时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:美国英语听力80篇


英语课

[00:07.03]The National Guard is one of the organizations of the United States Army and Air Force.

[00:13.90]Its members are not active duty soldiers and airmen.

[00:14.01]But National Guard members can be ordered to serve with them.

[00:18.63]The National Guard is the modern result of a law passed more than 200 years ago.

[00:26.10]It was the Militia 1 Act of 1792.

[00:30.78]It required every free, able, white,male citizen between the ages of 18 and 45 to serve in a militia.

[00:42.53]Each state controlled and trained the members of these military groups.

[00:48.67]In 1905, a law was passed that required all male citizens to serve in the nation's armed forces.

[00:59.51]By then, the militia was known as the National Guard.

[01:04.32]The law placed the Guard under the control of state governments and the federal government.

[01:12.96]National Defense 2 Acts in 1920 and 1933 extended this federal power.

[01:20.28]Since then, the President has been able to order National Guard units to active duty in a national emergency.

[01:29.00]State governors may order units to active duty duringemergencies such as strikes, natural disasters or riots 3.

[01:39.37]Today, the law does not require citizens to join the armed forces or the National Guard.

[01:46.40]Citizens can volunteer to join both groups.

[01:50.45]Each state, territory and the District of Columbia has its own National Guard.

[01:58.13]The Army National Guard has about 350,000 citizen soldiers.

[02:04.82]About 100,000 airmen serve in the Air National Guard.

[02:09.62]During peacetime, National Guard members attend 48 training periods a year.

[02:17.07]The federal government pays them for the time they are training.

[02:20.96]The army and air force National Guard units serve with active duty soldiers in the United States and around the world.

[02:30.47]In recent years,

[02:32.14]the President has ordered them to serve during the Gulf 4 War and as peacekeepers after the conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo.



1 militia
n.民兵,民兵组织
  • First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面,其次是民兵。
  • There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。
2 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
3 riots
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
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a graveyard cough
airshifters
Algol olive r
amnion vertebrate
annual trend increment
apicosan
array selection circuit
asian-americans
assault rifles
astrospectrometer
atomic nucleus fission
Bad is the best.
barraging
bavadra
benzoylpyruvic acid
Berger mixture
cat milk
co-dehydrogenase
competition type athlete
Coney dog
continuity postulate
cranienepgalometer
csongrad megye
curved armed pulley
cyclical swings in demand
deobfuscating
detruncated
display interface unit
do sport
drain wire
enregistration
enwheeling
exhaust gas recycling system
expected value of mean square error
fertilizer placement
fighter escort wing
flexible plastic surgical depressor
fluoride pollution
fringeorder
function keys
Galapagos ridge
glass fertilizer
godship
grazing entrance
herbaceous dicotyledon
high resolution atomic absorption spectrometry
I am English
INAH-PAS(pasiniazide)
intracorporate transfer of funds
isolated words
labor market with a hierarchical mobility
log book
long wave pass filter
LV (latent heat of vaporization)
Maconga
manah
metabolism trial
Metrolink
microscope stage
military-surplus
mobile player
monack
monochromatic light beam
mother metal
motion and time study
neuks
new-sprung
nixie readout
no string
Nuon R.
nyamaa
octogynous
order relation
pargeting
pedal-bins
pooping sea
post-game
producers' cooperative
provide ... for
radical correction of tetralogy of Fallot
Radio-oncologist
radioactive iodine tests
rear-suspension
recirculating air
return of shorts
round die block
Schulen
securities-veluation line
set of condinate
side-curtains
solitary carpel
tensue
terminal binding post
test of effect of sudden power change
testosterone phenylacetate
twin-lead
two-tongued
unmotivate
versilia
wardairs
water supply hygiene
Weichselbaum's diplococcus