CNN 美国有线新闻 2014-10-04-英语课

时间：2018-12-19 作者：英语课 分类：CNN2014年(十)月

英语课

It's great to have you watching CNN student news. My name is K Z. Our commercial free coverage 1 this Thursday starts in New York. We gonna find headquarters in the United Nations. All 193 member countries are invited to UN general assembly, which going on this week. Its goals include fostering cooperation between nations, making decision on issues concerning peace and security. President Obama addressed the assembly yesterday. He focused on several issues, the biggest was terrorism and US led the fight against ISIS military group. Already 40 nations have offered to join in this coalition 2. Today, I asked the world to join in this effort. Those, who join in Islam, should leave the battle field while they can. Those who continue to fight for hateful goals, we find they are increasingly alone. For we are not come to threat, we will demonstrate the future belongs to those who build, not those who destroy.

The president also repeated that the US will not put boots on the ground, meaning US troops will not be involved in direct fighting. That's something that several officials say maybe needed to defeat ISIS terrorists.
President Obama also asked for international help in fighting Ebola virus. An outbreak the fever has ravaged 3 west Africa this year. It has very high death rate and it kills thousands so far. The US is sending 3000 troops plus medical and health workers to Liberia. That's the hardest hit country. And the United Nation has passed a resolution that asks every member country to speed up its response to Ebola.
Yes, it's scary. Yes, it's terrifying. Of course, it's terrifying. But what are you going to do? Women, men and children are dying. Families are being devastated 4. In any other conflict situation, people takes that risk and they going. Somali during the famine, you couldn't move the international community. And you get to M/V, you just get the sense of loneliness, and isolation 5, and the fact that people just are on the ground. It was very different from what I normally do. Where you know there is a threat, and you know you are going towards the threat or away from the threat and that threat is very apparent. The smell of bleach 6 as you come into the rival terminal, because all over are these buckets of valued bleach people wash their hands in. And very quickly, you kinda start to get used to that reality, you are not shaking anyone's hands, you are keeping a distance, even the cured people are keeping a distance from each other so you don't accidently touch. And there are those bleach buckets are gonna be your best friends. The hard work definitely had a huge impact on us. Just the fact that they had lost so many colleagues and friends and kept going out there. and we are learning on the job, I mean the job worth to be learned on. The bravery and just the real, the sheer, just determination that takes, get up, get up to know your job, everyday is to suit up and risk your life in the hope that you're gonna beat this. But heartbreak thing is this's regional. We start to put ourselves buck 7 up after years and years of really devastating 8 conflicts. What has been the most dishearting is waiting for international community. And as a journalist, you hope that your job is to show the world, then the world response.

1 coverage

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

2 coalition

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。

3 ravaged

毁坏( ravage的过去式和过去分词 )；蹂躏；劫掠；抢劫

a country ravaged by civil war 遭受内战重创的国家
The whole area was ravaged by forest fires. 森林火灾使整个地区荒废了。

4 devastated

v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词)；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮adj.毁坏的；极为震惊的