最新-高中英语 BBC听力2018年18月合辑(文本+翻译)BBC1

BBC英语听力2018年18月合辑（文本＋翻译）：BBC1818The Egyptian authorities have failed to agree a date for the first presidential election of the post-Mubarak era. At a news conference in Cairo where an announcement was due, the chairman of the electoral commission told the media there would be no announcement after all. Farooq Sultan said that t he delay was to ensure that Egyptian expatriate votes could be accounted for.埃及当局未能就后穆巴拉克时代的第一次总统选举的日期达成一致。

在开罗召开的原本要发表声明的新闻发布会上，选举委员会主席告诉媒体根本就没有什么声明。

Farooq Sultan说，声明延迟是为了确保埃及移居国外者的投票也能清点进去。

"The committee reported today and decided to postpone the announcement of the election timetable until a solution is reached, one that guarantees that Egyptians living abroad will be able to cast their votes in a suitable time frame, ensuring that their role in determining the fate of their country is real and not merely a token one."“委员会今天决定推迟宣布选举时间表声明，直到找到解决办法为止，即确保移居外国的埃及人能在合适的时间内投出选票，确保他们决定埃及命运的角色是真实的，而不是象征性的。

BBC英语听力2018年18月合辑（文本＋翻译）：BBC1810An Italian cruise ship with 1,000 people on board is floating adrift in the dark in an area of the Indian Ocean where Somali pirates have been active. The crew of the ship Costa Allegra issued a distress signal when a fire knocked out the ship's generators. David Willey reports.一艘载有1000名乘客的意大利游轮在黑夜间漂流到印度洋一处索马里海盗猖獗的区域。

由于船上的发电机房着火，“阿丽格拉”号船员就发出遇险信号。

David Willey报道。

The 28,000-tonne liner, the Costa Allegra, belongs to the same Italian cruise line as the Costa Concordia, which went aground off the coast of Italy last month with a loss of mor e than 30 lives. Rome coastguards say three merchant ships and two fishing boats in the area have been directed towards the stricken vessel. The authorities in the Seychelles have also dispatched a tugboat, a coastguard ship and a plane to the area where the Allegra is drifting without power.“阿丽格拉”号游轮载重2.8万吨，与上月在意大利滨海触礁的“协和号”游轮同属一家游轮公司，那场灾难中至少30人丧生。

BBC英语听力2018年18月合辑（文本＋翻译）：BBC1825President Obama has said he's taking China to the World Trade Organisation over its export quotas on rare earth minerals so the US gets a fair deal in the global economy. The European Union and Japan have also filed complaints over the quotas. Here's Jonny Dymond.奥巴马称将就中国稀土金属出口定额向世界贸易组织提交异议，以便美国在全球经济中进行公平交易。

欧盟和日本也向WTO投诉中国定额一事。

Jonny Dymond报道。

China has a near stranglehold on the production and export of rare earths - minerals that are vital to the manufacture of high technology goods from mobile phones to wind turbines. For the past couple of years, those exports have been restricted and have become more expensive as China has tightened export quotas - something it says it does for environmental reasons. Now in what is the first joint filing of its kind, the US, the EU and Japan have complained to t he World Trade Organisation - the first step before bringing formal litigation.中国对稀土的开采和出口进行明确控制，稀土是生产一些如手机，风力涡轮机等高科技产品的重要原材料。

BBC英语听力2018年18月合辑（文本＋翻译）：BBC1818A court in the United States has found a disgraced financier, Allen Stanford, guilty of swindling $7bn from investors in a h uge international fraud. The scheme centred on his bank in Antigua. Pr osecutors alleged that Stanford used his investors' funds to fuel an extravagant lifestyle. This report from Peter Biles.一家美国法院判处可耻的金融家Alle n Stanford通过国际诈骗，从投资者处骗取共计7亿美元。

诈骗主要在他所工作的安提瓜岛银行进行。

检察官们指控Stanford生活极度奢侈，大肆挥霍投资方的钱财。

Peter Biles报道。

Allen Stanford had pleaded not guilty to defrauding 30,000 investors from more than 100 countries. It was one of the largest pyramid schemes in US history. The jury of eight men and four women found him guilty on all but one char ge of wire fraud. He faces up to 20 years in jail for the most serious charges, but could be imprisoned for longer. Prosecutors said Mr Stanford issued fraudulent certificates of deposit through an offshore bank in Antigua. He was renowned for his lavish lifestyle and created a 20/20 cricket tournament in the West Indies in 2018.Allen Stanford原本不承认诈骗了100多个国家的3000名投资者-这可是美国历史上最大的金字塔式诈骗之一。

