CNN 2008-06-19
时间：2019-01-26 作者：英语课 分类：商业报道2008年(六)月
Hello, I'm Naamua Delaney at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
President Bush is calling on Congress to take immediate 1 action that he claims will lower gas prices. The president says he wants an immediate end to the moratorium 2 on a new offshore 3 oil and natural gas production. “We should expand American oil production by increasing access to the Outer Continental 4 Shelf or OCS. Experts believe that the OCS could produce about 18 billion barrels of oil. That would be enough to match America's current oil production for almost ten years.” Congressional critics say that would do nothing to ease the prices of fuel and Mr. Bush says they are wrong.
Well, Israel says it has agreed to a ceasefire with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It's an effort to end a year of fighting that has killed more than 400 Palestinians and seven Israelis. The six-month truce 5 is supposed to begin tomorrow. Then Israel will begin lifting its blockade of Gaza next week.
Floodwaters that started in Iowa are now moving down the Mississippi River. Two more levees were breached 6 in western Illinois this morning, and towns in west-central Illinois and Missouri are now in harm’s way. Iowa leaders say the floods have done more than 1. 5 billion dollars in damage so far. President Bush plans to tour some of that damage tomorrow.
Tiger Woods will miss the rest of the golf season because he needs more surgery on his left knee. The announcement comes just two days after his epic 7 victory at the US Open. Woods had surgery to clean out cartilage in April. During his rehab from that procedure, he suffered a small stress fracture. Woods Website says doctors are confident he will make a full recovery.
Well, family and close friends of TV newsman Tim Russert are saying their final goodbyes in Washington. The late "Meet the Press" host was remembered this morning in a private funeral service at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood. Among those attending the service were many of Russert's NBC colleagues including former anchor Tom Brokaw who first announced Russert's death on Friday. Also there, political heavyweights, including Democratic presidential contender Senator Barack Obama and Republican rival Senator John McCain. And invitation-only memorial service is scheduled to start at 4 P. M. Eastern at Washington's Kennedy Center and we will have live coverage 8 here on CNN. com.
Well, those are the headlines this hour, stay with CNN, for more on these stories and the other news of the day.
- His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
- We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
- The government has called for a moratorium on weapons testing.政府已要求暂停武器试验。
- We recommended a moratorium on two particular kinds of experiments.我们建议暂禁两种特殊的实验。
- A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
- A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。
- A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
- The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。
- The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦。
- She had thought of flying out to breathe the fresh air in an interval of truce.她想跑出去呼吸一下休战期间的新鲜空气。
- These commitments have already been breached. 这些承诺已遭背弃。
- Our tanks have breached the enemy defences. 我方坦克车突破了敌人的防线。
- I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗，而写了这个小故事。
- They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。