美国有线新闻 CNN 2015-04-23

 Here with your Tuesday edition of CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz. Got a lot of ground and water to cover today.

 

We'll start with news involving a possible ISIS recruitment network. Federal prosecutors¹ say that six men from Minneapolis, Minnesota tried to travel to Syria to join the ISIS terrorist group. They were charged on Monday. The FBI says it's the clearest evidence so far that some people in the U.S. are being recruited to join the militant² group. Officials believe an American who's already traveled to Syria and joined ISIS has been trying for months to get his friends from Minnesota to join him. U.S. officials say the families and friends of the alleged³ recruits tried several times to intervene and stop them before the FBI finally made the arrests.

 

NASA's New Horizon spacecraft has just sent back its first color photo of Pluto⁴. Five things to know about the mission.

 

1. It launched in January of 2006 at a cost of 700 million dollars. New Horizons is expected to pass relatively⁵ close to Pluto on July 14th, but still more than 7,000 miles away from it.

 

2. The spacecraft has a ways to go. But while passing Jupiter, snapping photos, it used that planet's gravity to speed up and trim its travel time to Pluto by three years.

 

3. Why Pluto? Because it's far out, man! Scientists estimate it takes the dwarf⁶ planet 248 years to orbit the Sun.

 

4. The photo shows an orange tinge⁷ to the rock and its largest moon. When the craft gets closer, it will take about four and a half hours for its photos to fly back to Earth. More detailed⁸ pictures should come in the months ahead.

 

5. A bit of history. Pluto was discovered in 1930, but it lost its planetary status in 2006. That's when the International Astronomical⁹ Union voted to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet.

1 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

2 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

3 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

4 Pluto   

n.冥王星

参考例句：

• Pluto is the furthest planet from the sun.冥王星是离太阳最远的行星。
• Pluto has an elliptic orbit.冥王星的轨道是椭圆形的。

5 relatively   

adv.比较...地，相对地

参考例句：

• The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
• The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。

6 dwarf   

n.矮子，侏儒，矮小的动植物；vt.使…矮小

参考例句：

• The dwarf's long arms were not proportional to his height.那侏儒的长臂与他的身高不成比例。
• The dwarf shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. 矮子耸耸肩膀，摇摇头。

7 tinge   

vt.(较淡)着色于，染色；使带有…气息；n.淡淡色彩，些微的气息

参考例句：

• The maple leaves are tinge with autumn red.枫叶染上了秋天的红色。
• There was a tinge of sadness in her voice.她声音中流露出一丝忧伤。

8 detailed   

adj.详细的，详尽的，极注意细节的，完全的

参考例句：

• He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
• A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。

9 astronomical   

adj.天文学的，（数字）极大的

参考例句：

• He was an expert on ancient Chinese astronomical literature.他是研究中国古代天文学文献的专家。
• Houses in the village are selling for astronomical prices.乡村的房价正在飙升。