美国主流媒体文摘 The US Mainstream Media Quotes Oct 10, 2019
U.S.-China Trade Talks Begin; Trump to Meet With China’s Top Envoy Friday 华尔街日报 The WallStreet Journal by William Mauldin and Josh Zumbrun Oct. 10, 2019 2:00 pm
WASHINGTON—U.S-China trade talks kicked off on a positive note Thursday as President Trump said he would meet with China's top envoy.
Prior to the talks beginning, the White House also green lighted the approval of licenses for American firms to do business with blacklisted Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co., a move seen as a bid to improve the environment for the talks.
Two Giuliani Associates Who Helped Him on Ukraine Charged With Campaign-Finance Violations 华尔街日报 The WallStreet Journal by Aruna Viswanatha,Rebecca Ballhaus,Sadie Gurman and Byron Tau
WASHINGTON—Two Soviet-born donors to a pro-Trump fundraising committee who helped Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to investigate Democrat Joe Biden were arrested late Wednesday on criminal charges stemming from their alleged efforts to funnel foreign money into U.S. elections and influence U.S. politics on behalf of Ukrainian and other foreign politicians.
Impeached and re-elected 美国短新闻网站 Axios by David Nather, Margaret
It’s looking more likely by the day that President Trump will be impeached by the House for his dealings with Ukraine. But if he is acquitted by the Senate — and then goes on to win a second term — Democrats will face a predicament neither party has confronted in U.S. history.
White House aides try disappearing act amid impeachment talk 美联社 Associated Press by By JILL COLVIN
White House officials close to President Donald Trump are pulling off a disappearing act, remaining largely absent from public view — in the middle of the storm over impeachment.
“We invited the White House on to answer questions on the show this morning,” CNN’s Jake Tapper explained to his viewers on Sunday’s “State of the Union.” ″They did not offer a guest.”
Democrats to Issue More Subpoenas 纽约时报 New York Times
House chairmen leading the impeachment inquiry planned to issue additional subpoenas for witness testimony and records related to Mr. Trump’s dealings with Ukraine as soon as Thursday, lawmakers and aides said, after a pause for the Jewish High Holy Days.
Many at Pentagon Feel Betrayed by Trump 纽约时报 New York Times
At the Pentagon, where more than five years of fighting alongside Kurdish troops in Iraq and Syria has now given way to standing aside as those same allies are attacked, some officials said there was more anger than they had seen at any point in Mr. Trump’s presidency.”
Intel officials say ISIS could regroup after U.S. 'betrayal' of Kurds in Syria 美国nbc电视台官网 NBC News
A sustained Turkish military operation against U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria — which President Donald Trump appears to have permitted — would vastly increase the threat to Americans from the Islamic State militant group, which remains intent on attacking the West, current and former intelligence officials tell NBC News.
Not mince (your) words to say what you mean clearly and directly, even if you upset people by doing this (Cambridge) 直截了当地说，直言不讳; 打开天窗说亮话
原文如下： The Turkish President didn't mince words Thursday, warning European countries he would allow millions of Syrian refugees to travel into Europe if they criticized his military operation. --------------------------------------------------- 以色列总统内塔尼亚胡 （Netanyahu）也罕见发声，强烈谴责土耳其对叙利亚北部的军事行动，警告土耳其的种族清洗，并承诺必要时进行人道主义支援。 记者使用了 ethnic cleansing。
ethnic cleansing noun [ U ] the organized, often violent attempt by a particular cultural or racial group to completely remove from a country or area all members of a different group （Cambridge） 种族清洗
ethnic cleansing 的cleanse 意思是： to remove a group of people from an area。
原文如下： “Israel strongly condemns the Turkish invasion of the Kurdish areas in Syria and warns against the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds by Turkey and its proxies,” Netanyahu said, speaking on the issue for the first time since US President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw US forces from Syria. ------------------------------------------ 据报道 库尔德武装挫败了土耳其一次地面入侵的企图。记者在表达“挫败”时，分别使用了 scupper, repel, foil, defeat。报道小标题使用了“scupper”.
scupper verb to cause something such as a plan or an opportunity to fail 使失败；使泡汤 (cambridge)
词源学家一直没有找到scupper作为动词的词源。它的名词用法已经有500多年的历史， 是船甲板上的排水孔的意思 （opening in a ship's side at deck level to let the water flow out）。有专家说它的动词来源于19世纪一个军事俚语： All we know for sure is that scuppermeant "to ambush and massacre" in 19th-century military slang.
stateless adjective A stateless person has no country that they officially belong to. 无国籍的 (Cambridge)
stateless nations 的组合也很好阐述了“state” 与“nation” 的区别。
原文如下： In the early 20th century, the Kurds began working toward the creation of homeland known as Kurdistan -- now one of the world's largest stateless nations, a non-governmental region whose people have no official homeland or country. Today, Kurdistan is comprised of territory in five different countries: Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Armenia.
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