Use the verb were for all nouns in the if clause of the sentence. For example, \In informal speech, people might say, \writing.
在该句的if从句中如果接名词就使用动词were。例如，\在非正式讲话中人们可能会说，\但在正式写作中要避免用was。
Future real conditional 将来真实条件句
Now let's talk about the future real conditional. If A happens, B will happen. To make a future real conditional, use will in the result clause. For example, \possible situations in the future.
现在我们来谈谈将来真实条件句。如果A发生，B将会发生。将来真实条件句在结果从句中会用到will。例如，\I will wait in the car.\我们使用将来真实条件句来谈论将来可能发生的状况。
Speakers sometimes use the future real conditional to threaten others. Listen to actor Liam Neeson in the 2013 movie Taken. In this scene of the movie, Neeson's character is on the phone threatening the man who kidnapped his daughter. 说话人有时会使用将来真实条件句来威胁别人。我们来听一下演员利亚姆·尼森在2013年拍摄的《劫持惊魂》中的台词。在这个电影场景中，尼森扮演的角色在电话中威胁绑架他女儿的男子。
\will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.\
―如果你现在放了我女儿，这事就算了。我不会来找你，我将不再追究。但是如果你不放，我就会来找你。我将会找到你然后杀了你。‖
This is only a quick introduction to conditionals. In a future episode of Everyday Grammar, we will talk about past and mixed conditionals. Until then, we will leave you with country music stars Johnny Cash and June Carter.
以上只是条件句的简单介绍。在日常语法的下期节目中，我们将会讨论过去条件句和混合条件句。在此之前，我们先来听一下乡村音乐歌手约翰尼·卡什（Johnny Cash）和琼·卡特（June Carter）合唱的这首歌。
\假如我是一个木匠
And you were a lady 而你是一位美女
I'd marry you anyway 我一定会娶你
I'd have your baby 和你生一个宝宝\
I'm Jonathan Evans.
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Aid Group Recommends Debt Cancellation for Nepal
By VOA 07 May, 2015
From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report.
A group of international aid, religious and other groups is calling for debt cancellation for Nepal.
The country is struggling with the effects of a powerful earthquake on April 25 that struck the central part of the country near the capital, Kathmandu. More than 7,300 people died in the quake. The United Nations says eight million people, more than one fourth of the country's population, has been affected by the disaster.
Nepalese women search for belongings from their house that was destroyed in the earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Nepal was repaying $220 million a year to international lenders before the quake. (AP Photo/Bernat Amangue)
Jubilee Network USA is a coalition of religious and aid groups that works to end extreme poverty. The group, a non-governmental organization, or NGO, says Nepal owes a total of $3.8 billion to foreign creditors including the World Bank and the Asian Development bank.
The coalition's executive director Eric LeCompte says his organization is trying to persuade the agencies to do more to ease the financial burden on Nepal. He says Nepal was repaying $220 million a year to international lenders before the quake. He says money to repay Nepal's debt should go to repair, rebuild, and help the nation recover.
Mr. LeCompte says international lenders have cancelled millions of dollars in debt owed by the West African
nations devastated by the Ebola crisis. He says he believes the debt relief programs should come with requirements for greater openness and accountability. He says that means the money that would have gone to repayment goes to the most vulnerable citizens, rather than to tax breaks for companies or to support the military.
The International Monetary Fund's Gerry Rice says the agency will send experts to study Nepal's needs \humanitarian situation subsides.\financing to help rebuilding efforts and offers technical support.
Nepal has a population of more than 28 million people. The World Bank says the country's economic growth was greater than five percent each year. The loss of thousands of lives and widespread damage to roads, buildings and other infrastructure is likely to hurt growth. The average income in the small country is $730 a year. One fourth of Nepal's population lives in poverty.
And that is the VOA Learning English Economics Report. I'm Mario Ritter.
Mario Ritter adapted this story from VOA for Learning English. Kelly Jean Kelly was the editor.
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Words in This Story
devastated – adj. damaged to a great extent
relief – n. forms of aid, such as food, clothing and money, that are given to victims of disasters
accountability – n. the ability to explain decisions and actions
vulnerable – n. open to the possibility of physical or emotional harm
subside – v. to become less strong or intense; to reduce over time
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普京指责美起诉国际足联官员是―插手海外‖ Putin:FIFA Arrests Case of US Meddling Abroad
俄罗斯总统普京星期四批评美国对涉嫌腐败的国际足联官员提出起诉，称美国企图将司法权力范围扩大到其他国家。
普京在电视上评论说， 美国还企图阻止国际足联主席布拉特连任。国际足联定于星期五投票选举下届主席，布特拉竞选第五个任期，而他目前只有一个对手。
俄罗斯将主办2018年世界杯。
俄罗斯外交部星期三也表态称，美国起诉涉嫌腐败的国际足联官员是将―美国法律非法使用于海外‖。
美国还没有对普京的态度做出直接回应。
这次瑞士调查国际足联涉嫌管理不善和洗钱，俄罗斯获得2018年世界杯主办权也是调查的一部分。
Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the United States on Thursday for its corruption indictment against officials from football's governing body, calling the case an attempt to spread its jurisdiction to other countries.
