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鸟叔“惊现”哈尔滨冰雪节 刮起江南风
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China's ice festival goes gangnam style 鸟叔“惊现”哈尔滨冰雪节 刮起江南风
This 20 foot or six meter sculpture of Korean popstar Psy in China's city of Harbin is proof that you can still go Gangnam Style in subzero temperatures. The massive ice statue that captures the popular dance craze is one the city's many creations featured for the annual snow and ice festival. And it has proven to be a popular attraction for visitors like Yuan Wenyang.
在中国哈尔滨市，这座20英尺或6米高韩国歌手Psy的雕塑告诉人们——即使温度零下几度，你仍可以刮起江南风。这座巨大的冰雕是哈尔滨市一年一度冰雪节众多艺术品之一，雕刻的是当下流行的热舞热潮。对于像袁文阳这样的游客，这成了一个很受欢迎的景点。
Yuan Wenyang, student in Beijing, saying: "The beat of his music is quite crazy, making people feel full of enthusiasm, in this ice city, in a place with temperatures below -20 degrees Celsius ( -4 Fahrenheit). This is enough to spark people's passion and make them feel warm and enthusiastic. It makes people enthusiastic and excited. I think that's quite good."
北京学生袁文阳说：“在这座冰雪城市，温度零下20摄氏度(零下4华氏度)，Psy的音乐节拍很疯狂，让人充满热情。这足以激起人们的热情，让他们感到温暖和热情。它带动了人们的热情和兴奋。我认为这很好。”
The annual event draws millions of tourists from around the world with dozens of sculptors showing off their ice shaving skills.
在每年一次的冰雪节上，许多雕塑家一展冰雕技巧，同样吸引了世界各地数以百万的游客。
Scenes from the war zone in Syria 叙利亚战争——走进战区现场
Rebel forces in Syria take aim at an airport in Idlib province. Rebels frequently attack airports and air bases in an attempt to neutralize President Bashar al-Assad's superior air power. The video, which could not be independently verified by Reuters, comes as violence rages across the country.
叙利亚叛军袭击伊德利卜省一机场。叛乱分子多次袭击机场和空军基试图摧毁总统巴沙尔·阿萨德优越的空中力量。叙利亚全国暴力肆虐，这段视频的真实性无法得到路透社独立核实。
In Homs, fires rage in burnt out streets. It's the country's third largest city and is a rebel stronghold. Men dig through the rubble in search of survivors, in a conflict that, the UN says, has already cost the lives of some 60,000 people. Hundreds of thousands are homeless, seeking shelter in refugee camps.
在霍姆斯，烧毁的街道上燃起熊熊大火。这是叙利亚第三大城市，也是反对派的一个据点。在一次冲突中，人们在废墟中挖掘寻找幸存者，联合国表示冲突已造成60，000人死亡。成千上万的无家可归者在难民营寻求庇护。
SYRIAN WOMAN LIVING IN THE CAMP, UM MOHAMED, SAYING: "People want to rest, but this is impossible. Bashar Al -Assad doesn't want to go. The whole world says Bashar is leaving, these are lies, stop lying to us! We want him to leave and he won't, so people of the world help us! The Syrian people are in a bad state."
住在难民营的叙利亚妇女嗯穆罕默德说：“人们想要战争停息，但这是不可能的。巴沙尔·阿萨德不想下台。全世界都说巴沙尔将离开，这些都是谎话，不要再来骗我们了！我们想要他下台，但他不会，所以世界人民帮帮我们！叙利亚人民正处在水深火热中。”
With temperatures dropping refugees do what they can to stay warm. The fear now is what they can do to eat.
由于气温下降，难民尽其所能来保温。但现在担心的是食物问题。
美国国防部长提名人查克·哈格尔讲话
美国国防部长提名人查克·哈格尔讲话
SENATOR HAGEL: Thank you, Mr. President. I’m honored by your trust and your confidence in me, and not unmindful of the immense responsibilities that go with it. I want to also acknowledge my wife, Lilibet; my daughter, Allyn; and our son, Ziller, who is in Chicago today, we hope, back attending his first day of classes at DePaul University. (Laughter.)
查克·哈格尔：谢谢你，总统先生。能得到你的信任和信心，我倍感荣幸，我不会忘记与之而来的巨大责任。我同样想感谢我的妻子莉莉贝特；我的女儿阿林；我们的儿子齐勒尔，今天他在芝加哥，我们希望回去参加他在德保罗大学第一天的课。
And to my friend, Leon Panetta, thank you for your extraordinary service to our country over so many years in so many capacities. You are one of the premier public servants of our time. To follow you at the Department of Defense will be a most challenging task, but I will try to live up to the standards that you, Bob Gates and others have set for this job and this nation.
