时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2013年(五)月


英语课

 I am Carl Azuz, this is CNN student news. Thankyou for spending part of your day with us. We gonna start today's program. In acountry, we haven't really reported for a while, Iraq. U.S. military mission inthat Middle East nation ended more than a year ago, but the violence not over.Last month, more than 700 Iraq, mostly civilians 1 died from violence. That'smore than any other month since June of 2008.Yesterday, at least seven peoplewere killed and 16 others wounded by multiple bombings in Baghdad and Mosul. 


 
The body of alleged 2 Boston suspectsTamerlan Tsarnaev is at a funeral home at Massachusetts. But the funeraldirector says he can't find a cemetery 3 willing to bury Tsarnaev.
 
I think a lot of people don't understandand it's an emotional problem obviously but after it settles down and peoplethink about it, they do know we have to bury somebody. That's what this countrydoes. At this point, any outcome would be better than nothing. We do have tobury the person regardless what he did as I said earlier. This country willbury the dead. Funeral directors had done this for years, they continued to doit. And there aren’t too many options, when there’s no problem, it’s very easywith the cemetery, but this is a big problem, but somebody has to step in and say,look at it, we’re going to have to do something here. And we have to. I wouldgo as far as I can go with this.
There are some concerns that possibleprotest like these at the cemetery where the body would be buried. In this kindof thing has come up in the past. Lee Harvey Oswald is buried in the Dallasarea, the same city where he assassinated 4 President John Kennedy. And afterOklahoma city bomber 5 Timothy McVeigh was executed, his ashes were claimed andscattered in an unknown place. The governor of Massachusetts says Tsarnaev’sfamily should be the ones to decide what happens to his body.
 
Technology can play a big role in trackingcriminal or terrorism suspects. Tom Foreman looks at how this works and howit’s improving.
When the FBI released these photos duringthe search for the Boston suspects. There was a hope that computers might helpas they do on shows like CSI, comparing facial feature with existing date andcoming up with a name. But even though, pictures of both brothers were inpublic data bases, the computers that searched that data missed them and cameup empty. The government has been working on facial identifications softwaresince the 1960s.and companies like Facebook and Apple use similar technology totag people in photos. But security analysts 6 widely admit this technology is notgood enough to spot a suspect in a crowd. At Carnegie Melon, Mario Savvidesruns the CyLab Biometric Center.
 
While the toughest problem is the lowresolution, when you look at images collected from standard CCTV footage. Thefaces are way too small.
 
His team is developing next generationsoftware to change poor in partial images into much clearer pictures. They arecreating programs that can reliably match images of to their true identities,despite low light, movement, odd positions.
 
Off-angle is a big challenge. How do youmatch an off-angle image that's say 50 degrees, 60 degrees, 45 degreesoff-angle to a face that’s just a frontal sort of, you know, passport-typephoto.
 
They're even transforming flat picturesinto 3D. Look at what their lab did with a single photo of me. In less than anhour it was turned into series of images showing how I might look from abovefrom the left from the right. Savvides believes such programs can and willsubstantially improve the reliability 7 of facial recognition and lead police tosuspects much faster.
 
And ultimately, hopefully save a life.Because that's our aim, that's our goal, that's everything we do here.
 
For now the FBI is installing its latestversion of facial identification software to work with security cameras coastto coast. That's part of billion dollar program called next generationidentification. Still, in Boston, it wasn't technology, but human investigatorswho triumphed. Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.

1 civilians
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
2 alleged
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
3 cemetery
n.坟墓,墓地,坟场
  • He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
  • His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。
4 assassinated
v.暗杀( assassinate的过去式和过去分词 );中伤;诋毁;破坏
  • 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
5 bomber
n.轰炸机,投弹手,投掷炸弹者
  • He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
  • Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。
6 analysts
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
7 reliability
n.可靠性,确实性
  • We mustn't presume too much upon the reliability of such sources.我们不应过分指望这类消息来源的可靠性。
  • I can assure you of the reliability of the information.我向你保证这消息可靠。
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accelerated at growing rate
air superiority fighter
asynchronous concurrent event
Ava Gardner
avares
back order memo
baigent
banked secondary
carry a load of debt
Choanotaenia
clerodendrum calamitosum
clivia nobilis lindl.
column count
conditioning theory
contract transport
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crab slewing mechanism
crepe embossing
did away with
double curved line
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effective humidity
electric-field
emolumentary
eosinophilic adenoma
Eriocheir sinensis
ethylethanolamine
exoccipital
eye-rubbing
flat skin
fucosterol
full wave power supply
fusible covering
geophysics of Mars
Godfrey's cordial
herba veratri nigri
horizontal maxilla fracture
intra-class correlation coefficient
jujuba
kataphalanx
keifs
kroehnkite
lemanek
Lobelia doniana
magnetic belt separator
marverer
metal corrugated plate
methopterin
minimum size
momsers
monopoly behavior experiments
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narrow fire box
nice money
night-ravens
no-doc
no-fire current
nonterminal alphabet
orkney is. (orkneys)
Orobanche solmsii
palmpressing
part of speech
periguloside
peripheral chamber
Phentanyl
pokals
political spheres
polymethyl methacrylate resin
private branch exchange (pbx)
proartacris taiwanensis
protrude
quadratic reciprocity
rate of productivity
relinquishes
rice transplanter
RNA
rotor control assembly
rowlet
Salling Sd.
siderometer
spear point
St-Pierreville
stomatomenia
subsidiary documents
take delivery of the goods
talk, etc. nineteen to the dozen
telecommunication services
telocentrics
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threshing performance
transformer oilproof board
truncus arteriosis
Uc Son
uniplanar flow
variable longshore current
variable name
Viburnum prunifolium
vindicativeness
viprostol
wetted contour
wiandt