times Editorial May 28, 2009
为那个巨大的错误付出代价
The planet has been paying for that colossal blunder ever since.
据估计现在分词短语作状语，表示结果
An estimated 30 million acres of rain forest disappear every year, destroying biodiversity and pouring billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
North Korea Tests
The New York Times Editorial May 27, 2009
使北朝鲜从边缘走回来
Diplomacy — backed by stiff sanctions — is the only hope for walking North Korea back from the brink.
影响力
As the North’s main oil and food supplier, it has more leverage than any other country.
// took maternity leaves / pregnancy leaves产假
No Crisis for North Korea
Washington Post Editorial May 26, 2009
令人严重关切
NORTH KOREA's detonation of a nuclear warhead in an underground test yesterday is, of course, cause for serious concern-- particularly as the blast appears to have been considerably larger than the regime's first test nearly three years ago.
Testing the Tests
Washington Post Editorial May 26, 2009
毕业考试
State education officials have had to fight hard to implement high school exit exam s; while some undesirable compromises were made, the officials should be credited for taking an important first step in making a high school diploma more than a piece of paper. 在我们看来是不明智的判断错误的
The board offered those alternatives, ill-advised in our minds, as the tests came under increasing attack from those who made the wrongheaded argument that large numbers of students, particularly African Americans and Latinos, wouldn't be able to pass.
Swine Flu Lessons
Gaps were exposed in pandemic preparedness.
Washington Post Editorial May 25, 2009
形容词短语作状语，表示原因
But the Obama administration, mindful of the debilitating effects and deaths attributed to the rushed 1976 swine flu vaccine, is wise to proceed cautiously to get a vaccine in place if it's needed for the coming winter flu season.
The Glass Ceiling's Math Problem
By Carlos Lozada Washington Post May 31, 2009
Women are 37 percent less likely than men to earn science-related bachelor's degrees, and they hold only a quarter of the jobs in the field.
这种变化更为明显
The change is more dramatic for women who arrived at the Air Force Academy with high aptitude in math; when their professors are women, the gap in their performance disappears altogether.
//
As we have observed, 正如我们所看到的，
protecting gays and lesbians against workplace discrimination
//倒装句
Lost amid the international condemnation is the good news to be found in North Korea's nuclear test.
//
The heavy burden of war, shouldered by the few
By DeWayne Wickham USA Today May 26, 2009
Near the end of his University of Notre Dame commencement address, President Obama urged graduates to make public service a way of life. "Because when you serve, it doesn't just improve your community," he said, "it makes you a part of your community." 引言法开头
Don't text and drive 不要一边开车一边发短信
USA Today Editorial May 22, 2009
发短信
Text-messaging is the new scourge of the roads — overtaking the long-running debate over whether to restrict drivers' cellphone use.
研究越来越证实开车时发短信
Studies increasingly confirm what is in plain sight on too many roads. Texting while driving is distracting (far more so than cellphones) and potentially deadly.
Why Obama can't be soft on North Korea
Japan and South Korea already see him as eroding the US military posture in Asia.
The Christian Science Monitor Editorial May 28, 2009
现在分词短语作状语，表示结果
That worry stems from Beijing's recent success in luring Taipei's leaders toward closer ties with the mainland, thus weakening US support for Taiwan's sovereignty and its military strength.
With引导的独立主个结构作状语，表示原因
With North Korea soon able to place a nuclear weapon on a missile, they prefer the US keep its hand on a military response.
Legalize marijuana? Not so fast.
Backers serve up a timely batch of arguments, but their latest reasons are half-baked. The Christian Science Monitor Editorial May 22, 2009 考虑不周全的
with引导的独立主个结构
Research results over the past decade link frequent marijuana use to several serious mental health problems, with youth particularly at risk.
今天的大麻比往日嬉皮士时代的大麻效力更强
Today's marijuana is also much more potent than in the hippie days of yesteryear.
一般人喜欢指出
Normal likes to point out that marijuana accounts for the majority of illicit drug traffic from Mexico. End the illicit trafficking, and you end the violence.
生造词：合法的东西疑问句表示反对
Why legalize a third substance that produces ill effects, when the US has such a poor
record in dealing with the two big "licits" – alcohol and tobacco?
以及发现一处语法错误are
Disapproval, along with information on risk, are the most important factors in discouraging marijuana and cocaine use among high school seniors.
不管，表示让步
And they need to teach the life lesson that marijuana does not really solve personal challenges, be they stress, relationships, or discouragement.
结尾段：提出解决问题的倡议
Today's youth are tomorrow's world problem solvers –and the ones most likely to be affected if marijuana is legalized. Future generations need to be clear thinkers. For their sakes, those who oppose legalizing marijuana must become vocal, well-funded, and mainstream – before it's too late.
