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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.dot files
aerial tower
after burn
Alviri-Vidari
american silver
anthodium
apple rot
arnaout (albania)
automatic electrically heated waterer
benzoyl hydride
boots-on-the-ground
bornesitol
Bright,Richard
build a dam
chemical powder extinguisher
chronic hematogenous pulmonary tuberculosis
chyle corpuscle
come the acid
credit cooperative
curbless
decompensated cirrhosis
diphtheric pseudomembrane
Distoma pulmonale
do a disappearing act
domesticate foreign customs
dual power locomative
electric meffle furnace
employee hand book
enneapterygius nanus
estuarial model
eyepiece micrometer
first-order perturbation
fluorothene
foreshadowings
four-piecest
gamma silumin
genus Claytonia
glass dish evaporation test
Gledhill
goal drought
hafnium boride
half-site
Hamiltonian line
heavy layer
Hebridean Isles
heliozincograph
hicatee
indication marks
indirect tests
interlocking operator
isotopically modified compound
just ton
korsnes (korsnaes)
laser computer
line of shearing stress
line-filter balance
lose track
make award on item by item basis
Mendelian law
metabolic disease
Myodo
neutron-electron interaction
non-local coupling
nonconvex quadratic programming
notandcircuit
orographically
orthorhombic hemimorphic
Pachyrhizus erosus Urban.
Paschim Bāsna
pollution relationships
portable debugging tool
price break conversion factor
progress of cargo work
prohibition-era
quasisocial
raise one's voice
rich coil
roving
sa'ar
Salix occidentalisinensis
saltwood
seim
self-simulating equation
siding for splitting train
softbill
specifics
staphylo-opsonic indices
stop-gaps
story completion
three-phase four-wire system
to croak
undercapitalisation
up-hill side
vesting deed
vim and vigor
virulent bubo
wash place
wealing
week-ends
work quality target
XERXES
zone transport refiner