VOA慢速英语：奥巴马：伊朗核协议有助于世界和平

The American president Wednesday defended the historic agreementreached with Iran Tuesday. Barack Obama said the deal represents the world’s best way to ensure that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon.

美国总统奥巴马周三为周二与伊朗达成的具有历史性意义的协议辩解。他说，该项协议是世界上使伊朗不得研究核武器的最好的办法。

President Barack Obama answers reporters' questions about the Iran nuclear deal in Washington, July 15, 2015.

The agreement, in his words, “cuts off every single path” for Iran to build anuclear bomb. And, he said that makes the United States and the world safer.

用他的话来说，该项协议断绝了伊朗可能发动核爆炸的任何可能，这会使美国和世界更加和平。

Also Wednesday, the United States proposed a United Nations measure toend all international restrictions linked to Iran’s nuclear program. However, a U.N. ban on trading arms with Iran would remain in place for five years. A banon ballistic missiles trade would continue for eight years.

同样在周三，美国提议联合国采取措施停止任何与伊朗核工程有关的国际制裁。然而，对伊朗军事武器进出口的限制将会保留五年，对弹道导弹贸易限制将保留八年。

Greeks protest new austerity measures

希腊人民抗议新紧缩性措施

Greek anti-austerity demonstrators threw explosives at police in AthensWednesday. Police sprayed tear gas in return.

希腊犯规紧缩性财政政策的游行者周三向雅典警察局投掷炸弹。警方投掷催泪弹作为回击。

The protest took place near the Parliament building. Lawmakers inside weredebating terms for a new debt agreement from Greece’s European lenders.

抗议活动发生在议会大厦附近。大厦里的立法者正在为希腊向欧洲第三次贷款讨论措辞。

The violent activists ended otherwise peaceful demonstrations. Thousands ofpeople had marched through Athens to protest the latest austerity measures.

激进的活动分子以和平示威结束。成千上万的民众走上雅典街头，抗议最近的紧缩性财政措施。

Greek lawmakers are to vote on the measures early Thursday.

周四上午，希腊立法人员将对这些措施进行投票。

German court sentences Auschwitz bookkeeper

A German court has sentenced a 94-year-old former Nazi officer to four yearsin prison. Oskar Groening was found guilty of involvement in the murders ofhundreds of thousands of people. The crimes took place at the Auschwitzdeath camp in Poland over a two month period.

德国法庭判处94岁的原纳粹军官奥斯卡·格雷宁四年有期徒刑。他参与了两个月前发生在波兰Auschwitzdeath 集中营的杀害成千上万名人民的犯罪活动。

Oskar Groening admitted “moral guilt” at the start of the trial. He worked in thedeath camp for several years, collecting and counting the belongings of theJews as they arrived. The trial dealt only with a two month period in 1944 ofhis time at the camp.

审判开始时，奥斯卡·格雷宁就承认自己“良心有愧”。他在死亡集中营中工作好几年，每当犹太人来这，他都收集和清算他们的随身财产。这次审判只是针对1944年他在集中营工作的两个月时间。

Solar plane grounded until 2016

太阳能飞机2016年起飞

The Switzerland-based team attempting to fly a solar-powered plane aroundthe world says the flight has been delayed until next April because of damageto its batteries.

瑞士研究小组计划用太阳能飞机飞绕世界。他们表示由于电池毁坏，这次飞行延缓到明年四月。

The team says the batteries on the Solar Impulse 2 overheated during its five-day flight from Nagoya, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii on June 30.

研究小组表示太阳能动力2组的电池在6.30号那天从日本名古屋飞越夏威夷的火奴鲁鲁时电池温度过高

Pilot Andre Borschberg landed the Solar Impulse 2 near Honolulu on July 3,after traveling a record-breaking 118 hours across the Pacific Ocean. It was the most dangerous part of the plane’s 35,000-kilometer trip around the worldbecause there was no place to land in an emergency.

​飞行员Andre Borschberg在打破记录历时118个小时飞越太平洋后，7.3号在火奴鲁鲁附近降落太阳能动力2飞机。由于这里没有紧急着落地点，这里是飞机35.000公里环绕世界飞行中的最危险的地段。