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石油业巨头英国石油公司将花费45亿美元以了结美国联邦政府因2010年墨西哥湾漏油事件所发起的指控。该公司已经向十四项指控认罪，其中包括妨碍国会罪。据NPR新闻卡丽·约翰逊报道,个别公司高管也将面临指控。

 

 

 

At least two BP managers will face manslaughter charges for the disaster that killed 11 people onboard the Deepwater Horizon rig in April, 2010. The company has agreed to accept responsibility for 14 criminal charges, including misconduct for each of the deaths, violating environmental laws and obstructing⁴ an investigation⁵ by Congress. BP has also agreed to submit to independent monitoring and serve a kind of corporate⁶ probation⁷. But there’s no sign the company will be barred from accepting lucrative⁸ US government contracts. Law enforcement sources say the criminal penalty is the largest in history. Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.

 

2010年4月，“深水地平线”钻井事故造成11名工作人员丧生，英国石油公司的至少两名经理将因此面临过失杀人罪的指控。该公司已向十四项指控认罪，其中包括不当处理死难者，违反环保法和阻碍国会调查，同时也愿意服从独立的监督和执行合作缓行。但目前并没有迹象表明该公司将被禁止与美国政府签订高利润的合同。美国执法部门透露这是历史上最重的刑事处罚。NPR新闻卡丽·约翰逊华盛顿报道。

 

 

 

President Obama has traveled to New York City to get a firsthand look at hurricane recovery efforts there. The president was to meet with first responders and families hit hardest when Sandy slammed to the East Coast last month, killing⁹ more than 100 people and leaving millions of people without electricity.

 

奥巴马总统已抵达纽约市视察飓风灾后恢复工作。飓风桑迪上个月席卷了美国东海岸，造成100多人死亡，数百万人断电；上个月，总统原本计划到纽约市慰问首批救灾人员和受灾最严重的家庭，却遭到纽约市长布隆伯格婉言拒绝。

 

 

 

Reports of more violence between Israel and the Palestinians. A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Israel, killing at least three people, as the death toll¹⁰ among Palestinians rises to at least 13. For a second day, Israeli warplanes bombed targets in and around Gaza City. Many Palestinians have turned out for the funeral of a Hamas military leader who was assassinated¹¹ yesterday by Israel. It is uncertain if other senior Hamas figures were in attendance after they were warned by Israel that they were also targets. 

 

以下是更多关于以色列和巴勒斯坦暴力冲突的报道。一枚从加沙地带发射的火箭落入以色列境内，造成至少3名以色列人死亡，另有至少13名巴勒斯坦人丧生。第二天，以色列战机轰炸了加沙城内及周边的多处目标。一位哈马斯军事领导人昨日遭以方暗杀，很多巴勒斯坦人出席了他的葬礼。遭到以方警告后，是否有其他哈马斯高官出席了这次葬礼，目前尚未能确定。

 

 

 

In the US, there was a sharp rise in new claims for unemployment benefits last week. NPR’s Dave Mattingly reports much of the spike¹² is blamed on Superstorm Sandy. 

 

上周，美国申请失业救济金的人迅速增多。据NPR新闻戴夫·马丁利报道，造成这种糟糕状况的很大一部分原因在于超级飓风桑迪的破坏。

 

 

 

Weekly jobless claims went up 78,000. The Labor¹³ Department says many were filed in the Northeast, where Hurricane Sandy destroyed homes and businesses. Economist¹⁴ Hugh Johnson says the seasonally-adjusted total of 439,000, the highest in a year and a half, will be temporary.

 

一周失业人口增加了78000人。美国劳工部透露很多失业者来自东北部，因为飓风桑迪摧毁了他们的家园和工作场所。经济学家休·约翰逊表示目前季节性调整失业总人口为439000人，为近一年半以来最高，不过这种情况是暂时的。

 

 

 

“This is probably a one, maybe a two-week event. You’re likely to see these numbers smooth out over the course of the remaining month.”

