CNN 2008-08-24
时间：2018-12-30 作者：英语课 分类：商业报道2008年(八)月
Hello everyone, I’m Creshon Saunders at the CNN.com newsroom in Atlanta, here’s a look at what’s happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
It was a well-kept political secret----who would be Barack Obama’s running mate? Now the cat's out of the bag. Barack Obama has named Senate colleague Delaware’s Joe Biden to share the top billing on the Democratic ticket. The 65 year-old Biden has a reputation as a foreign policy expert and as a scrappy campaigner. CNN’s John King scooped 1 the competition and the campaign itself by hours when Democratic sources confirmed the decision.
Ten deaths in Florida are now blamed on Tropical Storm Fay. The storm is one for the record books. Typically storms make landfall and then leave within a day or two. Fay, though, has hit Florida four times already，today in a Panhandle area. The National Hurricane Center says it’s slowly moving west, authorities say the storm has damaged more than 15 hundred homes in Brevard County alone, dropping 25 inches of rain in Melbourne. It’s expected to dump up to 15 inches of rain in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
Federal investigators 2 are at the site of a plane crash outside Moab, Utah today. Officials say the small plane skidded 3 then flat, fell flat to the ground while taking off. It burst into flames. All ten people on board were killed, most were members of a medical team that flew in monthly to see patients in a remote area.
The widower 4 of assassinated 5 leader Benazir Bhutto will run for the Pakistani presidency 6. Asif Ali Zardari has accepted the nomination 7 of his Pakistan People’s Party. Earlier this week, you may remember former president Pervez Musharaff stepped down amid the threat of impeachment 8.
A heart-warming story out of Argentina today. Police there say a dog rescued a newborn baby abandoned by his mother. The dog named China apparently 9 found the baby boy in a field. Police think a young girl left the baby behind after she gave birth. China kept the baby with her litter of newborn puppies in 30 degree temperatures. After hearing the baby’s cries, someone called authorities. Police say if China had not taken care of the baby, he would have died.
Those are the headlines this hour, for more on these stories and other news of the day, CNN is your source online, on TV, even when you are on the go.
Vocabulary:
litter:a group of baby animals that a mother gives birth to at the same time
litter of: a litter of kittens
scoop:to be the first newspaper to print an important news report
Time and again we have scooped our rivals.
- They scooped the other newspapers by revealing the matter. 他们抢先报道了这件事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The wheels scooped up stones which hammered ominously under the car. 车轮搅起的石块，在车身下发出不吉祥的锤击声。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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》
- The car skidded and hit a lamp post. 那辆汽车打滑撞上了路灯杆。
- The car skidded and overturned. 汽车打滑翻倒了。
- George was a widower with six young children.乔治是个带著六个小孩子的鳏夫。
- Having been a widower for many years,he finally decided to marry again.丧偶多年后，他终于决定二婚了。
- 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
- Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
- Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
- John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
- Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
- Impeachment is considered a drastic measure in the United States.在美国，弹劾被视为一种非常激烈的措施。
- The verdict resulting from his impeachment destroyed his political career.他遭弹劾后得到的判决毁了他的政治生涯。
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。