CRI英语听力2018年18月合辑（文本）：English-Edition-of-Sanguosha-Put-into-US-MarketThe English edition of Sanguosha, the most popular role-playing card game in China, recently landed in the US market. Its developer, Beijing-based Company Yoka Games, hopes the game will bring fun, as well as Chinese culture, to the country.Wang Wei has more.Yoka Games, a Beijing-based card game developer, recently released the English edition of the most popular card game in China, Sanguosha, into the US market, trying to grab a bite of the overseas market.Sanguosha, or Killers of the Three Kingdoms, is highly popular in China, occupying 80 percent of the market share of 30 million board game players. Named after Chinese classic novel, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is one of the first original card-based role-playing games with Chinese elements. Each player takes a role card based on characters from the novel, equipped with distinct skills and weapons. War in the game is waged channeling the fury, intelligence and cunning of the novel's characters. It has won millions of Chinese fans among worldwide, ranging from 10- to 60-year-olds.Du Bin, president of Yoka Games, says they have long been considering expanding from the Chinese mainland into Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and now the US."We have different strategies for various markets. People in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan basically read and write Chinese in traditional characters, so all we need to do is to replace simplified characters with traditional ones. But for the US, we need to translate them into English and convey the cultural meaning behind the lines."Sanguosha was first brought to US university campuses by Chinese students, but it soon attracted local students, eventually showing up in UC Berkley's course catalog. This sped up the pace of releasing an English version of the game. Du Bin says, given what the reputation of the game has achieved in the country, Sanguosha will receive a warm reception.However, the translation work turned out to be difficult."There were two obstacles we found hard to overcome for the translation. One was translating the idioms, like Nan Man Ru Qin, Nan Man means barbarians from the south and Ru Qin means invasion. Why does it have to be barbarians from the south? It will definitely baffle foreign players. The other one is translating role skills, we haveQing Cheng, Guo Se, Tian Xiang. How does someone describe those in English? It takes a whole lot of brain work. "Thirty thousand packs of English Sanguosha have been put into the overseas market, and market performance of Sanguosha in the US is optimistic. However, Du Bin says that, aside from sales and profits, they also hope the game will arouse local people's interests in the Three Kingdoms novel and Chinese culture."We don't expect players to be experts of the Three Kingdoms history. Like in China, many players start knowing very little about the time period, but they are intrigued to look into it after playing the game. We hope to see that in the US."For CRI, I'm Wang Wei.。

BBC英语听力2018年18月合辑（文本＋翻译）：BBC1815For the second day running, the Red Cross in the Syrian city of Homs says it's given up hope of getting its relief convoy into the stricken district of Baba Amr to deliver aid. Jim Muir is following events from neighbouring Lebanon.今天是红十字在叙利亚胡姆斯市工作的第二天，该组织称已放弃派救援使团进入受摧毁的巴巴阿鲁姆地区的希望。

Jim Muir在邻国黎巴嫩跟踪此事。

As night fell, Red Cross officials said they'd given up fo r the day but would renew their efforts in the morning. They are being told by the Syrian authorities that it's too dangerous for them to go in because of possible mines or booby traps. But Syrian television has been in there showing pictures of massive destruction though it blamed it all on terrorist armed gangs carrying out a foreign plot to destabilise the country. Activists have accused the security forces of carrying out revenge killings and summary executions after they moved in on Thursday following the withdrawal of armed rebels.夜晚降临时，红十字官员称当天已放弃计划，但明早将再次尝试。

BBC英语听力2018年18月合辑（文本＋翻译）：BBC1821The United Nations says an estimated 1.5 million people in Syria are in need of food aid. The announcement by the UN humanitarian affairs office came as the UN humanitarian envoy Valerie Amos said not enough aid was reaching Syrians in need. Imogen Foulkes reports from Geneva.联合国称，估计有150万叙利亚人需要食物援助，该声明是联合国人道主义事务办公室发布的，联合国人道主义使者Valerie Amos也称叙利亚收到的所需援助不足，Imogen Foulkes在日内瓦报道。

The United Nations wants Syria to allow in aid as a matter of urgency. A meeting of UN agencies in Geneva has drafted a 90-day humanitarian plan with food and other supplies for 1.5 million people, but the figure is just an estimate. The UN has been unable to enter Syria since the conflict began. Now a handful of UN aid workers will be allowed in to make a preliminary assessment. From there, they hope to begin the relief operation, but it all depends on Damascus agreeing.联合国希望叙利亚将援助视为紧急事务并允许进入，联合国机构在日内瓦的会议草拟了一个为期90天的人道主义计划，将向150万人提供食物等供应，但这只是个估计数字。

BBC英语听力2018年18月合辑（文本＋翻译）：BBC1816The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is heading for a comeback as the country's new president after Sunday's elections. Mr Putin claimed victory in front of tens of thousands of cheering supporters outside the Kremlin.俄罗斯周日选举后，总理普京卷土重来意在赢得新总统一职。

