NPR边听边练173：国防部长谈军队性侵犯

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一、泛听建议：

1、完整听一遍，掌握大意。

2、继续听，特别注意关键信息。遇到相似的词，写下来。

3、复述新闻。

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel _1_ a commencement address today to the US Military Academy at West Point. He says the volunteer army faces many challenges from within, including suicide, alcoholism and sexual abuse.

今天，国防部长查克?哈格尔在美国西点军校的毕业典礼上发表讲话。他表示，志愿军面临着许多来自内部的挑战，包括自杀、酒精中毒以及性侵害。

"You’ll need to not just deal with these debilitating, insidious and destructive forces, but rather you must be the generation of leaders that stop it."

“你们不仅需要处理这些削弱、危害、破坏战斗力的因素，你们还必须要成为停止这些的领导一代。”

He says sexual harassment and sexual assault in the military are profound betrayal. A Pentagon report _2_ this month estimated as many as 26,000 military service members may _3_ assaulted last year.

他表示，军队中的性骚扰和性侵犯是对军装深刻的背叛。本月五角大楼的一份报告显示，据估计去年最多有26,000名服役人员可能遭到性侵犯。

_4_ continues in Syria as government forces try to recapture the strategic town of Qusair near the Lebanese border.Activists say rebel-held parts of the town have been heavily bombarded by army units and _5_ from Hezbollah. The BBC's Jim Muir has more.

叙利亚的争斗还在持续，政府军试图重新占领黎巴嫩边境附近的战略重镇库塞尔。活动人士表示，反对派占领的该镇部分地区遭到了真主党部队及士兵的猛烈炮击。BBC新闻的吉姆?缪尔将带来详细报道。

词汇解析：

1. debilitate

vt.使虚弱;使衰弱

eg. Stewart took over yesterday when Russell was debilitated by a stomach virus.

昨天拉塞尔因肠胃病毒感染身体不适，由斯图尔特暂时接手。

eg. Do not allow the sinfulness in the world youinhabit to debilitate your spirit's strength.

不要让你们居住的世界上的罪恶感使你们的精神力量变得虚弱。

2、insidious (同近义词 designing, knowing, subtle)

adj. 阴险的;隐伏的;暗中为害的;狡猾的

eg:As doubts are so insidious, how do you beat them?

既然疑虑如此狡猾,如何击败它们呢?

eg:Another, more insidious form - is a lie .

另一种更为阴险的形式——是谎言。

3、sexual harassment 性骚扰

eg:Sexual harassment of women workers by their bosses is believed to be widespread.

女员工受其上司性骚扰的情况被认为是广泛存在的。

4、sexual assault 性侵犯;性暴行

eg:The phrase sexual assault has been in use for more than a century, and 19th-century writers seem to have used it synonymously with rape.

性侵犯这个词语已经用了一个多世纪了，在19世纪的时候作家们似乎就已经用它来同义强奸一词了。

参考答案：

1、delivered 2、released 3、have been sexually

4、Fighting 5、fighters