美国有线新闻 CNN 2015-05-16

 I'm Carl Azuz with CNN Student News. It's good to see you this Wednesday.

 

Today's commercial-free coverage¹ starts in the Southern Asian country of Nepal, where there's been another earthquake. 

 

Tuesday's tremor² with magnitude 7.3, not as powerful as the 7.8 magnitude quake that struck on April 25th, but still deadly and very destructive. It killed at least 50 people in Nepal, 17 people in India and one person in Tibet. It caused more buildings to collapse³, more landslides⁴ to tumble, and more people to run for their lives. 

 

This quake was centered west of Kathmandu and a little closer to the capital than the one two weeks ago. One man said it was like the whole earth was alive. It left more than 1,200 people injured and many others asking, when Nepal can return to normal? The impoverished⁵ country still needs help. 

 

At cnnstudentnews.com, we have a link to CNN's "Impact Your World" site. It can connect you to several of the charity and aid organizations that are helping⁶ earthquake victims in the region.

 

The Shell oil company is one step closer to drilling for oil in a very cold part of the world--the Chukchi Sea. It's located in the Arctic Circle, between Alaska and Russia. The U.S. government gave Shell the green light this week, saying that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management had taken into account the environmental, social and ecological⁷ resources in the region.

 

Some environmental groups have opposed Shell's efforts for years. Greenpeace said it could lead to disaster in the Arctic. 

 

Shell still needs the approval of some other American organizations before it can start its oil search, and a British energy expert says if oil prices stay low, the company might not get much return on its investment.

 

Yesterday, the Barack Obama Foundation announced that Chicago, Illinois, would be home of the 44th president's library, specifically the South Side of Chicago. It's 500 million dollar project, roughly the cost of the library of his predecessor⁸, President George W. Bush.

 

A presidential library is kind of a library and a kind of a museum and kind of an archive, but mainly, it's a living memorial to the chief executives of our country. 

 

The first one came around in the late 1930s. Franklin Roosevelt has been steaming along as president, he looked around his office and he said, "I got a lot of papers here. We've been dealing⁹ with the Great Depression. We need to do something with this record so people can see it later on."

 

Eventually, Congress got on board and said, what we need to do is have a rule here. Basically, the rule is that the president who is going out, raises the money to build his presidential library and museum, or whatever he wants to call it, and then the taxpayers¹⁰ take over and basically pay for it running .

 

It's not a library in the sense that you wouldn't go and check out a copy of "Black Beauty". The courts decided¹¹ a long time ago, we gave him a nice house, we gave him a nice job, we gave him a nice office. That stuff belongs to us, and we get to see it. 

 

So, with a few restrictions¹², most of the official business of the White House that a president does: the people he meets, conversations he has, everything that's recorded there, winds up in these archives.

 

Presidential libraries do allow you to have a really up close personal look at these presidents in some ways, the way you can't really see it through the news. For example, I walked through Jimmy Carter's library once with Jimmy Carter and he stopped and talked about his Nobel Prize and how he felt when he got it. 

 

Another time, I walked with the elder President Bush through his library, down in College Station, Texas, and we stopped at a replica¹³ of his office from Camp David, and he stood there and shook his head and he said, "it's exactly the way it was."

 

Presidential libraries are tourist attractions and that every town that has one advertises it, but they're also serving a more serious purpose. Think about this: there are hundreds of millions of documents and papers buried in these libraries, and those are pored over on a weekly basis by historians and researches who every now and then come up with new information that shed new light on how a decision was made, or how the president thought.

 

If you get a chance to go to the White House and talk to the president, be careful what you say, because one day, it could wind up in a presidential library with everybody looking.

1 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

2 tremor   

n.震动，颤动，战栗，兴奋，地震

参考例句：

• There was a slight tremor in his voice.他的声音有点颤抖。
• A slight earth tremor was felt in California.加利福尼亚发生了轻微的地震。

3 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

4 landslides   

山崩( landslide的名词复数 )； （山坡、悬崖等的）崩塌； 滑坡； （竞选中）一方选票占压倒性多数

参考例句：

• Landslides have cut off many villages in remote areas. 滑坡使边远地区的许多村庄与外界隔绝。
• The storm caused landslides and flooding in Savona. 风暴致使萨沃纳发生塌方和洪灾。

5 impoverished   

adj.穷困的，无力的，用尽了的v.使（某人）贫穷( impoverish的过去式和过去分词 )；使（某物）贫瘠或恶化

参考例句：

• the impoverished areas of the city 这个城市的贫民区
• They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment. 他们因长期失业而一贫如洗。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 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。

7 ecological   

adj.生态的，生态学的

参考例句：

• The region has been declared an ecological disaster zone.这个地区已经宣布为生态灾难区。
• Each animal has its ecological niche.每种动物都有自己的生态位.

8 predecessor   

n.前辈，前任

参考例句：

• It will share the fate of its predecessor.它将遭受与前者同样的命运。
• The new ambassador is more mature than his predecessor.新大使比他的前任更成熟一些。

9 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

10 taxpayers   

纳税人，纳税的机构( taxpayer的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
• She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。

11 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

12 restrictions   

约束( restriction的名词复数 )； 管制； 制约因素； 带限制性的条件（或规则）

参考例句：

• I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
• a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制

13 replica   

n.复制品

参考例句：

• The original conservatory has been rebuilt in replica.温室已按原样重建。
• The young artist made a replica of the famous painting.这位年轻的画家临摹了这幅著名的作品。