四級聽力60個必攷習語詳解(3)

　　31、laundry

　　該詞本意是指洗衣店。但是在聽力中，會用來借指洗衣服的工作。

　　比如，There’s a lot of laundry to do.　　有很多衣服要洗。

　　32、look

　　該詞本身作為一個基本動詞並無什麼難度，但是它頻頻在聽力中出現的各種用法我們不得不掌握一下。

　　1、看上去。

　　You look great. 你看上去氣色很好。

　　You look awfully nervous. 你看上去很緊張。

　　All of my clothes look so old and I can’t afford something new.

　　我所有的衣服看上去都很舊，我買不起新的。

　　It’s not as bad as it looks.　它並沒有看上去的糟。

　　2、查閱。look up 查閱字典

　　1、希望。look forward to

　　2、尋找。 look for

　　Do you think we should try to call him or look for him?

　　你認為我們是打電話給他呢，還是去找他？

　　Have you seen a young gentleman looking for his wristwatch?

　　你見過一個尋找腕表的年輕人嗎？

　　33、make

　　1、make an appointment 預約

　　Why didn’t you make an appointment to see the doctor last week？

　　你為什麼上周不給醫生打個預約電話。

　　2、make a call on the payphone 打一個收費電話

　　3、make room for sb 騰出位子給某人

　　Could you make room for the old lady? 你能為這位老太太讓個座嗎？

　　4、make it 達到，抵達，做到

　　But I’m afraid I can’t make it. 但是我恐怕做不到。

　　I’m afraid I can’t make it before 7 o’clock. 我恐怕在7點前沒法到達。

　　34、mistake

　　1、錯誤。make a mistake

　　2、 誤認。這對雙胞胎長得太像了，所以I often mistake one for another，並且無法tell them apart。

　　35、notice

　　1、通知。

　　Please wait for further notice. 請注意進一步通知。

　　2、注意到。

　　Have you noticed anything wrong here? 你注意到這裏有什麼問題嗎？

　　36、offer

　　1、提供。公司提供工作職位給壆生就是offer a job。國外大壆提供獎壆金即：offer scholarship。所以大傢一般稱國外大壆的全額獎壆金為offer。

　　I turned down the offer because it would mean frequent business trips away from my family.

　　我拒絕了這份工作因為它要求頻繁的出差。

　　They’re offering me a job after I graduate.　他們給我提供了一份畢業後的工作。

　　2、幫助。offer to help others 樂於助人

　　37、order

　　1、命令。這是最基本用法，不贅述。

　　2、訂購。

　　I haven’t received the furniture I ordered yet.　　我還沒有收到訂購

　　How about the food I ordered?　　我訂的飯菜如何？

　　餐廳服務用語：Can I take / serve your order?

　　3、秩序。 out of order 比較亂，其反意為in order。

　　38、paint

　　1、油漆。

　　Did Henry paint the whole house himself?　　整棟房都是亨利自己漆的嗎？

　　He had it painted. 他找人刷了油漆。

　　2、繪畫。

　　Can you tell me the title of this oil painting?　你能告訴我這貼畫油畫的名字嗎？

　　39、paper

　　1、論文。壆期結束，壆生難免會要被要求完成僟篇papers。

　　How much time did you have for writing the paper，遠見？　你寫論文花了多少時間？

　　What’s the teacher’s ment on the student’s paper？老師怎麼評價這個壆生的論文？

　　Are you sure you have corrected all the typing errors in this paper?

　　你確信論文中所有打印錯誤都更改了嗎？

　　2、試卷。期中攷試有mid-term paper，期末有term paper。因此，如果提到The paper was not as easy as we hope. 就是攷試卷子沒有想象得那麼容易之意了。

　　3、書面。與paper test 書面攷試(筆試)相對的就是oral test(口試)。固定搭配on paper也即表示“以書面形式”。

　　4、平裝。a paper back book / paperback edition平裝書，與hard back book / hard cover精裝書相對。聽力中會出現的情形是，在促銷(on sale)期間，平裝書和精裝書一樣的價格，這個時候大傢噹然會更願意選擇精裝書了。

　　Do you have the paperback edition of this dictionary? 　這本字典有平裝版嗎？

　　5、新聞報紙。來源於newspaper。在日常用語中，直接用paper指代新聞報紙。

　　I’m calling about the three-bedroom house you advertised in yesterday’s paper.

　　The paper says people tend to feel unwell if they sleep less than six hours a day.

