2021届高考英语二轮复习：中英双语阅读素材（九）

2021高考英语二轮复习：中英双语阅读素材（九） 懂王感恩节前夕赦免了一只火鸡 President Trump pardons a turkey as first lady Melania Trump looks on. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) 特朗普总统在第一夫人梅拉尼娅·特朗普的注视下赦免了一只火鸡。(Mandel Ngan/法新社通过Getty Images报道) Failing in his efforts to overturn the election and his grip on the presidency slipping away, President Trump on Tuesday exercised a power of the office that all presidents since at least John F. Kennedy have wielded: He pardoned a turkey. 周二，特朗普总统在推翻选举的努力中失败了，他对总统宝座的控制也逐渐消失，他行使了至少自约翰·F·肯尼迪(John F.Kennedy)以来历任总统都行使过的一项权力：他赦免了一只火鸡。 Actually two of them. The turkeys, named Corn and Cob, were pardoned in a formal ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. Attendees, including Trump’s daughter Ivanka, her husband, Jared Kushner, and their children, were seated in folding chairs spaced several feet apart. Most were wearing masks. 实际上有两个。在白宫玫瑰园举行的正式仪式上，这些名为玉米和科布的火鸡被赦免。与会者，包括特朗普的女儿伊万卡、她的丈夫贾里德·库什纳和他们的孩子，坐在相距几英尺的折叠椅上。大多数人都戴着口罩。 "These two magnificent gobblers were selected from the official