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1【Halloween style protest in Tokyo】东京万圣节式反核抗议
TEXT:This is not any regular anti-nuclear protest in Tokyo. It has a special theme this time round, halloween. Dressed up as different characters in costumes, protesters took to the streets rallying against Japan's nuclear power policy. Some are worried the consequences of restarting the nuclear reactors. ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIVIST HANI KANDA SAYING: "If they resume the nuclear reactors, we may see in reality those monsters and all the scary things that appear on the halloween day." One man, dressed as a werewolf was concerned about the future. 48-YEAR-OLD ARCHITECT AND ANTI-NUCLEAR PROTESTER, MARIO SAYING: "Nothing is over yet. We'll see the real health problems starting from now. We don't even know if the Fukushima Daiichi reactors are really shut down." The operator of Japan's quake-struck Fukushima nuclear power plant said it could not rule out the possibility that the reactors may still be leaking radiation into the sea. The Fukushima disaster prompted the shutdown of all 50 reactors in Japan for safety checks. Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's decision to approve the restart of two reactors sparked outrage among anti-nuclear activists.
参考译文:在日本东京，这次反核抗议活动不同于往常任何一次，它有一个特别的主题--万圣节。抗议者穿着不同的服饰装扮成不同的样子集聚街道反对日本核能政策。一些人担心重启核反应堆会带来的后果。反核活动家哈尼族神田说：“如果他们恢复核反应堆，我们可能会在现实中看到那些怪物，以及那些只有在万圣节才会出现的恐怖事情。”一名装扮成狼人的男子表达了他对未来的担忧。48岁的建筑师和反核的抗议者马里奥说：“一切都还没结束。从现在开始我们将看到真正的健康问题。我们甚至不知道福岛第一核电站反应堆是否真的关闭了。”受灾的日本福岛核电站运营商称不能排除反应堆仍在向海里泄漏放射物的可能性。福岛灾难促使了日本所有的50个反应堆关闭以待检查。日本首相野田佳彦决定重启两个反应堆激起了活动分子的强烈愤怒。
2【Ignoring threat, activists send more flyers to N. Korea】活动分子不顾危险向朝鲜发放传单
TEXT:South Korean activists float huge balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets and cash over the border to North Korea on Monday. A group of about 20 activists managed to release seven balloons holding 50,000 leaflets denouncing leader Kim Jong-un, despite efforts by local residents to block the launch. The local residents fear reprisals from their northern neighbour after Pyongyang threatened a "merciless military attack" if the leaflets continued.LOCAL SHOP OWNER, 56-YEAR-OLD KIM BOK-NAM, SAYING: "Paju residents can't live properly due to worries. They come here way too frequently. Last time, the North threatened to directly strike here, so we came to protest since we can't tolerate it anymore." South Korea said it would retaliate against any North Korean attack, but banned activists from sending the propaganda leaflets across the border last week. Defectors and anti-North Korean activists have frequently launched balloons carrying propaganda and cash across the border. But the warning of a "merciless military strike" was the most explicit in months and the first since Kim Jong-un took power in December 2011.
参考译文:周一在朝鲜边境，韩国活动家放飞巨大的气球，上门携带者反对平壤的传单现金。大约20名活动家不顾当地居民的反对设法释放七个打气球，上面携带者谴责领导人金正恩的5000张传单。当地居民担心会招致朝鲜的报复，因为此前平壤威胁称如果继续发放传单将会对其实行“无情的军事攻击”。当地一名56岁的店主金博克南说：“Paju居民因为担忧不能正常的生活，他们来的太频繁了。最近一次朝鲜威胁称要袭击这里，所以我们过来抗议，因为我们实在无法忍受了。”韩国表示如果朝鲜发起任何攻击将予以报复性回击，但上周禁止活动人士越过边境发送宣称传单。叛逃者和反朝激进分子经常放飞气球携带宣称广告和现金跨越边境。但“无情的军事打击”是金正恩2011年12月上台以来向韩国发出的第一次也是最明确的警告。
3【Closed circuit TV shows teacher abusing child】虐童教师手段残忍现场视频曝光
TEXT:A closed circuit television camera in a kindergarten in China captures something horrifying... The teacher in the left part of the red box is seen tossing a 4 year old little girl to the ground. The teacher carried on by kicking the child while she lay on the ground. Finally she picked up girl by her feet and dropped her face down on the ground. Local media say the girl then slipped into unconsciousness. The girl, who was mentally disabled, is now severely brain damaged. She has had two surgeries since last month but can no longer walk or talk properly, media say. The teacher, who initially denied any wrong doing, has been prosecuted.
