美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-03-04

 Ukraine has seen a lot of changes in a short amount of time. It's divided some Ukrainians want closer ties with the European Union. Some like its ousted¹ president want closer ties with Russia. Ukraine's parliament voted out president Viktor Yanukovych last weekend after violent protests in the capital. He's taken a refuge in Russia. Yesterday parliament voted on a temporary government to hold things together until elections in May, but then there is ?. It's a region of southern Ukraine where many people support the ousted president and want closer ties with Russia. Protesters there stormed the government building and raised the Russian flag yesterday, and Russia has started military exercise near its boarder with Ukraine. A Russian official says these were previously² scheduled and not related the Ukraine's unrest. 

 

Ice jam! And I almost sense that something you wanna see. You don't if you live anywhere near one. It has been a brutally³ cold winer for the northern US. Some references in the region have frozen, then melted, then re-frozen in crusted over with large thick chunks⁴ of crushed ice. In a ? river in Illinois, ice jams stretch for miles. Some people who live nearby are leaving their homes. One reason-how ice jams can affect areas near a river. Say there is a bridge with supports in the water. Drifting chunks of ice can get caught near them, clogging⁵ up the flow of water, forming a dam. The water needs somewhere to go, so it floods the river banks, and that may not be the worst thing that can happen. 

 

Everyone were talking to who lives around here says he's never seen this river looking like this. During the summer, this is a very popular place to go boating, but right now, it looks like a glacier⁶ landscape in Alaska.

 

For the water looks to be still for nothing is moving, and I think that's a good thing, but in fact the re-still water piling up underneath⁷, making the pressure high, so all a sudden, this is going to break free, break through, and you can see big pieces of ice in the people's homes. You can see their ice dam up and the flooding go around it.

 

This is what it looks like when a ice jam finally breaks. 

 

Suddenly the entire river started moving extremely fast like a free train. 

 

This was Ohio's Rocky River last week. 

 

You know this nutrition label in the size of food you buy in the store. They've been around since the1990s. Now the US government wants to make changes to them. It is what the old label looks like. This servings calories, fat, vitamins. The Food and Drug Administration wants big bold labels for total calories and wants to change some dietary guidelines for things like sodium⁸ and vitamins. It's hoping this all help Americans make healthy choices, but the changes could cost the food industry 2 billion dollars to implement⁹. That could mean higher prices. In a listed serving sizes could be hired, too.

 

Keep the best way to put this, you know, maybe this would be 4 servings in the past, and they say, look, what does a typical person really eat . Let's get that information. Maybe this is more like 2 servings now, and I'll say that you will see the nutrition information for 2 servings. Or if you gonna eat something likely in one single sitting, I don't know, could you eat this in a single sitting, but they are gonna say, look, OK, we know this is typically considered 4 servings, but we know it's likely people eat this in a single serving, so let's put that information on ?.

 

So that will be more ? to total say something like 10 chips equal this amount of calories that has this much fat.

 

And I'll say that ? also say if you eat this whole bag. Here's what you gonna get, so you don't ? do the math. It will make you think a little bit more maybe if you, you know, keep eating.

1 ousted   

驱逐( oust的过去式和过去分词 )； 革职； 罢黜； 剥夺

参考例句：

• He was ousted as chairman. 他的主席职务被革除了。
• He may be ousted by a military takeover. 他可能在一场军事接管中被赶下台。

2 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

3 brutally   

adv.残忍地，野蛮地，冷酷无情地

参考例句：

• The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
• A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。

4 chunks   

厚厚的一块( chunk的名词复数 )； （某物）相当大的数量或部分

参考例句：

• a tin of pineapple chunks 一罐菠萝块
• Those chunks of meat are rather large—could you chop them up a bIt'smaller? 这些肉块相当大，还能再切小一点吗？

5 clogging   

堵塞，闭合

参考例句：

• This process suffers mainly from clogging the membrane. 这种过程的主要问题是滤膜的堵塞。
• And you know that eyewitness that's been clogging up the airwaves? 你知道那个充斥着电视广播的目击证人？

6 glacier   

n.冰川，冰河

参考例句：

• The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。
• The upper surface of glacier is riven by crevasses.冰川的上表面已裂成冰隙。

7 underneath   

adj.在...下面，在...底下；adv.在下面

参考例句：

• Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
• She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣，里面套着一条连衣裙。

8 sodium   

n.（化）钠

参考例句：

• Out over the town the sodium lights were lit.在外面，全城的钠光灯都亮了。
• Common salt is a compound of sodium and chlorine.食盐是钠和氯的复合物。

9 implement   

n.(pl.)工具，器具；vt.实行，实施，执行

参考例句：

• Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划，除非你能完成这项计划。
• The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。