C1: Health Reforms: 健保改革:
The Department of Health has ordered a pause to make space to listen to the people worried about changes to the NHS. The BMA and the Royal College of GPs are two organisations who have concerns.
(1) The bills should be withdrawn and re-drawn.
(2) advisory group 諮詢團體 / listening exercise
(3) sweep away the tears of the NHS managers overnight
(4) operate the pilot schemes
(5) shadow consortium 影子財團
(6) deliver the value for money 划算
C2: Blocked Drains: 下水道阻塞
The Department of Health has ordered a pause to make space to listen to the people worried about changes to the NHS. The BMA and the Royal College of GPs are two organisations who have concerns.
(1) The bills should be withdrawn and re-drawn.
(2) advisory group 諮詢團體 / listening exercise
(3) sweep away the tears of the NHS managers overnight
(4) operate the pilot schemes
(5) shadow consortium 影子財團
(6) deliver the value for money 划算
C2: Blocked Drains: 下水道阻塞
Baby wipes are causing havoc in our sewers. Reporter Melanie Abbott visits a sewage works to find out more.
Down the drains with a flusher - we count the cost of clearing up the baby wipes and face cleaners we insist on flushing down the loo.
(1) provide the perfect combination of sth
(2) blockage 阻塞
(3) machinery 大型機器
(4) shred 切碎
(5) conveyor belt 輸送帶
(6) parking enforcement notice
(7) really unappetizing looking pile of rags, mops and rubbish
(8) what is flushable and disposable
(9) break down in the sewage 在下水道分解
(10) moisture tissue 濕紙巾
(11) biodegradable (a.) 能進行生物分解的
C3: 50p rail fares 50 便士的火車票
Southern rail are offering 50p rail fares, but if they can do it today, why not all the time?
C4: Children's Nursery:
Peat is at the centre of a gardening row. Even the government want to see it removed from our grow bags, so why do we find it so hard to wean ourselves off it?
使逐漸戒除惡習
C6:
(2) make a living wage
(3) be physically and verbally abused
(4) sweatshop 血汗工廠
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011cffn#p00h63p5
Down the drains with a flusher - we count the cost of clearing up the baby wipes and face cleaners we insist on flushing down the loo.
(1) provide the perfect combination of sth
(2) blockage 阻塞
(3) machinery 大型機器
(4) shred 切碎
(5) conveyor belt 輸送帶
(6) parking enforcement notice
(7) really unappetizing looking pile of rags, mops and rubbish
(8) what is flushable and disposable
(9) break down in the sewage 在下水道分解
(10) moisture tissue 濕紙巾
(11) biodegradable (a.) 能進行生物分解的
C3: 50p rail fares 50 便士的火車票
Southern rail are offering 50p rail fares, but if they can do it today, why not all the time?
C4: Children's Nursery:
The death of a child in a nursery playground has highlighted how the regulator, OFSTED, does not always publish information which parents might view as vital.
(1) make an informed decision
(2) a distressing story 令人悲傷的故事
(3) constantly chatter away
(4) resurrect (v.) bring a dead person back to life
(5) inspection reports
C5: Peat 泥炭 (1) make an informed decision
(2) a distressing story 令人悲傷的故事
(3) constantly chatter away
(4) resurrect (v.) bring a dead person back to life
(5) inspection reports
Peat is at the centre of a gardening row. Even the government want to see it removed from our grow bags, so why do we find it so hard to wean ourselves off it?
使逐漸戒除惡習
C6:
A new report criticises conditions in ASDA's clothing factories, ASDA say the charity have got their facts wrong.
(1) with a clear conscience 問心無愧(2) make a living wage
(3) be physically and verbally abused
(4) sweatshop 血汗工廠
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011cffn#p00h63p5
