美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-04-14

 Welcome to Thursday's edition of CNN student news. It's good to see you. I'm Carl Azuz at the CNN Center.First up, at least 20 people were injured yesterday at a high school in Pennsylvania. Some of them very seriously, and one student is being held by police. They say it was a stabbing attack by a male student. A school principal and a resource officer were somehow able to stop and handcuff the attacker. As investigators¹ work to figure out why this happen, stories of rescues are already coming out from Franklin Regional Senior High School. At one hospital, victims were taken, a doctor said because a female student acted quickly and applied² pressure to the wounds of a male victim, she might have saved his life.

 

 

President Obama arrived at Fort Hood³ yesterday. Last week, the military base in Texas saw its second mass shooting in five years. And yesterday's event was a memorial service for the victims of that.

Today, four American soldiers are gone. Four Army families are devastated⁴. As commander-in-chief, I'm determined⁵ that we will continue to step up our effects. To reach our troops and veterans who are hurting, to deliver to them the care they need, to make sure we never stigmatize⁶ those who have the courage to seek help.

 

 

Our next story today, the world's biggest automaker is making a big recall, five of them, actually. We are talking about Toyota. 27 model are affected⁷ by this, from the Camry, Corolla, Matrix and Highlander⁸, to the Subaru Trezia and Pontiac Vibe, which were built by Toyota. This includes cars made between 2004 and 2013, a total of more than 6 million vehicles around the world, 2 million of them are in North America. There are several parts, Toyota plans to inspect and possibly replace. Seats rails, engine starters, windshield wiper motors, airbag cables. The Toyota says it doesn't know of any crashed or injured caused by problems with these parts. This is Toyota's second major worldwide recall this year.

1 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

3 hood   

n.头巾，兜帽，覆盖；v.罩上，以头巾覆盖

参考例句：

• She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
• The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。

4 devastated   

v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词)；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮adj.毁坏的；极为震惊的

参考例句：

• The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
• His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。

5 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。

6 stigmatize   

v.污蔑，玷污

参考例句：

• Children in single-parent families must not be stigmatized.单亲家庭的孩子们不应该受到歧视。
• They are often stigmatized by the rest of society as lazy and dirty.他们经常被社会中的其他人污蔑为懒惰、肮脏。

7 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。

8 highlander   

n.高地的人，苏格兰高地地区的人

参考例句：

• They call him the highlander, he is Rory McLeod! 他们叫他寻事者，他是罗瑞·麦克劳德！ 来自互联网