CNN 2011-10-20

 You see me right now. Thanks the students at Covington Douglas in Oklahoma for kicking off today’s show by sending us an ireport. You can do that too at cnnstudentnews.com. I’m Carl Azuz, bringing you the headlines on this Wednesday, October 19th. 

 

First up, an exchange of prisoners in the Middle East. You’ve heard us discussed the conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians. This latest news has both sides celebrating. It was a trade of one Israeli soldier who was released yesterday for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners who will be released in two stages. Why one person in exchange for more than one thousand?

 

Well, the Israeli soldier named Gilad Shalit was captured by Palestinian fighters five years ago. So, his release means a great deal to a great number of Israelis. The Palestinian have been held in Israel for a wide variety of offenses¹, so their release means a great deal to a great number Palestinians. Outside countries are hoping that this exchange of prisoners will help ease tensions between the two sides. 

 

Next story * take us to North Africa, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stopped by Libya yester, and met with the nation’s temporary leader. There was a lot of security at Secretary Clinton’s visit. She’s the first U.S. cabinet level official to visit the new Libya, and the country is still fighting a civil war with people who support the new government, battling fighters who want Moammar Gadhafi back in power. Gadhafi is Libya’s former dictator. U.S. was among several countries that helped kicking him out over the summer. Libya’s new leader thanks Secretary Clinton and America for their support. U.S. hopes Libya will become a democracy in the near future.

 

They are still dangerous. They are still radioactive. But some of Japan’s damage nuclear reactors³ could be shut down a month ahead of schedule. This is at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, a place badly damaged by the earthquake and tsunami⁴ on March 11th. The Tokyo electric power company was hopping⁵ to have the reactor² shut down and sealed off by January. Now they are saying it could be done by December. 80,000 people had to be evacuated⁶ because of this. Experts say it could take decades to clean up all of the dangerous nuclear material that sealed into the oil and the environment.

1 offenses   

n.进攻( offense的名词复数 )；（球队的）前锋；进攻方法；攻势

参考例句：

• It's wrong of you to take the child to task for such trifling offenses. 因这类小毛病责备那孩子是你的不对。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Thus, Congress cannot remove an executive official except for impeachable offenses. 因此，除非有可弹劾的行为，否则国会不能罢免行政官员。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法

2 reactor   

n.反应器；反应堆

参考例句：

• The atomic reactor generates enormous amounts of thermal energy.原子反应堆发出大量的热能。
• Inside the reactor the large molecules are cracked into smaller molecules.在反应堆里，大分子裂变为小分子。

3 reactors   

起反应的人( reactor的名词复数 )； 反应装置； 原子炉； 核反应堆

参考例句：

• The TMI nuclear facility has two reactors. 三哩岛核设施有两个反应堆。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• The earliest production reactors necessarily used normal uranium as fuel. 最早为生产用的反应堆，必须使用普通铀作为燃料。

4 tsunami   

n.海啸

参考例句：

• Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
• Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。

5 hopping   

n. 跳跃 动词hop的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• The clubs in town are really hopping. 城里的俱乐部真够热闹的。
• I'm hopping over to Paris for the weekend. 我要去巴黎度周末。

6 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。