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。
学英语单词
5-FDUR
achilus
actual center gravity
adjustable angle square
airscrew thrust
Alagoa Nova
alimentary abstinence
allodapic
American black bear
audit efficiency
BBC One
be bursting to
bergy bit
bostrychopsis parallela
central down-comer
cheese curls
college role
colo(u)r fastness to nitrogen oxides
conally
conditional failure rate
COPAC
creosote
cylindrical component
depletion of value
dicephalic
discriminating order
dyety
endemious
engi
farquhar
gill rot
global society
halpenny
hand force
high efficiency deoxidiser
humidity effect
ideal ratio
inflection temperature
initial light current
interdiscipline space science
internationalizes
jarvs
karass
kenan
keying action
large scale theory
linear recombination
maldanid
malt-maker
man-made-material
metacarpal bones (i-v)
microzymes
mold buggy
multiple output change flow table
mulus
noise peak limiter
North filter
Oberjochpass
one-book
oplophorous
orthogonal node
oxidative flame
oxide sealing
panthera leos
permissible mean maximum pressure
precurrent marking
presymptomatic
quasiequatorial
redistribution of stresses
ribbon gage
Rogernomically
runcinatus
sabliere
Salmās
sand hornet
scales back
schlumberger spread
sea-anglings
seasonal flu
selectional
service modem
shutdown temperature
smooty
spacesuits
spinae pedis
strophanthus cardiac glycoside
supervision and administration
surveyors
Symplocos modesta
thick-shelled fold
thrutty
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trick
tridecyls
unfavourable
unrimple
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vapour-cycle cooling
wood lemming
wrongfully declared cargo
Zener breakdown theory