参考译文:在中国一幼儿园里，一闭路电视摄影机上拍摄的画面着实让人恐怖。从画面中可以看到，红盒子左边的那位老师将一名四岁大的小女孩抛在地上，然后继续用脚踢躺在地上的孩子。最后她抓起女孩，把孩子脸往地下扔。当地媒体报称女孩随后失去了知觉。这名女孩是智障儿童，现在脑部严重受损。媒体表示，自上月以来女孩已经接受了两次手术治疗，但不能再正常行走和说话了。这名老师起初否认任何罪行，现已经被起诉。
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【Crossover: More Chinese face high stress】更多国人面临高压力挑战
According to a global survey by consulting firm Regus, Seventy-five percent of Chinese workers have reported rising stress levels over the past year. And this percentage tops all the other nations in the world. For more on that, we are joined by my colleague Li Kefu in the studio.
根据咨询公司雷格斯的一项全球调查，据报道在过去一年里百分之七十五的中国工人面临不断增加的生活压力，这个百分比比世界其它任何国家都高。关于这一点，有请我演播室的同事李克福参与讨论。
Q: Tell us more about the survey. What did it find in China?
问：告诉我们有关这个调查的更多情况。它在中国找到了什么?
A: The survey claims that three out of four Chinese workers felt greater stress over the past year. That compares to roughly half of workers globally. It points to work, individual financial status and family issues as the main drivers of this stress. Not surprisingly, workers in Shanghai and Beijing felt the greatest pressure compared to their countrymen.
调查声称四分之三的中国员工在过去的一年里感到更大的压力。相比之下，全球范围内大约有一半的工人有这种感觉。压力主要来自工作，个人财务状况以及家庭问题。毫不奇怪，在上海和北京的员工相比于其它地区的同胞，感到的压力是最大的。
This is true of most cities. In Shanghai, 80 percent of surveyed workers saw higher stress. In Beijing, the figure was 67 percent. And these numbers are actually borne out by a second survey - this time by a Chinese consulting firm. That showed that nearly 70 percent of Chinese were overworked and that more than 40 percent spend less than 10 hours a week on leisure.
大部分城市都是如此。受访的员工中，80%的上海人以及67%的北京人都表示表示压力增大。这些数据实际上是由一家中国咨询公司第二次调查得出来的。数据表明将近70%的中国人处于过度劳累，40%以上每周休闲时间不超过10小时。
Our reporter hit the streets in Beijing to ask about people’s stress issues. Let’s hear what some of them had to say.
我们的记者在北京街头询问人们的压力问题。让我们听听他们一些人想要说的话。
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CNN学生新闻
CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: Want to kick off today with a big hello to the students and teachers at JC Booth (ph) in Peach Tree City, Georgia. Really enjoyed meeting with you on Friday. Delivering the Monday edition of CNN STUDENT NEWS to you and classrooms all over the world, I`m Carl Azuz.
New York City subway, closed. The New Jersey bus and rail service, shut down. We just got word that almost 2 million public school students are out today, and it`s all because of this massive storm system named Sandy. On Sunday, it was a Category 1 hurricane. A lot of times with these storms, forecasters focus on the center and where and when it might land. With Sandy, one expert said it might not matter where the center is, because the entire thing is so large. And things could get worse. There`s a cold front coming from the western part of the U.S. If that meets up with Sandy and the two weather systems merge together, it could have a severe impact on the East Coast.
Sandy is already being blamed for at least 60 deaths from when it moved through the Caribbean. Yesterday it was off the coast of North Carolina and moving north. Predictions estimated that Delaware, Maryland and Virginia could get up to a foot of rain.
Governors all over the northeast declared states of emergency to help make resources and money available to prepare for this storm.
Our next headline takes us all the way across North America to Canada`s British Colombia. An earthquake, and a pretty big one, hit there on Saturday. And no major damage was reported, but the quake`s potential impact, where the quake had threatened reached across the Pacific Ocean out to the Hawaiian islands.
The sirens in this Youtube video are letting people know about a tsunami warning. The concern was that the quake in Canada would trigger a large ocean wave that would wash up in Hawaii. Now, that didn`t happen, and the tsunami warning was canceled after a few hours.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is this legit? In order to be U.S. president, you have to be at least 45 years old. Not true. There is an age requirement, but it`s not 45. Presidents have to be at least 35.
AZUZ: Well, of course this year`s presidential candidates meet that constitutional requirement. Barack Obama is 51, Mitt Romney is 65. With the election just eight days away, we wanted to share a little more about the men running for the Oval Office. Both of them are family men. Romney and his wife Ann have five sons. Obama and his wife Michelle have two daughters.
If you look back at where they went to school, they started at almost opposite sides of the country. Obama went to college at Columbia University; Romney graduated from Brigham Young. One thing they have in common: both men have degrees from Harvard Law School. Romney also has a degree from Harvard Business School.
