标准英语听说【24】

A fourth case of anthrax exposure has been reported in the United States at the New York city office of NBC television.
据报道，第四起炭疽热病毒在NBC位于New York的办公室被发现。

A letter containing a powdery substance is believed to be the source of the anthrax becteria that showed up as a skin rash on an NBC employee.
一封带有粉状物质的信件被确定为炭疽热细菌的来源，因为一位NBC雇员已经由此得了皮炎。

Speaking on another network last night, Vice President Dick Cheney says there is no evidence yet that would tie in the anthrax incidents with the 9.11 terrorist attack,
昨晚在另一个媒体网络的讲话中，副总统Dick Cheney表示,目前还没有任何证据表明炭疽热病毒与911恐怖袭击有关。

"Nobody's made a direct link yet, but at this stage you have to be concerned about that sort of thing, the possibility.
"没有人能推出这其中直接的联系，但到了这一步你不得不留意那档子事，我指的是可能性。

Are they related? we don't know, we don't have enough evidence to be able to pin down that kind of connection.
它们之间有关系吗？我们不得而知，至少我们还没有足够的证据把这两件事牵连在一起。

But on the other hand, these kind of activities we saw in Florida, now perhaps in New York, it had to be suspicious."
但就另一方面来说，我们在Florida目睹的这些个事，也许现在在New York，它们是值得怀疑的。"

A criminal investigation is under way in Florida, where 3 people at a publishing company were exposed to anthrax,one of those workers died.
一个犯罪调查组已经在前往Florida的路上，那里有3名在一家印刷公司工作的工人已经接触到了炭疽病毒，并且其中一人已经死亡。

Notes:

antrax n.炭疽热(an infectious disease of warm-blooded animals caused by a spore-forming bacterium, transmissible to humans especially by the handling of infected products, and characterized by external ulcerating nodules or by lesions in the lungs)
rash n.皮疹(an eruption on the body)
pin v.确认(to define or determine clearly or precisely - usually used with down)