Was a cop protected?
Chicago Daily Tribune Editorial May 30, 2009
首段：分词短语作状语，表示伴随动作
For the second time in just over a month, an off-duty Chicago cop has been arrested in a fatal crash involving alcohol, raising troubling questions again about the treatment of cops who drink too much and drive.
Equality is inevitable
Boston Globe Editorial May 28, 2009
---的前景仍然是光明的
And yet the prospects for equality still seem bright.
投票一种极其糟糕的方式
We also believe ballot measures are a dreadful way to decide most public policy questions.
最终，平等会胜利。
Eventually, equality will prevail.
India ascending
Boston Globe Editorial May 26, 2009
仓促的判断
BECAUSE OF India's size and its complexities of caste, class, and regional differences, snap judgments about Indian politics run the risk of being right and wrong at the same time.
grail n圣杯；努力追求但永远不可能实现的目标或理想迷恋fixation on/ with对---异常依恋；癖一些印度人迷恋与成为超级大国的理想
Some Indians have become obsessed with the grail of superpower status. Symptomatic of this ambition is a fixation on countering, containing, or besting China.
a mother fixation 恋母情节He’s got a fixation with cleanliness.他有洁癖。
best vt [usu. passive ] to defeat pr be more successful than sb胜过
symptomatic of ---的征兆
Line in the sand
Baltimore Sun Editorial May 20, 2009
自己教育孩子是必不可少的最后的一招
That may seem harsh, especially for parents hard put to home-school their children or afford private-school tuition. But as a means of dealing with potentially serious troublemakers, it's an essential last resort if schools are to fulfill their mission.
有那个家长想冒险将孩子送到一个可能失火或爆炸的地方呢
What parent wants to risk sending their kid to a place that might catch fire or blow up as a result of some classmate's misguided idea of a joke?
No more bribes for North Korea
Kansas City Star Editorial May. 26, 2009
用空洞的诺言换取妥协
Engage in threatening behavior to gain Washington’s attention, then trade empty promises for concessions.
with + 独立主格结构
The administration should quickly appoint a full-time envoy and be ready to resume the six-party talks —with Russia, Japan, China and both Koreas participating.
掉进--- 的陷阱
But Washington should not again fall into the trap of bribing the North Koreans.
Some ‘recession graduates’ will have to invent their own future
Kansas City Star Editorial May. 23, 2009
进入最严峻的就业市场
They are the recession graduates, entering the toughest job market in at least 25 years.
找工作的毕业生找好了工作
Only one in five graduating job-seekers had lined up jobs by the end of last month. Two years ago, half of the students who sought jobs had one in hand by graduation day.
那些幸运地拿到工作机会的学生最近在华尔街日报上被引用的专家预测说
More bad news: Students fortunate enough to land offers are accepting low wages. Experts quoted in a recent Wall Street Journal article predicted it will take a decade or more for this year’s graduates to catch up in pay to more fortunate classes of recent years.
提供了一些喘息的空间
That should provide some breathing room for graduates, who will leave college with an average of $22,000 in debt.
更酷
Frugality suddenly is cooler than a spending spree.
Quick Justice: A critical partner for treatment programs in producing success for hard core criminal addicts
Newark Star-Ledger By David H. Kerr April 04, 2009
According to --- : "1 in 31 adults in this country is either behind bars or on probation or parole. It's the highest incarceration rate in the nation's history."
现在舆论转到另一边。
The pendulum is now swinging in the other direction.
乐队花车
The bandwagon in moving addicts from prison to treatment has started though, like it or not.
It's a crime what happens in jail
Newark Star-Ledger Editorial May 27, 2009
勒索同狱犯
The independent watchdog agency reported to the Legislature last week that gang members serving time in state prisons freely sell drugs, launder money, extort fellow inmates and their families and corrupt staff.
倒装
Particularly disturbing is the SCI report's finding that some corrections officers have participated in smuggling cell phones and drugs and engaged in other crimes inside and outside of jails.
Kids' stuff: State brings the obesity battle to middle schools
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editoria, May 30, 2009
in the vanguard of处在--- 的先锋地位
Dozens of Pennsylvania middle schools are on the vanguard of a health and nutrition revolution that could dramatically reduce the body mass index of teenagers.
在全州范围内正在
Statewide, 40 schools will be chosen to receive the Active Schools grant. These schools are on the road to reversing the grim health statistics that prompted the grants in the first place.
Secession crushed: Sri Lanka puts down a battling minority
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial May 20, 2009
真正采取措施使政府和社会不再歧视泰米尔人他们寻求独立的根源
That duty is to take real steps to remove from government and society the discrimination against the Tamils that served as the wellspring of their secession attempt.