 

“未来一两周内可能还会是这种情况。但接下来的一个月内你会看到失业人口数量逐渐减少。”

 

 

 

Sandy is also blamed for a drop in retail¹⁵ sales in October as many stores were without power in the final days of the month. Dave Mattingly, NPR News, Washington.

 

飓风桑迪的来袭造成了十月份最后几天商店的停电，致使十月份零售额迅速下降。NPR新闻戴夫·马丁利华盛顿报道。

 

 

 

At last check on Wall Street, Dow was down 53 points at 12,517, NASDAQ off 16, more than 0.5%, at 2,831, S&P 500 down five points at 1,350. 

 

华尔街股市最新播报，道指下跌53个点至12，517点，纳指下跌下跌16个点至2,813，跌幅高于0.5%，标普下跌5个点至1，350点。

 

 

 

This is NPR News.

 

这里是NPR新闻。

 

 

 

The International Monetary¹⁶ Fund says it’s done all it can to help Greece reach a sustainable level of debt. And now it’s up to Greece's European lenders to do more. But IMF spokesman William Murray declined to elaborate on what further actions should be taken. The IMF has been in a dispute with Greece's other lenders over the best ways to address Greece's debt which held up the release of Greece's next bailout installment¹⁷.

 

国际货币基金组织表明已歇尽全力帮助希腊维持可持续的债务水平。现在是希腊的欧洲债主承担更多义务的时候了。IMF发言人威廉·莫里没有透露未来将采取行动的详细信息。在如何处理希腊债务问题上，IMF与希腊的欧洲债主一直存在分歧，这种分歧阻碍了对希腊新一轮救助资金的按时发放。

 

 

 

Diplomats¹⁸ from North Korea and Japan are holding talks in Mongolia today. Matthew Algeo reports the two sides are discussing the repatriation¹⁹ of Japanese nationals kidnapped by North Korea.

 

今日朝日两国外交官在蒙古举行会晤。据马修·阿吉欧报道，双方正在讨论释放遭朝鲜绑架的日本公民问题。

 

 

 

Nobody outside North Korea knows exactly how many people the North Koreans kidnapped from Japan in the 1970s and 1980s. It’s believed the victims were taken back to North Korea and forced to teach North Korean spies Japanese language and culture. North Korea claims that all the Japanese it kidnapped have either been repatriated²⁰ already or died in captivity²¹. But the Japanese government believes some of its citizens are still being held against their will in North Korea. North Korea and Japan have no formal diplomatic relations. The bilateral²² talks in the Mongolian capital could determine once and for all the fate of those Japanese citizens abducted²³ by North Korea. For NPR News, I’m Matthew Algeo in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.

 

除朝鲜之外没人清楚到底有多少日本人在20世纪七八十年代遭其绑架。据说，朝鲜将这些日本人押解回国，强迫他们教授朝鲜间谍日本的语言和文化。朝鲜表示，遭绑架的日本人已被遣返回日本或在关押期间死亡。但日本政府相信仍有部分日本公民被关押在朝鲜。朝日两国没有建立正式外交关系。在蒙古首都举行的双边会谈将最终决定遭绑架的日本人的命运。NPR新闻马修·阿吉欧乌兰巴托报道。

 

 

 

There’s been a contraction²⁴ in factory activity in the US mid-Atlantic region in the past month, according to the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank. Today, it said its business activity index fell from 5.7 in October to a much-steeper-than-expected minus 10.7 in November. The survey covers factories in Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey²⁵ and Delaware. 

 

宾夕法尼亚联邦储备银行透露，上个月美国大西洋沿岸中部地区制造业活动缩水。今日这家银行表示该地区十一月份的商业活动指数已经由十月份的5.7降至比预期更低的负10.7。 此次调查范围覆盖了宾夕法尼亚州，新泽西州南部地区和特拉华州的所有工厂。

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