CNN 2011-04-16

This debate over budgets and deficits² is about more than just numbers on the page, it's about more than just cutting and spending, it's about the kind of future that we want, it's about the kind of country we believe it. Any serious plan to tackle our deficit¹ were (to) require us to put everything on the table and take on excess spending wherever it exists in the budget. A serious plan doesn't require us to balance our budget overnight. In fact,economists think that with the economy just starting growing again, we need to face the approach, but it does require top decisions and support from our leaders in both parties now.

I think all of us understand that this debt that hangs over our head ,hurts our economy and hurts our ability to creat jobs in America. I think all those understand that not median our obligations, our debt obligations is a very bad idea and nobody wants to take that risk. But having said that, it is time for us to get serious about the big challenges that face our country.

Resting on the bottom of that pool is a big alligator³.Anne Marie Donovan owns the new port richey home that gator taking a dip in her pool.Donovan says her husband first noticed the alligator when he came home for lunch.A trapper showed up to get the gator out of the pool.She got a rope around the gator's nail and then began to roll around in the water.At one point that gator took a trunk out of the tire.It was a 'tug-of-war'between the gator and the trapper.The trapper finally got the gator's head out of the pool.She asked the neighbor for help,taping its jaws⁴ shut.That neighbor Paul Michael says taping those jaws shut was scary.I'm not fund of any kind of leisure and she got asking me to tape further and further closer to her hands.That was pretty tough to do.

From afar it looks like dust rising from the Japanese town of Minamisanriku, but those standing⁵ on higher ground then realize this is the tsunami⁶ they had feared.We can hear the roar of the water ,all those through cars and buildings.Then the horrifying⁷ site of people running away from the water,literally running for their lives.One woman runs just ahead of the wave ,carrying the roof of the building and the camera moves away.The person who uploaded the footage commented that all those in the field survived, but they said nothing about these residents.

1 deficit   

n.亏空，亏损；赤字，逆差

参考例句：

• The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
• We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。

2 deficits   

n.不足额( deficit的名词复数 )；赤字；亏空；亏损

参考例句：

• The Ministry of Finance consistently overestimated its budget deficits. 财政部一贯高估预算赤字。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Many of the world's farmers are also incurring economic deficits. 世界上许多农民还在遭受经济上的亏损。 来自辞典例句

3 alligator   

n.短吻鳄(一种鳄鱼)

参考例句：

• She wandered off to play with her toy alligator.她开始玩鳄鱼玩具。
• Alligator skin is five times more costlier than leather.鳄鱼皮比通常的皮革要贵5倍。

4 jaws   

n.口部；嘴

参考例句：

• The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。
• The scored jaws of a vise help it bite the work. 台钳上有刻痕的虎钳牙帮助它紧咬住工件。

5 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

6 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。

7 horrifying   

a.令人震惊的，使人毛骨悚然的

参考例句：

• He went to great pains to show how horrifying the war was. 他极力指出战争是多么的恐怖。
• The possibility of war is too horrifying to contemplate. 战争的可能性太可怕了，真不堪细想。