CNN 2012-05-30

 Hi, I’m Carl Azus, and this is CNN Student News. We are back to bring you headlines from around the world and out of this world. US political spot light is on Texas today, and that state holds its presidential primary election. We’re gonna have results on that later this week. But we start today with some sights and sounds from the Memorial Day Weekend.

 

You saw one of the traditions associated with the Memorial Day right there. The President laid a wreath in Arlington National Cemetery¹. Memorial Day pays tribute to the men and women who died while serving in the US Arm Forces. Ceremonies around the country honor their sacrifices. Another tradition focuses on the sons and daughters of those fallen US troops. A J has more.

 

This is the good **. 11-year-old K lost his father, air forces captain K T in a helicopter accident Italy 4 and half years ago. K and his brother C are joining 1200 children, parents and other families of fallen service members as part of events sponsored by the Tragedy Assistance Program for survivors² or *. The * family looks forward to each year.

 

I brought my kid 5 months after my husband died, because I wanted they to know they were not the only kids who lost their parents, either mother or father, in the military. And I want them to know that there’s a place they can go to where they feel normal and what they thought they don’t have to always talk about what happened. But we’re here for the same reason.

 

T has been bringing survivors together on Memorial Day weekend since 1994 with grief some hours for the adults and the daycare for the kids.

 

Grief is not a mental wellness. Grief is not a physical injury. Grief is a wound of the heart. And they absolute most therapeutic³ comfort for someone who is grieving a loss of a loved one to talk with. Another young widow was pregnant at the time of the loss; a mom was grieving the loss of her only child.

 

What does this weekend mean to you?

 

What does it mean to you?

 

Like, even though * or parents or your husband or wife died, because all we have fun and that’s I think, that’s what it can solve.

 

For families like D, this weekend is an important reminder⁴, they are not alone.

 

If you go to the spotlight⁵ section on our homepage, you will see a link to something called Home Enter Way. This is an interactive⁶ site that let people pay tribute to US Service Members who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and share memories of the fallen.

 

Some Memorial Day’s activities in the south distant of the US were cancelled because of the storm. Florida and J especially felt the effects of this. It was called Beryl. You can get the sense of the kind of impact it had from the winds and waves in this video. The storm was downgraded to a tropical depression by yesterday. But it still caused some damage along the East Coast. Thousands of people lost power; some roads were closed because power line’s been down. A B has more details on this kind of storms including how they get their names and the role that they play in global weather.

 

The tropical cyclone⁷ is an air of low pressure that forms in the tropical regions of the world. Cyclones⁸ are actually very important, even though, of course, they can be deadly; they help essentially⁹ balance out the temperature across the globe. They are an equalizer. So they take the heat energy from the tropics, and they translate that what we need it into the colder climates. The generic¹⁰ term for it is a tropical cyclone. They can refer to any cyclone that has a closed center circulation anywhere in the world, like the Atlantic, when it gets strong enough to a certain wind speed become hurricanes, but if in the western Pacific, a hurricane is called typhoon. There’s no difference between a hurricane and a typhoon except in the name. They are both tropical cyclone. The naming system is based on the World Meteorological Organization. There’s a list of names depending on the basing, in the Atlantic basing, we recycle the names every 6 years. If a storm becomes particularly intense, or is devastating¹¹ for a coastline, or has a lot of casualties associated with it, we retire the name and don’t use it again, for example, Hurricane Katrina. That name we’ll never use it again.

1 cemetery   

n.坟墓，墓地，坟场

参考例句：

• He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
• His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。

2 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

3 therapeutic   

adj.治疗的，起治疗作用的；对身心健康有益的

参考例句：

• Therapeutic measures were selected to fit the patient.选择治疗措施以适应病人的需要。
• When I was sad,music had a therapeutic effect.我悲伤的时候，音乐有治疗效力。

4 reminder   

n.提醒物，纪念品；暗示，提示

参考例句：

• I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
• It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。

5 spotlight   

n.公众注意的中心，聚光灯，探照灯，视听，注意，醒目

参考例句：

• This week the spotlight is on the world of fashion.本周引人瞩目的是时装界。
• The spotlight followed her round the stage.聚光灯的光圈随着她在舞台上转。

6 interactive   

adj.相互作用的，互相影响的，（电脑）交互的

参考例句：

• The psychotherapy is carried out in small interactive groups.这种心理治疗是在互动的小组之间进行的。
• This will make videogames more interactive than ever.这将使电子游戏的互动性更胜以往。

7 cyclone   

n.旋风，龙卷风

参考例句：

• An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
• The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。

8 cyclones   

n.气旋( cyclone的名词复数 )；旋风；飓风；暴风

参考例句：

• The pricipal objective in designing cyclones is to create a vortex. 设计旋风除尘器的主要目的在于造成涡旋运动。 来自辞典例句
• Middle-latitude cyclones originate at the popar front. 中纬度地区的气旋发源于极锋。 来自辞典例句

9 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

10 generic   

adj.一般的，普通的，共有的

参考例句：

• I usually buy generic clothes instead of name brands.我通常买普通的衣服，不买名牌。
• The generic woman appears to have an extraordinary faculty for swallowing the individual.一般妇女在婚后似乎有特别突出的抑制个性的能力。

11 devastating   

adj.毁灭性的，令人震惊的，强有力的

参考例句：

• It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
• Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。