达到一个不再想从斯里兰卡独立出去的点
The Tamils should reach a point where they will no longer want to secede from Sri Lanka.
Group riding in cabs could ease traffic and cure loneliness 拼车
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial, May 29th 2009
增加司机的收入
The T axi and Limousine Commission believes that it has found ways to increase the availability of cabs while making rides cheaper and upping driver income. And maybe, just maybe, this pig will fly.
The concept is shared rides of the kind that New Yorkers found useful during the subway strike.
//But we, too, are susceptible to the bias trap.
Climate Trap
The New York Times Editorial June 15, 2009
蜂拥而至
Officials from the Obama administration have been beating a steady path to China’s door to talk about climate change.
美国是最大的人均温室气体排放最多的国家
The United States is the largest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases; China is the biggest overall emitter.
合理的担心限制其排放
It’s a legitimate fear. to cap its emissions
A Bad Call on Gay Rights
The New York Times Editorial June 10, 2009
可以理解，这些类比使同性恋者耿耿于怀。
These are comparisons that understandably rankle many gay people.
结尾段忙于应付政治上的权宜之计不是--- 的接口
The administration has had its hands full with the financial crisis, health care, Guantánamo Bay and other pressing matters. In times like these, issues like repealing the marriage act can seem like a distraction — or a political liability. But busy calendars and political expediency are no excuse for making one group of Americans wait any longer for equal rights.
//新政时代的遗迹
The exclusion is a relic of the New Deal, when labor protections like overtime pay were written specifically to exclude domestic and farm labor.
China’s Computer Folly
The New York Times Editorial June 11, 2009
有理由担心这种新的软件可能有更加不道德的用途
Chinese bloggers, dissidents and even some state news media outlets are right to worry that the new software could be used even more nefariously: to collect personal data and spy on consumer Web habits.
建造得糟糕的学校
That would feed new resentment against a government already accused of gross incompetence after thousands of children died in the collapse of shoddily constructed schools in the 2008 earthquake.
荒谬可笑的声称farce闹剧
the farcical claim that its intention really was to improve parental control.
重新考虑这个鲁莽的决定
If Beijing does not reconsider its foolhardy decision, the new rules would take effect on July 1.
Tobacco Regulation, at Last
The New York Times Editorial June 11, 2009
beyond a shadow of doubt = with no doubt at all毫无疑问的，清楚地
It has now been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that cigarette makers have spent decades making false statements, suppressing evidence of harm, and manipulating the design of cigarettes to increase their addictiveness.
The Ban on Gays in the Military
The New York Times Editorial June 9, 2009
愚昧无知的政策
and another lawsuit still moving through the courts may be a better vehicle for challenging the benighted policy.
令人遗憾的是，无论是奥巴马总统还是国会都没有兴趣提议解除一项禁令，这项禁令不但对男女同性恋者不公平，而且还损害美国军队。
Unfortunately, neither President Obama nor Congress shows much appetite for moving to end a ban that is not only unfair to gay men and lesbians but damaging to the military as well.
制定出来
The ―don’t ask, don’t tell‖ policy was hatched in 1993 as a compromise after President Bill Clinton failed in an attempt to overturn an existing ban on gay service members.
表面上的原因
The ostensible rationale was that the known presence of gay men and lesbians would undermine morale and unit cohesion, but as it turned out, the policy caused its own kind of damage to military readiness.
除--- 之外
President Obama said during the campaign that he would work to overturn the ban, but he has made no move beyond asking the Pentagon to assess the implications.
She’s got nothing beyond her state pension. 除了政府发的养老金外，她什么也没有得到。
A Home for the Uighurs 发现一个拼写错误injust, 应该是unjust
America's allies help Muslims from China emerge from an injust imprisonment. Why isn't the U.S. stepping up?
Washington Post Editorial June 16, 2009
令人气愤怒的是
It is maddening that U.S. administrations and lawmakers of both parties did not act with cooler heads and good faith to welcome at least some of these men into this country -- especially when well-established and reputable Uighur organizations and communities offered to provide food and shelter and help to get the men established.
Say No to Censorship
Computer makers should resist Chinese restrictions on freedom of expression. Washington Post Editorial June 14, 2009
表面上
Created through state sponsorship at a cost of nearly $6 million, the program is ostensibly no more than a filter to protect children from inappropriate Web content.
三个并列的定语从句
The facts that the deadline is so early, that the software is so vulnerable and that 80 percent of Chinese consumers polled have already declared their unwillingness to use it will make it easier for manufacturers to push back against the ministry's demands.
一个诱人的市场
China's 1.3 billion computer users are a seductive market, and without an industry-wide commitment, a restriction rejected by one manufacturer might be accepted by another.
