时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2011年(十)月


英语课

 A country that surrounded be water ran out of it.The answer is coming your way. I'm Carl Azuz welcomimng you to this Thuesday edition of CNN student news.


 
First up, anger in athenes as Greek protesters take over the streets of their capital city. Earlier this week We talked about Greece being in financial trouble. The goverment is trying to find ways to cut spending in order to avoid going broke. They've already made some changes including layoffs 1 and salary cuts, and they are planing to do more. Obviously this is no going over well with Greek citizens. Yesterday thousand of them march trough Athenes, speaking out against their goverment and its cuts. They actually shut down part of the city. There was also a nationwide strike by public workers that shut down the athenes airport, government offices and schools. Some high school students held their own protests at schools that were in session.
 
Several countries are trying to find ways to stop the violence that's been going on in Syria. Protesters there are speaking out against their president, and Syrian goverment forces are reportedly cracking down on the protesters. The United Nation Security Council voted on a resolution Tuesday that would have called an immediate 2 end to the violence. But two of the Council's permanent members, China and Russia, voted no, so the resolution didn't pass. China said it wouldn't have helped Syria's situation. Russia was concerned it might send the wrong message. The "no" votes led some of pretty harsh words from other nations. "The United States is outraged 3 that this Council has utterly 4 failed to adress a urgent more challenge and a growing threat to regional peace and stability." "This veto will not stop us. No veto can give carte blanche to the Syrian authority who has lost full legitimacy 5 in assasinating and killing 6 their people."
 
There is a bill that moving through the US Senate that could take aim at one of America's trading partners, China. This bill would put a tax on any product that come from the nation whose currency is undervalued. China has been accused of manipulating its currency to keep it weak. Now why whould a country want to so that? If your currency is weak, it means your products are cheaper to buy. That might be good for the country with the weak currency, but if you are an American manufacturer, it means having to compete cheaper Chines products. The senators who support this bill says they are trying to help pout 7 Amercian companies. But some of leaders in the House of Representatives say the US should not get involved with another country's currency."I think it's pretty dangerous to make move on legislation through United States Congress on forcing someone to deal with the value of their currency. This is well beyond, I think, what the Congress ought to be doing."

1 layoffs
临时解雇( layoff的名词复数 ); 停工,停止活动
  • Textile companies announced 2000 fresh layoffs last week. 各纺织公司上周宣布再次裁员两千人。
  • Stock prices broke when the firm suddenly announced layoffs. 当公司突然宣布裁员时,股票价格便大跌
2 immediate
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
3 outraged
a.震惊的,义愤填膺的
  • Members of Parliament were outraged by the news of the assassination. 议会议员们被这暗杀的消息激怒了。
  • He was outraged by their behavior. 他们的行为使他感到愤慨。
4 utterly
adv.完全地,绝对地
  • Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民,把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
  • I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。
5 legitimacy
n.合法,正当
  • The newspaper was directly challenging the government's legitimacy.报纸直接质疑政府的合法性。
  • Managing from the top down,we operate with full legitimacy.我们进行由上而下的管理有充分的合法性。
6 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
7 pout
v.撅嘴;绷脸;n.撅嘴;生气,不高兴
  • She looked at her lover with a pretentious pout.她看着恋人,故作不悦地撅着嘴。
  • He whined and pouted when he did not get what he wanted.他要是没得到想要的东西就会发牢骚、撅嘴。
学英语单词
abdominal part
absolutely stable
absorbing state
adrenochromes
aluminium foils
asymmetric transformation
banded stilts
basivertebral vein
battologized
be let in on the ground floor
body feed
Buridan's ass
cash invoice
Chorzelów
chronographer
clip off
combined vibrating roller
compensating feedback loop
conus planorbis
cost objective
cotton production
cylinder by-pass valve
D-frame
data over voice
days of rest
deglamorization
derestrict
dextrotorsion
dispersion-equalization
ditching attitude
Dohans
electrical characteristics
externally-braced monoplane
fall-out of synchronism
forecaddies
golden eagle
Goldstein-Scheerer tests
graduated string
half-hunter
Haplopappus spinulosus
have analogy to
heating system
heliotridylamine
hildebrand
hotlines
hyuck
indirect type central air-conditioning unit
Internet suffix
Izena-jima
Kurdistani
lampyridaes
leukoplania
liquid waste receiver tank
local acceptance
lsi-cml circuit technology
magnetoresistance magnetometer
merions
metal surface plasmon and second harmonic generator
minimum graph
mohs scales
natural environment management
nervi ampullaris lateralis
neverless
occasional light
once and a way
ordinary life assurance
oscillator padding
Osipa
photocell matrix
piston curl
pivot hinge
pontes
prequalified tenderer
puffest
queueing system structure
reflux column
repair of side ditch
Revere, Paul
sample-reset loop filter
Scirpus rosthornii
scornliche
separation of spinal cord and arachnoid adhesions
silicon diode array
sope
speed through the water
stellite-faced valve
Subprime Meltdown
tee-times
toll free number
toroidal discharge
transitive law
trichomonal urethro-cystitis
under constraint
undistributed score
virus diarrhea
waltz through
white cypresses
wide anode
win ... over
Yak-141
yellow-necked mice
zygomorphic pea flower