NPR边听边练298：奥巴马中国城进行移民法案演讲

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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。

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，奥巴马总统在旧金山游说陷入困境的移民法案。总统表示，如果这是通过法案的方法，他愿意与众议院共和党一起合作，这些共和党人希望将移民改革法案分拆。在提及感恩节的精神时，总统表示移民体系需要进行修复。

"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."

“移民体系改革已经进行很长时间，但是到目前为止这个体系仍没有做到为美国民众服务。如果我们只是修复体系的这个方面，那我们在释放潜力上可以做得更多。”

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.

旧金山这座城市的中国城有大批亚裔人口，奥巴马在发表演说时表示，2011年美国境内的外国出生人口有四分之一来自亚洲国家。

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..

去年被起诉违反移民法的人比以往任何时候都多。NPR新闻的泰德·罗宾表示，大部分指控内容为非法进入美国或非法回美国。

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.

在上个联邦财政年，有超过9.7万名被告被控违反移民法。数量比前一年上升了6%，相较于5年前上涨了22%。上升原因并没有进行解释，但是这与联邦政府实行的节约效率计划有关，这项计划要求联邦法庭在处理被边境巡逻官逮捕的非法越境者时，出庭和审判要在一天内完成。司法部依据《自由信息法》的规定公布了这份9.7万名被告的数据，《自由信息法》在雪城大学追踪项目的要求下实施。NPR新闻，泰德·罗宾报道。

词汇解析：

1. correlate with

相互关联;极为相似;

eg. Obesity correlates with increased risk for hypertension and stroke...

肥胖会增加高血压和中风发作的几率。

eg. The result of this experiment do not correlate with the result of earlier one.

这次试验的结果与以往试验的结果毫不相干。

参考答案：

1、be willing to 2、be doing 3、population

4、were prosecuted 5、were charged with