美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-01-10

 Hi, welcome to CNN Student News. I'm Carl Azuz, and I'm bundled up. Much of the US feeling the effects of Polar Vortex which sounds cool to say it means something much cooler. We are focusing a lot today show on the cold. How cold is it? Well, in Chicago,the national weather service called it "Siberia" yesterday. Temperatures fell to 14 below zero, that was colder than the South Pole, in Antarctica. Minneapolis, Minnesota warned its citizens of historical and life-threatening cold. With wind chills hovering¹ around 50 below zero, frostbite can happen in a matter of minutes. Now, about that Polar Vortex, it's the circulation of the winds that normally surround the North Pole. But occasionally, those winds can get distorted, they can deep south, and when that happens.

 

Brutally² cold arctic air is spreading a dangerous deep freeze over half the country. The frigid³ blast forcing schools and government officers to close from deep south to the northeast.

 

Temperatures that we're talking about are deadly. This is a commination that is unlikely anything we've seen in a long, long time. 

 

Nearly 140 million people were experienced wind chills temperatures of zero degrees or below by Wednesday. Temperatures the country hasn't seen in decades, in fact, Chicago, St. Louis and Atlanta are all colder than Anxx, Alaska. 

 

The conditions are very bad, roads are very slippery.

 

And it's not just the plummeting⁴ temperatures. A massive snow storm battering⁵ mid-west dumped up to 16 inches of snow in St. Louis. The iconic St. Louis Arch, barely visible under the onslaught of snow. 

 

This is a dangerous storm, driving conditions range from difficult to impossible. 

 

In XXX, the entire basketball team from Southern XX University got stranded⁷ in the snow. Returning home from a game, their bus caught in a powerful winter storm. The team was stuck on the interstate for six hours before a tow truck was able to dig them out. But there's a relief inside, the sub-zero temperatures and snow were virturally be gone by Wednesday. 

 

See if you can ID me. I'm a typle of flu virus that's spread worldwide in 2009. My symptoms are like those of typical flu, but I used to be known as swine flu, because I'm like a virus circulates in pigs. I'm H1N1 and I'm the most common strand⁶ flu that Americans are catching⁸ this year. 

 

Of course, we don't catch it from pigs, we catch it from other people. And with flu season in full swine, millions of Americans are coughing, running fevers, getting chills and body aches. And unfortunately passing it around. Just over the past week,  the number of states reporting wide spread flu activity jumped from ten states to 25. Wide spread means large chunks⁹ of states are reporting flu cases. The most common strain, the H1N1 virus is affecting a lot of young people, particularly in the South. With proper care, it's not usually life-threatening, but it's sure not fun. So how can you avoid it? Doctor says the flu vaccine¹⁰ is a good start, it takes about two weeks before it's effective though. Another way to protect yourself, wash your hands then exposed wash your hands. Ready to eat, wash your hands. It makes the virus less likely to hit your body. 

 

We always enjoy taking a moment to recognize some of the schools recognizing  us. It's time for the CNN Student News. "Roll Call", we are gonna start out west with the neurotic¹¹ country high school mustangs. They are online in Caspar, Whileming, North Stafford High, you are on our roll. The wolvins are watching Stafford, Virginia. And leaving a legacy¹² in Orlando, Florida, we are taking off with jets from legacy middle school.  Our friends in Minnesota know about the same paul winter carnival¹³, called the coolest celebration on earth. They've got some competition in northern of China, and like the American event, you can't mind the cold. This celebrates it. If highs in the single digits¹⁴ don't keep you lock inside, the reward is carved artwork of snow and ice. Multicolored lights accent the frigid architecture. And as you might guess, it attacks tourists from all over the world, who hopefully remember their colds. China actually offers travel packages focused on this event. Well, you might be wondering, how long of this come together. 

 

If you think you are pretty handy building a snowman, you  might want to get yourself to Northeast China where most builders one of the coolest shows on earth, the annual Harbin Ice Festival. Thousands of workers have been hacking¹⁵ blocks of ice out of the river to carve giant sculptures and make fairy tale palaces and castles. One of the main attractions this year, a replica¹⁶ church set to tower 115 high. All of ice is illuminated¹⁷ with computer controlled displays. Of course, if you are coming, don't forget your thermal¹⁸ underwear. Organizers say  you can catch frostbite.

