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二月份 第 18 課

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  • Athens Riot Police Fire Tear Gas at Protesters
  • 雅典防暴警察向抗議群眾投放催淚彈
  •   Greek riot police have fired tear gas at demonstrators in Athens, as clashes erupted Wednesday on the fringes of a large protest march against government austerity measures.
  • 希臘首都雅典星期三發生大規模抗議遊行反對政府的緊縮措施,周圍示威者與警察爆發衝突,防暴警察向示威者投放催淚彈。

  •   Police say the clashes broke out when scores of rock-throwing youths tried to storm a building near parliament in central Athens.
  • 警方說,有幾十個年輕人在雅典市中心的議會附近向一座建築投擲石塊的時候爆發了這場衝突。

  •   Some 30,000 Greek civil servants and private sector workers walked off their jobs in a 24-hour protest against government cutbacks designed to pull Greece out of its financial crisis.
  • 大約三萬名希臘公務員和私營部門員工舉行 24 小時罷工,抗議政府為擺脫希臘金融危機而採取的削減措施。

  •   The measures include wage freezes, tax hikes and raising the retirement age.
  • 這些措施包括凍結工資、增稅和提高退休年齡。

  •   The Greek civil servants' union says government workers have become the targets of sharp spending cuts.
  • 希臘公務員工會說,政府員工成為政府大幅削減支出的目標。

  •   Greece's budget deficit was nearly 13 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product at the end of 2009 -- more than four times the European Union ceiling.
  • 2009 年底希臘預算赤字接近國內生產總值的 13 %,超過歐盟上限的四倍以上。

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  • Anniversary of VOA's First Broadcast in 1942
  • 美國之音在 1942 首播現今 68 週年
  •   Wednesday is the 68th anniversary of the first overseas broadcast by the Voice of America.
  • 星期三是美國之音首次海外廣播的 68 週年紀念日。

  •   On February 24, 1942, VOA broadcast its first program in the German language, as a means of countering Nazi wartime propaganda to the German people.
  • 1942 年 2 月 24 日,美國之音第一次播出德語節目,作為向德國人民進行反納粹戰爭宣傳的手段。

  •   During that broadcast, announcer William Harlan Hale told his audience, "The news may be good. The news may be bad. We shall tell you the truth."
  • 當時播音員威廉‧哈蘭‧海爾對聽眾說,“消息可能是好的,也可能是壞的,但我們將告訴您真實的情況。”

  •   This was just 79 days after the United States entered World War Two.
  • 那時美國參加第二次世界大戰剛剛 79 天。

  •   By the end of the war, VOA was broadcasting in 40 languages from its studios in New York.
  • 到二戰結束時,美國之音已從紐約的演播室用 40 種語言播出。

  •   Today, from its headquarters in Washington, DC, VOA uses radio, television and the Internet to reach an estimated audience of 125 million people. It broadcasts in 45 languages, including English.
  • 今天,美國之音從華盛頓總部通過廣播、電視和互聯網、用英語等 45 種語言向全球大約 1 億 2 千 500 萬聽眾播出。

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