CNN 2008-09-07
时间：2019-02-16 作者：英语课 分类：商业报道2008年(九)月
Good day to you, I am Creshon Saunders at the CNN.com Newsroom in Atlanta; here is a look at what’s happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
Rescuers are picking their way around the giant boulders 1 scattered 2 around a shantytown near Cairo, Egypt. At least 27 people died when a rockslide sent the giant rocks rolling down into a neighborhood. 35 others are hurt and about 50 homes are destroyed. Some of the boulders are as big as a small house. Dust covered the town as searchers tried to lift the massive rocks by hand while calling out the names of the missing loved one. Authorities there say that as many as 500 people may be buried.
The widower 3 of the assassinated 4 former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will become the country’s next president. Asif Ali Zardari was elected by a wide margin 5 by Parliament today. Zardari 's toughest challenge could come in the turbulent northwestern part of Pakistan where a bomb blast killed 16 today.
For those of you living along the east coast, you may be looking at a soggy weekend. Courtesy of Hanna, the tropical storm made landfall on the Carolina coast this morning, bringing with it high winds, pounding surf, and a bunch of rain. On its current track, the storm is expected to skirt up the Eastern Seaboard through the mid-Atlantic and into New England and Canada by tomorrow. So far though there have been no death reported from Hanna, but forecasters are warning of possible tornados 6.
Meanwhile with the near miss from Hanna, people from Florida are already getting ready for Hurricane Ike. Right now the storm’s track is still uncertain but many Floridians aren’t taking any chances. Check out this line of people waiting at a gas station yesterday to fill up their tanks. The latest advisory 7 for Ike shows the hurricane has lost a little strength but forecasters say they expect the hurricane will re-intensify and the Florida Keys’ all nonresidents are under a mandatory 8 evacuation order.
The Olympics ended 2 weeks ago but thousands of athletes are flocking to Beijing. The Paralympic Games open today and disabled athletes from 148 countries are taking part. Competition begins tomorrow and will use many of the same venues 9 as athletes did during the recent Olympiad. The 10-day event will feature more than 4000 athletes competing in 472 medal events.
Those are the headlines 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.
- Seals basked on boulders in a flat calm. 海面风平浪静，海豹在巨石上晒太阳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The river takes a headlong plunge into a maelstrom of rocks and boulders. 河水急流而下，入一个漂砾的漩涡中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。
- George was a widower with six young children.乔治是个带著六个小孩子的鳏夫。
- Having been a widower for many years,he finally decided to marry again.丧偶多年后，他终于决定二婚了。
- The prime minister was assassinated by extremists. 首相遭极端分子暗杀。
- Then, just two days later, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. 跟着在两天以后，肯尼迪总统在达拉斯被人暗杀。 来自辞典例句
- We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
- The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
- And the national weather service reports several tornados touch down. 国家气象中心报告预测龙卷风将来袭。 来自互联网
- They had stock footage of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes. 他们存有关于闪电、龙卷风和飓风的电影胶片。 来自互联网
- I have worked in an advisory capacity with many hospitals.我曾在多家医院做过顾问工作。
- He was appointed to the advisory committee last month.他上个月获任命为顾问委员会委员。
- It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
- There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。