CNN 2010-09-18

But when you were appointed chief executive three years ago, you were quoted as saying you were going to focus, I think the term was, laser-like on safety. On your watch as chief executive, in that three years, we have now perhaps the biggest ever oil spill in U.S. waters, 11 deaths on Deepwater Horizon.

We take all safety issues very seriously. I do not believe that the issues that were reported this morning point to any fundamental weakness in our North Sea operations. We have a very strong track record in the North Sea. It is better than the industry average. We have seen major improvements in the course of the last two years. BP spills, which are a good indicator¹ of safety performance in terms of integrity of plant, have fallen by 20% over the last two years and we now lead the industry in terms of that particular metric in the North Sea.

Three storms, all of which are rather powerful, all of which are probably going to be hurricanes ultimately, if they are not already there. We start with Karl and then, because Karl made a land fall a couple of hours ago on the Yucatan Peninsula as a very strong tropical storm. It will probably intensify² again, and become a hurricane, so thay you can see the forecast track with the second land fall early this weekend, on Mexico's mainland. Now Texas, you need to keep a heads-up appear just in case that this takes a little bit more of northernly track. Igor a Julia, both Category 4 storms now and both are producing the same maximum wind speed at a 135 miles per hour. But look at the differences in these two things. Igor is about twice the size. Yeah. In fact, I just saw a tweet from NASA, saying that this thing is about 550 miles wide, which means it would take you about 10 hours to drive across.

Up to those hugs, and kisses and smiles on the runway, we know very little about what Sarah Shourd has been doing. Certainly we do understand from her fiancee's family, from her friends' families that who remain in capticity. They want to expect that she'll be trying to get some rest here since touching³ down here in her lunch she's made it very, very clear that her priority is to secure the freedom for her fiancee and her friends that are still left behind in Tehran, in Evin jail.

Staff Sergeant⁴ Giunta is the eighth person to receive the Medal of Honor. It is the military's highest award for service in Afghanistan and Iran.

It's emotional and it is great. All of this is great. But it does bring back then, you know, a lot of memories of all the people that I would love to share this moment with.

1 indicator   

n.指标；指示物，指示者；指示器

参考例句：

• Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation.黃金价格常常被看作是通货膨胀的指标。
• His left-hand indicator is flashing.他左手边的转向灯正在闪亮。

2 intensify   

vt.加强；变强；加剧

参考例句：

• We must intensify our educational work among our own troops.我们必须加强自己部队的教育工作。
• They were ordered to intensify their patrols to protect our air space.他们奉命加强巡逻，保卫我国的领空。

3 touching   

adj.动人的，使人感伤的

参考例句：

• It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
• His letter was touching.他的信很感人。

4 sergeant   

n.警官，中士

参考例句：

• His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
• How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹？