我觉得我们很有希望达成这样一个协议,不仅使98%的美国人免于增税,同时使经济免于受到开支削减的损害,还使我们免受遭受政客们周期性的违约威胁。我想我们可以做得更好,为美国经济的长远发展做出贡献。
Failure to reach a deal will automatically trigger tax rises and spending cuts.
而不能达成共识,则会自动导致增税和削减开支。
Heavy snow has caused a 50-kilometer-long traffic jam on a highway that links Russia's largest cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Thousands of vehicles are stuck. Some of them have been in the queue for more than two days after extreme snow brought traffic to a halt on Friday.
俄罗斯天降大雪,导致连接最大城市莫斯科和圣彼得堡之间的高速公路上发生长达50公里的堵塞。数千辆汽车被困路上,有的车还排着长队等了两天以上。周五,暴雪使交通陷于中断。
A 200-year-old letter in which the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte gave the order to blow up Kremlin citadel in Moscow has been sold at auction for almost 200,000 dollars. Hugh Schofield has this report from Paris.
法国皇帝拿破仑·波拿巴曾在书信中命令炸毁莫斯科克里姆林宫,如今,这份200多年前的书信以近20万美元的价格拍卖。休·斯科菲尔德在巴黎报道。
This letter is of a particular interest, partly because it's in code, a not very complex number for letter substitution, but also because it was written at the turning point of Napoleon's career. As he invaded Russia in 1812, he's captured Moscow, but with the Russian army being withdrawn and winter approaching. He knows he has to turn back. So the letter, to his foreign minister at Vilnius in modern-day Lituania, described how he was given the order of the Kremlin to be destroyed. In the event, only part of the walls were demolished. The emperor himself began the long and disastrous journey back to France, for two years later, he would be defeated and forced to abdicate.