美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-04-02

 Today's show begins in Europe. A leader of the freeworld and a leader of the worldwide religion met for the first time yesterday.Relations between President Obama and Pope Francis have been stringed over disagreements concerning issues like abortion¹ and certain aspects of Obama care.So the two heads of state focus mainly on the things they do agree on likehelping the poor and fighting human slavery. They met in privacy for an hourafter exchanging gifts. The President gave the Pope seeds to plant and acustomer-made timber box. The Pope gave the Present two    symbolizing peace between    and a copy of the Pope's book, the Joy of the Gospel. 

 

    In the history    of Boston Massachusetts,a fire broke out Wednesday in a four-story building. A fire chief said he's 30years of service and he'd never seen a blaze travel so fast, escalate² so quickand cause so much damage in so little time. This was a nine-alarm fire, ameasure of the number of fire fighters who got involved. More than 150 arrivedto help and two of them died after rushing into the burning building and savingseveral people who had been trapped in the upper floors. New England patriots³ called      saw the fire and discussed it, and theheroes who fought on the radio.

Ifeel so badly for the family of the two firefighters that were lost and, it …obviouslyall the men associate with fire fighters yesterday losing, you know, one oftheir close friends. So, I mean, we     think we are heroes when you witnessedfirsthand, you know, what I saw yesterday you realize who the real heroesare in this world.”

 

    It’s been a frustrated⁴ and incredibly difficult search almost three weeks after a Malaysia airlines passengersvanished with 239 people aboard. Nothing has been recovered. Satellitesand     are been reported daily now. Focusedon the Southern India Ocean, but search planes had spin point anything so thatships can recover it.

    The flea⁵ searching the Southern sector⁶ tofind this missing airplane is really quite impressive. There are 11 aircraftsand 5 ships from the nearest countries out here. They are scouring⁷ in the waterbut all you have to do is look at the map and realize why this remains⁸ adifficult job. The distance form Perthwhere the flying out the planes and where these objects spotted⁹ by thesatellites radars¹⁰. That’s 1600 miles. That means a tremendous amount of energyand times affected¹¹ just getting back and forth¹² every single day. Here’s anotherway to look at it. If you consider the overall southern search area, seems621000 square miles, by the time they handle all this travel and get intopossession, and the look around for a while. Basically what they can search isabout 5% of the zone everyday. That means in perfect weather with perfectequipment everything’s going right, it will take them 20 days to get throughthis sector.

    Even if you narrow that down, if you say weare not doing the large sector, we just dong the small area of period whichjust describing the size of Denver, so 12.5 miles by 12.5 miles, that was thework sound here. Imagine taking off Washington DC in the morning of the searchgroup and you have to fly all the way across the country, out here cross thegreat planes to Colorado and when you land in Colorado, you have to move all upto Denver and then in Denver, you have to fly over the city, and you have twoor three hours to try to spot a particular mail box or a trash can, or car. Andif you do no spot it, you have to turn around and fly all the way back to Washington DC,to get more fuel and a little sleep and come back and do it again the next day.That’s why this remains such a daunting¹³ task.

 

1 abortion   

n.流产，堕胎

参考例句：

• She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
• A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。

2 escalate   

v.(使)逐步增长(或发展)，(使)逐步升级

参考例句：

• It would tempt Israel's neighbors to escalate their demands.它将诱使以色列的邻国不断把他们的要求升级。
• Defeat could cause one side or other to escalate the conflict.失败可能会导致其中一方将冲突升级。

3 patriots   

爱国者，爱国主义者( patriot的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Abraham Lincoln was a fine type of the American patriots. 亚伯拉罕·林肯是美国爱国者的优秀典型。
• These patriots would fight to death before they surrendered. 这些爱国者宁愿战斗到死，也不愿投降。

4 frustrated   

adj.挫败的，失意的，泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
• The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 flea   

n.跳蚤

参考例句：

• I'll put a flea in his ear if he bothers me once more.如果他再来打扰的话，我就要对他不客气了。
• Hunter has an interest in prowling around a flea market.亨特对逛跳蚤市场很感兴趣。

6 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

7 scouring   

擦[洗]净，冲刷，洗涤

参考例句：

• The police are scouring the countryside for the escaped prisoners. 警察正在搜索整个乡村以捉拿逃犯。
• This is called the scouring train in wool processing. 这被称为羊毛加工中的洗涤系列。

8 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

9 spotted   

adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的

参考例句：

• The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
• Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。

10 radars   

n.雷达( radar的名词复数 )；雷达装置

参考例句：

• Servos for large radars and launchers are either electro-hydraulic or all-electric. 大型雷达和发射装置的伺服系统，不是电动-液压式的，就是全电动式的。 来自辞典例句
• Range-velocity simultaneous pull-off is one of effective measures for countering PD radars. 距离-速度同步拖引干扰是对抗PD雷达的有效方法。 来自互联网

11 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

12 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

13 daunting   

adj.使人畏缩的

参考例句：

• They were faced with the daunting task of restoring the house.他们面临着修复房子的艰巨任务。
• Starting a new job can be a daunting prospect.开始一项新工作有时会让人望而却步。