How about prior work experience? Mitt Romney helped found an investment company called Bain Capital. He also helped organize and run the 2002 Winter Olympics, and he served as governor of Massachusetts.
Barack Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago. He served two terms in the Illinois State Senate, and he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004.
This is the second time that both men have run for president. They were candidates in 2008 as well, and they both made some history along the way. In 2008, Barack Obama became the first African-American presidential nominee for a major political party, and this year, Mitt Romney became the first Mormon to be a major political party`s presidential nominee.
President Obama and Governor Romney are both aiming for the same number -- 270. If you want to win the presidency, that`s at least how many votes you need to get in the electoral college. Jonathan Mann explains how that works and what it could take for the candidates to reach that magic number.
JONATHAN MANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It`s nice to be popular, but it does not win the White House. The national poll numbers show that more people prefer Mitt Romney lately, but winning the presidency is not a popularity contest. You have to win states, not just votes. And for Romney, that`s a problem. Even though the poll numbers are moving his way, the color-coded CNN electoral map has barely budged in months, and it speaks volumes. It still projects that Obama is leading in the electoral vote with the blue states, comfortably in his corner. Romney`s safe states are in red. Each state has a different number of electoral votes, though, based on its population. And the thing is that whoever wins 270 electoral votes will win the election.
That`s why the yellow states, the tossup states are crucial. Polls in those states show the race is still too close to call. Romney`s problem is that he needs to win most of them.
Just this week, North Carolina turned light red, showing that the state is now in the leaning Romney category. Romney has a slight edge in Florida, so we`ll be turning that state red as well. He has high hopes for Virginia and for Colorado. If they turn red too, he is still, though, 13 electoral votes short of the 270 he needs to win. He`d have to win two more of the smaller states, or the big prize, Ohio, to win the election.
Now, resetting the map, there is more wiggle room in Obama`s path to the presidency. His campaign is setting its sights on Iowa, Wisconsin and all- important Ohio. Those three states alone could put him over the top. Any other wins would just be extra insurance. But say Obama wins Ohio and Wisconsin, and loses Iowa. Well, he wins New Hampshire, Romney wins the rest. Each candidate ends up with 269 electoral votes, a tie. That hasn`t happened in more than 200 years, but it could, and if it did, the newly elected House of Representatives would actually be the ones to vote to break the tie.
AZUZ: A tie for president. That might sound unbelievable, but it has happened before, and it`s something we`re going to look into more later on this week, so please keep watching.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See if you can ID me. I was established in 1789. I lead one branch of the U.S. government. I have one chief and eight associates, who can serve as members for the rest of their lives.
I`m the U.S. Supreme Court, to which thousands of cases are filed each year.
AZUZ: So let`s say you`re a college student, you`re looking for ways to help pay for tuition, and you come up with a plan to buy some stuff and then sell it to make some money. Sounds simple, but it might not turn out that way. It`s the starting point for a case that the Supreme Court is about to hear, and as Joe Johns explains, the decision could go a lot further than just college campuses.
JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It`s a case that could cause trouble for anyone who ever thought about selling an old iPhone or iPad, donating clothes to charity, or even unloading junk at a yard sale. The issue about to be argued before the Supreme Court is whether the original copyright holder on U.S. products manufactured or purchased in other countries can control your ability to resell the product once you buy it.
Davis Klyonaga resells old products at this eBay consignment store.
(on camera): How much of this stuff is foreign manufactured?
DAVIS KLYONAGA, OWNER, DROP & SHIP: I`d probably say 85, 95 percent.
JOHNS: He fears the case could put him out of business.
KLYONAGA: I think it`s ridiculous. I mean, I have known about it because it could affect my business so horribly, but I kind of pushed it back, because I`m like, how could this possibly happen? The repercussions would be ridiculous.
JOHNS: Even libraries are worried that a legal defeat could require them to seek the copyright owner`s permission before lending books printed overseas.
Andrew Shore represents a coalition of interests, including libraries.
ANDREW SHORE, ATTORNEY: The rule we`d like to see is very simple. You bought it, you own it, and you could do with it as you please.
JOHNS: Otherwise, Shore says, copyright owners could demand a fee every time you try to resell almost anything not made in America.
(on camera): Anything I`m wearing, would that apply?
SHORE: It`s got a copyright.
JOHNS: Right. DVDs?
SHORE: Yes.
JOHNS: What else? Iphones?
SHORE: Iphones.
JOHNS: Computers.
SHORE: Yes.
JOHNS: Televisions?
SHORE: Yes.
JOHNS: Cars?
SHORE: Yes.
JOHNS: Jewelry?
SHORE: Everything with copyright.
