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| That's a pressure cooker of a day on Capitol Hill as we wait and wonder how this vote for healthcare plays out, |
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就在我们等待着，并思考医改投票最终结果如何时，国会大厦内部却是压力巨大的一天。 |
| the final vote is expected Sunday and Democratic house leaders are trying to convince undeclared members to vote yes. |
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最终的投票将在周日举行，众议院民主党领袖正在试图劝服犹豫不决的议员投票赞成。 |
| 216 votes are needed to either pass the vote or kill it. |
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要通过或否决该法案都需要216 票。 |
| Right now 206 house members say they will vote No. |
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现在，已有206 名众议员表示将投反对票。 |
| Of those who say that they are against the bill, well 178 are republicans, 28 are democrats, 35 right now, undeclared. |
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当然，表示反对该法案的人，178 人是共和党，28 人是民主党。35 人还没有决定。 |
| They say they worked hard in the ruins of ground zero in 911 and sacrificed their health but is a 657 million-dollar settlement enough? |
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他们表示，自己辛辛苦苦清理9.11 事件零地带废墟，牺牲了自己的健康，6.57 亿美元的和解就足够了吗？ |
| In about five hours those workers will have their say with the judge. |
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在大约5 个小时的时间里，工人们将表达自己对该裁决的意见。 |
| CNN’s Mary Snow has their story. |
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CNN 记者Mary Snow 报道。 |
| On September 11th, former New York City Police Officer Frank Maisano was among the first responders rushing to the scene. |
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9 月11 日，前纽约市警官Frank Maisano 是首批赶赴事发现场的人之一。 |
| He stayed at Ground Zero for a week and then worked at the Freshkils Landfill where debris was taken. |
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他在零地带逗留了一周，随后在处理废墟的Freshkils 垃圾填埋场工作。 |
| I felt that the dust -- I had an intermittent cough, you know, but that all came to a head when I chased a suspect later on. |
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我能感觉到那些灰尘——那时我已经患上间歇性的咳嗽，你知道，后来当我追捕一个犯罪嫌疑人时，所有的症状才表现出来。 |
| In January of 2004, he collapsed. |
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2004 年1 月份，他倒下了。 |
| Maisano had to leave the police department and now may face alung transplant. |
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Maisano 不得不离开警察部门，现在可能要进行肺移植。 |
| He blames the toxic air he inhaled at Ground Zero and fault the city for a lack of protective gear. |
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他表示是在零地带吸入的有毒空气造成他的疾病，他谴责市政府没有提供保护装置。 |
| We didn't have no protective gear. We just went down there to work, to retrieve body parts. |
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我们没有任何保护装置。我们走到那里就是工作，就是损害我们的身体。 |
| That's what we did. |
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那就是我们所做的。 |
| Maisano was among 10,000 plaintiffs who sued and is happy lawyers reached a settlement with the city. |
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Maisano 是10,000 名原告之一，他们很高兴律师与纽约市达成和解。 |
| We asked New York City's chief attorney, Michael Cardozo, about the workers who saythe city didn't do enough to provide protective gear. |
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我们采访了纽约市首席检察官Michael Cardozo。有些工人表示该市并没有采取足够措施提供保护装置。 |
| The city's response and the contractor's response is, we did a heroic effort in responding and supplying respirators and that kind of issue. |
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纽约市和承包商的回应是，我们在提供呼吸器和其他装置方面做出了巨大的努力。 |
| And each plaintiff, depending where that plaintiff worked, would have to prove the contrary. |
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每一位原告，取决于他们的工作地点，都必须为自己的反对提出证据。 |
