CNN 2008-06-14
时间：2019-02-16 作者：英语课 分类：商业报道2008年(六)月
From the CNN center in Atlanta, I'm Nicole Lapin, it's great to see you today. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
In Concord 1, North Carolina, police are now looking for a gunman who apparently 2 shot and killed two women at a soda 3 bottling plant. Authorities are using dogs and a helicopter to search this area. Police say that the suspect was seen running away from the scene and witnesses say he was actually wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans and has long dreadlocks, but they don't know much else. Now the shooting did happen at Sun Drop Bottling Company.
Thousands upon thousands of people are evacuating 4 homes, businesses, and even a hospital. A severe flooding continues right now. In Iowa, officials are calling for a lot of people to voluntarily leave Des Moines by 6 p.m. today. And Cedar 5 Rapids officials say that a hundred blocks in that city are simply flooded like this. Meantime, two deaths in other Midwestern states are being blamed on the floods as well. One person in Minnesota and another in Michigan were killed when they were submerged in their cars.
Also another sign of relief at NASA twice. NASA engineers say debris 6 spotted 7 floating away from the shuttle Discovery has preliminarily been identified as a thermal 8 clip from the brake system. It was spotted after a thruster was test-fired. Now officials say that the 12- to 18-inch object is one of the three clips, that the project is all part of the essentials to protect the shuttle's rudder called the speed brake, during launch and ascent 9. They say that the loss of it would not actually pose a risk during reentry and landing. Meantime, NASA says a bump seen riding along the edge of the shuttle's rudder was just a trick of lighting 10.
Salmonella outbreak in tomatoes is growing. The federal government now says that 23 states have reported 228 cases, still no word on the source of the bacteria, and health officials simply aren't sure if the tainted 11 tomatoes are off the market at all. Now the FDA is saying that tomatoes in Florida and in California have been cleared safe to eat.
Another day, another record for gas prices. AAA is now saying that the price of a gallon of self-serve regular rose to just over 4 dollars and 6 cents a gallon. Now 27 states and the District of Columbia, Washington D.C., of course, now paying more than four bucks 12 a gallon for regular gas.
Those are the headlines at this hour, for more on those stories and other news of the day, CNN is always your source on line, on TV or on your cell phone.
- These states had lived in concord for centuries.这些国家几个世纪以来一直和睦相处。
- His speech did nothing for racial concord.他的讲话对种族和谐没有作用。
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
- She doesn't enjoy drinking chocolate soda.她不喜欢喝巧克力汽水。
- I will freshen your drink with more soda and ice cubes.我给你的饮料重加一些苏打水和冰块。
- The solution is degassed by alternately freezing, evacuating and thawing. 通过交替的冻结、抽空和溶化来使溶液除气。
- Are we evacuating these potential targets? 能够在这些目标地域内进行疏散吗？
- 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。
- After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
- Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。
- 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。
- They will build another thermal power station.他们要另外建一座热能发电站。
- Volcanic activity has created thermal springs and boiling mud pools.火山活动产生了温泉和沸腾的泥浆池。
- His rapid ascent in the social scale was surprising.他的社会地位提高之迅速令人吃惊。
- Burke pushed the button and the elevator began its slow ascent.伯克按动电钮，电梯开始缓慢上升。
- The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
- The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。
- The administration was tainted with scandal. 丑闻使得政府声名狼藉。
- He was considered tainted by association with the corrupt regime. 他因与腐败政府有牵连而名誉受损。 来自《简明英汉词典》