CNN 2008-10-17
时间：2019-01-26 作者：英语课 分类：商业报道2008年(十)月
This is your NOW IN THE NEWS update; I'm Reggie Aqui, from the CNN center in Atlanta.
Worldwide recession fears sent many world stock markets going down today. The Dow opened down sharply before recovering some of its losses. Tokyo's Nikkei downed more than 11 percent. Many European markets also saw losses. Japan's Prime Minister blamed the market trouble on America's quote: "insufficient 1 bailout plan".
The economy dominated the third and final presidential debate from Hofstra University. Senator John McCain continued to criticize Senator Barack Obama's economic plan as one that is unfriendly to small businesses. Obama fired back by saying McCain's economics is no better than President Bush's. According to a CNN poll taken shortly after the debate last night, 58 percent say Barack Obama did the best job, 31 percent say John McCain won it. The poll sampled 10 percent more Democrats 2 than Republicans, so keep that in mind.
Social security benefits are about to go up by sixty bucks 3. That is the largest jump in more than twenty five years. The increase won't be enough by monthly Medicare premiums 4, which will stay the same. Fifty five million Americans can expect to start getting those bigger checks by next year.
Relentless 5 winds that spread 3 huge wild fires in Southern California have finally died down. Fire crew say the biggest fire, the Porter Ranch 6 blaze is 50 percent contained. They believed a downed power line started that fire. All the evacuation orders were lifted yesterday.
They feared the worst, and they got pretty lucky. Puerto Rico, the Virgin 7 Islands and other parts of the Northern Caribbean got far less damage from Hurricane Omar than expected. That storm is now moving away from the region after passing overnight, between Saint Martin and the US Virgin Islands as a major Category Three. It's been downgraded now to a Category One hurricane. Omar is expected to keep chirring toward the open Atlantic and far away from the US mainland.
And you are now up to date, those are your headlines. Please stick with us here at CNN for more on these stories and the other news of the day.
- There was insufficient evidence to convict him.没有足够证据给他定罪。
- In their day scientific knowledge was insufficient to settle the matter.在他们的时代，科学知识还不能足以解决这些问题。
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
- They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He paid premiums on his life insurance last year. 他去年付了人寿保险费。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Moves are afoot to increase car insurance premiums. 现正在酝酿提高汽车的保险费。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The traffic noise is relentless.交通车辆的噪音一刻也不停止。
- Their training has to be relentless.他们的训练必须是无情的。
- He went to work on a ranch.他去一个大农场干活。
- The ranch is in the middle of a large plateau.该牧场位于一个辽阔高原的中部。