Mr. Putin said in televised comments that the U.S. is also trying to prevent the reelection of FIFA President Sepp Blatter. That vote is due to happen Friday with Blatter facing one opponent in his bid to win a fifth term.
Russia is hosting the next edition of FIFA's premier event, the World Cup, in 2018.
Mr. Putin's comments follow a similar message from Russia's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, which called the case an \
There was no immediate U.S. reaction to Mr. Putin's remarks.
The awarding of the 2018 games to Russia is part of a Swiss investigation into allegations of mismanagement and money laundering.
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美国会中越来越多人支持解除对古巴禁运 US Senator Says Momentum Growing to Lift Economic Sanctions on Cuba
一位美国议员说，美国国会中越来越多的人支持取消对古巴实行了五十多年的经济制裁。
来自新墨西哥州的民主党参议员汤姆·乌达尔星期三在古巴哈瓦那作出上述表示。乌达尔说，民主党人和共和党人表示支持通过几个有关古巴的提案，其中包括取消旅行限制，推动在农业和科技领域有限的经济活动。
奥巴马总统呼吁共和党控制的国会取消对古巴的禁运。古巴领导人菲德尔·卡斯特罗1959年推翻了长期独裁者巴蒂斯塔后与前苏联结盟。美国因此对古巴实行经济制裁。
乌达尔率四名民主党议员在古巴访问，与政府官员和非官方人士举行会谈。代表团成员之一，来自明尼苏达州的佛兰肯参议员说，美国国会只有极少数人强烈反对解除禁运。
A U.S. lawmaker says there is growing support in Congress to lift the five-decade-old economic embargo against Cuba imposed by the United States.
Democratic Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico made the comment Wednesday in Havana.
Udall said both Democrats and Republicans have expressed support for several pieces of legislation related to Cuba, including lifting the travel ban and promoting limited economic activity in agriculture and technology.
President Barack Obama has called on the Republican-controlled Congress to lift the embargo, which was imposed when Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro aligned with the former Soviet Union after ousting longtime dictator Fulgencio Bautista in 1959.
Udall led a delegation of four Democratic lawmakers to Havana, where they held talks with Cuban officials and private citizens. One of the lawmakers, Minnesota Senator Al Franken, said there is \have a strong objection\
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Britain Makes Controversial Move to Crack Down on Extremism
Al Pessin May 28,2015
LONDON— Britain is moving to tighten controls on extremist rhetoric, even when it does not incite violence or hatred - a move that some are concerned might unduly restrict basic freedoms.
It is an issue many countries are grappling with as extremist groups gain power in the Middle East, fueled in part by donations and fighters from the West.
Britain‘s Home Secretary announced plans for the legislation, which had been promised if the Conservative Party won the recent election. The new government included it in the annual Queen‘s Speech, laying out its official program.
―Measures will also be brought forward to promote social cohesion and protect people by tackling extremism,‖ said
Queen Elizabeth II.
Stopping extremism
The government wants stronger regulatory powers over charities and religious institutions to ensure they are not involved in promoting extremism. It also wants the ability to ban individuals from expressing extremist views.
Up to a point, radicalism expert Hannah Stuart of the Henry Jackson Society welcomes the effort to be tougher on extremist groups, even when they are not directly connected to violence.
―Where extremism is allowed to flourish, we see the diminishing of individual rights, but also of group rights, and it‘s usually, sadly, minority rights,\
But Stuart said she is concerned about the potential limits on individual speech.
―We have to accept that there will be certain extremist ideas and dissent on our street corners, and we have to trust that as a society, and civil society particularly, we‘re strong enough to rebut that openly, rather than hide it away,‖ she said.
Speaking via Skype from the Muslim Association of Britain, Omer al-Hamdoon agreed with that, and expressed a more pointed concern.
―Muslims, specifically within Britain, are going to be muted, and denied their freedom of speech, even though they have not committed any criminal act,‖ he said.
Seeking new ways
Hamdoon said current laws against incitement are adequate, and he disputed the idea that extremist rhetoric fuels violence.
―The Home Secretary has mentioned this thread between non-violent extremism and violent extremism. I don‘t think there‘s any evidence to support this kind of theory,‖ he said.
Hamdoon said the government is ill equipped to differentiate between ideas that are outside the mainstream, and those that might be dangerous. He said the new law would make some legitimate Muslim preaching illegal.
But Stuart said so far, the problem has been the opposite.
―We have failed to identify extremism rather than intend in any way to criminalize Islamic practice,‖ she said.
Stuart said there is a consensus among many democracies that they need to find new ways to deal with the rise of extremism, without violating the rights of the people they are trying to protect.
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