杂乱的书桌

欢迎来到“杂乱的书桌”每天准时为你带来的VOA听写，本期的慢速VOA是学校奖学金的新闻第一部分，标准VOA则是关于气候行动计划的新闻的第三部分。还犹豫什么，赶紧和Hugh一起加入到学习英语，锻炼听写的队伍中来吧！

今天的慢速VOA比较简单，只是这个activist没有听出来，其实也没有想到，还有比较奇怪的地方是把system听成了assistant，怎么也没想明白。其他的地方都很简单，几乎不会犯什么错误。

标准VOA中还是错了很多地方，主要是两段采访当中都有不少的地方没听准确。其实真的很迷惑，只是听的话，可能意思理解的差不多，写就总是错。而且采访内容，也就是非播音员的听起来确实难度大一些，继续适应提高。

今天决定不翻译文章了，很多人建议听写之后都应该好好翻译，相信一直坚持一样会有提高。Hugh的想法的听写完了之后看一遍，明白就好了，对于特别的短语，词汇弄明白，整体翻译起来确实需要的时间久一些，决定不花这些时间了。

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题目: In Some Schools, Learning Is Not Enough of Its Own Reward (1/2)

专有名词: New Mexico, Baltimore, Maryland, New Jersey, Robert Schaefer

重点总结: activist（激进主义分子）

原文

Some American schools pay teachers more if their students improve on tests. Now there is a growing movement to pay the students. In some cases, even just for coming to class.

Students at one school in New Mexico can earn up to 300 dollars a year for good attendance. A program in New York City pays up to 500 dollars for good attendance and high test scores.

In Baltimore, Maryland, high scores on state graduation tests can be worth more than 100 dollars. And a New Jersey school system plans to pay students 50 dollars a week to attend after-school tutoring programs. Schools that pay students can be found in more than one fourth of the fifty states. Other schools pay students with food or other rewards.

Robert Schaefer is public education director for the National Center for Fair and Open Testing and activist group. He says paying may improve performance in the short term, but students develop false expectations for the future. He sees a lack of long term planning in these programs because of pressure on schools to raise test scores.

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题目: Candidates Challenged to Make Global Warming Priority (1/3)

专有名词: Jonathan Shrier, post-Kyoto, Bill Becker,

重点总结: reduction（应该听出来）, viable（有活力的）, in the extreme（非常，极端）, a talent pool

原文

“The G-8 countries would commit 2% reductions on average a year between 2010 and 2020, and then the 5 largest developing countries would kick in the 2% reductions all the way to 2050 and then eventually mid-century the smaller developing countries would be obligated to begin cutting as well.”

Jonathan Shrier says within the president’s first 6 months, a plan must be readied for next round of climate negotiations that will set a post-Kyoto agenda.

“The thought that a new administration again of either party would be able to hit the ground running and radically change the course of the international negotiations is unlikely in the extreme. So we really have to make this a viable kind of arrangement that is gonna work regardless of who’s in the White House after this administration.”

Bill Becker says that can happen if the transition planning starts earlier even before the election. Becker says the president climate action project he directs has already identified the climate sensitive positions that need to be filled and a talent pool ready to take those jobs for the new president.

 

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