CNN 2010-07-23

We have 38 million people affected¹ so far by this flood of emergency, more than a million people have been relocated. A lot of the focuses on the three gorges² dam right now as we've seen that they opened the floodgates. This isn't the first time they've opened the gates during the current flood of emergency, what is unprecedented³ about what's happening right now, is the volume of water which is going through the three gorges dam. This is unprecedented, it is never happened before and as you say this is a very big test on this massive structure. The reason why they are doing this is because while it is dry here right now in Chongqing and Sichuan Province, there is more rain on the way, and said they need to relieve some of the pressure upriver off the Yangtzi.

 

The latest method they are thinking about using to try to stop this issue with oil will be something virtually as a “static kill”. The oil will be static, it will not be flowing freely because the cap in place. So the idea is that they will basically inject mud, cement right at the top cap of the wellhead itself and stop the flow of the oil. It is still not the endgame, though. The thing it really is going to be, the kicker in this thing that should really stop this crisis altogether would be the relief well. So once they have relief well, they are going to use something, another method called the “bottom kill”. Same rule applies. So they simply are going to inject that mixture of mud and cement into that part of the well and then kill it off.

 

They asked me to resign. And in fact, they harassed⁴ me as I was driving back to the state office from West Point, Georgia, yesterday. I had at least three calls telling me the White House wanted me to resign. I didn’t discriminate⁵ and I went out of my way to make sure no one who came to the agency was discriminated⁶ against. They were not interested in hearing the truth. No one wanted to hear the truth.

 

Our son, he came up this morning and says, Mama, turn on the TV to CNN. And he said "It's about your friend Shirley Sherrod." And I said" What?" And we listened and I said, “Great days, that ain't right. They have not treated her right, because she's the one that I give credit to helping⁷ us save our farm."

 

This time she will be remanded to serve her sentence and the court will order that there be no house arrest, no electronic monitoring, no work release and no work furlough. Defendant is now remanded to custody to serve the 90 day jail sentence

1 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

2 gorges   

n.山峡，峡谷( gorge的名词复数 )；咽喉v.（用食物把自己）塞饱，填饱( gorge的第三人称单数 )；作呕

参考例句：

• The explorers were confronted with gorges(that were)almost impassable and rivers(that were)often unfordable. 探险人员面临着几乎是无路可通的峡谷和常常是无法渡过的河流。 来自辞典例句
• We visited the Yangtse Gorges last summer. 去年夏天我们游历了长江三峡。 来自辞典例句

3 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

4 harassed   

adj. 疲倦的，厌烦的 动词harass的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He has complained of being harassed by the police. 他投诉受到警方侵扰。
• harassed mothers with their children 带着孩子的疲惫不堪的母亲们

5 discriminate   

v.区别，辨别，区分；有区别地对待

参考例句：

• You must learn to discriminate between facts and opinions.你必须学会把事实和看法区分出来。
• They can discriminate hundreds of colours.他们能分辨上百种颜色。

6 discriminated   

分别，辨别，区分( discriminate的过去式和过去分词 )； 歧视，有差别地对待

参考例句：

• His great size discriminated him from his followers. 他的宽广身材使他不同于他的部下。
• Should be a person that has second liver virus discriminated against? 一个患有乙肝病毒的人是不是就应该被人歧视？

7 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。