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All this was put at great risk late last month, when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in an Idaho case that provides the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) far less authority to regulate wetlands and waterways.
上月底,这一切都面临巨大风险:美国最高法院就爱达荷州的一起案件作出裁决,大大削弱了美国环境保护署(EPA)监管湿地和水道的权力。
It is too easy, and misleading, to see such court rulings as merely standing up for the rights of land owners when the consequences can be so dire for their neighbors.
把这类法院裁决仅仅看作是在维护土地所有者的权利,未免过于轻率,也具有误导性,因为其后果对他们的邻居来说可能是极其严重的。
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Idaho case ____
美国最高法院对爱达荷州案件的裁决____
Yet that demand has been almost impossible to fill — in part because of pushback from broadband providers, anti-regulatory conservatives and the courts.
然而,这一诉求几乎无法得到满足,部分原因在于宽带提供商、反监管的保守派人士以及法院的抵制。
A federal appeals court weighed in again Tuesday, but instead of providing a badly needed resolution, it only prolonged the fight.
周二,一家联邦上诉法院再次介入,但它非但没有给出急需的解决方案,反而只是延长了这场争斗。
At issue before the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was the latest take of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on net neutrality, adopted on a party-line vote in 2017.
摆在美国哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院面前的争议焦点,是联邦通信委员会(FCC)于2017年按党派路线投票通过的关于网络中立的最新立场。
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On Tuesday, the appeals court unanimously upheld the 2017 order deregulating broadband providers, citing a Supreme Court ruling from 2005 that upheld a similarly deregulatory move.
周二,上诉法院一致维持了2017年取消对宽带提供商监管的命令,援引的是最高法院2005年的一项裁决,该裁决支持了一项类似的放松监管之举。
On Tuesday, the appeals court unanimously upheld the 2017 order deregulating broadband providers, citing a Supreme Court ruling from 2005 that upheld a similarly deregulatory move.
周二,上诉法院一致维持了2017年取消对宽带提供商监管的命令,援引的是最高法院2005年的一项裁决,该裁决支持了一项类似的放松监管之举。
But Judge Patricia Millett rightly argued in a concurring opinion that “the result is unhinged from the realities of modern broadband service,” and said Congress or the Supreme Court could intervene to “avoid trapping Internet regulation in technological anachronism.”
但法官帕特里夏·米利特在一份协同意见书中正确地指出,“这一结果脱离了现代宽带服务的现实”,并表示国会或最高法院可以介入,“以避免让互联网监管困于技术上的时代错位之中”。
In the meantime, the court threw out the FCC’s attempt to block all state rules on net neutrality, while preserving the commission’s power to preempt individual state laws that undermine its order.
与此同时,法院驳回了FCC阻止各州制定一切网络中立规则的企图,但保留了该委员会优先于(并否决)破坏其命令的个别州法律的权力。
Judge Patricia Millett argues that the appeals court’s decision ____
法官帕特里夏·米利特认为上诉法院的裁决____
The US Supreme Court frowns on sex-based classifications unless they are designed to address an “important” policy interest.
美国最高法院不赞成基于性别的分类,除非其目的在于维护某种“重要的”政策利益。
Because the California law applies to all boards, even where there is no history of prior discrimination, courts are likely to rule that the law violates the constitutional guarantee of “equal protection”.
由于加州的这项法律适用于所有董事会,即使是那些以往不存在歧视的董事会,法院很可能会裁定该法律违反了宪法对“平等保护”的保障。
It is welcomed by the Supreme Court.
它受到最高法院的欢迎。
States will be able to force more people to pay sales tax when they make online purchases under a Supreme Court decision Thursday that will leave shoppers with lighter wallets but is a big financial win for states.
根据最高法院周四作出的一项裁决,各州将能够迫使更多人在网购时缴纳销售税,这项裁决会让购物者的钱包变瘪,但对各州来说是一场重大的财政胜利。
The Supreme Court’s opinion Thursday overruled a pair of decades-old decisions that states said cost them billions of dollars in lost revenue annually.
最高法院周四的意见推翻了两项已有数十年历史的判决,各州称这两项判决每年让它们损失数十亿美元的收入。
The cases the court overturned said that if a business was shipping a customer’s purchase to a state where the business didn’t have a physical presence such as a warehouse or office, the business didn’t have to collect sales tax for the state.
被最高法院推翻的判例规定,如果一家企业将顾客购买的商品运往一个它没有仓库或办公室等实体存在的州,该企业就不必为该州代收销售税。
The Supreme Court decision Thursday will ______
最高法院周四的裁决将会______
Who are most likely to welcome the Supreme Court ruling?
谁最有可能欢迎最高法院的这项裁决?