//提醒注意，不称职的教师
Mind you, not the ineffective teachers who sleep in the classroom, ignore the curriculum and pass their unprepared students to the next grade.
Is Obama caving in to coal?
The administration deserves credit for some minimal restrictions on mountaintop mining, but the president's hands-off approach to coal defeats his climate-change efforts.
值得称赞阻挠了他的应对气候变化的努力
The Los Angeles Times Editorial June 15, 2009
生造词：同意
It was a dismaying move from an administration that in March had blocked several such projects on grounds that they needed further review -- yet some of the ones it greenlighted in May were as big and damaging as the ones it blocked two months earlier. 值得称赞
For this, Obama merits polite applause.
奥巴马不能永远回避这一问题全球变暖的罪魁祸首
Obama can't sidestep this issue forever, especially because his hands-off approach to coal defeats the purpose of his efforts to fight climate change. Coal is a key culprit in global warming,
Letterman's late-night gaffe
Sure, a joke about Sarah Palin's daughter crossed the line. But it's boosted her stock, and his ratings. The public's the loser in all this. 的确，--- 但是。
The Los Angeles Times Editorial June 17, 2009
更加黄色的笑话的笑柄对一个未成年的女孩开下流玩笑不是擦边，是越界
--- Bristol, an adult single mom who has made herself a public figure, has been the butt of far raunchier jokes on late-night TV. But making a sex joke about a minor girl isn't edgy, it's over the edge.
一个下流的笑话a tasteless joke
这些吵闹对佩林来说是一个天赐之物
The brouhaha has been a godsend for Palin, getting her face back on TV screens and her name back in the headlines as she ponders her presidential prospects for 2012.
Obama's gay rights gap
The president has done precious little to advance gay rights, despite campaign promises. The Los Angeles Times Editorial June 17, 2009
他们有理由对奥巴马总统感到失望只有在愤怒迅速增加之后他才采取措施兑现竞选诺言
They have reason to be disappointed in President Obama; only after a groundswell of anger has he taken steps to make good on his campaign pledges to advance gay rights. 同性夫妇the same-sex partners the same-sex marriage
Taxing tobacco
A higher levy on cigarettes would help ease the state's budget crisis while also discouraging smoking. 同时还劝阻抽烟
The Los Angeles Times Editorial June 17, 2009
At first glance, tobacco taxes may seem a bit too easy.
A legal shootout over the right to own a gun
The Los Angeles Times Editorial June 10, 2009 你死我活的枪战
But the way out of the dilemma is not to urge the high court to ----
It's tempting for supporters of gun control -- including this page -- to hope that the high court will rule that the 2nd Amendment doesn't apply to the states. 某人不禁做某事
Our wedding vow -- to my mother-in-law
Our elopement included a promise we would never lose our ambition. We kept it.
By Kerry Madden
The Los Angeles Times June 14, 2009
我就是简朴的婚礼也能通向幸福的活生生的例子。
I am living proof that even modest weddings can lead to happy marriages.
不赞成我们未婚同居
Like the Chinese, my Catholic parents did not approve of us living together before marriage. cohabit
列了一张赞成和反对理由的清单
One weekend, we made a list of pros and cons.
决定不让牧师主持婚礼
My mother was relieved, despite our decision to not have the ceremony performed by a priest.
Our view on turmoil in Tehran: Arms-length approach to Iran best suits unfolding history
USA Today Editorial June 17, 2009
更加冷静理智的巴拉克奥巴马好斗且偶尔冲动的约翰麦凯恩
Last year's presidential campaign presented voters with a choice between the combative, occasionally impulsive John McCain and the more coolly cerebral Barack Obama.
抨击美国的干预可能适得其反
That contrast was on display again Tuesday, with McCain blasting the Obama administration's cautious approach toward the unrest in Iran and the president stating that U.S. meddling could be counterproductive. 长句
他的评论不仅是外一位交政策重量级人物的深思熟虑的看法，也让人们想起一句同样睿智的格言：少少许即多多许。名词动化
Besides being the thoughtful opinion of a foreign policy heavyweight, his comments are a reminder of an equally smart dictum that sometimes less is more.
Opposing view: 'Speak out forcefully'
Iranian protesters deserve better than Obama's passive response
USA Today Editorial June 17, 2009 By John McCain
首段排比修辞
When peaceful demonstrators are beaten and killed in the streets by a repressive regime, the United States has a duty to speak out. When protesters are silenced, we should raise our own voices on their behalf. And when an election is stolen, the United States should condemn it.
这些论点没有说服力。
These arguments are not persuasive.
