CNN 2009-08-02

The remains¹ of the first American lost in operation "Desert Storm" have finally been found. The Pentagon today confirmed the remains  recently found in Iraq are those of Michael Scott Speicher, the navy pilot shot down on the first night of the war in 1991. Our Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr has been working on this story.

At this point, what the Pentagon is telling us is they were acting² on information provided by an Iraqi citizen in early July. And that led the US marines who were stationed in Al Anbar province out in western Iraq to go to a location in the desert which was believed to be a crash site of Captain Speicher's jet. The Iraqi citizen said that he knew of two Iraqi citizens who recalled an American jet impacting the desert and the remains of the pilot being buried there by the Bedouins.

All right,2 people are still in critical condition after a stage collapsed³ at a country music festival in western Canada. 1 person was killed and at least 15 more were hurt yesterday after an intense thunderstorm blew down an outdoor stage at the Big Valley Jamboree. Actor Kevin Costner was just about to take to the stage when his band "Modern West" was about to perform. He was unhurt but 2 of the band's crew members did suffer some minor⁴ injuries. A woman in the audience says she thought she was going to just die.

We were on the post of that scene which means we get access to the show on stage. The next thing I know, we were running off and for 20 feet off on the stage and big wind gusts⁵ and getting nowhere and literally⁶ the whole deck crashes just like a midway ride of capital X. Next thing I know there is like concrete and there is like something on top of my back. I cannot see a thing, all I'm doing is yelling for my sister there, children on the deck with us. It was awful. I thought my life was literally ending because it was completely dark and black. And I can honestly say if I wasn't just as thin as I was I would never have gotten out, because there was a tiny hole that I crawled through and it was probably, I don't know, if it's 50 feet down that I had to jump. It was a serious part of my life.

Very scary moments there. About 15,000 people were actually attending the festival in Cambrose, Alberta. That's about 60 miles southeast of Edmonton.

 

1 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

2 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

3 collapsed   

adj.倒塌的

参考例句：

• Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
• The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。

4 minor   

adj.较小(少)的，较次要的；n.辅修学科；vi.辅修

参考例句：

• The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
• I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。

5 gusts   

一阵强风( gust的名词复数 )； （怒、笑等的）爆发； （感情的）迸发； 发作

参考例句：

• Her profuse skirt bosomed out with the gusts. 她的宽大的裙子被风吹得鼓鼓的。
• Turbulence is defined as a series of irregular gusts. 紊流定义为一组无规则的突风。

6 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。