CNN 2011-06-13

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Police in Oakland, California searching for this man, they say that he  burglarized  a woman's home Tuesday morning before sexually assaulting her. Investigators² hope that  the 13 seconds of video that the victim was able to capture will actually help catch him.

77 Air Force ROTC cadets recovering after a lightning bolt struck a camp. We're talking about Hattiesburg, Mississippi.No one was hurt but 4 people were close to that lightning when it struck.

And some students across Connecticut get on sweating sweltering temperatures at least not in class.The heat coupled with a lack of air-conditioning in some buildings has prompted early dismissals in a number of districts statewide.

Well, it's a situation that many of us, especially we women, know very well. You are trying on some new pants in a store but you want to see just how good, you know, backside looks. Twisting, turning, possible neck cramps³. That all happens, right?

Alison Kosik, she never has to worry about that, though. She always looks good.

Never.

She doesn't need to spin around, turn around.

Every now and then, I have to check what's going on behind me.

There you go. Make sure no one is lurking⁴ behind you. But what's this new product?

Exactly. So, I had to check to see if I could say this on TV, but what we're talking about here is genius. It's called the "Ass¹ Cam." Yes, it is called exactly that.

And a clothing retailer⁵, American Rags, actually trademarked that name. How about that?

Now, here is how it works. I want to pull up this picture because this picture tells 1,000 words. I'll tell you that. There's this closed-circuit camera that kind of sits at your butt⁶ level. It's positioned right behind you.

And the mirror is actually in front of you, at eye level, like a TV screen. Don't you like it? They have a guy here checking out his behind, they don't have a woman, which I thought was really funny.

So, on left, you see the guy, he's looking straight there, that's kind of the eye level camera. And, of course, at the butt level is the camera.

So, you get to really this image of your back side that's streamed to the mirror. No more need to go ahead and contort your body to see your back side because, you know, we all have to look our best in our jeans, right, Kyra?

Yes, he is. He's actually looking pretty good there, even though you can't really see the back side. You can just imagine.

All right. Opening bell just a few minutes away.

It is. You know, futures⁷ are looking good. We are in positive territory. We got a better than expected report on the trade gap. It showed that it narrowed.

This could be good news for manufacturing, could be good news for GDP, economic growth. So, we'll see if we actually start in the green today.

Real fast, because I know a lot of you are going to want to know where you can find these cameras. They are actually only in two stores, in California, at this store called American Rag. By the way, they are getting positive feedback for it.

And if you do go into this dressing⁸ room at this place, it's not in every dressing room. So, you can bypass it. You can opt out of the butt cam

1 ass   

n.驴；傻瓜，蠢笨的人

参考例句：

• He is not an ass as they make him.他不象大家猜想的那样笨。
• An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden.驴能负重但不能超过它能力所负担的。

2 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 cramps   

n. 抽筋, 腹部绞痛, 铁箍 adj. 狭窄的, 难解的 v. 使...抽筋, 以铁箍扣紧, 束缚

参考例句：

• If he cramps again let the line cut him off. 要是它再抽筋，就让这钓索把它勒断吧。
• "I have no cramps." he said. “我没抽筋，"他说。

4 lurking   

潜在

参考例句：

• Why are you lurking around outside my house? 你在我房子外面鬼鬼祟祟的，想干什么？
• There is a suspicious man lurking in the shadows. 有一可疑的人躲在阴暗中。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

5 retailer   

n.零售商(人)

参考例句：

• What are the retailer requirements?零售商会有哪些要求呢？
• The retailer has assembled a team in Shanghai to examine the question.这家零售商在上海组建了一支团队研究这个问题。

6 butt   

n.笑柄；烟蒂；枪托；臀部；v.用头撞或顶

参考例句：

• The water butt catches the overflow from this pipe.大水桶盛接管子里流出的东西。
• He was the butt of their jokes.他是他们的笑柄。

7 futures   

n.期货，期货交易

参考例句：

• He continued his operations in cotton futures.他继续进行棉花期货交易。
• Cotton futures are selling at high prices.棉花期货交易的卖价是很高的。

8 dressing   

n.(食物)调料；包扎伤口的用品，敷料

参考例句：

• Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
• The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。