国外媒体:纪念诺曼底登陆65周年

6月7日，在法国西部的圣梅尔埃格利斯举行的纪念盟军诺曼底登陆65周年活动中，法国、德国和美国的伞兵从一架军用飞机上跳下。

Rather weather is deteriorated² from those ceremonies earlier today when we get plenty of sunshine. Now, this is a pretty good imitation of what the soldiers, sailors and airmen must have faced 65 years ago. And D-Day mourning, it’s closed to evening in Normandy now, but in fact you can see the surf kicking out there quite a bit. It’s raining and back here on D-Day mourning there has fog, and I want to just point out the sort of difficulty that some of the servicemen had come in ashore³ here.

This is Omaha beach, part of Omaha beach, and coming on off the beach, they had to go up these cliffs, like you can see after my left, and in fact quite steep perhaps several hundred feet tall. And at the top were German gun policemen said “trenches”, and German were able to fire down directly onto the oncoming allied⁴ soldiers.

It was the kind of thing that was relived over and over again today in various parts of the beaches along here, the difficulty to come in ashore, to establish an beachhead and the amazing accomplishment⁵ those people who did it. President Barak Obama talked about that in his speech today, directly speaking to the very veterans here .

Obama: You, the veterans of our landing, so why we still remember what happened on D-day. You’re why we keep coming back, for you remind us that in the end, human destiny is not determined⁶ by forces beyond our control.

You remind us that our future is not shaped by mere⁷ chance or circumstance, our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. It has always been up to us.

All in all, a very moving occasion with all four leaders, the 2 presidents and 2 prime ministers, directly addressing the men who forced their way ashore here 65 years ago.

Jim Bittermann CNN from Omaha beach.1.deteriorate¹     

v. 恶化

例句与用法:
Food is apt to deteriorate in summer. 
食物在夏天容易变质。
Relation between the two countries have deteriorate sharply in recent week. 
最近几周那两个国家间的关系严重恶化了。

2.imitation     

n. 模仿,效法
adj. 假造的,冒充的

例句与用法:
Her innocence⁸ is only an imitation. 
她的天真只是一种伪装。
Pottery⁹ made in imitation of this earthenware¹⁰. 
花饰上釉陶器模仿这种陶器制作的陶器
His style is a slavish imitation of his teacher's. 
他一味模仿教师的风格，毫无创意。

3.cliff    

n. 悬崖,峭壁

例句与用法:
The narrow path zigzags¹¹ up the cliff. 
这条狭窄的小径曲曲折折地向峭壁伸延.
He managed to hang on to a piece of rock protruding¹² from the cliff. 
他设法抓住了悬崖上向外伸出的岩石。
There are very few holds on the cliff face. 
峭壁的正面可供手攀或脚踏的地方很少.

4.veterans      

n. 退伍军人

例句与用法:
That veteran worker must be well over sixty. 
那位老工人准有60好几了。
It was billed as "the mother of all parades." And the organizers had promised that12 million pounds of confetti, a million yellow ribbons and6, 000 tons of ticker tape would be dropped on the veterans returning from the Persian Gulf¹³ war…. 
它被秒为“一切游行之母”。主办间单位承诺将投掷1200万磅彩色碎纸，100万条黄丝带，还有6000吨白色纸条[欢迎]自波斯湾战争归来的战士……。

5.circumstance   

n. 环境,状况,事件

例句与用法:
He was forced by the circumstances to do this. 
他做此事是为环境所迫。
Due to circumstances beyond our control the lecture was cancelled. 
由于无法控制的情况，讲座取消了。

1 deteriorate   

v.变坏；恶化；退化

参考例句：

• Do you think relations between China and Japan will continue to deteriorate?你认为中日关系会继续恶化吗？
• He held that this would only cause the situation to deteriorate further.他认为，这只会使局势更加恶化。

2 deteriorated   

恶化，变坏( deteriorate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she died shortly afterwards. 她的健康状况急剧恶化，不久便去世了。
• His condition steadily deteriorated. 他的病情恶化，日甚一日。

3 ashore   

adv.在(向)岸上，上岸

参考例句：

• The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前，孩子们就上岸了。
• He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。

4 allied   

adj.协约国的；同盟国的

参考例句：

• Britain was allied with the United States many times in history.历史上英国曾多次与美国结盟。
• Allied forces sustained heavy losses in the first few weeks of the campaign.同盟国在最初几周内遭受了巨大的损失。

5 accomplishment   

n.完成，成就，（pl.）造诣，技能

参考例句：

• The series of paintings is quite an accomplishment.这一系列的绘画真是了不起的成就。
• Money will be crucial to the accomplishment of our objectives.要实现我们的目标，钱是至关重要的。

6 determined   

adj.坚定的；有决心的

参考例句：

• I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
• He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。

7 mere   

adj.纯粹的；仅仅，只不过

参考例句：

• That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
• It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。

8 innocence   

n.无罪；天真；无害

参考例句：

• There was a touching air of innocence about the boy.这个男孩有一种令人感动的天真神情。
• The accused man proved his innocence of the crime.被告人经证实无罪。

9 pottery   

n.陶器，陶器场

参考例句：

• My sister likes to learn art pottery in her spare time.我妹妹喜欢在空余时间学习陶艺。
• The pottery was left to bake in the hot sun.陶器放在外面让炎热的太阳烘晒焙干。

10 earthenware   

n.土器，陶器

参考例句：

• She made sure that the glassware and earthenware were always spotlessly clean.她总是把玻璃器皿和陶器洗刷得干干净净。
• They displayed some bowls of glazed earthenware.他们展出了一些上釉的陶碗。

11 zigzags   

n.锯齿形的线条、小径等( zigzag的名词复数 )v.弯弯曲曲地走路，曲折地前进( zigzag的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。
• History moves in zigzags and by roundabout ways. 历史的发展是曲折的，迂回的。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

12 protruding   

v.（使某物）伸出，（使某物）突出( protrude的现在分词 )；凸

参考例句：

• He hung his coat on a nail protruding from the wall. 他把上衣挂在凸出墙面的一根钉子上。
• There is a protruding shelf over a fireplace. 壁炉上方有个突出的架子。 来自辞典例句

13 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。