JOHNS (VOICE-OVER): The copyright`s holders and their lawyers say the rhetoric has gotten a little overheated.
THEODORE OLSON, LAWYER FOR PLAINTIFF: You know that you`re on the right side of the case when the other side, the best answer that they can come up with is that the sky is going to fall. Garage sales, museums, and that sort of thing, none of that is going to happen.
JOHNS: Powerhouse attorney Ted Olson says this is mostly about books and movies and other so-called intellectual properties, and making sure producers of such works have exclusive rights to distribute them in the U.S.
OLSON: It is protecting the integrity of the copyright system in the United States, which was created by the Constitution in order to create an incentive for people to create works that make us all laugh or cry or educate us.
AZUZ: Finally today, there are times I`m very glad I do most of my reporting from a studio, because the field presents perils, like when this fish flaps and the field correspondent freaks. Only problem, her backup`s balance. But it is more or less embarrassing than what`s about to happen to this reporter. The problem with being out in the air is the birds, and one of them just dropped a present on the reporter`s shoulder. That`s just a sign of disrespect. You word hard, toil at your job, and then a bird does something to foul it up. If we keep this up, this show is going down the tubes, so we`ll see you tomorrow on CNN STUDENT NEWS.
VOA常速新闻
【Obama, Romney Differ on Energy Policy】
President Obama has been a champion of expanding renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, which he says hold great promise.
Mitt Romney is a proponent of raising production levels of America's own fossil fuels, including coal, which the U.S. has in abundance.
The Center for Climate and Energy solutions published a voter guide to the candidates' energy policy positions.
"I think Governor Romney has focused more on supply, particularly of conventional fuels such as oil and coal," notes Manik Roy, vice president for the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. "President Obama, while I think he's also interested in supply - we saw the back and forth in the second debate on drilling - President Obama in addition has focused on clean energy technologies and reducing demand for oil."
The two candidates debated whose policy was more effective in reducing America's dependence on foreign oil. The protection and creation of jobs was another key issue, in a slow economic recovery with unemployment near eight percent.
"We've also got to look to the future," said Obama at the November 17 debate. "That's why we doubled fuel efficiency standards on cars. That means that in the middle of the next decade, any car you buy, you're going to end up going twice as far on a gallon of gas. That's why we've doubled clean energy production like wind and solar and biofuels. And all these things have contributed to us lowering our oil imports to the lowest levels in 16 years. We've got potentially 600,000 jobs and a hundred years' worth of energy right beneath our feet with natural gas. And we can do it in an environmentally sound way."
At that same debate Mitt Romney countered that while renewable energy sources are helpful, the United States needs to full exploit is full fossil energy potential.
"But what we don't need is to have the president keeping us from taking advantage of oil, coal and gas. This [president] has not been Mr. Oil or Mr. Gas or Mr. Coal. Talk to the people that are working in those industries. I was in coal country. People grabbed my arms and say, please, save my job. The head of the EPA said, you can't build a coal plant. If we do what I am planning on doing, which is getting us energy-independent - North American energy independence within eight years - you're going to see manufacturing jobs come back because our energy is low-cost."
According to the Department of Energy, the U.S. imported less than half of the petroleum it consumed last year, down from 60 percent 6 years ago.
Gasoline consumption has dropped to its lowest level in ten years. Production of U.S. oil rose during the Obama administration, but not as much as Governor Romney would like.
President Obama postponed approval of extending the Keystone pipeline from Canada, requiring more environmental impact studies. Governor Romney blames rising U.S. gas prices on that delay.
So what influence does any president have on production and gas prices in a global oil market?
"On the creation of energy, the drilling of oil - I think it's relatively limited," added Roy. "That happens largely in the private market, it happens largely in an international market. We have a small fraction of the world's energy reserves here. Even if we greatly expanded it [production], it would be a drop in the global bucket."
In the last five years, advances in hydraulic fracturing technology have revealed an abundance of natural gas in the U.S. Production has surged, and costs have plummeted.
Fracturing now produces nearly as much electricity as coal at lower cost. Both President Obama and Governor Romney support exploiting this vast resource, despite environmental risks.
The candidates differ over the portion of renewable resources should have in the United States' energy mix. President Obama has spent $90 billion in grants and loan guarantees for clean energy companies. Obama also wants Congress to extend tax credits for wind energy, while Governor Romney does not.
"The president is more activist in promoting future technologies," noted Roy. "I think the governor would love to see future technologies done as well too, but he has a more limited view of the appropriate role of the federal government, which would be to invest in research and development rather than deployment. The president says research and development, but deployment also."
So what do people want? According to some polls, says Roy, they want it all: low prices, jobs, self-sufficiency, and respect for the environment.
