CNN 2008-09-10
时间：2019-02-16 作者：英语课 分类：商业报道2008年(九)月
From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Reggie Aqui. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
Hurricane Ike is still battering 1 Cuba, it's approaching now the Gulf 2 Coast. The National Hurricane Center says that Ike will likely gain strength as it moves into the Gulf in the next / few hours. Forecasters say the Category 1 storm could hit the Corpus Christi area of Texas by the end of the week. Evacuation buses are already gearing up to shuttle those Texans to safety. The state's governor has issued a disaster declaration for 88 counties in preparation for Ike. He also put 7,500 National Guard members on standby.
A newly appointed al-Qaeda chief in Pakistan is dead after being wounded in a missile attack on the compound of a key Taliban commander. That's according to a guard who was also wounded in the attack in northwestern Pakistan. The guard said the death toll 3 from the strike reached 25. The White House says it has no additional comments on the report.
OPEC is having a big meeting in Vienna. Member countries are deciding just how much crudes are cranked out. Now Saudi Arabia is hinting that it'll keep production about the same. Iran thinks there is just too much crude on the market and it wants to pull back. OPEC usually follows the Saudi's lead. Oil prices, as a result, have taken a dip today, in part because the Saudis think the market is in balance.
New estimates say the federal budget deficit 4 this year is a whopper. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 407 billion dollars for the budget year, year ending September 30th. That's a big jump from 246 billion from last year. But economists 5 point out the deficit is about 3% of the total economy, a lot smaller than the deficits 6 of the 1980s and early 90s.
Let's talk about your iPods and how they are now getting out-of-date. That's because Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed the new version of the iPod Nano and also a new version of iTunes. Along with the new Nano, there are plenty of changes to the iTunes Music Store. The eighth version now recommends songs to buy and offers rentals 7 and sales of high-definition TV shows.
Those are your headlines right now, please stick with us here at CNN for more on these stories and the other breaking news of the day.
- The film took a battering from critics in the US. 该影片在美国遭遇到批评家的猛烈抨击。
- He kept battering away at the door. 他接连不断地砸门。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
- 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。
- The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
- We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。
- The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
- Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The Ministry of Finance consistently overestimated its budget deficits. 财政部一贯高估预算赤字。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Many of the world's farmers are also incurring economic deficits. 世界上许多农民还在遭受经济上的亏损。 来自辞典例句