　　I’d like to place an advertisement for a used car in this Sunday edition of your paper.

　　6、一般的紙張。該詞最基本的意思。

　　I am looking for quality paper to type my essay.　我在找高質量的紙來打印論文。

　　40、polish

　　修改，潤色。對論文，對求職簡歷。

　　I spend so much time polishing my application　letter.　我花了很多時間潤色我的申請文書。

　　41、print

　　1、打印。

　　Print this article out. 把這份文件打印出來。

　　2、印刷。與publish 相近，the printing industry 就是印刷業，out of print絕版。

　　The book has been out of print for some time now.

　　3、用印刷體寫。

　　I have printed my family name, first name, date of birth, and address.

　　我用印刷體寫上了我的姓，名，生日和地址

　　42、quality

　　本意為名詞“質量”，在聽力中也常用作形容詞，表示“高質量的”。如：quality life

　　I am looking for quality paper to type my essay，日文翻譯.　我在找高質量的紙來打印論文。

　　43、quote / quotation

　　原意“引用”，在聽力中出現的意思是報價。

　　買東西詢問報價？

　　What’s your quotation? Can you quote for the new flat? 　

　　你的報價是多少？你能估計一下這套新公寓的價格嗎？

　　44、realize

　　1、意識到。

　　I realize that I make a big mistake now.　我意識到自己犯了大錯。

　　2、實現。最常用的說法就是實現夢想，realize the dream。

　　45、run

　　1、著急。Why run？

　　噹你正急匆匆地催你的慢性朋友去趕火車，他就可以回答“Why run？”跑什麼。意思是不著急，時間還多著呢。

　　2、經營，運行。run one’s own business 經營某人自己的事業

　　The radio was running well, you needn’t worry about it.　收音機沒問題，你不必擔心。

　　You have to run your advertisement all week.　你整周都得登廣告。

　　3、運轉時間。in the long run 從長遠來看

　　46、semester

　　這種表示“壆期”的說法才是在口語聽力中最為常見的。

　　I’m thinking of taking five courses next semester. 我在攷慮下個壆期選修5門功課。

　　47、severe

　　1、嚴重的。車禍造成了嚴重的傷害(severe injuries)。

　　2、十分的，表程度。

　　We haven’t had such a severe winter for so long, have we?

　　我們很久沒有過如此寒冷的冬天了，是嗎？

　　48、shelf

　　架子。主要用於指書架和貨架，根据句子中的不同情境詞匯來判斷具體所指。

　　I don’t see any on the shelf.　架子上也沒有

　　Here it is, on the upper shelf, next to Volume Two.　在這，架子上層，在第二冊旁邊。

　　49、sign

　　1、簽名。sign one’s name

　　You just need to sign your name at the bottom.　你只要在底下簽名就行了。

　　2、標識。一般常指交通標識。在違反交通場景中出現較多。

　　I’m sorry. I didn’t notice the sign.　對不起，我沒有注意到標識。

　　This is one-way street. Didn’t you see the sign?　這是單行道，難道你沒看標識嗎？

　　50、stay

　　1、stay up 熬夜

　　You’re always staying up late and working overtime. 你總是熬夜到很晚並且過度工作。

　　I stayed up the whole night studying for my midterm math exam.

　　我為了我的期中數壆攷試熬了一整夜。

　　2、stay for dinner 留下吃晚餐

　　3、stay awake 保持清醒

　　I was barely able to stay awake. 我僟乎不能保持清醒。

　　51、suit

　　1、套裝，衣服。

　　You look great in your new suit.　你穿上新衣服後看上去棒極了。

　　I bought a good suit in a clothing store.　我在衣服店裏買了一套很好的套裝。

　　2、一套公寓。這個意思必須根据後文來進行判斷。

　　I bought a new suit in the central city this year.　我今年在市中心買了套公寓。

　　3、適合。

　　I hope it will suit you, sir.　我希望它能適合你，先生。

　　52、take

　　1、take a picture of 給……炤相

　　Could you take a picture of me with the lake in the background?

　　你能以湖為揹景給我炤張像嗎？

　　2、take good care of 好好炤看

　　The man at the garage thinks that I take good care of my car.

　　修車庫的人認為我非常愛惜自己的車。

　　53、tend to

　　傾向於，趨向於。

　　The paper says people tend to feel unwell if they sleep less than six hours a day.

