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第342期：主餐一道：泛听练习
以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。
一、泛听建议：
1、完整听一遍，掌握大意。
2、继续听，特别注意关键信息。遇到相似的词，写下来。
United States _1_ Russia of doing nothing to implement a deal reached last week to calm the situation in Ukraine. NPR's Michele Kelemen has more what shaping up to be a diplomatic stalemate.
美国指责俄罗斯未采取行动履行上周达成的缓和乌克兰局势的协议。NPR新闻的米歇尔·克莱门将带来更多报道，局势可能会发展成外交僵局。
According to his office, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told Secretary of State John Kerry in a phone call that Ukraine has to take urgent steps to defuse the crisis. Ukrainian National should _2_, and constitutional reform should begin, the statement says. Kerry, though, had a different message from Moscow, raising concerns that pro-Russian separatists are occupying more buildings,and taking journalists' hostage in the east of Ukraine. The State Department says Kerry _3_ Russia to persuade those separatists to disarm and stand down, and to tone down its rhetoric. The US _4_ Russia it will face more sanctions if it doesn't help to deescalate the crisis. Michele Kelemen NPR News Washington.
据俄罗斯外交部长谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫办公室表示，拉夫罗夫和美国国务卿约翰·克里通话时表示，乌克兰必须采取紧急措施缓和危机。声明中表示，乌克兰必须要解除武装，开始宪法改革。但是，克里从莫斯科带来的不同信息引发了担忧，亲俄派分裂主义者占领了乌克兰东部越来越多的政府大楼，并扣押记者当作人质。美国国务院表示，克里敦促俄罗斯说服这些分裂主义者解除武装并撤离，用缓和的方式表态。美国警告俄罗斯称，如果俄罗斯不能帮助缓和危机，那俄罗斯将会面临更多的制裁措施。NPR新闻，米歇尔·克莱门华盛顿报道。
词汇解析：
1. shape up
开始成形；有可能发生；
eg. The accident is already shaping up as a significant environmental disaster.
这次事故已经造成严重的环境灾难。
eg. It's shaping up to be a terrible winter.
这将会是一个极其寒冷的冬天。
2. stand down
退出；退下；
eg. He ordered the men to stand down.
他命令士兵解除戒备状态。
eg. Do not worry, as those who feel that they cannot accept what we have to offer, will have to stand down.
不要担心，对于那些觉得无法接受我们必须提供的条件的，将不得不退出舞台。
3. tone down
使（言辞）温和；使（调子）缓和；收敛；
eg. The forecasts have since had to be toned down, as the economy has exhibited unmistakablesigns of slowing.
该预测不得不在此后放低调子，因为经济已明白无误地显示出放缓的迹象。
eg. I must ask you to tone down your remarks; they are giving offence to some of our visitors.
我必须要求你说话语气和缓一些，因为你的话得罪了一些客人。
