CNN 2011-08-20

 It's Wednesday, my name is Carl Azuz, and this is CNN Student News!Thank you for spending part of your day with us.First up today,we're hitting the road.

 

That's where you'll find a lot of people who are part of the 2012 U.S.presidential election,or who will be.Now,that election is not going to happen until November 6th of next year.These folks especially the Republican candidates want to get their names out there and gather support now, because when the calendar turns 2012, we'll be at the start of primary season. 

 

That is when states hold elections or meetings to determine which candidates they're going to support.It happens for each party.Republican primaries will determine who's going to be nominated to face off against President Obama in the general election next November.He'll be nominated again by the Democrats¹.And that's where we're going as a country. 

 

But where are these candidates now? They're in some of the states that come first on the primary calendar. Republican U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann is on a three-day tour of South Carolina this week. Former Massachusetts Republican Governor Mitt² Romney is up in New Hampshire. And Texas Governor Rick Perry -- who just recently joined the race for the Republican nomination³ -- is in Iowa. How about President Obama, who will be running for re-election next year? He's on the road, too. He was also in Iowa yesterday, scheduled to be in his home state of Illinois today.

 

It's your Word Scramble⁴ of the day! It's a type of currency.Last chance! EURO!

 

The Euro is the official currency of more than half of the countries in the European Union. The Euro was introduced in 1999. It's used by more than 320 million people in 17 nations.But a lot of those countries are struggling economically,and that is bad news for the Euro. 

 

 

Yesterday, German Chancellor⁵ Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy met to talk about ways to try to help the Euro. Germany and France have the two most powerful economies in Europe.But those economies are having problems as well,and some experts say that could limit how much of an impact these two leaders can make. They want all countries that use the Euro to spend only what they can afford instead of borrowing money to pay off a lot of bills. 

 

We could hear the home shaking.Everything busting⁶ out.We got down.He was between me,Zach was hunched⁷ over us and we were just,you know, praying, screaming and, you know, it was very loud and it all happened so fast.It seemed like forever, but it happened very fast

1 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 mitt   

n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手

参考例句：

• I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
• Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

3 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

4 scramble   

v.爬行，攀爬，杂乱蔓延，碎片，片段，废料

参考例句：

• He broke his leg in his scramble down the wall.他爬墙摔断了腿。
• It was a long scramble to the top of the hill.到山顶须要爬登一段长路。

5 chancellor   

n.(英)大臣；法官；(德、奥)总理；大学校长

参考例句：

• They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
• He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。

6 busting   

打破，打碎( bust的现在分词 )； 突击搜查（或搜捕）； （使）降级，降低军阶

参考例句：

• Jim and his wife were busting up again yesterday. 吉姆和他的妻子昨天又吵架了。
• He figured she was busting his chops, but it was all true. 他以为她在捉弄他，其实完全是真的。

7 hunched   

（常指因寒冷、生病或愁苦）耸肩弓身的，伏首前倾的

参考例句：

• He sat with his shoulders hunched up. 他耸起双肩坐着。
• Stephen hunched down to light a cigarette. 斯蒂芬弓着身子点燃一支烟。