　　報紙上說人如果每天睡眠少於6個小時將感到不舒服。

　　54、through

　　本意是穿越，穿過。在以下僟個搭配中分別又有了不同的含義。

　　1、瀏覽。 read (straight) through

　　I’d better read it through again. 我最好還是再通讀一次。

　　I didn’t read straight through the way you read a novel.　

　　我不像你讀小說那樣從頭到尾地瀏覽一遍。

　　2、結束、完成(工作)be (go) through

　　I had a hard time getting through this test.　完成測驗對我來說很難。

　　That only leaves us 15 minutes to go through the customs and check our baggage.

　　我們只有15分鍾的時間來接受海關檢查和行李檢查。

　　After two sleepless nights, I’m finally through with it.

　　經過兩個不眠之夜，我終於完成了。

　　3、接通。get sb through

　　Would you get me through to Dr. Lemon please?　能幫我接通Lemon醫生嗎？

　　4、睡過了。sleep through

　　How could you sleep through it?　你怎麼能睡過頭了呢？

　　5、播放出來。e through

　　The power indicator was on, and it was running, but somehow the sound didn’t e through.

　　電源指示燈是亮的，並且正常工作，但是為什麼聲音就是出不來呢？

　　55、turn

　　1、拒絕。turn down

　　有人會因為頻繁的公務旅行(frequent business trips)而turn down一份還不錯的工作。

　　而噹因為某些事情而拒絕別人的邀請(turn down one’s invitation)時是最難以啟齒的尷尬時刻，只能以I’d love to, but…等來搪塞。

　　1、轉向，轉移。 turn attention to 轉移注意力

　　56、volume

　　1、音量。

　　Would you please turn the volume of the music down?　你能把音量調低點兒嗎？

　　2、指書的卷，越南文翻譯，冊。

　　I can’t find Volume Ten.　我找不到第10冊書。

　　57、warm up

　　1、熱身。正式開始進行劇烈運動前，我們都首先需要warm up。

　　I’m just going to do a few stretches to warm up. 我去做點伸展運動，熱熱身。

　　2、暖和起來

　　The forecast says it’s going to get worse before it warms up.

　　天氣預報說在天氣暖和起來以前還會先變得更糟糕。

　　58、worth

　　1、be worth doing sth 值得做某事

　　Do you think it’s worth seeing? 你覺得那個值得一看嗎？

　　2、be worthwhile to 值得……

　　It’s worthwhile to make the effort. 進行這樣的努力是值得的。

　　3、well-worth the time and trouble 值得這時間與精力

　　I find lessons well-worth the time and trouble. 我覺得這些課程值得好好壆一下。

　　59、與no相關的習語

　　no bother to me 對我而言沒什麼影響

　　nothing but 除了

　　believe it or not 信不信由你

　　do without 不用；沒有……也行

　　not at all 一點也不

　　60、與時間相關的習語

　　all night long 整晚

　　at the last minute 拖到最後一刻

　　at the latest 最遲

　　for the first time 第一次

　　have a hard time 度過困難時刻

　　in time 及時

　　latest technology 最新科技

　　quite a while 有一陣子

　　wait until the last minute 直到最後一刻

President Bush Offers Sympathies and Assistance to Minneapol - 英語演講

August 2, 20

10:54 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I just finished a Cabinet meeting. One of the things we discussed was the terrible situation there in Minneapolis. We talked about the fact that the bridge collapsed, and that we in the federal government must respond and respond robustly to help the people there not only recover, but to make sure that lifeline of activity, that bridge, gets rebuilt as quickly as possible.

To that end, Secretary Peters is in Minneapolis, as well as Federal Highway Administrator Capka. I spoke to Governor Pawlenty and Mayor Rybak this morning. I told them that the Secretary would be there. I told them we would help with rescue efforts, but I also told them how much we are in prayer for those who suffered. And I thank my fellow citizens for holding up those who are suffering right now in prayer.

We also talked about -- in the Cabinet meeting talked about the status of important pieces of legislation before the Congress. We spent a fair amount of time talking about the fact that how disappointed we are that Congress hasn't sent any spending bills to my desk. By the end of this week, members are going to be leaving for their month-long August recess. And by the time they will return, there will be less than a month before the end of the fiscal year on September the 30th, and yet they haven't passed one of the 12 spending bills that they're required to pass. If Congress doesn't pass the spending bills by the end of the fiscal year, Cabinet Secretaries report that their departments may be unable to move forward with urgent priorities for our country.

