CNN 2009-04-13

Catholics celebrating Easter Sunday today at the Vatican. That's Pope Benedict of course we are seeing there, thousands gathering¹ at St. Peter's Basilica within the Vatican City to hear the pope deliver a special Easter Mass.

Brothers and sisters, on this most holy day we celebrate with great joy the resurrection of Jesus Christ, our Lord. The Paschal life to the Risen Christ brightens our minds and hearts and renders us more open to receive the gift of Grace, which Christ himself offered through the father and his Holy Spirit.

Easter of course Sunday marks the end of the holy week begins on Palm Sunday, the day Christians² celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. On the third day, after the Crucifixion, Easter is celebrated³ on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the first day of spring.

The American crew of the Maersk Alabama is now safe in Mombasa Kenya. But we don't know when they will be able to go home. Officials are keeping them on the ship for now. Meanwhile the pirates still holding Captain Richard Phillips hostage in a lifeboat. Yesterday, navy sailors in a small boat tried to get closer, but the pirates fired shots at them, so they turned around. Well in Vermont where the captain is from, a lot of prayers and yellow ribbons, everyone is hoping this standoff situation will end peacefully and soon. Captain Richard Phillips gave himself up to save his crew and for that he is being called a hero.

We turn now to this other story of the morning. Interesting and scary, but we'll just show you the video here to explain what we're seeing. This happened in Germany, the Berlin zoo actually, and bet you explain the people exactly what they are seeing here, this women decided⁴ to take the swim.

Yeah, and we don't really know why she decided to jump in while these polar bears were feeding. Here's at the Berlin zoo but you can see that rescuers are trying to get her out. Look at that right there, the bear just took a bite out of her rear as they were trying to hoist⁵ her up out of that pond right there again.

She had a climb over a wall or fences or something you see right there, a concrete wall to get down into that pond. Still no word on exactly why she did that, but she was badly injured in fact taken to the hospital. And interesting enough even after all of these, she got a ticket for trust passing. I know that's probably not her biggest concern at this point, but seriously that's why they have those walls up, that's why they have fences at zoos to keep people away from the animals.

And they try to some of the other zoo workers, try to actually distract the bears the best they could so they could get this woman out of course we are gonna put themselves in any danger to try to get her, but this incredible video of the actual rescue.

1 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

2 Christians   

n.基督教徒( Christian的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Christians of all denominations attended the conference. 基督教所有教派的人都出席了这次会议。
• His novel about Jesus caused a furore among Christians. 他关于耶稣的小说激起了基督教徒的公愤。

3 celebrated   

adj.有名的，声誉卓著的

参考例句：

• He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
• The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。

4 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

5 hoist   

n.升高，起重机，推动；v.升起，升高，举起

参考例句：

• By using a hoist the movers were able to sling the piano to the third floor.搬运工人用吊车才把钢琴吊到3楼。
• Hoist the Chinese flag on the flagpole,please!请在旗杆上升起中国国旗！