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路透社新闻
精彩回顾》》》---今日心情:
奥巴马遭罗姆尼攻击称未能解决就业问题
克林顿提名奥巴马连任总统
飓风"艾萨克"横扫美国摩根堡 沙滩现南北战争时期船只
1【Russia sounds economy alarm】俄罗斯敲响经济警钟播放后点击【REPLAY】重播
TEXT:Russian president Vladimir Putin meets Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Vladivostok on Saturday. The two leaders said they were keen to further bilateral cooperation, especially in the Arctic which holds some 32 percent of the world's untapped oil and gas reserves. Twenty-one heads of state from the Pacific-Coast region are meeting in Russia to discuss ways to boost regional trade and cooperation - with both China and Russia calling for deeper regional ties to speed up a global economic recovery. Summit host Putin also met with several leaders throughout the day to push for more cooperation. He praised Russian-Peruvian relations with Peru's President Ollanta Humala and also embraced South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak. South Korea is Russian's third biggest trading partner after China and Japan and Lee said their relations were strenghtening, despite the global downturn. Putin also hailed Russia's positive relationships with Malaysian Prime Minster Najib Razak - who said Russia had helped Malaysia put their first man into space - and Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, however, was unable to join leaders at the summit's opening following the death of her father. Putin broke the news in his opening remarks where he expressed his condolences for the loss.
参考译文:周六，在符拉迪沃斯托克举行的亚太经合组织峰会之余俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔?普京会见了加拿大总理哈珀。两位领导人表示，他们希望进一步加强双边合作，特别是在蕴藏世界32%未开发的石油和天然气的北极地区。来自太平洋海岸地区的21个国家元首集聚俄罗斯，共同探讨如何促进地区贸易与合作，同时中方和俄方都呼吁深化区域关系以加速经济复苏。当天，峰会东道主普京还会见了多位国家元首以推动更为密切的合作。在秘鲁总统Ollanta Humala前，他赞扬了俄秘友好关系，同样他亲切会见了韩国总统李明博。韩国是继中国和日本外俄罗斯第三大贸易伙伴，李明博表示尽管全球经济低迷，但双方关系正在加强。普京同样与马来西亚总理赞扬其积极伙伴关系，马来西亚总理表示俄方已经帮助他们实现太空第一人，然后是泰国总理英拉?西那瓦。澳大利亚总理茱莉亚?吉拉德因父亲去世未能参加此次峰会开幕。在开幕致辞中普京透露了这条新闻，并表达其哀悼之情。
2【Obama targets Republican tax cutting cures.】奥巴马攻击共和党减税政策
TEXT:U.S. President Barack Obama hit the campaign trail in the battle ground state of Florida Saturday where he continued to target Republican plans to cut taxes. U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA SAYING: "All they've got to offer is the same prescriptions they've had for 30 years. Tax cuts, tax cuts, gut a few regulations, some more tax cuts. Tax cuts when times are good and tax cuts when times are bad. Tax cuts to help you lose a few extra pounds. Tax cuts to help you love life. (SOMEONE IN THE AUDIENCE SHOUTING RESPONSE) Say, somebody said it doesn't help." On Friday Republican rival Mitt Romney launched a blistering attack on Obama over disappointing jobs figures. Obama, entered office during the darkest days of the recession, and has brought unemployment down from a peak of 10 percent in his first year. But the President has been unable to crack the 8 percent barrier - a fact that Romney's camp continues to stress. Polls show Obama holds a slight edge over Mitt Romney
参考译文:周六，美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马在竞选战场佛罗里达州继续攻击共和党减税政策。美国总统奥巴马说：“他们所提供的，都是他们30年来同样的方案。减税，减税，很少的管理，就是一些减税。减税有时是好的，但有时却适得其反。减税可以帮助你损失额外少量的几磅。减税可以帮助你热爱生活。（观众中有人回应）有人说这是毫无帮助的。”周五共和党竞争对手罗姆尼就令人失望的就业数据对奥巴马发起猛烈攻击。奥巴马执政于经济衰退最严重的时期，在第一年已经把10%的失业高峰降低下来，但失业率一直未能低于8%，这给了罗姆尼政党继续施压的机会。据民意调查显示，在与罗姆尼的竞选中奥巴马现略有优势。
3【China focuses on relief after deadly quake】云南地震已致81死救援工作全力展开
TEXT:Relief efforts continue in China after earthquakes struck in the southwest, killing at least 81 people. 5.6 magnitude quakes struck on Friday (September 7) in Yunnan province. At least 820 people were injured. Thousands of buildings were damaged in an area already suffering from poverty and poor infrastructure. Across Yunnan province, more than 200,000 people have been displaced - many forced to live in makeshift housing and relying on aid. SOUNDBITE: 48-YEAR OLD FARMER, ZHU MINGGUI SAYING : "We're living in a tent, but they said they'll remove them within a week. We don't know where we'll stay after that, we'll have to see what the government says. This is the important thing, there's no need to think about other things that don't matter." Over a hundred thousand dollars have been allocated for relief operations, hampered in some areas by blocked roads and a loss of electricity. Officials say the death toll could rise as news continues to trickle out from isolated areas.