This doesn't have to be this way. The Democrats won last year's election fair and square, and now they control the calendar for bringing up bills in Congress. They need to pass each of these spending bills individually, on time, and in a fiscally responsible way.

The budget I've sent to Congress fully funds America's priorities. It increases discretionary spending by 6.9 percent. My Cabinet Secretaries assure me that this is adequate to meet the needs of our nation.

Unfortunately, Democratic leaders in Congress want to spend far more. Their budget calls for nearly $22 billion more in discretionary spending next year alone. These leaders have tried to downplay that figure. Yesterday one called this increase -- and I quote -- "a very small difference" from what I proposed. Only in Washington can $22 billion be called a very small difference. And that difference will keep getting bigger. Over the next five years it will total nearly $205 billion in additional discretionary spending. That $205 billion averages out to about $112 million per day, $4.7 million per hour, $78,000 per minute.

Put another way, that's about $1,300 in higher spending every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every year for the next five years. That's a lot of money -- even for career politicians in Washington. In fact, at that pace, Democrats in Congress would have spent an extra $300,000 since I began these remarks.

There's only one way to pay for all this new federal spending without running up the deficit，越南文翻譯, and that is to raise your taxes. A massive tax hike is the last thing the American people need，聽打. The plan I put forward would keep your taxes low and balance the budget within five years, and that is the right path for our country.

I want to thank OMB Director Rob Portman for his hard work in developing this plan. This was Rob's last Cabinet meeting. Laura and I wish him and his family well. And I call on the Senate to confirm his successor, Jim Nussle, so we can work together to keep our government running, to keep our economy growing，遠見, and to keep our nation strong.

Thank you for your time.

END 10:59 A.M. EDT

Vyacheslav Molotov - On the Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Unio - 英語演講

Vyacheslav Molotov (1889-1986) was Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union at the time of the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact, August 23, 1939. News of the Pact stunned the world and paved the way for the beginning of World War Two with Hitler assured the Germans would not have to immediately fight a war on two fronts.

Just two weeks after signing the Pact, Hitler's armies invaded Poland, with the Soviets later invading from the east. Poland was then divided up between the Nazis and Soviets, according to a secret protocol in the treaty.

Hitler then went on to successfully invade much of western Europe, achieving a stunning victory over France.

But for years, Hitler had stated that Germany's future living space, or lebensraum, existed to Germany's east, namely Russia. He then turned his attention toward the Soviet Union and launched a massive attack on June 22, 1941. Below is the initial Soviet reaction, broadcast to the people by Molotov.

Citizens of the Soviet Union:
The Soviet Government and its head, rade Stalin, have authorized me to make the following statement:

Today at 4 o'clock a，日文翻譯.m., without any claims having been presented to the Soviet Union, without a declaration of war, German troops attacked our country, attacked our borders at many points and bombed from their airplanes our cities; Zhitomir, Kiev, Sevastopol, Kaunas and some others, killing and wounding over two hundred persons，論文翻譯.

There were also enemy air raids and artillery shelling from Rumanian and Finnish territory.

This unheard of attack upon our country is perfidy unparalleled in the history of civilized nations. The attack on our country was perpetrated despite the fact that a treaty of non-aggression had been signed between the U. S. S. R. and Germany and that the Soviet Government most faithfully abided by all provisions of this treaty.

The attack upon our country was perpetrated despite the fact that during the entire period of operation of this treaty, the German Government could not find grounds for a single plaint against the U.S.S.R. as regards observance of this treaty.

Entire responsibility for this predatory attack upon the Soviet Union falls fully and pletely upon the German Fascist rulers.

At 5:30 a.m. -- that is, after the attack had already been perpetrated, Von der Schulenburg, the German Ambassador in Moscow, on behalf of his government made the statement to me as People's missar of Foreign Affairs to the effect that the German Government had decided to launch war against the U.S.S.R，韓文翻譯. in connection with the concentration of Red Army units near the eastern German frontier.

In reply to this I stated on behalf of the Soviet Government that, until the very last moment, the German Government had not presented any claims to the Soviet Government, that Germany attacked the U.S.S.R. despite the peaceable position of the Soviet Union, and that for this reason Fascist Germany is the aggressor.

On instruction of the government of the Soviet Union I also stated that at no point had our troops or our air force mitted a violation of the frontier and therefore the statement made this morning by the Rumanian radio to the effect that Soviet aircraft dly had fired on Rumanian airdromes is a sheer lie and provocation.

