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第225期：主餐一道：泛聽練習
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一、泛聽建議：
1、完整聽一遍，掌握大意。
2、繼續聽，特別注意關鍵信息。遇到相似的詞，寫下來。
As the government shutdown persists, _1_ House Speaker John Boehner to allow a vote on the Senate spending bill are growing louder. As NPR's Ailsa Chang reports, both President Obama and Senate leaders say the speaker could single-handedly end the shutdown if he held such a vote.
政府關閉的情況還在持續，因此要求眾議院議長約翰·博納允許就參議院開支法案進行投票的呼聲不斷高漲。據NPR新聞的艾爾薩·張報道，奧巴馬總統和參議院領導人均表示，如果議長進行投票，他就可以單方面結束政府關閉的現狀。
House Speaker John Boehner _2_ over the weekend there aren't enough votes to pass the Senate spending bill, which neither defunds nor delays the Affordable Care Act. President Obama _3_ Boehner to hold a vote on the Senate bill to see if that's the case. Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the clean spending bill the Senate passed was a measure Boehner personally agreed to over the summer.
周末時，眾議院議長約翰·博納稱如果《平價醫療法》既不撤資也不推遲實施，那參議院的開支法案不會獲得足夠票數通過。奧巴馬總統向博納發起挑戰，要求他就參議院法案進行投票，以驗證情況是否如此。同時，參議院多數黨領導人哈利·里德表示，博納在夏季的時候曾個人表示過同意參議院通過的“清潔版”開支法案。
"What I say to the Speaker is allow a vote on the resolution that would end the shutdown -- legislation that you, John Boehner, _4_ in the first place."
“我要對議長說的是，允許就法案進行投票會結束關閉的現狀——這是你約翰·博納一開始就同意的法案?！?/span>
Boehner says he first wants negotiations with the White House and Senate over changes to the health care law and _5_ the deficit. Ailsa Chang, NPR News, the Capitol.
博納表示，他首先想讓白宮和參議院就更改醫療法案和削減赤字等問題進行協商。NPR新聞，艾爾薩·張國會山報道。
詞匯解析：
1. single-handedly
獨自地；單獨地；無人幫助地；單槍匹馬地；
eg. I brought up my seven children single-handed.
我獨自一人撫養了 7 個孩子。
eg. She changed the face of British politics almost single-handed.
她幾乎是一手改變了英國政治的面貌。
2. in the first place
起初；一開始；
eg. What brought you to Washington in the first place?
最初是什么讓你來到華盛頓的？
eg. The emphasis is swinging away from simply finding cures for illness to ways of preventing illness in the first place.
重點正從簡單地對癥下藥轉移到先期預防的方法上來。
