CNN 2009-06-20

Hey there, on this Friday. I am Virginia Cha at the CNN center in Atlanta with a look at what 's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.

As you can see, a huge crowd in Teheran yesterday. They support opposition¹ leader Mir Hossein Mousavi. He wants a new election. The rally was described as a peaceful protest. Witnesses say people approached police silently and smiled, and the officers smiled back. Mousavi spoke² to the cheering crowd. This video is from Youtube by the way. International journalists were not allowed to cover this, but Twitter messages say, he talked about Iran's economic problems as well as corruption³.

Passengers on board Continental⁴ Airlines flight said they had no idea their pilot had died until they landed. 60-year old Craig Lenell died of an apparent heart attack halfway⁵ between Belgium and New Jersey⁶. Two copilots and a relief pilot were on board. And that apparently⁷ is normal on long flights. The plane did land safely. That's when passengers saw ambulances and fire trucks on the runway.

They've paged for a doctor?

Yes, they did. There were a lot of doctors on the plane.

Lucky?

Yes, they were very lucky instead.

And what point were you told?

Well, we may page for the medical emergency.

They called the doctor in the middle of the flight. That was it. So we did not know it with the pilot. We sat in first class. We did see the doctor moved to the front. That's all we saw.

A Minnesota woman has been fined $1.9 million for illegally sharing 24 songs she downloaded. The recording⁸ company's accused some other of illegally sharing more than 1,700 songs from her computer, but only tried to prove 24 infringements⁹. Her attorney says the computer was linked to a file sharing site, but there is no proof his client was the one who gave away those songs.

NASA takes the first step to returning to the moon by 2020. Yesterday, it launched an unmanned rocket with two satellites. The satellites will spend the next year cruising the lunar surface, will help to determine where astronauts could land and set up camp.

Those are the headlines for you this hour. Stay with CNN for more on those stories and all your other news of the day.

Twitter

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read each others' updates, known as tweets.

page

to call someone's name out in a public place, especially using a loudspeaker, in order to find them

She hurried to the reception desk and asked the girl to page her husband.

1 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

2 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。

3 corruption   

n.腐败，堕落，贪污

参考例句：

• The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
• The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。

4 continental   

adj.大陆的，大陆性的，欧洲大陆的

参考例句：

• A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
• The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。

5 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。

6 jersey   

n.运动衫

参考例句：

• He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
• They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

7 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。

8 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

9 infringements   

n.违反( infringement的名词复数 )；侵犯，伤害

参考例句：

• It'seems to me we've got to decide on wider issues than possible patent infringements. 我认为我们不能只考虑侵犯专利可能性这一问题，要对更大的一些问题做出决策。 来自企业管理英语口语（第二版）(2)
• Wikipedia relies on its users to correct errors and spot copyright infringements. 维基百科主要依靠用户来纠正错误，并发现版权侵权行为。 来自互联网