美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-01-02

 I'm Bill Wier in for Edison Cooper and welcome to the 360 podcast.Why UPS was as so well and came to on time Christmas deliveries also who Herry  Clinton beats in presidential pooling and one Republican she doesn't.Plus Edison was a big skandles of lines of 2013.Let's get started.

Shopping shines ups and fed up us now scrambling¹ tonight with extra - to clear a heavy back lock caused by a flat delay from the recent storms.And possibly just show volume of trunk it shopping and shipping² season.Whatever the reason.More than the fewer parents  ideals to bring how - sometimes ring dear ,get tired , sometimes they are outside of - words - is at UPS store at Atlant  and joins us now.Hi.

Any explanation.

Hi,Bill,Yeah a lot of explanations here right for parents in terms of what happens to those Christmas presents.

And do we know how many numbers were affected³ by this or given now how many customers were affected .

We don't know how numbers just yet ,Bill .UPS said what happened was a kind of a perfect storm of source.I remember that I storm that hit - of couples of weeks ago .That created back lock and then came the shorter shopping and shipping holiday season.And there was fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year that means there was a higher volume.And then unprecedented⁴ surge in the online shopping.Now UPS has released a statement in the online website the latest statement - follows UPS experience having holiday volume  may - making every effort to get packages to show - nation as quickly as possible.UPS has resumed  normally schedule service on December 26th switch to today.And there hopes of our theses packages shipped by tomorrow.Now Fedex,they say they did not have some delay.But there calling those incidences isolated⁵ in five days .They say that they've been delivering very level of the service .They say about 99percent  at Fedex ground and hopes our services starting to resolve.

But everybody can related with this even the few packages on time.That is sort of dread⁶ that case any checked back  - realize all those toys are in -.You can talk to some angry folks -.

I have I have.There are some people who are vey upset affected many people still gotten those a  shipments isn't helping⁷ taken listen what some people told us today.

I am very upset.Why?

Because people buy or ordered from guarantee there.And I did not have any - about it .Because the amount of time which was for five days it would have got nearly anyway.And for five days regular without in rust⁸ anyway.

I think people have to understand ,you know,sometimes you can get everything you want the way  you want.- occupation and I am sure which - holiday they can.

1 scrambling   

v.快速爬行( scramble的现在分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞

参考例句：

• Scrambling up her hair, she darted out of the house. 她匆忙扎起头发，冲出房去。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• She is scrambling eggs. 她正在炒蛋。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 shipping   

n.船运（发货，运输，乘船）

参考例句：

• We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
• There's a shipping charge of ￡5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。

3 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

4 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

5 isolated   

adj.与世隔绝的

参考例句：

• His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
• Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。

6 dread   

vt.担忧，忧虑；惧怕，不敢；n.担忧，畏惧

参考例句：

• We all dread to think what will happen if the company closes.我们都不敢去想一旦公司关门我们该怎么办。
• Her heart was relieved of its blankest dread.她极度恐惧的心理消除了。

7 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

8 rust   

n.锈；v.生锈；(脑子)衰退

参考例句：

• She scraped the rust off the kitchen knife.她擦掉了菜刀上的锈。
• The rain will rust the iron roof.雨水会使铁皮屋顶生锈。