参考译文:周五，中国西南部云南省发生里氏5.6级地震，至少已造成81人死亡，820人受伤，目前救援工作仍在继续。原本贫困，基础设施落后的某地区成千上万的建筑物被破坏。整个云南省，有超过200,000人被转移，很多人被迫安置在了临时住房并依靠援助过日。48岁的老农夫朱明贵说：“我们住在一个帐篷里，他们说一个星期内会拆除。我们不知道以后将待在哪里，要看政府怎么安排。这是最重要的，没必要去想一些其它无关紧要的事。”目前有数十万美元已经用于救援行动，但某些地区因道路被堵，电力中断，救援工作受到阻碍。官员表示，随着新闻继续逐渐从偏远山区传出，死亡人数可能会上升。
4【Volcano blows, forcing mass evacuation】克里斯托瓦尔火山喷发大量群众被迫撤离
TEXT:Nicaragua's San Cristobal volcano covered in a shroud of smoky grey ash. On Saturday, the volcano, just north of capital Managua, blasted a 5-km high ash plume into the atmosphere. JOSE RAMON MADARIAGA, LOCAL MAN, SAYING: "Well, San Cristobal volcano exploded like a cork that flew upward, and the puff of smoke blew into the air." The ashy eruption prompted hundreds of nearby residents to leave the area. The government expects to evacuate 3,000 from their homes and has raised the alert level to yellow. San Cristobal is one of the most active volcanoes in Nicaragua's Pacific Coast and a major eruption could affect up to 20,000 people.
参考译文:尼加拉瓜圣克里斯托瓦尔火山覆盖着一层灰色的火山灰。周六，首都马那瓜北部的该火山向空中喷发出5千米高的火山灰柱。当地人Jose Ramon Madariaga说：“圣克里斯托瓦尔火山爆发就像一个软木塞飞上天，一阵烟气吹到空中。”火山灰尘的爆发使得数百名居附近居民撤离该地区。政府预计将有3000人撤离家园，并提高至黄色预警级别。圣克里斯托瓦尔是尼加拉瓜的太平洋海岸最活跃的火山之一，一次大型的火山喷发可能影响至20，000人。
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CNN学生新闻
TEXT:62 Killed, 200 Injured in Iraq Attacks; Mediocre U.S. Jobs Report
CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: We`re back from the weekend and ready to go with 10 minutes of commercial-free headlines from around the world. I am Carl Azuz, and this is CNN STUDENT NEWS.
First up, we`re reporting on a wave of violence across the Middle Eastern nation of Iraq yesterday. Officials say at least 62 people were killed and almost 200 others were wounded in these attacks, and many of them seemed to be aimed at members of Iraq`s military and police forces. In this one, a car bomb and a roadside bomb targeted Iraqi security forces. These kinds of explosive devices caused a lot of violence on Sunday. Car bombs on a busy street in the Iraqi city of Amarra, another in an outdoor market in Basra. In Tikrit, gunmen targeted an army checkpoint at a military base.
The violence in Iraq has decreased from what it was during the war, but it has been getting worse in recent months.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: After losing 800,000 jobs a month when I took office, businesses added jobs for the 30th month in a row. We`ve added more than 4.6 million jobs.
But we know that that`s not good enough. We can do better. We need to create jobs even faster.
MITT ROMNEY, GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: There were four times as many people who dropped out of the workforce as the net new jobs created under this president. And it`s not just a one-month figure. The White House has I think now for 31 straight months said, well, just don`t look at the monthly numbers, monthly numbers aren`t that critical. Well, if you take 30 months and put them together, that`s pretty critical.