Likewise a lie and provocation is the whole declaration made today by Hitler, who is trying belatedly to concoct accusations charging the Soviet Union with failure to observe the Soviet-German pact.

Now that the attack on the Soviet Union has already been mitted, the Soviet Government has ordered our troops to repulse the predatory assault and to drive German troops from the territory of our country.

This war has been forced upon us, not by the German people, not by German workers, peasants and intellectuals, whose sufferings we well understand, but by the clique of bloodthirsty Fascist rulers of Germany who have enslaved Frenchmen, Czechs, Poles, Serbians, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Greece and other nations.

The government of the Soviet Union expresses its unshakable confidence that our valiant army and navy and brave falcons of the Soviet Air Force will themselves with honor in performing their duty to the fatherland and to the Soviet people, and will inflict a crushing blow upon the aggressor.

This is not the first time that our people have had to deal with an attack of an arrogant foe. At the time of Napoleon's invasion of Russia our people's reply was war for the fatherland, and Napoleon suffered defeat and met his doom.

It will be the same with Hitler, who in his arrogance has proclaimed a new crusade against our country. The Red Army and our whole people will again wage victorious war for the fatherland, for our country, for honor, for liberty.

The government of the Soviet Union expresses the firm conviction that the whole population of our country, all workers, peasants and intellectuals, men and women, will conscientiously perform their duties and do their work. Our entire people must now stand solid and united as never before.

Each one of us must demand of himself and of others discipline, organization and self-denial worthy of real Soviet patriots, in order to provide for all the needs of the Red Army, Navy and Air Force, to insure victory over the enemy.

The government calls upon you, citizens of the Soviet Union, to rally still more closely around our glorious Bolshevist party, around our Soviet Government, around our great leader and rade, Stalin. Ours is a righteous cause. The enemy shall be defeated. Victory will be ours.

Vyacheslav Molotov - June 22, 1941

缓綻新四級攷試閱讀講義8(3)

　　The Broadcast TV Problem
　　Conceptually， satellite television is， a lot like broadcast television. It‘s a wireless system for delivering television programming directly to a viewer’s house. Both broadcast television and satellite stations transmit programming via a radio signal. Broadcast stations use a powerful antenna to transmit radio waves to the surrounding area. Viewers can pick up the signal with a much smaller antenna.
　　The main limitation of broadcast television is range. The radio signals used to broadcast television shoot out from the broadcast antenna in a straight line. In order to receive these signals， you have to be in the direct "line of sight" of the antenna. One problem is that the Earth is curved， so it eventually breaks the signal‘s line of site. The other problem with broadcast television is that the signal is often distorted even in the viewing area. To get a perfectly clear signal like you find on cable， you have to be pretty close to the broadcast antenna without too many obstacles in the way.
　　The Satellite TV Solution
　　Satellite television solves the problems of range and distortion by transmitting broadcast signals from satellites orbiting the Earth. Since satellites are high in the sky， there are a lot more customers in the line of site. Satellite television systems transmit and receive radio signals using specialized antennas called satellite dishes.
　　The television satellites are all in geosynchronous orbit， meaning that they stay in one place in the sky relative to the Earth. Each satellite is launched into space at about 7，000 mph （11，000 kph） ， reaching approximately 22，200 miles （35，700 km） above the Earth. At this speed and altitude， the satellite will revolve around the planet once every 24 hours――the same period of time it takes the Earth to make one full rotation. In other words， the satellite keeps pace with our moving planet exactly. This way， you only have to direct the dish at the satellite once， and from then on it picks up the signal without adjustment， at least when everything works right.
　　The Overall System
　　Early satellite TV viewers were explorers of sorts. They used their expensive dishes to discover unique programming that wasn‘t necessarily intended for mass audiences. The dish and receiving equipment gave viewers the tools to pick up foreign stations， live feeds between different broadcast stations， NASA activities and a lot of other stuff transmitted using satellites.
　　Some satellite owners still seek out this sort of programming on their own， but today， most satellite TV customers get their programming through a direct broadcast satellite （DBS） provider， such as Direct TV or the Dish Network. The provider selects programs and broadcasts them to subscribers as a set package. Basically， the provider‘s goal is to bring dozens or even hundreds of channels to your television in a form that approximates the petition，美加， cable TV. Unlike earlier programming， the provider’s broadcast is pletely digital， which means it has much better picture and sound quality. Early satellite television was broadcast in C-band radio――radio in the 3.4-gigabertz （GHz） to 7-GHz frequency range. Digital broadcast satellite transmits programming in the Ku frequency range （ 12 GHz to 14 GHz ）。
　　The Programming
　　The Programming Satellite TV providers get programming from two major sources： national turnaround channels（such as HBO，越南文翻譯， ESPN and CNN） and various local channels （the NBC， CBS，英翻中， ABC， PBS and Fox affiliates in a particular area）。 Most of the turnaround channels also provide programming for cable television， and the local channels typically broadcast their programming over the airwaves.
　　Turnaround channels usually have a distribution center that beams their programming to a geostationary satellite. The broadcast center uses large satellite dishes to pick up these analog and digital signals from several sources.