在克里姆林宫外，面对上万欢呼的支持者，普京宣称自己获胜。

"Dear friends, first, I want to thank all citizens of Russia who took part in today's election for the president of the Russian Federation. Special thanks of course to those who've gathered here today in Moscow and to all those who support us in every corner of our vast homeland.“亲爱的朋友们，首先，我要感谢每一位参加俄罗斯联邦总统选举的俄罗斯公民，当然，尤其要感谢今天聚集在莫斯科的民众，感谢我们博大国土上每一位支持我们的人民。

Thanks to all who said yes to a great Russia. I once asked you 'Will we win?' We have won. We won in an open and honest fight."感谢所有肯定伟大俄罗斯的人，我曾经问过大家‘我们会赢吗？’如今确实赢了，我们公开诚实地获胜了！”Partial results suggest his share of the vote was about 60%. Counting is still going on. But an opposition activist said there had been fraud on a vast scale despite the presence of thousands of independent observers and web cameras at polling stations. The Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov accused Mr Puti n's party of using the might of the state to ensure victory.不完全结果显示，普京的支持率大约为60%，点票工作仍在进行中。

高中英语 VOA常速听力2018年18月合辑（文本）Life-saving-Heart-Pump-Developed-for-Children素材HOUSTON — A study unveiled this week in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates the safety and benefits of a small heart pump first developed in Germany and called The "Berlin Heart." There were 17 institutions in North America and Europe involved in the study, which was led by doctors in Houston, at Baylor College of Medicine and the Texas Children's Hospital. A number of young lives were saved during the test period that began in 2018.Sixteen-year-old Marco Murguia can now play basketball and live a normal life.But in 2018, when he was ten, his mother, Connie Murguia, noticed he was acting sluggish and took him to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston."His heart wouldn't pump enough blood and he was pale," she recalls.Doctors said Marco had a failing heart and put him on a list for a transplant. But the wait for a child's heart can be very long, and Marco spent three months on the Berlin Heart.Using pumps that match the patient's size, this device assists the ailing heart with tubes attached through the chest.Doctor Charles Fraser, chief surgeon at Texas Children's Hospital, was the principal investigator in the newly-released study of this so-called Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device."Our hearts are designed to inject the amount of blood that our body needs, so this pump is designed to be commensurate in size to the patient," he explains.Usually, children who need a heart transplant are kept alive, but sedated and immobile - and for only a matter of weeks. But with the Berlin heart, patients remain awake while the pump keeps them alive for as long as 192 days.“Blood going through the valve into the pumping chamber pumps through the valve - these are one-way valves, the blood can only go in the direction of the arrows, back to the body," said Doctor Charles Fraser.Dr. Fraser first used the Berlin Heart seven years ago on a tiny infant."This patient was dying. We were able to support him with the device, actually a devicethis size. He subsequently achieved a cardiac transplant, and he is doing great," he said.Though the study found that around 30 percent of patients using this device suffered mild strokes, Dr. Fraser said that risk is acceptable, given the much higher survival rate the pump achieves.“The children who get listed for a heart transplant - if they do not get a heart transplant, they are not going to make it," he said.Dr. Fraser hopes further study will lead to even better devices so that children like Marco Murguia can survive and enjoy active, healthy lives.。

BBC英语听力2018年18月合辑（文本＋翻译）：BBC1818Western leaders have condemned the killing of one of the world's most celebrated war correspondents, the American Marie Colvin, in the Syrian city of Homs. A French photo journalist Remi Ochlik was also killed. They died when a house they were reporting from was shelled by Syrian government forces. From Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon, Jim Muir reports.世界最著名的战地记者美国人玛丽·科尔文在叙利亚胡姆斯市被杀，西方领导人对此表示谴责。

法国图片记者Remi Ochlik也遇难身亡。

他们遇难时叙利亚政府军他们采访的房屋进行轰击。

Jim Muir在邻国黎巴嫩报道。

The bombardment of Baba Amr resumed in the early morning with rockets and artillery shells smashing into the already devastated quarter where several hundred rebel fighters from the Free Syrian Army are believed to be holding out. Among the many victims were the veteran Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin and the French photo journalist Remi Ochlik. They died when shells racked a makeshift press centre. Marie Colvin's trenchant and compassionate reporting and now her death along with Remi Ochlik have focused international attention even more on the plight of thousands of civilians trapped in Baba Amr.凌晨时分，政府军使用火箭炮和炮弹，对早已破坏严重的巴巴阿姆鲁地区发动新一轮的轰击，据悉有数百名叛军“自由叙利亚军”成员躲藏在此。