CNN 2008-04-11
时间：2019-01-26 作者：英语课 分类：商业报道2008年(四)月
And good morning from the CNN Center here in Atlanta, I'm Melissa Long with some of the headlines that are NOW IN THE NEWS this Thursday.
President Bush meets with General David Petraeus and the US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker today. They are expected to recommend freezing troop levels in Iraq for 45 days. That would allow the military to assess whether the security situation would allow for more troop reductions. Later this morning, President Bush is scheduled to give a speech where he is expected to endorse 1 this plan.
More than 900 American Airlines flights cancelled today. And more cancellations are expected tomorrow. American hopes to return to normal by Saturday but it depends on how quickly wiring is inspected and fixed 2. More than 100 planes are still being looked up.
A cell phone video camera captured an attack on a high school teacher inside a classroom. It happened Friday in Baltimore. Now the teacher says a female student attacked her when she told her to sit down and behave. The girl's friends, we hear them cheering her on. The video showed up on MySpace. School police say they are now looking at that attack.
Check out this video of a wild cop chase--some unbelievable twists and turns. Police say the suspects ditched the stolen SUV when they ran over the spikes 3 in the road. They say the three men then carjacked a landscaping truck with some workers in it and then they, guess what, hit the road again. They lost control in the crash, took off running. And here you see seconds later officers that were on motorcycles grabbed the guys.
Well, you could start getting emergency alerts from the government on your cell phone. Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission approved a new system to send text messages for three types of emergencies: disasters such as terrorist attacks, imminent 4 threats like severe weather or university shootings and AMBER 5 alerts. Most major cell phone providers say they will sign on. Now you can opt 6 out if you like to. The service could start by 2010.
And you are up-to-date. To find out much more on these stories or other news of the day, remember you can log on to cnn.com, of course you can tune 7 into CNN television or if you happen to be on the go, don't forget about using your cell phone and relying on cnn.com updates.
AMBER alert：An AMBER Alert is a notification to the general public, by various media outlets 8 in Canada and in the United States, issued when police confirm that a child has been abducted 9.
- No one is foolish enough to endorse it.没有哪个人会傻得赞成它。
- I fully endorse your opinions on this subject.我完全拥护你对此课题的主张。
- Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
- Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。
- a row of iron spikes on a wall 墙头的一排尖铁
- There is a row of spikes on top of the prison wall to prevent the prisoners escaping. 监狱墙头装有一排尖钉，以防犯人逃跑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The black clounds show that a storm is imminent.乌云预示暴风雨即将来临。
- The country is in imminent danger.国难当头。
- Would you like an amber necklace for your birthday?你过生日想要一条琥珀项链吗？
- This is a piece of little amber stones.这是一块小小的琥珀化石。
- They opt for more holiday instead of more pay.他们选择了延长假期而不是增加工资。
- Will individual schools be given the right to opt out of the local school authority?各个学校可能有权选择退出地方教育局吗？
- He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
- The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
- The dumping of foreign cotton blocked outlets for locally grown cotton. 外国棉花的倾销阻滞了当地生产的棉花的销路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They must find outlets for their products. 他们必须为自己的产品寻找出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》