1 hovering   

鸟( hover的现在分词 )； 靠近（某事物）； （人）徘徊； 犹豫

参考例句：

• The helicopter was hovering about 100 metres above the pad. 直升机在离发射台一百米的上空盘旋。
• I'm hovering between the concert and the play tonight. 我犹豫不决今晚是听音乐会还是看戏。

2 brutally   

adv.残忍地，野蛮地，冷酷无情地

参考例句：

• The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
• A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。

3 frigid   

adj.寒冷的，凛冽的；冷淡的；拘禁的

参考例句：

• The water was too frigid to allow him to remain submerged for long.水冰冷彻骨，他在下面呆不了太长时间。
• She returned his smile with a frigid glance.对他的微笑她报以冷冷的一瞥。

4 plummeting   

v.垂直落下，骤然跌落( plummet的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Prices are rising, falling, going up, going down, shooting up, plummeting, etc. 物价在上涨、下跌、上升、下落、猛然上涨、骤然下跌等。 来自辞典例句
• The enemy plane went plummeting into the sea. 敌机直直掉进海里。 来自辞典例句

5 battering   

n.用坏，损坏v.连续猛击( batter的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The film took a battering from critics in the US. 该影片在美国遭遇到批评家的猛烈抨击。
• He kept battering away at the door. 他接连不断地砸门。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 strand   

vt.使（船）搁浅，使（某人）困于（某地）

参考例句：

• She tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ears.她把一缕散发夹到了耳后。
• The climbers had been stranded by a storm.登山者被暴风雨困住了。

7 stranded   

a.搁浅的，进退两难的

参考例句：

• He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
• I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。

8 catching   

adj.易传染的，有魅力的，迷人的，接住

参考例句：

• There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
• Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。

9 chunks   

厚厚的一块( chunk的名词复数 )； （某物）相当大的数量或部分

参考例句：

• a tin of pineapple chunks 一罐菠萝块
• Those chunks of meat are rather large—could you chop them up a bIt'smaller? 这些肉块相当大，还能再切小一点吗？

10 vaccine   

n.牛痘苗，疫苗；adj.牛痘的，疫苗的

参考例句：

• The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
• She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。

11 neurotic   

adj.神经病的，神经过敏的；n.神经过敏者，神经病患者

参考例句：

• Nothing is more distracting than a neurotic boss. 没有什么比神经过敏的老板更恼人的了。
• There are also unpleasant brain effects such as anxiety and neurotic behaviour.也会对大脑产生不良影响，如焦虑和神经质的行为。

12 legacy   

n.遗产，遗赠；先人(或过去)留下的东西

参考例句：

• They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
• He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。

13 carnival   

n.嘉年华会，狂欢，狂欢节，巡回表演

参考例句：

• I got some good shots of the carnival.我有几个狂欢节的精彩镜头。
• Our street puts on a carnival every year.我们街的居民每年举行一次嘉年华会。

14 digits   

n.数字( digit的名词复数 )；手指，足趾

参考例句：

• The number 1000 contains four digits. 1000是四位数。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The number 410 contains three digits. 数字 410 中包括三个数目字。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

15 hacking   

n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动

参考例句：

• The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
• We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。

16 replica   

n.复制品

参考例句：

• The original conservatory has been rebuilt in replica.温室已按原样重建。
• The young artist made a replica of the famous painting.这位年轻的画家临摹了这幅著名的作品。

17 illuminated   

adj.被照明的；受启迪的

参考例句：

• Floodlights illuminated the stadium. 泛光灯照亮了体育场。
• the illuminated city at night 夜幕中万家灯火的城市

18 thermal   

adj.热的，由热造成的；保暖的

参考例句：

• They will build another thermal power station.他们要另外建一座热能发电站。
• Volcanic activity has created thermal springs and boiling mud pools.火山活动产生了温泉和沸腾的泥浆池。