美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-06-01

 This is CNN Student News, it's Thursday May 29th, I'm Carl Azuz. The first story we are covering, president Obama's speech yesterday at Westport, it was a graduation speech at the US military academy, but it was a foreign policy speech too, the president wanted to define how his administration has dealt and would deal with other nations, basically representing the US on the world stage. He's been criticized on this issue, Republicans say the America has lost influence in the world under president Obama's leadership, critics say the US has appeared soft on issues concerning the Syria civil war and unrest in Ukraine. The president highlighted his administration's worked in the war in Iraq, wound down the war in Afghanistan, killed terrorist leader Osama Bin¹ Laden², he also said the true leadership isn't only having the world's most powerful military but doing the right thing. 

 

Time for the shout out, who said we may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated, if you think you know it, shout it out. Was it Franklin Roosevelt, Kevin Garnett, Helen Keller, or Maya Angelou, you've got 3 seconds, go! It was poet Maya Angelou who penned these words in addition to many others.

 

American writer Maya Angelou or Angelou knew something about defeat, she was sexually abused as a child, she's struggled and made mistake before her rise to renown³, her refusal to be defeated led her to victories in literature, dancing, acting⁴. Angelou past away yesterday morning at age 86, Fredricka Whitfield reviews a life as enduring and persevering⁵ as the words Angelou wrote. 

The hells we have lived through and live through still have sharpened our senses and toughened our will.

Celebrated⁶ poet and activist⁷ Maya Angelou may have been speaking about herself on that day in 1995, born Margaret Annie Johnson in St. Louis Missouri April 4th 1928, the hells she lived through began at the age of 7, was raped⁸ by her mom's boyfriend, after she spoke⁹ out against him, she was beaten to death by a mob. Young Margaret blamed herself, I was seven and half, and my seven and half year old logic¹⁰ deduced that my voice had killed him, so I stopped speaking, about almost 6 years. And it was during those years of silence that she discovered poetry and her love of art. 

Her poetry was first physical, winning a dance and drama scholarship in San Francisco, then later touring Europe in 1954 in Porgy and Bess, but her growing love for the written word took her to Egypt and Ghana where she became a newspaper editor, in Ghana she met Malcolm Max and returned to the US in 1964 to join his fight in the civil rights movement, after Malcolm Max's assassination¹¹, Dr.Martin Luther King Junior asked her to join him. He was killed on his birthday 1968, the following year, her memoir¹² was published, I know why the cage bird sings. More best-sellers would follow.

 

 

Blazing trails on the big and small screens, she directed documentaries, her screen play for 1972's Georgia Georgia was nominated for Pulitzer Prize, Maya Angelou was nominated for a Tony Award, she won 3 Grammys and in 2011 president Barack Obama presented her with a presidential medal of freedom. 

I am the hope and the dream of the slave, and so naturally, there I go rising.

1 bin   

n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件

参考例句：

• He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
• He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。

2 laden   

adj.装满了的；充满了的；负了重担的；苦恼的

参考例句：

• He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
• Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。

3 renown   

n.声誉，名望

参考例句：

• His renown has spread throughout the country.他的名声已传遍全国。
• She used to be a singer of some renown.她曾是位小有名气的歌手。

4 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

5 persevering   

a.坚忍不拔的

参考例句：

• They will only triumph by persevering in their struggle against natural calamities. 他们只有坚持与自然灾害搏斗，才能取得胜利。
• Success belongs to the persevering. 胜利属于不屈不挠的人。

6 celebrated   

adj.有名的，声誉卓著的

参考例句：

• He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
• The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。

7 activist   

n.活动分子，积极分子

参考例句：

• He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
• He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。

8 raped   

v.以暴力夺取，强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 )；强奸

参考例句：

• A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
• We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致，不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句

9 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

10 logic   

n.逻辑(学)；逻辑性

参考例句：

• What sort of logic is that?这是什么逻辑？
• I don't follow the logic of your argument.我不明白你的论点逻辑性何在。

11 assassination   

n.暗杀；暗杀事件

参考例句：

• The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
• Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年，林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。

12 memoir   

n.[pl.]回忆录，自传；记事录

参考例句：

• He has just published a memoir in honour of his captain.他刚刚出了一本传记来纪念他的队长。
• In her memoir,the actress wrote about the bittersweet memories of her first love.在那个女演员的自传中，她写到了自己苦乐掺半的初恋。