AZUZ: The latest U.S. jobs numbers being discussed on the campaign trail. The report for August came out on Friday, and it wasn`t good. The Labor Department says 96,000 jobs were added in August. Now, that might sound like good news, but at least 150,000 jobs need to be added each month just to keep up with the growing U.S. population. The August numbers were lower than economists expected, and a sharp decrease from the month before. Also, the unemployment rate, it went down from 8.3 percent in July to 8.1 percent in August, but that was because more Americans quit looking for work. In fact, for every person who found a job, almost 4 people gave up looking for one.
You just recently wrapped up your summer vacations and so did the U.S. Congress. Yesterday, lawmakers from the Senate and House of Representatives got back to work after a five-week recess. They are facing a lot of issues, and they`re facing some questions about how much they can get done. Athena Jones gives us a preview of this congressional session.
ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As election season enters the home stretch, lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill this week, facing big issues. But given their recent of accomplishment or lack thereof, the question is whether any of it will get done.
JENNIFER DUFFY, THE COOK POLITICAL REPORT: The voters want to know when Congress is going to stop kicking the can down the road. I mean, they are sort of out of road.
JONES: The only must-pass item is a short-term measure to keep the government running and avoid the kind of costly shutdowns we saw twice in the 1900s. It`s expected to pass.
Congress could also pass measures to help people hit hard by the drought and by Hurricane Isaac.
But perhaps the biggest challenge -- the so-called fiscal cliff. A series of tax increases and spending cuts that experts warn taken together could plunge the economy back into a recession.
JEANNE SAHADI, SR. WRITER, CNNMONEY: They`ll have about four weeks after the election to deal with some of the largest tax increases and spending cuts that the country has ever seen at one time.
JONES: $110 billion in cuts to everything from defense to education to food inspections next year alone, will take effect in January unless lawmakers reach agreement on reducing the deficit.
One problem -- Republicans and Democrats disagree on the Bush tax cuts due to expire at the end of this year. Republicans want them extended for everyone.
SEN. JOHN BARRASSO, R-WYOMING: Americans know what works. Low taxes, reasonable regulations, and living within our means.
JONES: Democrats, led by President Obama, support extending them just for people making less than $200,000 a year.
OBAMA: I don`t believe and you don`t believe that another round of tax breaks for millionaires is going to bring good jobs back to our shores or pay down our deficit.
JONES: Uncertainty about just what Congress will do is already weighing on the economy.
SAHADI: It`s just going to be a very bumpy ride. Businesses are slower to hire, government agencies are slower to give out contracts. So it is sort of creeping into the economy now, and that will just get worse the longer Congress waits to deal with this.
JONES: But wait is what Congress is almost certain to do.
Both parties are hoping the election in November will put them in a better negotiating position. Whether that will bring them closer to a deal is anybody`s guess.
Athena Jones, CNN, Washington.
AZUZ: Last week on CNN STUDENT NEWS, we talked about FAMU, Florida A&M University. The school has been involved in a scandal since last year when a member of the marching band died in an apparent hazing incident. There have been more recent accusations about another hazing incident involving a FAMU dance team. The school has a new policy for all students. If you want to register for classes there, you have to sign an anti-hazing pledge. FAMU officials announced the new requirement on Friday at the start of the new school year. It will go into effect next spring. And when students sign it, they promise not to participate, quote, in any hazing activities, either as a hazer or hazee, on or off campus. Under the anti-hazing pledge, students also are required to report any information about hazing to campus authorities.
So will this have an impact on hazing? It`s against the rules in a lot of places, but it goes on anyway. Do you think that signing a pledge will cut down on hazing at FAMU? We`re looking for your comments on our blog today at cnnstudentnews.com. Please remember, it`s first names only, so if you include a last initial or the name of your class, it won`t be published.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s time for the Shoutout. Which of the following has been clocked moving at 27 miles per hour? If you think you know it, then shout it out. Is it Usain Bolt, gray squirrel, Michael Phelps, or roadrunner? You`ve got 3 seconds, go.
The fastest of these options is Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, who`s reached speeds of just over 27 miles per hour. That`s your answer and that`s your Shoutout.
AZUZ: If Usain Bolt wants to keep an eye on his competition, he usually has to glance back over his shoulder. But one challenger recently surpassed the sprinter`s spectacular speed. Who is this new racing rival? The question isn`t who, but what. Jonathan Mann runs the details.
JONATHAN MANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Usain Bolt may be the fastest man on the planet, but he`s been passed by a man-made marvel. This four-legged robot just broke its own land speed record, blowing past Bolt. The Olympic gold medalist peaked at 27.78 miles an hour when he set the world record in the 100-meter sprint back in 2009. The cheetah clocks in at 28.3 miles per hour. The robot was built by Boston Dynamics and funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- DARPA.