In dealing with the Supreme Court decision Thursday, the author ______
在论述最高法院周四的裁决时,作者______
In a rare unanimous ruling, the US Supreme Court has overturned the corruption conviction of a former Virginia governor, Robert McDonnell.
美国最高法院以罕见的一致裁决,推翻了对弗吉尼亚州前州长罗伯特·麦克唐奈的腐败定罪。
The high court’s decision said the judge in Mr. McDonnell’s trial failed to tell a jury that it must look only at his “official acts,” or the former governor’s decisions on “specific” and “unsettled” issues related to his duties.
最高法院的判决称,审理麦克唐奈先生一案的法官没有告诉陪审团,他们只能审视他的“官方行为”,即这位前州长对与其职责相关的“具体”和“悬而未决”问题所做的决定。
The court did suggest that accepting favors in return for opening doors is “distasteful” and “nasty.”
法院确实暗示,接受好处以换取行方便是“令人反感的”和“卑劣的”。
The court’s ruling is legally sound in defining a kind of favoritism that is not criminal.
法院的裁决界定了一种不构成犯罪的偏袒行为,这在法律上是站得住脚的。
“The basic compact underlying representative government,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts for the court, “assumes that public officials will hear from their constituents and act on their concerns.”
首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨代表法院写道:“代议制政府赖以存在的基本契约,是假定公职人员会倾听选民的意见,并针对他们关心的问题采取行动。”
But the ruling reinforces the need for citizens and their elected representatives, not the courts, to ensure equality of access to government.
但这一裁决更加凸显出,需要由公民及其选出的代表,而不是法院,来确保人们平等地接触政府。
The court’s ruling is a step forward in the struggle against both corruption and official favoritism.
法院的这一裁决是在反腐败和反官员偏袒斗争中向前迈出的一步。
The underlined sentence (Para. 1) most probably shows that the court ____
画线句(第1段)最有可能表明法院____
The court’s ruling is based on the assumption that public officials are ____
法院的裁决基于这样一个假设:公职人员____
The author’s attitude toward the court’s ruling is ____
作者对法院裁决的态度是____
Soon after his father’s release from prison, Dickens got a better job as errand boy in law offices. He taught himself shorthand to get an even better job later as a court stenographer and as a reporter in Parliament. At the same time, Dickens, who had a reporter’s eye for transcribing the life around him especially anything comic or odd, submitted short sketches to obscure magazines.
父亲出狱后不久,狄更斯在律师事务所找到了一份更好的差事——当跑腿的。他自学速记,后来得到了更好的工作,担任法庭速记员和议会记者。与此同时,狄更斯以记者的眼光记录身边的生活,尤其是任何滑稽或古怪的事情,并向一些不知名的杂志投寄短篇随笔。
Some Congress members are trying to block the plan, and at least a dozen industry groups, four states, and three environmental groups are challenging it in federal court.
一些国会议员正试图阻止该计划,至少十几个行业团体、四个州和三个环保团体正在联邦法院对其提出质疑。
The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.
最高法院现在将审议:在逮捕过程中,如果手机就在被捕者身上或身边,警方能否在没有搜查令的情况下搜查手机内容。
The court would be recklessly modest if it followed California’s advice.
如果最高法院听从加州的建议,那将是一种不负责任的过分谦逊。
The court has ruled that police don’t violate the Fourth Amendment when they go through the wallet or pocketbook of an arrestee without a warrant.
最高法院曾裁定,警方在没有搜查令的情况下翻查被捕者的钱夹或手袋,并不违反第四修正案。
The court, though, may want to allow room for police to cite situations where they are entitled to more freedom.
不过,最高法院或许会希望给警方留有余地,让他们可以援引某些有权享有更多自由的情形。
The Supreme Court will work out whether, during an arrest, it is legitimate to ____
最高法院将裁定,在逮捕过程中____是否合法
the court is giving police less room for action.
法院给警方的行动空间越来越小。
On a five to three vote, the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona’s immigration law Monday — a modest policy victory for the Obama Administration.
周一,最高法院以五比三的投票结果推翻了亚利桑那州移民法的大部分内容——这对奥巴马政府来说是一次有限的政策胜利。
Justice Anthony Kennedy, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the Court’s liberals, ruled that the state flew too close to the federal sun.
大法官安东尼·肯尼迪与首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨以及最高法院的自由派法官一致裁定,该州过于逼近联邦的权力范围。
The ethical judgments of the Supreme Court justices have become an important issue recently.
最高法院大法官的道德判断近来已成为一个重要问题。
The court cannot [maintain] its legitimacy as guardian of the rule of law [when] justices behave like politicians.