站在---的前列
The United States should be at the forefront of these efforts, leading all those nations that care about human freedom in an effort to condemn sham elections, denounce the violence against peaceful protesters and express solidarity with those millions of Iranians who want change.
Obama faces charges of hypocrisy over detainees
USA Today June 16, 2009 By DeWayne Wickham
这不会让人感到吃惊，--
It should come as little surprise that Bermuda and Palau have agreed to become dumping grounds for some of the inmates whom President Obama promised to remove from America's Guantanamo Bay detention camp by next January.
with引导的独立主格结构，作状语，表示原因
With most Americans opposed to bringing into the U.S. any of the "enemy combatants" whom the Bush administration imprisoned in Cuba, the Obama administration has tried mightily to persuade other nations to accept most of them. 长句
但在遭到国会的强烈反对之后让步了
The Obama administration considered bringing some of them into the U.S. but backed off after a firestorm of opposition from Congress.
的确，---。但是----。让步转折表达法。
True, his efforts to make good on that vow have been hampered by fear-mongering congressional Republicans and Democrats. But by asking other nations to do what his own country is unwilling to do, Obama is made to look like a hypocrite.
To shop, or not to shop?
Y es, there's the 'paradox of thrift.' In the long term, though, savings benefit the economy. The Christian Science Monitor Editorial June 16, 2009
用经济学的行话来说，这叫做“节俭的矛盾”。但是都这样做的话，
In economic speak, it's called the "paradox of thrift." When a consumer cuts spending in order to save, it helps him or her. But en masse, it also hurts the economy – and thus, consumers.
毫无疑问，---。但是---。让步转折表达法
No question, increased saving can have an immediate impact that slows the economy. It's one reason why President Bush urged Americans to shop after 9/11. But now saving should be encouraged – and not just among consumers.
与911之后不同，
Unlike after 9/11, personal wealth has plummeted.
攒钱不时之需
Now, people need to feather their nest eggs for retirement, college, and unforeseen needs– three important saving goals.
Lessons for Obama's education goals in the SAT
The shakiness of the college admissions test is a warning about setting national standards for states. 大学入学考试的不可靠性
The Christian Science Monitor Editorial June 11, 2009
首段问句开头，自问自答
Test time: Which type of worker –those with college diplomas or those without –has suffered a higher rate of layoffs during this recession?
Answer: Those with no degree – two to three times more.
No wonder President Obama wants every American to have at least one year of higher education. He also wants the US to have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020.
考试培训产业
And the billion-dollar test prep industry only magnifies the achievement gap between low-income and higher-income students.
金钱比成绩更有用
money talks louder than merit
不管设计地多么合理
It may be that no one test, however well designed, can ever be entirely satisfactory in a country with a strong tradition of federalism and local control over the schools.
Why reading lists turned my son off books
Dallas Morning News, By David McClure, June 11, 2009
Perhaps they will find something to read that they actually are interested in if they are not forced to read while their instructors are walking on some beach in the Gulf of Mexico. 长
Sad? Watch better TV.
Chicago Daily Tribune June 13, 2009
首段：问题法开头，引起读者兴趣
What is a necessity in your life? That's the question the Pew Research Center asked 1,003 Americans.
The poll found that in the last three years, people downgraded many things that they once considered necessities but now considered optional, or luxuries. Those included microwaves, clothes dryers, and -- are you ready for this? -- television.
说是下降
When people were asked if a television set was a necessity, only 52 percent said yes. That was down from the 2006 results, when 64 percent said yes.
拥有一台电视机对于他们的心理和精神健康至关重要
From this poll we conclude:
--Half of Americans think that having a television is absolutely critical to their mental and emotional well-being.
--The other half are lying.
那就如同说氧气不是必须的。
Yes, we know there's a recession on and that people are cutting back. But television . . . not necessary? Come on. For many people, that's like saying oxygen is optional.
Want proof? --- 想要证据吗？
看电视已经成了一个改不掉的习惯
But let's admit that television has become an unbreakable habit for many people.
有人吹嘘说他们从来不看电视。
Some people brag that they never watch television.
平均来说，那些不快乐的人每周多看5.6小时的电视。
On average, the glum ones reported an extra 5.6 hours of tube time a week.
我们想知道：
We wonder: Isn't it possible that those who watch more television are unhappy because they're not watching enough good TV?
我们的建议：
Our advice: Admit your addiction, find a few quality shows and stick with them.
Kids, knock off early!
Chicago Daily Tribune Editorial June 6, 2009
芝加哥学生比纽约的学生每年少上学大约270个小时。
Chicago students spent roughly 270 fewer hours in school each year than students in New York City. Over six years, CPS students were shortchanged by more than a year and a half of classroom instruction.
全年制学校有一些优势。
There are advantages to year-round schools.
