CNN 2010-10-22

Today, approximately 4:55 a.m, 5 or 7 gunshots were reported by Pentagon police officers, in the vicinity of Pentagon South Parking Lots. Oh, right now, and we consider this a 'Radom event'. You know, if our investigation¹ and others, you know, as you can , that it's part of a larger incident. You know, we've got to evaluate that. Right now, we can only process what we have, what we have is an isolated² event so far.

3 suicide bombers³ entering the heavily-guarded parliament building in the cental the Chechen capital Grozny. Official say one of them detonated his explosives near the entrance, the others barricading⁴ themselve inside exchanging gunfire with security forces before detonated their own devices. State television show images of people being evacuated⁵ from the area in armed vehicles as troops secured the streets outside.

An very impressive numbers of demostrators on the street today, the union said about 3.5 million, the government said about 1.1 million. One of things that would start this demonstration⁶ for sure though today was the involvment of students, a lot more students out there. Apart from those big organized demenstration, there were sporadic⁷ outburst of violence across the country, in various locations, not really representitive. The organized demonstration said the unions put together in fact, the union were dead set against this kind of ourburst. But we saw several different parts of the country where cars were burned, and windows smashed in shops. Now, president Sarkozy has said that he's going to stand firm against that kind of violence, and he also said it was not uneasy to say and take to in fact, raise retirement⁸ age by 2 years, but he felt he had to do it.

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Right there, we thought maybe it's over, and if you notice all of you PRP's players, coaches right on field celebrated⁹, and there's last flat road, and there we go.

1 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

2 isolated   

adj.与世隔绝的

参考例句：

• His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
• Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。

3 bombers   

n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟

参考例句：

• Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 barricading   

设路障于，以障碍物阻塞( barricade的现在分词 )； 设路障[防御工事]保卫或固守

参考例句：

• He was barricading himself against possibilities. 他严阵以待可能发生的事。
• As he had anticipated, a thundering iron gate fell nearby, barricading the entrance to the suite. 果然不出馆长所料，附近的一扇铁门轰然倒下，封住了通往画廊的入口。

5 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

6 demonstration   

n.表明，示范，论证，示威

参考例句：

• His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
• He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。

7 sporadic   

adj.偶尔发生的 [反]regular；分散的

参考例句：

• The sound of sporadic shooting could still be heard.仍能听见零星的枪声。
• You know this better than I.I received only sporadic news about it.你们比我更清楚，而我听到的只是零星消息。

8 retirement   

n.退休，退职

参考例句：

• She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
• I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。

9 celebrated   

adj.有名的，声誉卓著的

参考例句：

• He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
• The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。