如果大法官们表现得像政客一样,最高法院就无法维持其作为法治守护者的合法性。
Yet, in several instances, justices acted in ways that [weakened] the court's reputation for being independent and impartial.
然而,在好几个事例中,大法官们的所作所为削弱了最高法院独立公正的声誉。
That kind of activity makes it less likely that the court's decisions will be [accepted] as impartial judgments.
这类活动使得最高法院的判决更不容易被当作公正的裁决而为人接受。
At the very least, the court should make itself [subject] to the code of conduct that [applies] to the rest of the federal judiciary.
至少,最高法院应当让自己受制于适用于联邦司法系统其他部门的行为准则。
This and other similar cases [raise] the question of whether there is still a [line] between the court and politics.
这一案例及其他类似案例引出了一个问题:最高法院与政治之间是否仍有界线。
When the court deals with social policy decisions, the law it [shapes] is inescapably political — which is why decisions split along ideological lines are so easily [dismissed] as unjust.
当最高法院处理社会政策方面的裁决时,它所塑造的法律不可避免地带有政治性——这就是为什么按意识形态分歧作出的判决如此容易被斥为不公。
The justices must [address] doubts about the court's legitimacy by making themselves [accountable] to the code of conduct.
大法官们必须通过让自己对行为准则负责,来回应人们对最高法院合法性的质疑。
Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.
相反,该公司恰恰做了它长期承诺不会做的事:在联邦法院质疑佛蒙特州法规的合宪性,以此作为让其佛蒙特扬基核电站继续运营的孤注一掷之举。
The legal issues in the case are obscure: whereas the Supreme Court has ruled that states do have some regulatory authority over nuclear power, legal scholars say the Vermont case will offer a precedent-setting test of how far those powers extend.
此案涉及的法律问题并不明朗:虽然最高法院已裁定各州确实对核电拥有一定的监管权,但法学家们表示,佛蒙特案将对这些权力的边界进行一次开创先例的检验。
A federal appeals court overturned the prior decision, ruling that Myriad Genetics could indeed hold patents to two genes that help forecast a woman’s risk of breast cancer.
一家联邦上诉法院推翻了先前的判决,裁定麦利亚德基因公司确实可以持有两个有助于预测女性乳腺癌风险的基因的专利。
But as companies continue their attempts at personalized medicine, the courts will remain rather busy.
但随着各公司继续尝试个性化医疗,法院仍将相当忙碌。
Despite the appeals court’s decision, big questions remain unanswered.
尽管上诉法院已作出裁决,一些重大问题仍悬而未决。
The case may yet reach the Supreme Court.
此案仍有可能打到最高法院。
Their success may be determined by a suit related to this issue, brought by the Mayo Clinic, which the Supreme Court will hear in its next term.
它们能否成功,可能取决于梅奥诊所就此问题提起的一宗诉讼,最高法院将在下一个开庭期审理此案。
courts should restrict access to genetic tests.
法院应限制人们获得基因检测。
the supreme court was authoritative.
最高法院具有权威。
n. 宫廷,朝廷3 次
Court, school, organizations of amateurs, and the traveling actors were all rivals in supplying a widespread desire for dramatic entertainment; and (47) no boy who went to a grammar school could be ignorant that the drama was a form of literature which gave glory to Greece and Rome and might yet bring honor to England.
宫廷、学校、业余团体以及巡回演员在满足人们对戏剧娱乐的普遍需求方面相互竞争;而且,(47) 凡是上过文法学校的男孩,无不知道戏剧是一种曾为希腊和罗马带来荣耀、也可能为英国带来荣誉的文学形式。
Plays aiming at literary distinction were written for schools or court, or for the choir boys of St. Paul’s and the royal chapel, who, however, gave plays in public as well as at court.
追求文学造诣的剧本是为学校或宫廷而写,或是为圣保罗大教堂和皇家礼拜堂的唱诗班男孩而写的,不过这些男孩既在宫廷演出,也公开演出。
Plays aiming at literary distinction were written for schools or court, or for the choir boys of St. Paul’s and the royal chapel, who, however, gave plays in public as well as at court.
追求文学造诣的剧本是为学校或宫廷而写,或是为圣保罗大教堂和皇家礼拜堂的唱诗班男孩而写的,不过这些男孩既在宫廷演出,也公开演出。
n. 球场1 次
If there is a role for government, it should really be getting involved in providing common goods — making sure there is space for playing fields and the money to pave tennis and netball courts, and encouraging the provision of all these activities in schools.
如果说政府有什么作用的话,那应该是参与提供公共产品——确保有修建运动场的空间和铺设网球场、无挡板篮球场的资金,并鼓励学校开展所有这些活动。