ALFRED RIZZL, CHIEF ROBOTICS SCIENTIST, BOSTON DYNAMICS: So the real challenge is one of coordinating the motion of the robot, so how it sues its back and its legs to make its feet to make contact with the ground and control the posture and pitch of the body while it`s running so it can actually propel itself forward at rather high speeds.
MANN: Boston Dynamics is developing a number of robots with amazing mobility. Some walk on two legs. Another may look like a toy, but it can leap 30 feet in the air. And the big dog scrambles over rough terrain on four legs. What it lacks in speed, it makes up for in agility. Give it a kick and it won`t fall over. Put it on ice, and the robot slips but still manages to stay upright.
Scientists say eventually, these robots could be used for military, search & rescue, and humanitarian missions.
RIZZL: The hope is that in the longer term, they will be able to develop systems that can gain access to a lot of terrain that`s you know, inaccessible by air vehicles or tractor-wheeled vehicles.
MANN: As far as the cheetah robot, there`s still a way to go before it will come close to the real thing. Experts say the world`s fastest land mammal could go from zero to 60 in less than 3 seconds, with a top speed of up to 70 miles per hour. But scientists say they plan to take the next version of the robot off the treadmill for an untethered, outdoor test next year.
AZUZ: The old saying goes, curiosity killed the cat, but it also might get the little guy adopted. The cameras around this play room at a Los Angeles Humane Society are connected to these remote-controlled toys. And the toys are controlled by basically anyone who wants to go online and play with the cats. The idea is that people can watch the cats play and then decide whether or not they want to bring them home.
If the virtual play room gets good results, it`s possible other humane societies might adopt the idea. We just hope the curious kitties don`t go after the cameras, because that would be a catastrophe.
That`s the whole kit and caboodle for today`s show. We`ll be back tomorrow with more CNN STUDENT NEWS.
VOA慢速新闻
【IB Program Aims to Form 'Students of the World'】
TEXT:This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。
The International Baccalaureate Organization was founded in nineteen sixty-eight. It works with schools in one hundred forty-three countries to offer programs for students age three to nineteen. These programs, it says, "help develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills to live, learn and work in a rapidly globalizing world."
国际文凭组织成立于1968年。它与143个国家的学校合作，为3到19岁的学生提供课程。它称，这些课程“有助于开发在一个迅速全球化世界中生活、学习和工作的智力、个性、情感和社会技能。”
The organization says IB programs are in more than three thousand schools. The majority of these schools offer IB diploma programs.
该组织称， 3000多所学校开设了IB课程。这些学校大多数提供IB文凭课程。
High school students have to complete six courses, pass exams and write a twenty-page paper to earn an IB diploma. The courses are in humanities, science, arts, math, a second language and their own language.
高中生们必须完成六门课程，通过考试，并写一篇20页的论文才能获得IB文凭。这些课程涉及人文、科学、艺术、数学、母语及外语。
Students can also attend special events. Recently more than three hundred IB diploma students from thirteen countries attended a conference at the University of British Columbia in Canada. The five-day conference was called "The New Sustainability: Making Things Better, Not Just Less Bad."
学生们还可以参加特别活动。最近，来自13个国家的三百多名IB文凭课程学生参加了在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学举行的一次会议。这次为期五天的会议被称为“新可持续发展：让事情变得更好，不只是不坏。”
The students heard from professors, graduate students, activists and others. One of the speakers was Drew Deutsch, director of IB Americas. He says the conference was meant as a way for students not only to learn about the environment, but also to develop lasting relationships.
学生们听取了教授、研究生、活动家和其它学生的观点。其中一名发言者是Drew Deutsch，他是美洲IB课程的负责人。他说，这次会议对学生们来说不仅是了解环境，还是发展持久关系的一个途径。
DREW DEUTSCH: "We want to send the students back to their schools to highlight issues surrounding protecting the environment, but also make sure these students become more students of the world, and that they form bonds with peers their own age from around the world. And, obviously, with social networking and the tools that are available to students today, we expect that they will have formed these bonds really for life."
DREW DEUTSCH：“我们希望把这些学生送回他们的学校，突出保护环境周边的一些问题，但也要确保这些学生和世界各地的同龄人结成同盟，成为世界上的多数派。而且，很显然，通过社交网络和现如今学生们可以获得的一些工具，我们希望他们能够造就终生的同盟。”
Seventeen-year-old Itzel Chavez is a student at the International School of Beaverton, in the American state of Oregon. She was one of twenty-one IB students who received scholarships to be able to attend the conference.