不应被错误地当成---的证据
But a year-round calendar should not be mistaken for evidence that kids are spending more time in instruction.
Chicago leads the pack in fewest hours of instruction.
破折号表示增加一层意思
Until then, Chicago will be the leader -- in sending kids home early.
A restructuring for the schools
Boston Globe Editorial June 14, 2009
chronically underperforming schools长期表现不佳的学校
Massachusetts Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester said in a recent interview that the one thing the federal government - which historically provides relatively little money to public schools - can do is fund research into how to best staff schools so children want to read, write, and do math.长句定语从句译成转折分句
做认真的努力
A lot of schools are making a good-faith effort and bootstrapping, but still have poor scores.
Texting is not talking
Boston Globe Editorial June 16, 2009
首段：先想法开头每月的手机费高达几百美元
By conservative estimates,American teenagers exchanged an average of 80 text messages a day in the fourth quarter of 2008, often to the tune of hundreds of dollars a month in cellphone charges. But research is starting to show that a teenager's texting may hurt more than the wallet.
更早的是机会成本
Worse yet is the opportunity cost: Time teens spend texting is time that they don't socialize face-to-face.
成为老土
Changing social norms cannot happen overnight, particularly for a generation so immersed in social technology that mere e-mail has become old school.
Cool for school
Boston Globe Editorial June 13, 2009
Whether people of color in federal scientific posts can inspire inner-city youth to close American racial achievement gaps in math and science remains to be seen, but it is worth a try.
Cigarettes at bay
OUR OPINION: FDA must move quickly to regulate harmful tobacco products
Miami Herald Editorial June 16, 2009
体现了烟草业的政治影响力
It's a tribute to the political clout of the tobacco industry that its products, which increase the chances of early death when used as directed, have managed to avoid regulation for so long.
不懈的努力
Tireless efforts by a relatively small but dedicated group of tobacco-fighters finally paid off last week when both houses of Congress passed a bill that puts the tobacco industry under supervision of the Food and Drug Administration.
据估计，--- 差一点让食品药品管理局宣布烟草非法
Estimates are that one in five Americans still smokes, and 400,000 die each year of smoking-related disease. These are terrible numbers. But in spite of that and the
undeniable link between tobacco use and the incidence of various types of cancers and other diseases, Congress stopped short of letting the FDA outlaw tobacco products, ban nicotine or increase the minimum age for smoking.
在--- 时候抓住时机严格执法
The success of the campaign to regulate tobacco is especially welcome at a time when efforts are underway to reform a healthcare system burdened by tobacco-related diseases and their costs. Now that Congress has acted, the FDA should waste no time in taking its mandate seriously, using all the tools provided by legislators to put teeth into the law.
也许---，但是---
There may never be any such thing as a harmless cigarette, but there are ways to reduce the dangers of smoking.
Swine flu still a risk
OUR OPINION: Taking sensible precautions still best antidote to the swine flu
Miami Herald Editorial June 15, 2009
幸运的是，
So far, the death toll has been mercifully light: 144 fatalities, 27 of those in the United States. Americans have been fortunate, but we shouldn't push our luck.
随着夏季旅行季节的到来名词化
That means -- with the summer travel season here-- people should take basic precautions. Wearing masks isn't recommended at this stage. Washing your hands frequently is a flu-fighter.
Tackle prison overcrowding from the other end
OUR OPINION: Exporting prisoners to other states is wrong approach to reduce crime Miami Herald Editorial June 12, 2009
权宜之计的解决办法
This is a patchwork solution that misses the point.
这些人成为对社会有用的人
In the long run these preventive measures would save the state millions of dollars it now spends housing prisoners who could be contributing members of society.
具有讽刺意味的是
The irony is that, until budget deficits hit this year, Florida's been on a prison-building spree even as it has cut back on programs to reduce recidivism.
这有损于犯人的士气--- 也无助于他们重新做人探视
It's detrimental to inmates' morale -- and no incentive to go straight -- to be incarcerated hundreds of miles from their families, making visitations rare. 破折号表示补充原因
// Cigarette manufacturers have a long and shameful history of aiming their ads at young people even though sales to minors are forbidden in all 50 states.
While pre-diploma tests are not a panacea, ---
Drugs have won the war
It's time to declare defeat and figure out what works
By Nicholas D. Kristof, Pittsburg Post-Gazette, June 16, 2009
对--- 幻想破灭
He said he gradually became disillusioned with the drug war, beginning in 1967 when he was a young beat officer in San Diego.
人们广泛认为---
It's now broadly acknowledged that the drug war approach has failed.
The stakes are huge, the uncertainties great and there's a genuine risk that liberalizing drug laws might lead to an increase in use and in addiction.
