CNN英语听力2012年02月合辑（文本 翻译）：20120203.doc

1、Give us 10 minutes, well give you the headlines. Youre starting your week off with CNN Student News, and we thank you for it. Im your anchor, Carl Azuz.Were starting the week off with a report about Syria. Theres been an apparent spike in violence between Syrian government troops and the people prot

2、ecting against the government. Its gotten so bad that the Arab League, which had sent monitors to Syria to try to protect civilians, says its unable to continue that mission right now.This video comes to us from YouTube. According to a group that opposed the Syrian government, dozens of people were

3、killed in the country yesterday; dozens of others were killed on Saturday.Now CNN cant confirm these reports, because the Syrian government has limited what our journalists are able to do there. The protesters want Syrian President Bashar al-Assad out of power. So does the international community. T

4、he countrys ambassador says Syria is going to stay as it is.East of Syria, youll find Iran, where inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency have arrived. Theyre there to investigate the countrys controversial nuclear program. The United States and other nations believe Iran is trying to

5、 make nuclear weapons, and theyve asked it to stop.The country has refused, insisting its nuclear program is peaceful. The European Union is among those who dont believe that, so its putting sanctions, a form of punishment, on Iran, saying E.U. member countries will stop buying Iranian oil in July.

6、Matthew Chance explains how that would hit Iran in its pocketbook.The sanctions are a direct attack on Irans major source of revenue, meant to force the regime to negotiate.Irans oil exports account for the vast majority of its income, but European countries by just 20 percent. Most is sold in Asia,

7、 China, India, South Korea and Japan. Analysts say Europes oil sanctions may damage Irans economy, but they wont destroy it.I dont think anyone is expecting that China, in particular, or India, or some of the other major Asian markets are going to cut off purchases of Iranian oil. Their economies ar

8、e too dependent on it. But if Europe and Japan and a couple other countries cut off, that will be a major blow to Iran.But will it be enough to give Iran pause and restart nuclear talks?The answer, say experts, is maybe. Theres no way these E.U. sanctions are going to get Iran to reverse its nuclear

9、 policy, they say, or to end its uranium enrichment activities, but it may just get Tehran back to the table. And for European countries nervous about Irans nuclear ambitions, thats progress.Is this legit? In the U.S., the FCC monitors contributions to political campaigns.Not true. Its the FEC, the

10、Federal Election Commission, that keeps tabs on campaign contributions.And in election years, the FEC has its work cut out for it. There are rules about how campaign money is handled. For example, Americans can each contribute up to $2,500 to a candidate per election. But they can give over $30,000

11、to a national political party. Tom Foreman tallies up just how much is spent and where it all goes.欢迎收看10分钟的CNN学生新闻，这里你能看到世界的头条新闻。感谢你们一如既往的支持。我是你们的主持人卡尔阿祖兹。本周我们从叙利亚开始。在叙利亚政府军队和反对政府的人之间有很深的摩擦。而它已经变得十分糟糕,阿拉伯联盟派出观察团监控叙利亚试图保护平民，但现在表示不能继续任务。我们从某知名网站找到此视频。这是反对叙利亚政府的组织,昨天全国许多人死亡,而数十人在星期六被杀害。现在CNN不能证实这些报导,因

12、为叙利亚政府已经限制我们的记者。示威者要求叙利亚总统阿萨德下台。国际社会也是一样。这个国家的大使表示叙利亚会一如既往。在叙利亚的东部,你会发现国际原子能机构已经在伊朗进行核查。他们是在调查伊朗有争议的核项目。美国和其他国家认为伊朗正试图制造核武器,他们已经要求其停止。这个国家当然不会轻易接受,它已经表示拒绝,坚持其核计划是用于和平的目的。欧盟处于怀疑的阵营中,所以它对伊朗进行制裁,或者会以某种形式的惩罚。欧盟成员国将在7月禁止购买伊朗的石油。马修解释这将对打击伊朗的钱袋造成很大打击。此次制裁直接攻击伊朗的主要收入来源,这意味着迫使政府进行谈判。伊朗石油出口占了绝大部分收入,但欧洲国家仅仅占20

13、%。大多数销售大国在亚洲,中国、印度、韩国和日本。分析家表示欧洲的制裁可能损坏伊朗的经济,但并不会摧毁它。我不认为有人希望,特别是中国或印度,或其它亚洲主要市场都购买伊朗的石油。他们对于经济过于依赖。但是如果欧洲和日本及其他国家切断了这条线,那将是对伊朗的沉重打击。但是能够给伊朗足够缓冲时间以争取重新开始核谈判吗?专家们表示答案是或许。欧盟制裁不会让伊朗停止反核政策,他们表示停止其铀浓缩活动,但这可能仅仅让局势稍微缓和。欧洲国家担心伊朗的核野心进程在一步步加剧。这是合法的吗?在美国,联邦通信委员会开始了政治运动。这是不正确的。这只是联邦通信委员会的一面之词而已。在选举年中, 联邦通信委员会正在努力工作。它处理竞选经费成了问题。举例来说,美国人每一人选举每一名候选人都能带来高达2500美元的收益。但他们又提供超过30000美元给全国的政党。汤姆表示它是怎么赚的,就再怎么花出去。.