美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-06-09

 Welcome to the roll call, look up in the sky, it’s a bird, a plane, it’s golden eagles, you. The firm Dale high school, golden eagles are watching, they are parts of the Washington state. Over Bale plane, Minnesota, we see some toggles? on the cloud. Hello to Bale plane junior high, and in the peach day, in the city of George, it’s ? middle school rounding up today’s roll.

It’s happened before, a hail storm struck the wood house auto¹ family, a car dealership² outside the ? . And people from all over called up looking for discount. The hail that hit this week was the size of baseballs, it dropped on 4300 vehicles, company officials estimate the damage cause 162 million dollars. Police say 20 people in the area are taken to the hospital with injuries.  The lines? of severe storms that hit the nation’s hard land brought at least 12 reports of possible tornadoes³, trees are down, powers are knocked out, and flooding are struck in the Alasca. Severe weathers was headed east last night. Storms are expected in the middle of Atlantic state today.

It’s been five years since the great recession officially ended; this is the economic downturn that hit between 2007 and 2009. But it’s still having effects on people, CNN money says the recovery of U.S jobs has been the slowest ever; more Americans are using food stamps than ever. Wages are rising, but barely. Is this all taking a toll⁴ on the American dream? The American dream is the national ideal of the goal of prosperity and success, but in CNN money, American dream call 59% of people say regardless of how you define it, it’s not achievable. Young adults are the most pessimistic; they had a hard time finding the job as the country recovered from the recession. And they are already concerned about the next generation, too. 63% of Americans say most of children in the U.S will not be better off than their parents. The problem is that while most people are managing to try water?, that’s not translating into solid financial security. 

 

But not everybody is on board with this finding; the brooking⁵ center says the American dream isn’t it. And that these negative perceptions aren’t necessarily supported by facts since two major studies earlier this year show that the ability to climb the economic ladder has not changed significantly over time. I am Alex, New York.

1 auto   

n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车

参考例句：

• Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
• The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。

2 dealership   

n.商品特许经销处

参考例句：

• The car dealership has a large inventory of used cars. 这家汽车经销商拥有数量庞大的二手车。
• A key to this effort is the experience in the dealership. 达到这个成果的关键是销售的体验。

3 tornadoes   

n.龙卷风，旋风( tornado的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Tornadoes, severe earthquakes, and plagues create wide spread havoc. 龙卷风、大地震和瘟疫成普遍的毁坏。 来自互联网
• Meteorologists are at odds over the working of tornadoes. 气象学者对龙卷风的运动方式看法不一。 来自互联网

4 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

5 brooking   

容忍，忍受（brook的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• She was brooking over whether life was worth living. 她在沉思人生是否值得活下去。
• In his talk at Washington's Brooking Brookings Institution, Summers spoke of the psychology of fear. 萨默斯在华盛顿布鲁金斯学会演讲时提到恐惧的心理学。