美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-08-19

 Welcome to CNN Student News, briningstories from around the world right to your classroom. We're are heading thethree continents today. And we start in the North African nation of Egypt. OnMonday we review the violence of political crisis that the country went throughthis summer. Teachers you can find that report on our homepage. The violence inEgypt isn't over. Yesterday Egyptian security forces moved in the two camps ofprotestors. These are people who support Mohammed Morsi. He was electedpresident in 2012 and then removed from power this summer. Security forces usebulldozers to knock down tents in the camps. And chaos² broke out withprotestors fighting against the Egyptian forces. At least 278 were reportedlykilled, including one photo journalist covering the story. CNN crews in Egyptfound themselves in the middle of the fighting.

 

 

 

"There are neighborhoods in this city. They're simply unrecognizable atthis hour because they have been turned into a war zone.Wow, that was... thatwas a huge explosion..."

 

 

 

Egypt declared a month-long state of emergency starting yesterday. Here wasSecretary of State John Kerry says the world is watching closely and is deeplyconcerned.

 

 

 

Is this legit? You have to be at least 45 years old to be president of UnitedStates. No, not true. The Constitution says the presidential age minimum at 35.

 

 

 

That's not the only requirement that the founding fathers put in the U.S.Constitution. To be eligible³ as president, you have to be at least 35, havebeen a resident in the U.S. for at least 14 years, and be a natural-borncitizen. It might seem pretty straightforward⁴, but it might not be. There is adebate going on right now that involves U.S. Senator Ted¹ Cruz and what exactlythat last presidential requirement that natural-born citizen line means. AthenaJones breaks it down.

 

 

 

He is a potential presidential contender, but he wasn't born in the U.S. So ishe even eligible to run? He says he is. Cruz was born in Canada to a Cubanfather and an American mother.

 

 

 

"My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She is a U.S. citizen so I ama U.S. citizen by birth." 

 

 

 

The Constitution says only a natural-born citizen can be president. But whatwas "natural-born" mean?

 

 

 

"As long as he qualified⁵ as a citizen of United States at birth which hedoes by law, then that makes him a natural-born citizen."

 

 

 

This citizenship⁶ question isn't new. Former GOP candidate John McCain was bornto American parents in the Panama Canal Zone, raising questions. To try to putthe matter to rest. The senate passed a nonbinding resolution in 2008recognizing McCain as a natural-born citizen. But even that resolution notedthat the Constitution doesn't define the term.

 

 

 

"This is an example of an interpretation⁷ of the Constitution that was reallyfleshed out by Congress itself."

 

 

 

Law professor Randy Barnett is talking about statute⁸. But a 50-page report bythe Congressional Research Service provides another clue about how Congressviews the issue. That report says natural-born applies to those born brought toU.S. citizen parents. It doesn't address those born brought to one U.S. parent,but the argument goes if Cruz can claim citizenship through his mother at birthand the scholars we spoke⁹ with say he can, then he can claim to be natural-born,but that doesn't mean it's the end of the story. In the case of PresidentObama, even providing a copy of his Hawaiian birth certificate hasn't quietedso-called births like Donald Trump¹⁰.

 

 

 

"Well I don't know was there a birth certificate, you tell me. You knowsome people say that was not his birth certificates. I'm saying I don't know,nobody knows."

 

 

 

So what Cruz candidacy ignite a further movement of his own? It's anybody'sguess.

1 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

2 chaos   

n.混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
• The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。

3 eligible   

adj.有条件被选中的；(尤指婚姻等)合适(意)的

参考例句：

• He is an eligible young man.他是一个合格的年轻人。
• Helen married an eligible bachelor.海伦嫁给了一个中意的单身汉。

4 straightforward   

adj.正直的，坦率的；易懂的，简单的

参考例句：

• A straightforward talk is better than a flowery speech.巧言不如直说。
• I must insist on your giving me a straightforward answer.我一定要你给我一个直截了当的回答。

5 qualified   

adj.合格的，有资格的，胜任的，有限制的

参考例句：

• He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
• We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。

6 citizenship   

n.市民权，公民权，国民的义务(身份)

参考例句：

• He was born in Sweden,but he doesn't have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生，但没有瑞典公民身分。
• Ten years later,she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后，她选择了澳大利亚国籍。

7 interpretation   

n.解释，说明，描述；艺术处理

参考例句：

• His statement admits of one interpretation only.他的话只有一种解释。
• Analysis and interpretation is a very personal thing.分析与说明是个很主观的事情。

8 statute   

n.成文法，法令，法规；章程，规则，条例

参考例句：

• Protection for the consumer is laid down by statute.保障消费者利益已在法令里作了规定。
• The next section will consider this environmental statute in detail.下一部分将详细论述环境法令的问题。

9 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。

10 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。