鞍山雅思|美国疫情死亡超过10万，特朗普将其视为“荣誉勋章”

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On Monday, Mr. Trump was hosting his first cabinet① meeting since the US outbreak began. "By the way," he told reporters, "you know when you say that we lead in cases, that's because we have more testing than anybody else." "So when we have a lot of cases," he continued, "I don't look at that as a bad thing, I look at that as, in a certain respect, as being a good thing because it means our testing is much better." He added: "So I view it as a badge② of honour. Really, it's a badge of honour.” But Harvard Global Health Institute director Ashish Jha last week told a congressional③ hearing: "The US needs more than 900,000 tests every day to safely open up again. We are doing about a third of that." The US has 1.6 million coronavirus cases and nearly 95,972 deaths by May 22, according to Johns Hopkins University. (BBC)

5月18日，特朗普主持了自美国疫情暴发以来的首次内阁会议。会后，他答记者问时称：“顺便提一下，你们说美国确诊数全球最多，那是因为我们检测量比其他国家都要多。”“美国现在有很多感染病例，”他继续说道，“我并不觉得这是坏事，从某种意义上说这是一件好事，因为这意味着我们的检测工作做得更好了。”他补充道：“我将其视为荣誉勋章。真的，这是荣誉的象征。”但上周在国会听证会上，哈佛全球健康研究所主任阿希什·贾称:“美国需要每天进行至少90万次的检测才能保证经济安全重启，而目前的检测量只相当于要求的约1/3。”根据美国约翰斯·霍普金斯大学统计，截至5月22日，美国新冠肺炎确诊病例已有160万例，死亡95972人。

【注释】

① cabinet: [ˈkæbənət] n. (in the US)a body of advisers to the President, composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government （美国）总统顾问团，内阁（包括政府各部部长）。

② badge: [bæʤ] n. a small piece of metal, plastic, or cloth bearing a design or words, typically worn to show a person's name, rank, membership of an organization, or support for a particular cause 徽章；证章；奖章。

③ congressional: [kənˈgreʃənl] adj. related to or belonging to a congress or the Congress in the（美国）国会的

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