美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-10-18

 Hi, welcome to CNN Student News. It's Monday. It's Columbus Day. We have more on that coming up. It's a new week of CNN Student News. In the US, we talked about hurricanes. In the Indian Ocean, these storms are called cyclones² and parts of India are recovering from the strongest cyclone¹ to hit that country in 14 years. Tropical cyclone, Phailine, hit India's eastern coast. It was the equivalent of category 4 hurricane. At least 14 people were killed. Before the storm hit, officials have evacuated³ nearly a million people. They said that effort helped limit the number of casualties. Getting people back on their feet could be challenging. The cyclone damaged property. It flooded highways. It knocked down trees and power lines. In parts of Pacific Ocean, cyclones are called typhoons and at least 13 people were killed when typhoon, Narly, hit the Philippines this weekend.More than 43000 people were forced out of their homes by that storm. Back in the United States, some of the national parks and monuments closed by the partial government shutdown are starting to reopen. New York made a deal with National Park Service to fund operations at the statue of liberty. State and local funds will help reopen Grand Canyon⁴ National Park out in Arizona and in south D., M. is set to reopen first thing this morning thanks to a similar deal. But there was no deal in Washington this weekend on either the shutdown or the debt ceiling. That deadline just 3 days away and there's talking between White House, the Republican led House of Representatives and the Democratic led Senate. There's also some serious finger pointing.

 

"Lawmakers scurrying⁵ out of Washington even though there's no deal in place to end the partial government shutdown and avoid a possible default this week." 

 

"My staff has every plan ready, every plan flight on the schedule. We're ready come back as soon as there's a vote."

 

"This thing is so fluid and so many things are changing. All I know is we got a president who does not want to negotiate."

 

"Perhaps a hit of defensiveness⁶ with talks between the White House and House Republicans having collapse⁷ in both sides blaming each other. Now, all eyes on the Senate and whether majority leader, Harry⁸ Reed, and minority leader, Mitch McConnel, can work out a compromise." 

 

"The conversations were extremely c. but very preliminary of course. Nothing conclusive⁹ but I hope that talkings give some source to the American people and the world."  

 

"But Reed is still sticking firm to key Democratic demands." 

 

"They are not doing us a favor by opening the government, reopening the government. They are not doing us a favor by extending the debt ceiling. Those are part of our jobs."

 

"Meantime, Republicans accuse the president of pulling a bait and switch."

 

"The president apparently¹⁰ was not negotiating in good faith. All his really said is whatever you offer, I'm not interested in it. He's hoping to cut a deal with Senate which would I think be a terrible deal to undermine that House.

1 cyclone   

n.旋风，龙卷风

参考例句：

• An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
• The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。

2 cyclones   

n.气旋( cyclone的名词复数 )；旋风；飓风；暴风

参考例句：

• The pricipal objective in designing cyclones is to create a vortex. 设计旋风除尘器的主要目的在于造成涡旋运动。 来自辞典例句
• Middle-latitude cyclones originate at the popar front. 中纬度地区的气旋发源于极锋。 来自辞典例句

3 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

4 canyon   

n.峡谷，溪谷

参考例句：

• The Grand Canyon in the USA is 1900 metres deep.美国的大峡谷1900米深。
• The canyon is famous for producing echoes.这个峡谷以回声而闻名。

5 scurrying   

v.急匆匆地走( scurry的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• We could hear the mice scurrying about in the walls. 我们能听见老鼠在墙里乱跑。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• We were scurrying about until the last minute before the party. 聚会开始前我们一直不停地忙忙碌碌。 来自辞典例句

6 defensiveness   

防御性

参考例句：

• The fear of being sued for malpractice has magnified physicians' defensiveness. 担心因医疗事故而被起诉的恐惧加剧了医生们的防卫心理。
• This outbreak of defensiveness embodies one paradox and several myths. 排外行动的爆发，体现了一个矛盾和几个“神话”。

7 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。

8 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

9 conclusive   

adj.最后的，结论的；确凿的，消除怀疑的

参考例句：

• They produced some fairly conclusive evidence.他们提供了一些相当确凿的证据。
• Franklin did not believe that the French tests were conclusive.富兰克林不相信这个法国人的实验是结论性的。

10 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。