感谢我的朋友，帕内塔。谢谢您这么多年来殚精竭虑为国家做出的非凡工作。你是我们最主要的公职人员之一。接任你在国防部的工作是一个极具挑战性的任务，但是我会尽力达到你、鲍勃·盖茨和其他人为这个职位、这个国家做出的标准。
Let me also express my deep appreciation and congratulations to my friend, John Brennan, and to also acknowledge the President's confidence and trust in John Brennan. Thank you, John, for your service and what you will continue to do for our country. To Mike Morell -- who I have gotten to know over the years not just serving on the Senate Intelligence Committee, but also, as the President has noted, the privilege of co-chairing the President's Intelligence Advisory Board with former Senator Dave Boren -- thank you, Mike, for your continued service.
同样，让我对我的朋友约翰·布伦南表达深深的谢意和祝贺，感谢总统对他的信心和信任。约翰，谢谢你的服务，以及今后你继续为我们国家做出的服务。感谢迈克·莫雷尔，在过去这些年，我知道你不仅仅服务于参议院情报委员会，同时，正如总统所言，你还有和前参议员戴夫·博伦共同主持总统情报咨询委员会的殊荣。谢谢你，迈克，谢谢你继续为国家服务。
Mr. President, I am grateful for this opportunity to serve our country again and especially its men and women in uniform and their families. These are people who give so much to this nation every day with such dignity and selflessness. This is particularly important at a time as we complete our mission in Afghanistan and support the troops and military families who have sacrificed so much over more than a decade of war.
总统先生，感谢有这个机会再次为我们国家服务，并特别感谢身穿军服的军人以及他们的家庭。每天，他们高尚而无私的为我们国家作出奉献。阿富汗任务结束后，帮助那些十多年来奉献如此之多的军队和军人家庭，更是尤为重要。
I'm also grateful for an opportunity to help continue to strengthen our country and strengthen our country's alliances, and advance global freedom, decency, and humanity as we help build a better world for all mankind. I will always do my best. I will do my best for our country, for those I represent at the Pentagon, and for all our citizens. And, Mr. President, I will always give you my honest and most informed counsel. Thank you very much.
我还要感谢有这样一个机会，继续巩固我们国家、加强国家联盟。我们帮助全人类建立一个更美好的世界，推进全球自由、正派、人道。我将竭尽所能服务于我们国家，服务于我在五角大楼代表的人以及我们所有的公民。总统先生，我将忠诚的服务与你，并提供最具情报的决策。非常感谢。
奥巴马任命国防部部长和中央情报局局长
Remarks by the President in Nomination of Secretary of Defense and CIA Director
奥巴马任命国防部部长和中央情报局局长
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Please have a seat. As President and Commander-in-Chief, my most solemn obligation is the security of the American people. Over the past four years, we’ve met that responsibility by ending the war in Iraq, and beginning a transition in Afghanistan; by decimating the al Qaeda core and taking out Osama bin Laden; by disrupting terrorist plots and saving countless American lives.
Among an outstanding national security team, I am especially grateful to Leon Panetta, who has led the CIA and our military with incredible skill. Leon, after nearly five decades of service, you have more than earned the right to return to civilian life. I’ll have much more to say about Leon’s distinguished service in the days ahead. Today, I simply want to convey both to you and to Sylvia the eternal gratitude of the entire nation. Thank you so much, Leon.
I also want to thank Michael Morell, who has earned the admiration of all of us who’ve worked with him across government and here in the White House. In moments of transition, he’s guided the CIA with a steady hand as Acting Director -- not once, but twice. And he is a consummate professional. As I said, everybody in the White House who works with him, everybody across agencies who works with him considers him truly to be one of our most outstanding national security team members. And so, Michael, on behalf of all of us, thank you and Mary Beth for your continued service.
As these leaders know, the work of protecting our nation is never done, and we’ve still got much to do: Ending the war in Afghanistan and caring for those who have borne the battle; preparing for the full range of threats, from the unconventional to the conventional, including things like cyber security; and within our military, continuing to ensure that our men and women in uniform can serve the country they love, no matter who they love.
To help meet the challenges of our time, I’m proud to announce my choice for two key members of my national security team -- Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense and John Brennan for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Chuck Hagel is the leader that our troops deserve. He is an American patriot. He enlisted in the Army and volunteered for Vietnam. As a young private, and then a sergeant, he served with honor, alongside his own brother. When Chuck was hit by shrapnel, his brother saved him. When his brother was injured by a mine, Chuck risked his life to pull him to safety. To this day, Chuck bears the scars -- and the shrapnel -- from the battles he fought in our name.
Chuck Hagel’s leadership of our military would be historic. He’d be the first person of enlisted rank to serve as Secretary of Defense, one of the few secretaries who have been wounded in war, and the first Vietnam veteran to lead the department. As I saw during our visits together to Afghanistan and Iraq, in Chuck Hagel our troops see a decorated combat veteran of character and strength. They see one of their own.
Chuck is a champion of our troops and our veterans and our military families. As a leader at the VA, he fought to give our veterans the benefits they deserved. As head of the USO, he devoted himself to caring for our troops. Having studied under the GI Bill himself, he helped lead the fight for the Post-9/11 GI Bill so today’s returning heroes can get their education, too. Having co-chaired my Intelligence Advisory Board, he knows that our armed forces collect, analyze, and depend on good intelligence.
