CNN 2008-05-12
时间：2019-02-16 作者：英语课 分类：商业报道2008年(五)月
Happy Mother's Day to you. I'm Creshon Saunders at the CNN.com newsroom in Atlanta. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
We've received this new video of the Lebanese army arriving to help calm fighting that's broken out in the central mountains over Beirut. It's a firefight between pro 1 and anti government loyalists. Meanwhile, Lebanon's Finance Minister tells CNN he expects the Arab League Secretary General to travel to Beirut this evening. Streets are calm in the city.
Myanmar's military government is allowing emergency shipments into Yangon for cyclone 2 victims but the airport can only handle a few planes a day. Foreign aid workers are still largely being denied entry to the country. The Red Cross says a boat loaded with enough supplies for one thousand people sank Sunday in the Irrawaddy Delta 3. Meanwhile, Myanmar has now upped the death toll 4 to 29,000. Aid groups fear it may be three times that high. They say disease now threatens the lives of 1.5 million people.
It was an emotional day for the nation's military moms. Hundreds came out Sunday to lay Mother's Day cards at the wall at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. Their sons' sacrifices were remembered in a poignant 5 ceremony.
With just two days until the West Virginia primary, Senator Hillary Clinton is there today, spending Mother's Day campaigning with daughter Chelsea. She is in Webster this hour. It's the birthplace of Anna Marie Jarvis, the woman who came up with the idea of a Mother's Day before it was nationally recognized in 1914. Meanwhile, senators Barack Obama and John McCain aren't campaigning today, taking a little break. Obama is spending the day in Chicago with his family, he'll be in West Virginia tomorrow.
Pictures that would make any mom proud on this Mother's Day. Jenna Bush on her wedding day, you see the pictures there. About 200 guests attended the private outdoor wedding last night. All had to pass security checks at President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch 6. Band leader Tyrone Smith says President Bush and Jenna chose "You are so beautiful" for their father-daughter dance.
Those are the headlines at this hour. For more on these stories and other news of the day, CNN is your source, online, on TV, even when you are on the go.
- The two debating teams argued the question pro and con.辩论的两组从赞成与反对两方面辩这一问题。
- Are you pro or con nuclear disarmament?你是赞成还是反对核裁军？
- An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
- The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。
- 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。
- The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
- The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
- His lyrics are as acerbic and poignant as they ever have been.他的歌词一如既往的犀利辛辣。
- It is especially poignant that he died on the day before his wedding.他在婚礼前一天去世了，这尤其令人悲恸。