美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-05-30

 Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of CNNstudents news, you are half way through the week.I am Carol Azuz. It’s good tosee you.

First up today, there are about 32,000 U.S troopsin Afghanistan plus those of some U.S allies¹. President Obama announcedyesterday that almost 10,000 American troops will stay in Afghanistan throughnext year. Their role’s changing though. The president says the U.S combatmission ends this year, reminding forces will focus on training Afghan forcesand fighting Al Qaeda terrorists². Afghanistan got to agree to U.S troopsstaying though, it’s current president HK won’t, but the two political candidatescompeting to succeed him say they will. Some republican³ lawmakers say they areglad that U.S will keep some troops in Afghanistan, but they putting dates ontheir withdrawal⁴ could lead to violence afterwards. The U.S official says U.S forcesin Afghanistan would be reduced to about 1000 after the year 2016.

Republican lawmakers are consideringsignificant changes to a child nutrition law passed in 2010. The law’s goal wasto encourage students to eat healthier school lunches; the government requiresschools to use less soldian? in meals and require students to qualify⁵ for freeor reduced price meals about 30 million students nationwide to pick up a fruitor vegetables with their lunch. First lady Michelle Obama is a strong supporterof the law. Parents have a right to expect that their kid will get decent⁶ foodin our schools and we all have a right to expect that our hard earned tax payerdollars won’t be spent on junk food for our kids. But an official from theschool nutrition association says that they are not pushing for junk food inlunches, they just want the fruit or vegetables requirement dropped, the groupsays there is a lot waste from students picking what they have to to get thefree meal and then immediately throw it away. 

 

Next story involves plays and law enforcement;technology that has been around maybe a little after the right brothers iscombining with camera surveillance technology. And it’s getting police andupper hand in tracking crime suspects, not everyone is on board with the idea ofpursuing people using an eye in the sky, but it’s having an impact. From thespecially equipped assessors, Ross and his firm persistent⁷ surveillance systemscan monitor large sections of cities because they are in the air for hours at atime, they can track back to the moment of the crime or before it. Inwards? ,they met up three or four times prior to the murder including one time rightoutside of the murder scene. In the moment afterwards, we actually can followall of the cars, so we actually can jump over and follow the crime at theshooter got into and see where it goes to. They type in a google earth streetview image to show the police the house where the suspect went to hide, whichhelps the team make an arrest in that shooting. We actually went through 34murders so far and we actually have confessions⁹ come to 75%. M’s team has monitoredother high crime city, CC, F, B, they can replicate¹⁰ their operation center inD, Ohio anywhere. In a typical operation, law enforcement officers will sit intheir area monitoring a police scan⁸ when a call comes in and the crime has beencommitted, the analysis immediately starts to track back when and where itoccurs, and sometimes the crime can catch up to a suspect in a real time.Dater, 2012, they get words with a burd law tracked the suspect in the whitetruck cause he is getting away. Direct police writes to him, Dater police tripssays the technology helps his depleted¹¹ force. Allows us to gain data oncriminal offences on which they are not often witness police officers are not thereto prevent. But privacy¹² advocate says the smack¹³ of big brother; they mightactually cross the line, this creates opportunity after the fact to look atanybody for any reason.  We areresponding and support law enforcement to report crime only. A says, they areclosely monitoring their own analysis to make sure they are only trackingsuspects.

1 allies   

联盟国，同盟者； 同盟国，同盟者( ally的名词复数 )； 支持者； 盟军

参考例句：

• The allies would fear that they were pawns in a superpower condominium. 这个联盟担心他们会成为超级大国共管的牺牲品。
• A number of the United States' allies had urged him not to take a hasty decision. 美国的一些盟友已力劝他不要急于作决定。

2 terrorists   

n.恐怖主义者，恐怖分子( terrorist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The terrorists have halted their bloody campaign of violence. 恐怖分子已经停止了他们凶残的暴力活动。
• They were finally forced to capitulate to the terrorists' demands. 他们最后被迫屈从恐怖分子的要求。

3 republican   

n.拥护共和政体的人； adj.共和政体的，（Republican）共和党人，（Republican）共和党的

参考例句：

• Some families have been republican for generations.有些家庭世代都支持共和党。
• A third candidate has entered the contest for the Republican nomination.第三个候选人已经加入角逐共和党提名的行列。

4 withdrawal   

n.取回，提款；撤退，撤军；收回，撤销

参考例句：

• The police were forced to make a tactical withdrawal.警方被迫进行战术撤退。
• They insisted upon a withdrawal of the statement and a public apology.他们坚持要收回那些话并公开道歉。

5 qualify   

vt.取得资格，有资格，限定，描述；vi.取得资格，有资格

参考例句：

• I won't qualify until next year.我明年才具备资格。
• You must qualify yourself for the post.你必须使自己具备担任这一工作的资格。

6 decent   

adj.象样的，不错的，体面的，正派的，恰当的

参考例句：

• We want to raise our children to be decent men and women.我们盼望把孩子们培养成优秀人才。
• There isn't even a decent table in this room.这屋里连张像样的桌子也没有。

7 persistent   

adj.坚持不懈的，执意的；持续的

参考例句：

• Albert had a persistent headache that lasted for three days.艾伯特连续头痛了三天。
• She felt embarrassed by his persistent attentions.他不时地向她大献殷勤，使她很难为情。

8 scan   

n.审视，浏览，扫描，押韵，细查；vt.细看，浏览，扫描，详细调查，信件扫描（指BBS处理直递邮件或会议邮件时，对所有或特定信区做检查的动作）

参考例句：

• The first scan was bad, so I had to do it again.第一次扫描不好，所以我得重做。
• A scan determines the position of the baby in the womb.扫描可以确定胎儿在子宮中的位置。

9 confessions   

n.承认( confession的名词复数 )；自首；声明；（向神父的）忏悔

参考例句：

• It is strictly forbidden to obtain confessions and to give them credence. 严禁逼供信。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Neither trickery nor coercion is used to secure confessions. 既不诱供也不逼供。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

10 replicate   

v.折叠，复制，模写；n.同样的样品；adj.转折的

参考例句：

• The DNA of chromatin must replicate before cell division.染色质DNA在细胞分裂之前必须复制。
• It is also easy to replicate,as the next subsection explains.就像下一个小节详细说明的那样，它还可以被轻易的复制。

11 depleted   

adj. 枯竭的, 废弃的 动词deplete的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• Food supplies were severely depleted. 食物供应已严重不足。
• Both teams were severely depleted by injuries. 两个队都因队员受伤而实力大减。

12 privacy   

n.私人权利，个人自由，隐私权

参考例句：

• In such matters,privacy is impossible.在这类事情中，保密是不可能的。
• She wept in the privacy of her own room.她在自己房内暗暗落泪。

13 smack   

vt.拍，打，掴；咂嘴；vi.含有…意味；n.拍

参考例句：

• She gave him a smack on the face.她打了他一个嘴巴。
• I gave the fly a smack with the magazine.我用杂志拍了一下苍蝇。