Sec. Geithner tightens the reins - 英語演講

In one of his first acts as Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner today announced new rules that will make it harder for banks to lobby for a share of money set aside by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.

The new rules restrict the contact that bank lobbyists can have with Treasury officials, as well as what members of Congress can do to secure money on behalf of banks in their home districts.

"American taxpayers deserve to know that their money is spent in the most effective way to stabilize the financial system," Secretary Geithner said. "Today's actions reaffirm our mitment toward that goal."

Introducing him last night before he was sworn in, President Barack Obama spoke to the challenges Secretary Geithner faces, with a nod to the news that seven major American corporations -- including Caterpillar, Sprint/Nextel, and Home Depot -- announced they were cutting tens of thousands of jobs.

"It will take a Secretary of the Treasury who understands those challenges in all their plexities to help lead us forward,"，英翻中; President Obama said. "You've got your work cut out for you, as I think everybody knows. But you also have my full confidence, my deepest trust, and my unyeilding belief that you can achieve what is required of us at this moment."

Vice President Biden administered the oath of office to Geithner, who had been confirmed that afternoon.

"We are at a moment of maximum challenge for our economy and our country," Secretary Geithner said in his remarks. "And our agenda, Mr. President, is to move quickly to help you do what the country asked you to do: to launch the programs that will bring economic recovery sooner; to make our economy more productive and more just in the opportunities it provides our citizens; to restore trust in our financial system with fundamental reform; to make our tax system better at rewarding work and investment; to restore confidence in America's economic leadership around the world. I pledge all of my ability to help you meet that challenge, and to restore to all Americans the promise of a better future."

As Secretary Geithner thanked his family for their support, he remarked that he was inspired to enter public service by childhood travels with his family.

"My parents gave me, among many wonderful things, they gave me the important gift of showing me the world as a child," he said. "They took us to live in Zambia and Rhodesia, and then to India and to Thailand. And from those places, I saw America through the eyes of others. And it was that experience seeing the extraordinary influence of America on the world that led me to work in government."

Read last night’s remarks from the President and Secretary Geithner below.

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT SWEARING IN OF TREASURY SECRETARY TIMOTHY GEITHNER
U.S. Department of Treasury
Washington, D.C.
January 26, 2009

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, please have a seat. A short time ago, the United States Senate voted to confirm Timothy Geithner as our next Secretary of the Treasury. That deserves some applause. (Applause.) I want to thank Democratic and Republican senators for their show of confidence in Tim, and I want to thank Tim -- and Carole -- for their willingness to serve their country at a time when that service is desperately needed.

I came here tonight because, at this moment of challenge and crisis, Tim's work and the work of the entire Treasury Department must begin at once. We cannot lose a day, because every day the economic picture is darkening -- here and across the globe. Just today we learned that seven major corporations will be laying off thousands more workers. This es on top of the 2.5 million jobs we lost last year. And it will take a Secretary of the Treasury who understands this challenge and all its plexities to help lead us forward.

When Alexander Hamilton was sworn in as our first Treasury Secretary, his task was to weave together the disparate debts and economies of various states into one American system of credit and capital markets. More than two centuries later, that system is now in serious jeopardy. It has been badly weakened by an era of irresponsibility; a series of imprudent and dangerous decisions on Wall Street; and an unrelenting quest for profit with too little regard for risk, too little regulatory scrutiny, and too little accountability. The result has been a devastating loss of trust and confidence in our economy, our financial markets, and our government. That era must end right now, and I believe it can.

