美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-06-08

 It's great to have you watching CNN Student News, this is our second to last show of the school year, I'm Carl Azuz, and I am glad to bring it to you.

 

With covered a lot of back and forth¹ this week surrounding a controversial prisoner exchange, in order to bring home army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the last American captive from the wars in Iraq Afghanistan, the Obama administration ok'd the release of 5 high ranking members of the Taliban. Afghanistan's former ruler who has ties to terrorists, and a new video from the Taliban shows the moment when Sgt. Bergdahl was released. He's taken from a truck, walked over to US special forces who were seen shaking hands with Taliban members, and put board in black helicopter, a US senator says the video will likely be used as propaganda by the Taliban. 

 

That group has called the exchange a big victory, the Obama administration which's been criticized by democrats² and republicans over the exchange says needed to act fast because Bergdahl's health was in jeopardy³, as debate over that continues, Randy Kay looks into the history of prisoner exchanges. 

 

Prisoners swaps⁴ in America are resolved the country itself, think back to the American revolutionary war, president Georgia Washington exchanged prisoners for Americans, this letter from the national archives, written by Washington himself lays out the terms of one such exchange. President Madison swapped⁵ prisoners too, during the war of 1825, trading the enemy for an American military personnel. Abraham Lincoln also traded enemy fighters for American soldiers.

 

Fast forward to 1962, when Francis Garry Power in American pilot, was released by Russia in exchange for a convicted Soviet⁶ spy named Rudolph Abel, Power's plane was down in 1960 during a reconnaissance fly over to Moscow, the two work exchange in middle of a bridge between east Germany and west Germany, Power's family was informed just 5 minutes before the White House announced it. In March 1991, at the end of the first Gulf⁷ war, Iraqi accepted the terms of ceasefire, that led to exchanges of POWs, including 35 Americans, which were freed in center Riyadh, as many as 20 prisoners from allied⁸ forces were handed over too. everyone was a hero, they looked happy to be home, happy to be. but what about in on-going conflict when US soldier is being held by a designated terrorist organization, on that score, there dose not seem to be any precedent⁹, Randy Kay, CNN, NY.

1 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

2 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 jeopardy   

n.危险；危难

参考例句：

• His foolish behaviour may put his whole future in jeopardy.他愚蠢的行为可能毁了他一生的前程。
• It is precisely at this juncture that the boss finds himself in double jeopardy.恰恰在这个关键时刻，上司发现自己处于进退两难的境地。

4 swaps   

交换( swap的名词复数 )； 交换物，被掉换者

参考例句：

• He swaps his old car for a new motorcycle. 他用旧车换了一辆新摩托车。 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 口语
• Swaps the anchor and end points of the current selection. 交换当前所选内容的定位点和结束点。

5 swapped   

交换（工作）( swap的过去式和过去分词 )； 用…替换，把…换成，掉换（过来）

参考例句：

• I liked her coat and she liked mine, so we swapped. 我喜欢她的外套，她喜欢我的外套，于是我们就交换了。
• At half-time the manager swapped some of the players around. 经理在半场时把几名队员换下了场。

6 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

7 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。

8 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。

9 precedent   

n.先例，前例；惯例；adj.在前的，在先的

参考例句：

• Is there a precedent for what you want me to do?你要我做的事有前例可援吗？
• This is a wonderful achievement without precedent in Chinese history.这是中国历史上亘古未有的奇绩。