第261期:主餐一道:泛聽練習
以下段落是摘自新聞里的一些重要信息,并不是一個段落的聽寫
。空內信息可在本新聞中全部找到,大家可以根據這些信息復述新聞 。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 。The federal government's new health insurance website _1_ twice its usual weekday traffic as Americans try to beat the deadline to sign up for coverage begins January 1st. NPR's Scott Horsley reports some would-be users _2_ into an online waiting area.
聯邦政府新開設的政府醫保網站的訪問數量是平常的兩倍,因為美國民眾試圖趕在最終期限前登記購買將于1月1日起生效的保險 。據NPR新聞的斯科特·霍斯利報道,一些潛在用戶被迫在線等候 。
The Obama administration says some 375,000 people have logged onto the website by noon Monday, testing the limits of the site's new and improved capacity. As response time _3_, and error rates rose, some users were forced to wait or _4_ to supply emails so that they could come back later. White House Spokesman Jay Carney says that was by designed.
奧巴馬政府表示,截至周一中午共有37.5萬人上網瀏覽,檢測網站剛剛改善的容量限制 。由于反應時間減慢、錯誤率上升,一些用戶被迫等待并提供他們的郵箱地址,以便之后繼續訪問網站 。白宮發言人杰伊·卡尼表示,這些都在計劃中 。
"We absolutely anticipated that on this day in particular, we would see a surge."
“我們完全預計到了今天的特殊情況,我們知道訪問量會激增 。”
The website fell short of its target of accommodating 50,000 simultaneous users, but officials say it should still meet the goal of _5_ 800,000 users per day. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
網站未能達成同時為5萬人提供服務的目標,但是官員表示,網站會完成每天登記80萬名用戶的目標 。NPR新聞,斯科特·霍斯利華盛頓報道 。
詞匯解析:
1、log onto
登錄,進入
eg:Some risk management software will track habits, such as detecting when people log onto which workstations or when they log in on a holiday.
有些風險控制軟件可以跟蹤習慣,比如監測人們何時登錄進哪一臺工作站,還有他們何時在假期登錄進系統 。
2、simultaneous
adj. 同時的;聯立的;同時發生的
n. 同時譯員
eg:The two guns fired almost simultaneously.
兩支槍幾乎同時開火 。