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Making UK health tourism pay 英國向使用英國國民醫療保健系統的海外訪客收費
Building the world’s biggest wind farm 建造全球最大的風力發電廠
文字稿
The (UK) government said it would raise five hundred million pounds a year from treating overseas visitors on the NHS but it’s falling well short so the pressure is on to get hospitals to do more checks to allow NHS bosses to claim back from foreign governments. A plan to get all patients to produce identification for non-urgent hospital care is being considered.
英國政府曾表示，向使用英國國民醫療保健系統（National Health Service, NHS）的海外訪客收費可以給政府帶來每年五億英鎊左右的收入，但到目前為止，收入遠未能達到先前的預估，所以全英所有醫院現面臨進行更多病人身份核查的壓力，從而來幫助英國國民醫療保健系統的高層領導們從其他國傢政府索取該國訪客在英期間使用此系統的相關費用。英國政府正在考慮實施一個除瞭急診病人以外，所有看病的人都需出示身份證明的計劃。
Flying over the Humber (river in the UK) and out to the North Sea, you soon get a sense of how the renewable energy boom is transforming the horizon and this area’s economy. Five miles off the east coast, this is the Westermost Rough Wind Farm built by Danish firm, Dong Energy. Dong plans to invest six billion pounds on the Humber by 2020.
飛躍漢波河（Humber，英國境內的一條河）到北海上，你很快就能感受到可再生能源的迅速發展是在如何改變著地平線的景觀和此地的經濟。離英國東海岸五英裡，這就是由丹麥東能源（Dong Energy）公司建造的 Westermost Rough Wind Farm 海上風電廠。東能源公司計劃到2020年止，將在漢波河投入六十億英鎊資金。
詞匯
falling well short
遠遠低於
boom
迅速發展
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falling well short / boom
1. A report says the European Union is __________ of its ambitious target to cut energy use by 20% by 2020.
2. Football in China is enjoying a __________ as investors not only snap up overseas clubs but also lure big name players and coaches to the nation’s Super League.
答案
1. A report says the European Union is falling well short of its ambitious target to cut energy use by 20% by 2020.
2. Football in China is enjoying a boom as investors not only snap up overseas clubs but also lure big name players and coaches to the nation’s Super League.
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