9.8英语新闻朗读

外刊1：
Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating national parks series
给纪录片配旁白，美国前总统奥巴马获艾美奖
The former president won an Emmy Award on Saturday to go with his two Grammys. Obama won the best narrator Emmy for his work on the Netflix documentary series, “Our Great National Parks.” The five-part show, which features national parks from around the globe, is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, “Higher Ground.”He was the biggest name in a category full of famous nominees for the award handed out at Saturday night’s Creative Arts Emmys.
上周六，美国前总统奥巴马获得艾美奖，他此前曾获得两个格莱美奖。奥巴马因其在Netflix纪录片系列 “伟大的国家公园”中的配音工作而获得艾美奖最佳解说员。这部纪录片由五部分组成，主要介绍了全球各地的国家公园，由奥巴马夫妇成立的制作公司 "Higher Ground “制作。在周六晚的艾美奖颁奖典礼上，他是获得提名的人中来头最大的一位。
来自美联社（AP News）

外刊2：
Japan man charges clients US$71 per hour ‘to do nothing’

日本小哥工作时“什么也不做”，时薪高达71美元！

Shoji Morimoto has what some would see as a dream job: he gets paid to do pretty much nothing. The 38-year-old Tokyo resident charges 10,000 yen (US$71) an hour to accompany clients and simply exist as a companion. “Basically, I rent myself out. My job is to be wherever my clients want me to be and to do nothing in particular,” Morimoto said, adding that he had handled some 4,000 sessions in the past four years.

森本昌二拥有别人都羡慕的工作：他靠着“什么都不做”就能得到报酬。这位38岁的东京小哥每小时收费10,000日元（71美元）来陪伴客户，而且只是作为一个同伴存在，不做其他任何事情。“我其实就是把自己租出去了，我的工作就是去客户希望我去的地方，然后什么也不做，”森本说道，还表示他在过去四年里接了大约4000个这样的工作。 来自南华早报（South China Morning Post）