CNN 2008-07-24
时间：2018-12-30 作者：英语课 分类：商业报道2008年(七)月
Hope you're having a great day. I'm Nicole Lapin at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Good to see you. Thanks so much for checking in with us today. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
Hurricane Dolly has now made landfall and it's packing quite a punch along the southwest Texas and the Mexico border. Dolly is now at a Category 2 hurricane. Residents are now being told to move away from the Rio Grande levees. Also officials say that Dolly could produce flooding that could breach 1 the levees. Meantime across the border, Mexican authorities are planning to move people into government shelters. We'll definitely keep you posted.
The Coast Guard has also closed a stretch of 29 miles along the Mississippi river all around New Orleans right after a collision between a fuel barge 2 and a tanker 3 dumped more than 400,000 gallons of diesel-fuel into this water. The National Transportation Safety Board is now sending investigators 4 to probe the cause of the accident. Thankfully though, no one was hurt.
President Bush now saying that he's gonna sign a bill designated to help hurting homeowners in an effort to allow the government to pump emergency funds into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The government budget office has already estimated that it could cost taxpayers 5 25 billion dollars. It says there is a better chance that these companies actually won't need federal funds after all though.
Los Angeles getting ridded of plastic bags. You won't see these types of scenes pretty soon. The City Council has already voted to ban them after July 1st of 2010. After that, you're gonna have to bring your own bags to the grocery store or you're gonna have to pay 25 cents for a paper bag.
Batman star Christian 6 Bale is now scheduled to appear in court in September. This is of course over those assault allegations made by his estranged 7 mother and sister. British police say that he's remaining on bail 8 pending 9 further inquiries 10. Also yesterday, the actor denying the allegation after spending four hours at the police station. He was released. He was not charged.
Those are the headlines at this hour. For more on those stories and other news of the day, CNN is always your source online, on TV or on your cellphone.
- We won't have any breach of discipline.我们不允许任何破坏纪律的现象。
- He was sued for breach of contract.他因不履行合同而被起诉。
- The barge was loaded up with coal.那艘驳船装上了煤。
- Carrying goods by train costs nearly three times more than carrying them by barge.通过铁路运货的成本比驳船运货成本高出近3倍。
- The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
- Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。
- This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
- The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
- She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。
- They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
- His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
- He became estranged from his family after the argument.那场争吵后他便与家人疏远了。
- The argument estranged him from his brother.争吵使他同他的兄弟之间的关系疏远了。
- One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
- She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。
- The lawsuit is still pending in the state court.这案子仍在州法庭等待定夺。
- He knew my examination was pending.他知道我就要考试了。