CNN 2008-06-12
时间：2019-01-26 作者：英语课 分类：商业报道2008年(六)月
Hello, I am Melissa Long at the CNN Center here in Atlanta one o'clock in the afternoon Eastern time. And here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
Two hundred people are out of their homes in Cedar 1 Rapids, Iowa after fears that flood waters could crest 2 their banks. To the north in Cedar Falls, a levee feared to burst looks like it's holding strong. Dozens are sandbagging and strengthening that levee. A river also has yet to spill its banks, but it is rising, and that could spell trouble for the residents in this community in Des Moines, Iowa. Forecasters are expecting more rain in the nation's midsection throughout the week.
The west has a different problem. It's actually lack of water. Firefighters in California could really use some (to) help to battle this wildfire near Stockton. Heavy winds in the area are hampering 3 efforts to get that fire under control. The fire has damaged or destroyed roughly 30 homes in the area. Up to 21 were damaged in nearby Palermo, California.
Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are talking about economics on the campaign trail. Senator Obama held a town hall meeting in Chicago today as part of his two-week economic swing. The Democratic senator talked about problems like gas and grocery prices, also credit cards in the credit card industry. McCain says he doesn't expect gas prices to drop before the November election. The Republican senator thinks prices could actually go higher. McCain says there's "strong and justifiable 4 emotion" about oil companies' record profits.
Pakistan is outraged 5 over an attack that it says undercuts the very core of what it calls "cooperation in the war on terror". Pakistani officials say a US airstrike killed 11 of its paramilitary troops in disputed border region with Afghanistan, calling the attack cowardly and unprovoked. The US says it was in hot pursuit of suspected terrorists in the region.
"Seven, six, five, four, three, two. Engines start! One, zero and lift off of the Delta 6 Rocket carrying GLAST, a gamma-ray telescope."
A new eye in the sky is heading up into space. A spacecraft carrying a high power telescope blasted off from Florida's Cape 7 Canaveral just last hour. The telescope is designed to study cosmic gamma-rays. Gamma-rays are created by some of the mysteries of space like supermassive black holes and colliding neutron 8 stars. A natural physics lesson for the day.
Those are the headlines at this hour. Do stay with CNN for more on these stories or other news of the day.
- The cedar was about five feet high and very shapely.那棵雪松约有五尺高,风姿优美。
- She struck the snow from the branches of an old cedar with gray lichen.她把长有灰色地衣的老雪松树枝上的雪打了下来。
- The rooster bristled his crest.公鸡竖起了鸡冠。
- He reached the crest of the hill before dawn.他于黎明前到达山顶。
- So fraud on cows and development aid is seriously hampering growth. 因此在牛问题上和发展补助上的诈骗严重阻碍了发展。
- Short-termism, carbon-trading, disputing the science-are hampering the implementation of direct economically-led objectives. 短效主义，出售二氧化碳，进行科学辩论，这些都不利于实现以经济为主导的直接目标。
- What he has done is hardly justifiable.他的所作所为说不过去。
- Justifiable defense is the act being exempted from crimes.正当防卫不属于犯罪行为。
- Members of Parliament were outraged by the news of the assassination. 议会议员们被这暗杀的消息激怒了。
- He was outraged by their behavior. 他们的行为使他感到愤慨。
- He has been to the delta of the Nile.他曾去过尼罗河三角洲。
- The Nile divides at its mouth and forms a delta.尼罗河在河口分岔，形成了一个三角洲。
- I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
- She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。