CNN 2010-10-24

Today is the day when Britain steps back from the brink¹, when we confront the bills from a decade of debt. A day of rebuilding when we set out a four-year plan to put our public services and welfare state on a sustainable footing, reform is one of the guiding principles of the spending review, and so too is fairness. Let's be clear, there is nothing fair about running huge budget deficits³, and burdening future generations with the debts we ourselves are not prepared to pay.

Just over a week after a federal judge ordered the military to stop enforcing "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell", recruiters have complied. The Pentagon has sent a message out to the military stop enforcing "Don’t ask Don’t tell" .The Obama administration has filed as expected, an emergency motion, looking to stay that judge’s order, the government wants to bring back "Don’t ask Don’t tell", pending² an appeal, and really pending a decision by Congress to repealing⁴.

The wife of the Supreme⁵ Court justice Clarence Thomas is asking for an apology from Anita Hill, a woman who accused Thomas of sexual harassment⁶ during his confirmation⁷ hearings in the early 90s. Here is the message. She says,"Good morning, Anita Hill. It’s Ginny Thomas. I just wanna to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology some time and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband." Anita Hill said very simply and very clearly, she says, "I certainly thought the call was inappropriate, I have no intention of apologizing, because I testified truthfully about my experience, and I stand by that testimony⁸.”

"The chimpanzee comes out of nowhere, and I’m just thinking get to the house. “ So Sue decided⁹ to make a house call.

"Really loud, and really like what’s going on. And we are looking from this window right here, the next thing you know he comes over here. He tries to open up the door and he does, he opens it up and starts doing this. So I ran downstairs and locked the door real quick.”

As Sue was pounding on some vacant cars, Tonya Jennings pulled up in her Ford’s Explorer.

"Came up,jumped up on top of my Explorer,looked through the window, got on top, started punching the sunroof.”

Tonya ran to safety, and good thing she did because look closely, Sue was about to show everyone how dangerous she is, claiming onto the police car. The police officer jumping in for protection. And Pawl Sue smashes the window.

1 brink   

n.(悬崖、河流等的)边缘，边沿

参考例句：

• The tree grew on the brink of the cliff.那棵树生长在峭壁的边缘。
• The two countries were poised on the brink of war.这两个国家处于交战的边缘。

2 pending   

prep.直到，等待…期间；adj.待定的；迫近的

参考例句：

• The lawsuit is still pending in the state court.这案子仍在州法庭等待定夺。
• He knew my examination was pending.他知道我就要考试了。

3 deficits   

n.不足额( deficit的名词复数 )；赤字；亏空；亏损

参考例句：

• The Ministry of Finance consistently overestimated its budget deficits. 财政部一贯高估预算赤字。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Many of the world's farmers are also incurring economic deficits. 世界上许多农民还在遭受经济上的亏损。 来自辞典例句

4 repealing   

撤销，废除( repeal的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• In addition, repealing the alternative minimum tax would also help. 此外，废除替代性最低税也会有所帮助。
• Repealing the investment tax credit. 取消投资税款扣除。

5 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

6 harassment   

n.骚扰，扰乱，烦恼，烦乱

参考例句：

• She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
• The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。

7 confirmation   

n.证实，确认，批准

参考例句：

• We are waiting for confirmation of the news.我们正在等待证实那个消息。
• We need confirmation in writing before we can send your order out.给你们发送订购的货物之前，我们需要书面确认。

8 testimony   

n.证词；见证，证明

参考例句：

• The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
• He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。

9 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。