经历
But the evidence suggests that such a risk is small. And those states that have decriminalized marijuana possession have not seen surging consumption.
毒品
That's a brave position for a politician, and it's the kind of leadership that we need as we grope toward a more effective strategy against narcotics in America.
Missouri should join movement for national school standards
Kansas City Star Editorial, June 6, 2009
降低期待
many states dumb down expectations to enable students to meet that standard.
但是一个更令人信服的理由是
But a more compelling reason is to be part of a nationwide effort to make U.S. students more competitive in a 21st-century economy.
Intolerable Rise in Soldier Suicides
The New York Times Editorial June 6, 2009
Troops in the field already know this the hard way.
以痛苦的方式know / learn --- the hard way
心理健康的专业人士
There is a shortage of mental health professionals in the military.
Remembering Tiananmen
The New York Times Editorial June 5, 2009
独裁者
Despite the country’s stunning economic growth over the past two decades, Beijing’s autocrats are clearly still afraid of their own people.
中国领导人珍惜稳定。但是镇压不是个办法。
China’s leaders prize stability. But repression is not the answer.
Vote on Gay Marriage
The New York Times Editorial June 3, 2009
是同性婚姻合法化
They know that New York is lagging behind others — including New Hampshire, where Gov. John Lynch, who had previously defined marriage as strictly between a man and a
woman, signed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage on Wednesday.
marriage for gay couples
A Healthy Tax
The New York Times Editorial June 3, 2009
引言段提出观点难以解决的
The problem with obesity has become so overpowering in America that no single remedy guarantees a solution. But a proposal now being considered by some in Congress to tax drinks loaded with sugar would certainly help. The idea is that taxes worked to lower tobacco use — a habit far harder to break — so they should help young people limit their intake of soda or other forms of ―liquid candy.‖
以不太贵的价格
All consumers — not just those lucky enough to live near farms or large grocery stores —should be able to buy fresh fruits and vegetables at affordable prices.
肥胖蔓延的罪魁祸首之一对含糖饮料征收消费税
While we wait, Congress could impose an excise tax on sugary drinks —one of the main culprits in the obesity epidemic.
// a reprehensible act of domestic terrorism一个应受谴责的国内恐怖主义行动
Restore the L.A. River? It's a pipe dream 一场白日梦
Keeping an eye on 'sexting'
Parents and officials are wondering what to do about the practice of teens transmitting nude photos of themselves via cellphone. Education and attentive parenting are probably the best answers. 教育和细心的抚养也许是最好的解决办法。
The Los Angeles Times Editorial June 1, 2009
首段
Let's talk about "sexting." It's the practice of teenagers, usually girls, sending nude or semi-nude photos of themselves, often to boys, usually by cellphone. And it's common: 20% of teens participating in a survey by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy had either sent or posted nude pictures of themselves.
通过痛苦的经历泄露私情
Today's kids are learning the hard way that the digital age has created a mass audience for every ill-judged tap of the "send" button. Boys used to kiss and tell, and a girl would get a "reputation." Now girls reveal and boys show and tell, leading to public humiliation and far worse.
论证方法：举一个具体的例子
Take the heartbreaking case of Jessica Logan, an 18-year-old Ohio teen who sent nude photos of herself to her boyfriend. After they broke up, he forwarded the pictures to hundreds of other high school girls, and Jessica was harassed relentlessly. Last July, she hanged herself in her closet, her cellphone on the floor nearby.
转发裸体照片不仅仅是残忍。
Forwarding nude pictures isn't just cruel. It can be illegal if the pictures are of children under age 18.
与制定新法律和严厉的起诉相比，教育和细心的抚养更有助于解决这一令人担忧的趋势Education and attentive parenting will go further toward addressing this worrisome trend than new laws and tough prosecutions.
States releasing prisoners early may pay for it later
High recidivism means short-term cuts won’t equal long-term savings.
USA Today, June 08, 2009
肯定会造成长期的麻烦
But several states struggling to cope with the recession have settled on one approach that is a certain recipe for long-term trouble.
主题句+ 支持句，举例法展开少年犯
Not only are states releasing prisoners in a rush, they're watching released prisoners less closely once they're out. For instance, Washington state is abandoning enhanced supervision of its worst juvenile offenders, while Wisconsin plans to dump the electronic monitoring of sex offenders. Utah is trying to find money to reverse cuts in the number of probation and parole officers.
结果又回到监狱
More than a quarter of non-violent offenders will end up back behind bars and back on the state budget.
帮助刑满释放人员重新加入社会ex-convict
It invests heavily in helping former prisoners rejoin society before it starts returning them to the streets.
Opposing view: Relieving overcrowded jails
Kentucky cuts spending yet still keeps inmate recidivism low.
