CNN 2009-10-08
时间：2019-01-07 作者：英语课 分类：CNN2009年(十)月
Hello everyone, I'm Catherine Callaway at the CNN center, with a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
Today is the eighth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, and the biggest strategic decision could be still to come. Seven hundred and seventy eight US troops have died there since the war against the Taliban began just a few weeks after 9.11. The US took less time to defeat Germany and Japan in World War II. In March President Obama announced he was sending twenty one thousand more troops to Afghanistan. Now published reports say that General Stanley Mcstone is asking for as many as forty thousand more. That would place more than a hundred thousand Americans’ lives at stake there.
Attorney General Eric Holder 1 and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are both meeting with Chicago's mayor later this morning. Mayor Richard J. Daley is expected to ask for more federal money to hire extra police officers. Some of these officers could be dedicated 2 to covering Chicago's schools. Forty children have been killed in violent crimes across the city of Chicago so far this year.
New details about an email scam. Even more people may have been affected 3 . It started with hotmail. Microsoft says the users were tricked into revealing their passwords in a fishing scam. Now media reports say that some people using google, yahoo and other email services were also tricked. The big concern is that many people use one password for all of their online accounts.
Look at this stunning 4 discovery, a space discovery, revealing Saturn's newest halo, NASA's scientists spotted 5 an enormous ring around that planet. It is by far the largest of Saturn's rings. It is, its diameter is equal to three hundred Saturns 6 lined up side by side. It would take about a billion earth to fill the ring.
Two Americans and an Israeli won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. And they will split the one point four million dollars for the work on their structure of ribosomes. Those are like construction workers inside your cells and they build protein.
Those are the headlines for you. Stay with CNN for more on these stories and other news of the day.
- The holder of the office of chairman is reponsible for arranging meetings.担任主席职位的人负责安排会议。
- That runner is the holder of the world record for the hundred-yard dash.那位运动员是一百码赛跑世界纪录的保持者。
- He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
- His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。
- She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
- His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
- His plays are distinguished only by their stunning mediocrity.他的戏剧与众不同之处就是平凡得出奇。
- The finished effect was absolutely stunning.完工后的效果非常美。
- The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
- Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。