CNN 2009-05-18

We wanna talk about what we have been talking about for the last couple of months, it seems it is all coming together today, 19 protestors already have been arrested at the Notre Dame¹ campus, and this comes hours before the president even arrives, take a look.

Children all over the world, rampant² abortions⁴ ever since that man came into office.

Jesus, our king...

Well, that is just a taste of what could be waiting for the president this afternoon when he speaks at Notre Dame's graduation ceremony. Protesters who don't agree with his views, will have their signs and their chance ready. Notre Dame is a very well-known catholic university, and the Catholic Church has a rigid⁵ stance on issues like abortion³.

Meanwhile, we talk about the president and he will make a speech at Notre Dame, but he is not the only Obama on the graduation guest list, this weekend the first lady spoke⁶ at the University of California Merced yesterday, she urged the students there to dream big and to help their communities.

Remember that you are blessed, remember that in exchange for those blessings⁷, you must give something back, you must reach back and pull someone up, you must bend down and let someone else stand on your shoulders, so that they can see a brighter future, as advocate and activist⁸ Marian Wright Edelman says, service is the rent we pay for living, it is the true measure, the only measure of our success.

UC Merced is a small school in the San Joaquin valley, with less than 3, 000 students. It is the only college commencement the first lady is speaking at this year.

A kidnapped 3-year-old southern California boy has been found safe. He has reunited with his family yesterday. Police say the toddler was abducted⁹ 2 weeks ago by armed gunmen, who apparently¹⁰ had a home invasion or they were taking part in one, and the boy was found Thursday at a Mexican border town just wandering the streets alone.

3 spacewalks down to go, yesterday astronauts working on the Hubble telescope installed a brand new instrument that will let you, or let us all see the cosmos¹¹ like never before. They also fixed¹² a broken camera, today the job is removing more than 100 screws. So doing some handman work up there, the challenge is they can't let any of them float away, any of those screw.

1 dame   

n.女士

参考例句：

• The dame tell of her experience as a wife and mother.这位年长妇女讲了她作妻子和母亲的经验。
• If you stick around,you'll have to marry that dame.如果再逗留多一会，你就要跟那个夫人结婚。

2 rampant   

adj.(植物)蔓生的；狂暴的，无约束的

参考例句：

• Sickness was rampant in the area.该地区疾病蔓延。
• You cannot allow children to rampant through the museum.你不能任由小孩子在博物馆里乱跑。

3 abortion   

n.流产，堕胎

参考例句：

• She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
• A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。

4 abortions   

n.小产( abortion的名词复数 )；小产胎儿；（计划）等中止或夭折；败育

参考例句：

• The Venerable Master: By not having abortions, by not killing living beings. 上人：不堕胎、不杀生。 来自互联网
• Conclusion Chromosome abnormality is one of the causes of spontaneous abortions. 结论：染色体异常是导致反复自然流产的原因之一。 来自互联网

5 rigid   

adj.严格的，死板的；刚硬的，僵硬的

参考例句：

• She became as rigid as adamant.她变得如顽石般的固执。
• The examination was so rigid that nearly all aspirants were ruled out.考试很严，几乎所有的考生都被淘汰了。

6 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

7 blessings   

n.（上帝的）祝福( blessing的名词复数 )；好事；福分；因祸得福

参考例句：

• Afflictions are sometimes blessings in disguise. 塞翁失马，焉知非福。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• We don't rely on blessings from Heaven. 我们不靠老天保佑。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

8 activist   

n.活动分子，积极分子

参考例句：

• He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
• He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。

9 abducted   

劫持，诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展

参考例句：

• Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
• The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。

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。

11 cosmos   

n.宇宙；秩序，和谐

参考例句：

• Our world is but a small part of the cosmos.我们的世界仅仅是宇宙的一小部分而已。
• Is there any other intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos?在宇宙的其他星球上还存在别的有智慧的生物吗？

12 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。