By J. Michael Brown USA Today, June 08, 2009
独立主格结构但是我们绝非个案是一个全国现象
Kentucky led the country last year in the rate of inmate growth, our population swelling 12% over the previous year. But we are far from alone; jail overcrowding is a national phenomenon.
A soda tax to fund health care? Think again.
流鳄鱼眼泪
I'm afraid they are crying alligator tears.
Activists mount militant assault on abortion rights
Unable to win politically, they turn to intimidation and harassment.
USA Today, June 03, 2009
反问加强肯定的语气
How many people would carry on doing what they thought was right if they had to live in constant fear that they'd be shot or blown up? How many medical students want to choose a life like that?
最近的一项盖洛普调查显示---
A recent Gallup Poll showed that 76% of Americans still believe that abortion should be
legal in all or certain circumstances, virtually unchanged in three decades.
//
Opposing view: We abhor vigilantism
Operation Rescue uses all legal tools to expose abortion’s brutality.
USA Today, June 03, 2009 By Troy Newman
Operation Rescue uses legal tools at our disposal, 使用各种合法的手段
倒装加强联系
Tiller's homicide must be denounced, but so should the killing of over 45 million innocent babies through abortion, because when even one life is wrongfully taken, it devalues us all.
// 将近穿上学位服，带上学位帽
In the coming weeks, close to 3 million students from across the nation will don caps and gowns, receive diplomas and walk off into an uncertain future.
Theories abound as to what caused the Renaissance.
After decades-long battle, tobacco regulation advances
USA Today, June 01, 2009
严格限制在公共场所抽烟
Today, 27 states heavily restrict smoking in public places.
通过提高价格使这一致命的习惯超出许多青少年的财力
A dozen have tax rates of $2 or more a pack in an effort to price this lethal habit beyond the budgets of many teenagers — the top target in anti-smoking efforts because the teen years are when nearly all smokers start.
抽烟
you can't light up in a bar or restaurant
对现在的情况来说是一个巨大的进步
Companies would be required to reveal ingredients in tobacco products to the government —a big improvement over the current situation, where the public is in the dark.
对抽烟上瘾
More than 1,000 children get hooked on cigarettes each day.
Redeem the prison generation
By Mark Lange The Christian Science Monitor June 3, 2009
创纪录的
Last year, a record 1 in every 100 American adults was in prison. One in every 30 men aged 20 to 34. And among black males in that age group? One in 9. Why?
早该
It's past time to reconsider our approach to prisons, for practical reasons – and because it seriously undermines our effectiveness as a society and our moral authority with other nations.
关押incarcerate
With just 5 percent of the world's population, we cage almost a quarter of the world's prisoners – a trend that has accelerated wildly since the 1970s.
考虑到那个因素，
Adjust for that factor, he says, and "a clear picture emerges: Outside the South, American cities are at least several times more violent than they were in the mid-20th century."
Policing cigarettes
Chicago Daily Tribune June 2, 2009
使用误导性的词语，如
Tobacco manufacturers couldn't use misleading terms like "light," "mild" and "low tar."
打击
Crack down on sales of tobacco to kids.
//不要搞错
But make no mistake: The junta in Beijing is no kinder or gentler today than it was at Tiananmen 20 years ago, ---
Charging for the pop in soda
Our view: Slapping a tax on sugary drinks could be good for public health
Baltimore Sun Editorial June 8, 2009
但事实上正好相反。
The beverage industry can protest the tax as an assault on the poor since, like any consumption tax, it hits low-income people hardest. But, in fact, it's just the opposite. If poor people are less likely to buy sugary drinks, they stand to benefit the most.
//阻止青少年犯罪是一个复杂的问题，既需要更多警力，又需要家长和家庭负起更大的责任Deterring juvenile crime is a complex problem that will require a combination of a more visible police presence and greater accountability from parents and families.
make abortion the last resort in family planning
// 留级
Third-graders must repeat the grade if they flunk the FCAT unless they can show, through a portfolio of work or other tests that they can read at grade level.
//与拷打和虐待被关押者是同义词
But closing a prison that is now synonymous worldwide with torture and mistreatment of detainees is proving extremely difficult.
Keep it low: Pittsburgh's crime drop outpaces the nation's
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial, June 06, 2009
下降
The city's 9.4 percent drop in property crimes -- burglary, theft, car theft -- is far better than the 1.6 percent national decline. Likewise, the number of violent crimes overall went down by 2.8 percent last year, slightly better than the national drop of 2.6 percent.
尽管
As welcome as that information is, the increase in the most horrific crimes -- 72 homicides in 2008, 20 more than the previous year, and 136 rapes, seven more than in 2007 -- is alarming.
// the iron fist inside the silk glove