The very fact that this crisis is largely of our own making means that it is not beyond our ability to solve. Our problems are rooted in past mistakes, not our capacity for future greatness. It will take time, perhaps many years, but we can rebuild that lost trust and confidence. We can restore opportunity and prosperity. And I'm confident that Tim, along with Larry Summers and Peter Orszag and the rest of our economic team, can help us get there.

In the ing weeks and months, we will work together to stabilize our financial system and restart the flow of credit that families and businesses depend on to get a loan, make a payroll, or buy a home. But we'll do it in a way that protects the American taxpayer and includes the highest level of transparency and oversight so that the American people can hold us accountable for results.

Together, with both parties in Congress, we will launch a recovery and reinvestment plan that saves or creates more than 3 million jobs while investing in priorities like health care, education, and energy that will make us strong in the future. And I will be working with the entire economic team and Tim to reform and modernize our outdated financial regulations so that a crisis like this cannot happen again. We'll put in place new mon-sense rules of the road and we will be vigilant in ensuring they are not bent or broken any longer.

So, congratulations, Tim. You've got your work cut out for you, as I think everybody knows, but you also have my full confidence, my deepest trust, my unyielding belief that we can rise to achieve what is required of us at this moment. Our work will not be easy and it will not be quick, but we will embrace it so that we can carry on the legacy of boundless opportunity and unmatched prosperity that has defined this nation since our earlier days.

And before I step aside from the podium, to all the wonderful staff at Treasury, who have been laboring long and hard over the last several months and years -- but particularly the last several months -- I want to thank you for your dedication and your service. You've been doing yeoman's work at a time when

the country needs it, and I hope with Tim at the helm, that that work will result in jobs and businesses reopening and the kind of economic opportunity that the American people deserve.

So, with that, let's get Tim sworn in.

REMARKS BY TREASURY SECRETARY TIMOTHY GEITHNER
U.S. Department of Treasury
Washington, D.C.
January 26, 2009

SECRETARY GEITHNER: Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. And thanks to my many friends and colleagues for being here tonight. My wife Carole stood beside me as I took this oath of office as she has twice before in this building. I want to thank her for her extraordinary grace and support. She has this remarkable capacity for calm wisdom and empathy.

Our children, Elise and Benjamin, are back at school in New York studying for their midterm exams -- I hope they're studying. (Laughter.) I miss them very much and I'm very proud of them.

My terrific family is represented here tonight by my father, Peter Geithner, and my brother, David. My parents gave me, among many wonderful things, they gave me the important gift of showing me the world as a child. They took us to live in Zambia and Rhodesia, and then to India and to Thailand. And from those places, I saw America through the eyes of others. And it was that experience seeing the extraordinary influence of America on the world that led me to work in government.

I first walked into this building about 20 years ago. And I had at Treasury the wonderful experience of working with smart and dedicated people serving their country with the shared goal of making government more effective, in an environment where our obligation was to debate the merits, to do what was right, not what was easy or expedient, drawing on the best ideas and expertise in the nation.

Treasury's tradition is to defend the integrity of policy, to respect the constraints imposed by limited resources, and to limit government intervention to where it is essential to protect our financial system and to improve the lives of the American people. That tradition is critically important today because it is the source of the credibility that makes it possible for governments to do what is necessary to resolve a crisis.

In the world we confront today, Treasury has to be, and Treasury will be, a source of bold initiative. We are at a moment of maximum challenge for our economy and for our country. And our agenda, Mr. President, is to move quickly to help you do what the country asked you to do: to launch the programs that will bring economic recovery sooner; to make our economy more productive and more just in the opportunities it provides our citizens; to restore trust in our financial system with fundamental reform; to make our tax system better at rewarding work and investment; to restore confidence in America's economic leadership around the world. I pledge all of my ability to help you meet that challenge, and to restore to all Americans the promise of a better future.

I want to thank Larry Summers, who has taught me so much about economic policy, a little bit about math, even some things about people. I am fortunate he is willing to work alongside me as we confront the nation's challenges.

Mr. President, I am deeply grateful for your trust and confidence. We will work our hearts out for you. Thank you for giving me this great privilege of working for you. I am eager to get to work.

Thank you. (Applause.)

Remarks by the President to The Hispanic Chamber of merce on a plete and c - 英語演講

Washington Marriott Metro Center

Washington, D.C.

9:54 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Si se puede.

AUDIENCE: Si se puede! Si se puede! Si se puede!

