CNN 2010-01-25

ACOSTA: There certainly will be some Wednesday morning quarterbacking. But none of that will take place over on the Republican side of this race. Scott Brown was a very different crowd last night at his victory party.

He was almost giddy, is the way to describe his reaction to the results here, and what he talked about at this event last night was really what he talked about throughout this campaign, how he wasn't running for Ted¹ Kennedy's seat. He was running for the people's seat. And he characterized his victory in those terms in his victory speech last night.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SCOTT BROWN (R), MASSACHUSETTS SENATOR-ELECT: We have the machine scared and scrambling² and for them it's just the beginning of an election year filled with many, many surprises, I can tell you that.

They will be challenged again and again across this great land and when there's trouble in Massachusetts, rest assured, there's trouble everywhere, and they know it.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ACOSTA: And who would have thought one year ago today President Obama was inaugurated. He had the sky-high approval ratings, somewhere in the neighborhood of 65 percent, now roughly 49 percent, 51 percent of the country approves of the job that he's doing this morning.

Many of those independent voters, those angry independent voters, some of them now call themselves tea party activists³ -- they went right to Scott Brown, they got right in the back of that pick-up truck that he drove throughout this campaign and they rode to victory last night here in Massachusetts -- Kyra.

 

1 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

2 scrambling   

v.快速爬行( scramble的现在分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞

参考例句：

• Scrambling up her hair, she darted out of the house. 她匆忙扎起头发，冲出房去。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• She is scrambling eggs. 她正在炒蛋。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
• Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》