介紹:
Free speech
言論自由
Under attack
備受苛責(zé)
Curbs on free speech are growing tighter. It is time to speak out.
對(duì)言論自由的鉗制越來(lái)越緊，是時(shí)候來(lái)一波仗義執(zhí)言了。

聽力原文:
IN A sense, this is a golden age for free speech. Your smartphone can call up newspapers from the other side of world in seconds. More than a billion tweets, Facebook posts and blog updates are published every single day. Anyone with access to the internet can be a publisher, and anyone who can reach Wikipedia enters a digital haven where America's First Amendment reigns.
重點(diǎn)詞匯：
1curb 控制，抑制，限定，約束
2 call sth up 調(diào)用貯存；調(diào)出備用

3 First Amendment : the statement in the US Constitution that protects freedom of speech and religion and the right to meet in peaceful groups
第一修正案（美國(guó)憲法中保護(hù)言論和宗教信仰自由以及和平集會(huì)權(quán)利的條文）
4 reign 統(tǒng)治；當(dāng)政；為王；為君
聽力原文:
However, watchdogs report that speaking out is becoming more dangerous—and they are right. As our report shows, curbs on free speech have grown tighter. Without the contest of ideas, the world is timid and ignorant.
重點(diǎn)詞匯：
1 watchdog（監(jiān)督公司活動(dòng)及監(jiān)護(hù)人們權(quán)利的）監(jiān)察人，監(jiān)察團(tuán)體
2 timid 羞怯的；膽怯的；缺乏勇氣的
3 ignorant 不了解的；無(wú)知的；愚昧的；無(wú)學(xué)識(shí)的
聽力原文:
Free speech is under attack in three ways. First, repression by governments has increased.Several countries have reimposed cold-war controls or introduced new ones. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia enjoyed a free-for-all of vigorous debate. Under Vladimir Putin, the muzzle has tightened again. All the main television-news outlets are now controlled by the state or by Mr. Putin's cronies. Journalists who ask awkward questions are no longer likely to be sent to labour camps, but several have been murdered.
重點(diǎn)詞匯：
1 repression 壓制；鎮(zhèn)壓
2 vigorous 充滿活力的；果斷的；精力充沛的
3 outlet 經(jīng)銷店；專營(yíng)店;廉價(jià)商品經(jīng)銷店；折扣店;（情感的）發(fā)泄途徑；（思想的）表達(dá)方式
4 crony 好友；密友
5 introduce 推行；實(shí)施；采用（新產(chǎn)品 / 法律）
6 muzzle（防止動(dòng)物咬人的）口套
聽力原文:
China's leader, Xi Jinping, ordered a crackdown after he took over in 2012, toughening up censorship of social media, arresting hundreds of dissidents and replacing liberal debate in universities with extra Marxism. In the Middle East the overthrow of despots during the Arab spring let people speak freely for the first time in generations. This has lasted in Tunisia, but Syria and Libya are more dangerous for journalists than they were before the uprisings; and Egypt is ruled by a man who says, with a straight face: "Don't listen to anyone but me."
重點(diǎn)詞匯：
1 crackdown 嚴(yán)厲的打擊；鎮(zhèn)壓
2 toughen (sth/sb) (up) （使）堅(jiān)硬，堅(jiān)固
3 dissident 持不同政見者
4 despot 專制統(tǒng)治者；專制君主；暴君
5 censorship 審查；檢查；審查制度
聽力原文:
Second, a worrying number of non-state actors are enforcing censorship by assassination. Reporters in Mexico who investigate crime or corruption are often murdered, and sometimes tortured first. Jihadists slaughter those they think have insulted their faith. When authors and artists say anything that might be deemed disrespectful of Islam, they take risks. Secular bloggers in Bangladesh are hacked to death in the street (see article); French cartoonists are gunned down in their offices. The jihadists hurt Muslims more than any others, not least by making it harder for them to have an honest discussion about how to organise their societies.
重點(diǎn)詞匯：

1 assassinate（尤為政治目的）暗殺，行刺
2 torture 拷打；拷問(wèn)；嚴(yán)刑逼供
3 slaughter 屠殺；殺戮
4 deem 認(rèn)為；視為；相信
5 secular 現(xiàn)世的；世俗的；非宗教的
6 bangladesh 孟加拉共和國(guó);
7 hack 砍；劈
8 not least 特別；尤其
聽力原文:
Third, the idea has spread that people and groups have a right not to be offended. This may sound innocuous. Politeness is a virtue, after all. But if I have a right not to be offended, that means someone must police what you say about me, or about the things I hold dear, such as my ethnic group, religion, or even political beliefs. Since offence is subjective, the power to police it is both vast and arbitrary.
重點(diǎn)詞匯：

1 innocuous 無(wú)惡意的；無(wú)意冒犯的
2 virtue 高尚的道德；正直的品性；德行
3 police 監(jiān)督；管制
4 hold dear 非常關(guān)心；十分看重；極為珍視
5 subjective 主觀的（非客觀的）
6 arbitrary 任意的；武斷的；隨心所欲的
7 vast 遼闊的；巨大的

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