美国有线新闻 CNN
时间：2018-12-20 作者：英语课 分类：CNN美国有线新闻2017年4月
First story, two U.S. federal judges have temporarily blocked President Donald Trump 1's new executive order concerning immigration to America. His previous order on this subject is tied up in court. The new one would have kept all refugees from entering the U.S. for 120 days and put a 90-day suspension all people coming from Iran, Libya, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
Former President Barack Obama had identified these six countries plus Iraq as countries of concern because of a growing threat from terrorists. But critics have called the Trump order a Muslim ban, because more than 90 percent of the six named countries are estimated to be Muslims.
BOB FERGUSON, WASHINGTON STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL: When he was campaigning for president, he said he's going to enact 2 a Muslim ban. Rudy Giuliani went on national TV and said the president was asking him to create a Muslim ban but just to make it legal and that's just what we know publicly.
AZUZ: The Justice Department says the order is in the president's legal authority to protect America's security. And the White House has said it's not a Muslim ban because hundreds of millions globally are not suspended from coming to America.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: And unprecedented 3 judicial 4 overreach. We're going to fight this terrible ruling. We're going to take our case as far as it needs to go, including all the way up to the Supreme 5 Court.
AZUZ: The president's order is on hold for now. People in the six-named countries are able to enter the U.S. The Justice Department says it will continue to defend the order in courts.
- He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
- The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。
- The U.S. Congress has exclusive authority to enact federal legislation.美国国会是唯一有权颁布联邦法律的。
- For example,a country can enact laws and economic policies to attract foreign investment fairly quickly.例如一个国家可以很快颁布吸引外资的法令和经济政策。
- The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
- A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。