CNN 2008-11-02
时间：2019-02-16 作者：英语课 分类：商业报道2008年(十一)月
Hi everyone, I'm Asieh Namda at the CNN. com newsroom in Atlanta. Here is a look at what is happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
The battleground states-they are top focus on the campaign trail. On the Republican side, Senator John McCain and Sarah Palin are visiting a total of four key battleground states. And it's a busy night for McCain, also he will be appearing on Saturday Night Live in New York. And Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden are heading to West and Midwest looking to keeping their tightening 1 lead. At a campaign stop in Nevada this morning, Obama told the crowd they can't get overconfidence because of "favorable polls".
Early voters out in force in several key battleground states. In Broward County Florida, lines are long enough to stretch around polling locations, running hundreds of feet. And it is much the same in North Carolina, the state's election board ruled voting sites are to be opened a few hours longer than planned. But individual counties can close the polls early in some cases.
A Washington lawmaker is asking for investigation 2 into immigration status leak of Barack Obama's aunt. The Democratic lawmaker representive John Cornel of Michigan is suggesting that the Republican Bush administration maybe behind the leak information, Zeitouni Onyango is said to be living in a Boston public housing unite. She is from Kenya, where Barack's father was born. The Associated Press says she was asked to leave the US, after a judge denied her asylum 3 application four years ago. Obama says he didn' t know that his aunt was living in the US illegally.
To the Democratic Republic of Congo now, where US diplomats 4 says both sides behind the ceasefire are committed to keeping it. Refugees today got a glimmer 5 of hope after getting food and water for the first time in days. Tens of thousands have been displaced by the violence. The conflict diffused 6 by hostilities 7 between rival tribes and Congo's unrelenting civil wars.
And a Pakistani court has freed the parents of a 5-year-old girl and 7-year-boy on bail 8, after they were arrested for trying to wed 9 the children. Both kids in traditional wedding clothes were carried by policemen after a raid in Carachi . The parents reportedly arranged the wedding to end a long feud 10 between the families. A Pakistan human right commission says the maximum punishment for the parents should be one month in prison and a fine of about ten dollars.
And those are the headlines this hour. For more on these stories and other news of the day, CNN is your source online, on TV or when you are on the go.
- Make sure the washer is firmly seated before tightening the pipe. 旋紧水管之前，检查一下洗衣机是否已牢牢地固定在底座上了。
- It needs tightening up a little. 它还需要再收紧些。
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
- The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
- Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
- These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
- The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- I looked at her and felt a glimmer of hope.我注视她，感到了一线希望。
- A glimmer of amusement showed in her eyes.她的眼中露出一丝笑意。
- A drop of milk diffused in the water. 一滴牛奶在水中扩散开来。
- Gases and liquids diffused. 气体和液体慢慢混合了。
- Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities. 墨西哥要求立即停止敌对行动。
- All the old hostilities resurfaced when they met again. 他们再次碰面时，过去的种种敌意又都冒了出来。
- One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
- She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。
- The couple eventually wed after three year engagement.这对夫妇在订婚三年后终于结婚了。
- The prince was very determined to wed one of the king's daughters.王子下定决心要娶国王的其中一位女儿。