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  • Athens Riot Police Fire Tear Gas at Protesters
  • 雅典防暴警察向抗议群眾投放催泪弹
  •   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.
  • 希腊首都雅典星期叁发生大规模抗议游行反对政府的紧缩措施,周围示威者与警察爆发衝突,防暴警察向示威者投放催泪弹。

  •   Police say the clashes broke out when scores of rock-throwing youths tried to storm a building near parliament in central Athens.
  • 警方说,有几十个年轻人在雅典市中心的议会附近向一座建筑投掷石块的时候爆发了这场衝突。

  •   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.
  • 大约叁万名希腊公务员和私营部门员工举行 24 小时罢工,抗议政府為摆脱希腊金融危机而採取的削减措施。

  •   The measures include wage freezes, tax hikes and raising the retirement age.
  • 这些措施包括冻结工资、增税和提高退休年龄。

  •   The Greek civil servants' union says government workers have become the targets of sharp spending cuts.
  • 希腊公务员工会说,政府员工成為政府大幅削减支出的目标。

  •   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 年底希腊预算赤字接近国内生產总值的 13 %,超过欧盟上限的四倍以上。

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  • Anniversary of VOA's First Broadcast in 1942
  • 美国之音在 1942 首播现今 68 週年
  •   Wednesday is the 68th anniversary of the first overseas broadcast by the Voice of America.
  • 星期叁是美国之音首次海外广播的 68 週年纪念日。

  •   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,美国之音第一次播出德语节目,作為向德国人民进行反纳粹战争宣传的手段。

  •   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."
  • 当时播音员威廉‧哈兰‧海尔对听眾说,“消息可能是好的,也可能是坏的,但我们将告诉您真实的情况。”

  •   This was just 79 days after the United States entered World War Two.
  • 那时美国参加第二次世界大战刚刚 79 天。

  •   By the end of the war, VOA was broadcasting in 40 languages from its studios in New York.
  • 到二战结束时,美国之音已从纽约的演播室用 40 种语言播出。

  •   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,美国之音从华盛顿总部通过广播、电视和互联网、用英语等 45 种语言向全球大约 1 亿 2 千 500 万听眾播出。

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