And Chuck recognizes that American leadership is indispensable in a dangerous world. I saw this in our travels together across the Middle East. He understands that America stands strongest when we stand with allies and with friends. As a successful businessman, he also knows that even as we make tough fiscal choices, we have to do so wisely, guided by our strategy, and keep our military the strongest fighting force the world has ever known.
Maybe most importantly, Chuck knows that war is not an abstraction. He understands that sending young Americans to fight and bleed in the dirt and mud, that’s something we only do when it’s absolutely necessary. “My frame of reference,” he has said, is “geared towards the guy at the bottom who’s doing the fighting and the dying.” With Chuck, our troops will always know, just like Sergeant Hagel was there for his own brother, Secretary Hagel will be there for you.
And finally, Chuck represents the bipartisan tradition that we need more of in Washington. For his independence and commitment to consensus, he’s earned the respect of national security and military leaders, Republicans and Democrats -- including me. In the Senate, I came to admire his courage and his judgment, his willingness to speak his mind -- even if it wasn’t popular, even if it defied the conventional wisdom.
And that’s exactly the spirit I want on my national security team -- a recognition that when it comes to the defense of our country, we are not Democrats or Republicans; we are Americans. Each of us has a responsibility, Chuck has said, to be guided not by the interest of our party or our President even, but by “the interests of our country.”
So, Chuck, I thank you and Lilibet for agreeing to serve once more in the interests of our country.
Now, when I’m on the subject of patriots, let me say a few words about John Brennan. In John Brennan, the men and women of the CIA will have the leadership of one of our nation’s most skilled and respected intelligence professionals -- not to mention that unique combination of smarts and strength that he claims comes from growing up in New Jersey. (Laughter.)
A 25-year veteran of the CIA, John knows what our national security demands -- intelligence that provides policymakers with the facts, strong analytic insights, and a keen understanding of a dynamic world. Given his extensive experience and travels -- which include, by the way, traveling through the Arabian Peninsula where he camped with tribesmen in the desert -- John has an invaluable perspective on the forces -- the history, the culture, the politics, economics, the desire for human dignity driving so much of the changes in today’s world.
Having held senior management, analytic, and operational positions at the agency, John is committed to investing in the range of intelligence capabilities we need -- technical and human. He literally built -- and then led -- the National Counterterrorism Center. And he knows the risks that our intelligence professionals face every day. John has lost colleagues and friends -- heroes whose stars now grace that memorial wall at Langley.
For the last four years, as my Advisor for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, John developed and has overseen our comprehensive counterterrorism strategy -- a collaborative effort across the government, including intelligence and defense and homeland security, and law enforcement agencies.
And so think about the results. More al Qaeda leaders and commanders have been removed from the battlefield than at any time since 9/11. Their communications, recruiting, training, finances are all under enormous strain -- all of which makes it harder to plan and carry out large-scale attacks against our homeland. And our entire team, including our exceptional Director of National Intelligence, Jim Clapper, will remain relentless against al Qaeda and its affiliates.
In all this work, John has been tireless. People here in the White House work hard. But John is legendary, even in the White House, for working hard. (Laughter.) He is one of the hardest-working public servants I’ve ever seen. I’m not sure he’s slept in four years. (Laughter.) When I was on Martha’s Vineyard, John came and did the press briefing -- this is in summer, it’s August, he’s in full suit and tie. And one of the reporters asked him, don’t you ever get any down time? And John said, “I don’t do down time.” (Laughter.) He’s not even smiling now. (Laughter.)
There’s another reason I value John so much, and that is his integrity and his commitment to the values that define us as Americans. He has worked to embed our efforts in a strong legal framework. He understands we are a nation of laws. In moments of debate and decision, he asks the tough question and he insists on high and rigorous standards. Time and again, he’s spoken to the American people about our counterterrorism policies because he recognizes we have a responsibility to be [as] open and transparent as possible.
And so, John, you’ve been one of my closest advisors. You’ve been a great friend. I am deeply grateful for your extraordinary service. I’m even more grateful for Kathy’s willingness to put up with you. And I’m grateful to both of you for your willingness to take this assignment.
Today, I can say to the men and women of the CIA: In Director John Brennan you will have one of your own; a leader who knows you; who cares for you, deeply; and who will fight for you every single day. And you’ll have a leader who has my complete confidence and my complete trust.
As I said, the work of defending our nation is never done. My number-one criteria in making these decisions was simple -- who is going to do the best job in securing America. These two leaders have dedicated their lives to protecting our country. I’m confident they will do an outstanding job. I urge the Senate to confirm them as soon as possible so we can keep our nation secure and the American people safe.
And so, Chuck and John -- congratulations.
And with that, I want to invite each of these leaders on stage to say a few words, starting with Mr. Leon Panetta.
