美国有线新闻 CNN 2012-11-30

 We're gonna start things off today in Egypt. The country is going through some problems, some political unrest right now. People are angry with Egypt's President and they are protesting against him. That sounds familiar, it should. Nearly two years ago, Egypt was part of what some called the Arab Spring, the series of uprisings across the Middle East and northern Africa. That led to Egypt's longtime leader being forced out of power. Egypt held its first free elections after that, Mohamed Morsi was elected President. We reported on Monday that Morsi announced that any decisions he makes can't be reviewed or overturned¹. He says he is trying to protect Egypt as it builds its government. The protesters say President Morsi is grabbing² up power and like a dictator³. Some of those protests have turned violent. Hundreds of people have injured, at least one person was killed.

 

We're gonna harp⁴ across the Atlantic and head to Washington D.C.,specifically to the White House for a meeting between the President and a President elect. Enrique Peña Nieto was elected Mexico's President back in July. Now he is officially going to become President to take office on Saturday. Yesterday he was in Washington D.C. for meeting with U.S. President Obama. Immigration, security and the drug war in Mexico have been some of the biggest issues for these two countries recently. They are expected to come up in yesterday's meeting too. But President elect Peña Nieto said he wants the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico to go beyond that. He said one of its biggest goals is to strength the economic ties between the neighboring nations. U.S. is Mexico's biggest trading partner sharing billions of dollars of imports and exports. 

 

Along the action now our next story is happened in the U.S. capital. That remembers of Congress are considering the fiscal⁵ cliff and how to avoid going over it. Now really what this comes down too is debt. The U.S. government has trillions of dollars worth. It's gonna find ways to reduce that debt and that's where the fiscal cliff comes in. Now some of the actual cliff is an economic one and it involves two main things. One, how the government takes in money through taxes and two, how it spends money. If the country goes over this fiscal cliff, taxes will go up for every one. Plus government spending cuts would automatically⁶ going to affect, that would affect the military, national parks and other government services. If Congress and the President can agree on ways to cut government debt, then the country won't go over the cliff. They have been working on that for a while. Both sides have presented ideas. There is even a special super committee in Congress that try to come up ways to reduce the debt. So far, though, no deal. And the deadline now is January first. If a deal is not reach by then, that's when the U.S. would go over this fiscal cliff.

1 overturned   

adj. 倒转的 动词overturn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• The car skidded and overturned. 汽车打滑翻倒了。
• When a bird's nest is overturned, no egg can remain intact. 覆巢之下无完卵。

2 grabbing   

v.抢先，抢占( grab的现在分词 )；（尤指匆忙地）取；攫取；（尤指自私、贪婪地）捞取

参考例句：

• The plane was grabbing for altitude. 这架飞机在抢占高度。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He sprang to his feet, grabbing his keys off the coffee table. 他一跃而起，从茶几上一把抓起自己的钥匙。 来自辞典例句

3 dictator   

n.独裁者，爱发号施令的人

参考例句：

• We felt quite impotent to resist the will of the dictator.我们感到无力抗拒独裁者的意志。
• A dictator must have a firm hand.独裁者的手段是很厉害的。

4 harp   

n.竖琴；天琴座

参考例句：

• She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
• He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。

5 fiscal   

adj.财政的，会计的，国库的，国库岁入的

参考例句：

• The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
• The government has two basic strategies of fiscal policy available.政府有两个可行的财政政策基本战略。

6 automatically   

adv.不加思索地，无意识地，自动地

参考例句：

• The machine cycles automatically.这台机器自动循环运转。
• She had automatically labelled the boys as troublemakers.她不假思索地认定这些男孩子是捣蛋鬼。