NPR邊聽邊練298：奧巴馬中國城進行移民法案演講
一、泛聽建議：
1、完整聽一遍，掌握大意。
2、繼續(xù)聽，特別注意關鍵信息。遇到相似的詞，寫下來。
President Obama was in San Francisco today, lobbying on behalf of a bottled up immigration bill. The president saying he would _1_ to go along with House Republicans who want to break the measures into pieces if that's what it takes to get it through. Invoking the spirit of Thanksgiving, the president saying immigration system is in need of repair.
今天，奧巴馬總統(tǒng)在舊金山游說陷入困境的移民法案?？偨y(tǒng)表示，如果這是通過法案的方法，他愿意與眾議院共和黨一起合作，這些共和黨人希望將移民改革法案分拆。在提及感恩節(jié)的精神時，總統(tǒng)表示移民體系需要進行修復。
"It is long past time to reform an immigration system that right now doesn't serve America as well as it should. We could _2_ so much more to unleash our potential, if we just fix this aspect of our system."
“移民體系改革已經進行很長時間，但是到目前為止這個體系仍沒有做到為美國民眾服務。如果我們只是修復體系的這個方面，那我們在釋放潛力上可以做得更多。”
Speaking in the city with a large Asian _3_ in the Chinatown neighbourhood, Obama said a quarter of the foreign-born population in the U.S. in 2011 came from Asian countries.
舊金山這座城市的中國城有大批亞裔人口，奧巴馬在發(fā)表演說時表示，2011年美國境內的外國出生人口有四分之一來自亞洲國家。
More people _4_ for immigration violations in the last year than ever before. NPR's Ted Robbins says most of the charges were illegal entry or illegal reentry into the U.S..
去年被起訴違反移民法的人比以往任何時候都多。NPR新聞的泰德·羅賓表示，大部分指控內容為非法進入美國或非法回美國。
More than 97,000 defendants _5_ immigration crimes during the last federal fiscal year. That's about 6% more than the year before,and 22% more than five years ago. The rise has not explained, but it correlates with the federal government's operation streamline that's the program in federal courts in which illegal crossers caught by the border patrol appear before magistrates and are sentenced in one day. The 97,000 number comes from the Justice Department through a Freedom of Information Act request by the track project of Syracuse University. Ted Robbins, NPR News.
在上個聯(lián)邦財政年，有超過9.7萬名被告被控違反移民法。數量比前一年上升了6%，相較于5年前上漲了22%。上升原因并沒有進行解釋，但是這與聯(lián)邦政府實行的節(jié)約效率計劃有關，這項計劃要求聯(lián)邦法庭在處理被邊境巡邏官逮捕的非法越境者時，出庭和審判要在一天內完成。司法部依據《自由信息法》的規(guī)定公布了這份9.7萬名被告的數據，《自由信息法》在雪城大學追蹤項目的要求下實施。NPR新聞，泰德·羅賓報道。
詞匯解析：
1. correlate with
相互關聯(lián);極為相似;
eg. Obesity correlates with increased risk for hypertension and stroke...
肥胖會增加高血壓和中風發(fā)作的幾率。
eg. The result of this experiment do not correlate with the result of earlier one.
這次試驗的結果與以往試驗的結果毫不相干。
參考答案：
1、be willing to 2、be doing 3、population
4、were prosecuted 5、were charged with