17岁的Itzel Chavez是美国俄勒冈州比弗顿国际学校的一名学生。她是获得奖学金得以出席这次会议的21名IB课程学生之一。
ITZEL CHAVEZ: "I really wanted to go. So I applied for a scholarship and I had to write an essay. And in my school they chose one person, and I got chosen for the scholarship. So I got to go."
ITZEL CHAVEZ：“我真的很想去。所以，我申请了奖学金，不得不写了一篇论文。他们在我们学校挑选一人获得奖学金，而我被选中了。所以我就参加了。”
She says the main speakers would describe a sustainability program or tell how a special project improved the environment in their community. Then the students had to choose a project to present to the conference.
她说，主发言人描述了一个可持续发展计划，或讲述一个特殊项目如何改善他们社会环境。然后学生们必须选择一个项目向会议展示。
ITZEL CHAVEZ: "We would get into groups of about nineteen or twenty students and we would have to come up with a project for the end of the week that showed what we learned."
ITZEL CHAVEZ：“我们被分入一个19或20人的学生群体，我们不得不在本周结束前提出一个项目，来表明我们所学的东西。”
Itzel worked on a video. It asked students three questions about sustainability and how they would make it happen in their own communities. After showing it, the members of the group went on stage to tell what they themselves would do to protect the environment.
Itzel参与了一个视频。该视频向学生提了三个有关可持续发展的问题，以及他们如何让它在自己的社区中变成现实。展示完视频之后，该组成员来到舞台上，讲述了他们自己会如何保护环境。
词汇解析
1.embrace
vt. & vi.拥抱
The young lovers embraced.
年轻的情侣拥抱着。
He embraced his parents.
他拥抱了双亲。
vt.包括; 包含
This course of study embraces every aspect of the subject.
本课程涉及这门学科的每个方面。
接受
She embraced my offer to go to the hospital.
她接受了我的建议去看医生。
信奉, 皈依
She embraced Christianity.
她信奉基督教。
n.拥抱, 怀抱
2.hail
n.雹子
Hail fell with such violence that it broke windows.
冰雹猛落, 把玻璃窗也砸破了。
一阵
There was a hail of angry words.
愤怒的话语如冰雹似地砸来。
vi.下雹子
It's hailing.
正在下冰雹。
Sometimes it hails during a summer thundershower.
有时候夏天的雷阵雨中会夹有冰雹。
如冰雹般地降下
vt.致敬; 向…欢呼
Millions of people hailed the astronauts.
数百万人向宇航员们欢呼。
They hailed us cordially.
他们热情地欢迎我们。
Here comes the new teacher, let's hail him.
新老师来了, 我们欢迎他。
打信号示意(计程车等)停下
She hailed a taxi for him.
她给他叫了一辆出租车。
3.cure
vt.治愈, 治好
He says he can cure me but I still doubt him.
他说他能治好我的病, 但我还是不相信他。
消除, 矫正
n.治愈, 治疗
The doctor can't guarantee a cure.
医生不能保证治愈。
药物; 疗法
4.prescription
n.药, 治疗方法
The dispenser quickly filled the prescription for me.
药剂师立刻照处方为我配了药。
处方, 药方
The physician made a prescription against sea-sickness for him.
医生给他开了个治晕船的药方。
开处方, 开药
5.allocate
vt.分配, 分派
You must allocate the money carefully.
你们必须谨慎地分配钱。
把…拨给
They allocated funds for the new school.
他们拨出专款修建这所新学校。
6.trickle out
逐渐传出
News has begun to trickle out of the flooded area about the number of dead.
水灾区渐渐传出了有关死亡人数的消息。
News had began to trickle out of the flooded area about the number of the dead.
死亡人数的消息从灾区慢慢传来。
7.shroud
n.裹尸布; 寿衣；遮蔽物; 罩; 幕
A shroud of secrecy surrounds the plan.
这个计划神秘莫测。
vt.覆盖, 遮蔽, 隐藏
The mist shrouding the walley had lifted.
笼罩山谷的雾霭散去了。
8.Puff
n.(呼吸或风的)呼, 吹, 喷(之声)；一缕(烟、蒸汽等)；(烟斗或香烟的)一吸, 一口
He took a puff at his cigarette.
他吸了一口香烟。
