CNN 美国有线新闻 2014-09-22

 Today on CNN student news, the last space shuttle launched in 2011 was a blast from the past. We'll tell you NASA will look for the future of space exploration. First of those, we take California where fire fighters are recently containing wild fires that are scorching¹ part of the Sate². About 60 miles east of Sacromeno, an eldorado national forest, one fire has churned up about 8600 acres by yesterday afternoon. That's like 8600 football fields. And it was only 5% contained when we produce the show. Thousands of people had to evacuate³ their homes. And this is only one of almost a dozen different fires that were fueled by the state story drought. California seized a lot of wild fires. It has a wild fire season that runs from mainly October. But Cowfires says this one is on track to be the most destructive season ever. A heat wave that settled over California this week isn't helping⁴. 

 

Jumping cross country to a land, Geogias, headquarters of the centers for disease control and prevention and it's where Presedent Obama spoke⁵ yesterday about Ebola. Several nations in the west Africa are losing their fight against it. There are more people with suspected Ebola than there are hospital beds to treat them. The US has committed 100 million dollors to efforts to help stop the fever from spreading. Yesterday the President asked Congress to approve additional 88mln. It will be used to build trip centers in west Africa, and send more American medical workers to affected⁶ regions. Obama administration officials say as many as 3000 additional US troops could be sent to west Africa as well. The U.N. says Ebola could become a major humanitarian⁷ crisis. 

 

NASA, the national aeronautics⁸ space administration, is calling taxi. Its space shuttle program might be invented 3 years ago, but it's using some of the tax-payer funding gaits to pay private companies to invent space taxies. Vehicles that could potentially get Americans to the International space station may be beyond. The launch from Florida can be space station starting in 2017. So who will be making them?

 

A major mouth has in mind. A new private vasaries. Bona has warned a majority of mass commercial coupon⁹ contract to a space shuttle.  

 

Buliding CSTEEN100 will favor American astronauts back and forth¹⁰ to the international space issue. This is a big deal since NASA cancel the shuttle program in 2017. We have to rely on Russia to get our astronauts into space. Seats on the Russian Soruse Capsule cost over 17mln $ each. Now actually be signed CSteen100 designed for safety.

 

It's actually pretty quipped there. It can filliped 7 but it's configured to only 5 right now.

 

Boinbida, two other private companies to win this contract, seeavada and elonmaSpace X which one the smaller contract to developing alternative deborns capsule, the dragon. NASA turn to the private sector¹¹ to reduce the cost and risk in the long and short term. That set off a new private space race, and ne announce marks a big win for bowing. Both beneficiaries told me they believe the industry could be worth 20bln $ over the next 20 years.

1 scorching   

adj. 灼热的

参考例句：

• a scorching, pitiless sun 灼热的骄阳
• a scorching critique of the government's economic policy 对政府经济政策的严厉批评

2 sate   

v.使充分满足

参考例句：

• Nothing could sate the careerist's greed for power.什么也满足不了这个野心家的权力欲。
• I am sate with opera after listening to it for a whole weekend.听了整整一个周末的歌剧，我觉得腻了。

3 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

4 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。

5 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。

6 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。

7 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

8 aeronautics   

n.航空术，航空学

参考例句：

• National Aeronautics and Space undertakings have made great progress.国家的航空航天事业有了很大的发展。
• He devoted every spare moment to aeronautics.他把他所有多余的时间用在航空学上。

9 coupon   

n.息票，配给票，附单

参考例句：

• The coupon can be used once only.此优惠券只限使用一次。
• I have a coupon for ten pence off a packet of soap.我有一张优惠券买一盒肥皂可以便宜十便士。

10 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

11 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。