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you so much. Please, everybody have a seat，美加. Thank you for the wonderful introduction, David. And thank you for the great work that you are doing each and every day. And I appreciate such a warm wele. Some of you I've gotten a chance to know; many of you I'm meeting for the first time. But the spirit of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of merce, the desire to create jobs and provide opportunity to people who sometimes have been left out -- that's exactly what this administration is about. That's the essence of the American Dream. And so I'm very proud to have a chance to speak with all of you.

You know, every so often, throughout our history, a generation of Americans bears the responsibility of seeing this country through difficult times and protecting the dream of its founding for posterity. This is a responsibility that's fallen to our generation. Meeting it will require steering our nation's economy through a crisis unlike anything that we have seen in our time.

In the short term, that means jump-starting job creation and restarting lending, and restoring confidence in our markets and our financial system. But it also means taking steps that not only advance our recovery, but lay the foundation for lasting, shared prosperity.

I know there's some who believe we can only handle one challenge at a time. And they forget that Lincoln helped lay down the transcontinental railroad and passed the Homestead Act and created the National Academy of Sciences in the midst of civil war. Likewise, President Roosevelt didn't have the luxury of choosing between ending a depression and fighting a war; he had to do both. President Kennedy didn't have the luxury of choosing between civil rights and sending us to the moon. And we don't have the luxury of choosing between getting our economy moving now and rebuilding it over the long term.

America will not remain true to its highest ideals -- and America's place as a global economic leader will be put at risk -- unless we not only bring down the crushing cost of health care and transform the way we use energy, but also if we do -- if we don't do a far better job than we've been doing of educating our sons and daughters; unless we give them the knowledge and skills they need in this new and changing world.

For we know that economic progress and educational achievement have always gone hand in hand in America. The land-grant colleges and public high schools transformed the economy of an industrializing nation. The GI Bill generated a middle class that made America's economy unrivaled in the 20th century. Investments in math and science under President Eisenhower gave new opportunities to young scientists and engineers all across the country. It made possible somebody like a Sergei Brin to attend graduate school and found an upstart pany called Google that would forever change our world.

The source of America's prosperity has never been merely how ably we accumulate wealth, but how well we educate our people. This has never been more true than it is today. In a 21st-century world where jobs can be shipped wherever there's an Internet connection, where a child born in Dallas is now peting with a child in New Delhi, where your best job qualification is not what you do，英翻中, but what you know -- education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity and success, it's a prerequisite for success.

That's why workers without a four-year degree have borne the brunt of recent layoffs, Latinos most of all. That's why, of the 30 fastest growing occupations in America, half require a Bachelor's degree or more. By 2016, four out of every 10 new jobs will require at least some advanced education or training.

So let there be no doubt: The future belongs to the nation that best educates its citizens -- and my fellow Americans, we have everything we need to be that nation，越南文翻譯. We have the best universities, the most renowned scholars. We have innovative principals and passionate teachers and gifted students, and we have parents whose only priority is their child's education. We have a legacy of excellence, and an unwavering belief that our children should climb higher than we did.

And yet, despite resources that are unmatched anywhere in the world, we've let our grades slip, our schools crumble, our teacher quality fall short, and other nations outpace us. Let me give you a few statistics. In 8th grade math, we've fallen to 9th place. Singapore's middle-schoolers outperform ours three to one. Just a third of our 13- and 14-year-olds can read as well as they should. And year after year, a stubborn gap persists between how well white students are doing pared to their African American and Latino classmates. The relative decline of American education is untenable for our economy, it's unsustainable for our democracy, it's unacceptable for our children -- and we can't afford to let it continue.
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心語：“嘿！您怎麼不說話了？”

口語：“嘿！你怎麼不說話了？”

曾碰到過這麼一名“抬槓师长教师”，越南文翻譯，別人只有一開心，遠見，他便來勁兒，反駁力還挺強。更讓人來氣的是，對圆皆已被駁得啞口無行了，佔上風的他竟一旁得意忘形，“嘿！說話呀，您怎麼不說話了？”

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据說，早在16世紀伊麗莎白時代，日文翻譯，隔著網毬拍對人吐舌頭是一種凌辱性表示。而在噹時，網毬拍的弦線由貓的腸子减工提煉而成，於是，擅於發揮的人類就發了然頗為怪異的表達“Cat got you tongue”（字里意：貓捉住了你的舌頭嗎）。不過，詞源壆傢並不認同這種觀點，雖然很遺憾，他們本人也說不浑這句口語的出處。