美国有线新闻 CNN 2015-04-21

 March 10th, 2014, was the first time we reported on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. It had vanished two days earlier in flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China. More than a year after that, officials say they've covered most of the priority search zone in the Southern Indian Ocean. Still no sign of the aircraft and its 239 passengers and crew. Authorities say if they haven't found anything by the time they finish the current search area, they'll double it in size to an area bigger than the state of Pennsylvania and keep on looking. Government officials from Malaysia, China and Australia say they're committed to finding out what happened to Flight 370 and bringing closure to the families and loved ones of those aboard.

 

It was another week of good news/bad news for SpaceX, a private space exploration company that has a $1.6 billion contract from NASA.

 

The good news, it got an unmanned spacecraft off the ground and into orbit this week. It's headed for the International Space Station, bringing along supplies, research equipment and an espresso machine for astronauts. SpaceX is trying to perfect a reusable rocket, one that softly lands on a platform in the ocean after getting the cargo¹ ship into orbit.

 

The bad news, it'll have to keep trying. The one that launched on Tuesday reportedly made it to the platform but then tipped over and exploded. A similar incident happened in January, but SpaceX isn't giving up, hoping one day to land rockets back on the ground if they master landings at sea.

 

This month marks a couple of major events in U.S. Civil War history. On April 9th, 1965, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his 28,000 remaining troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. It was the end of major hostilities² in the War Between the States, though some skirmishes and additional Confederate surrenders continued afterward³.

 

Five days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 14th, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated⁴. His legacy⁵ is still very much alive in America.

 

The bells of Washington D.C. tolled⁶ to remember Lincoln. It was 150 years ago when this nation lost President Abraham Lincoln to an assassin's bullet. The man who held the Union together and freed the slaves, still captivates us.

 

Do you all have tickets?

 

His legacy drives sales, books, movies.

 

A government of the people, by the people, for the people.

 

Decades later, this silk has worn, but his hat remains⁷ instantly recognizable. Thousands of tourists flocking here to buy tickets to get a glimpse of where it all happened, in Washington, D.C.'s Ford's Theatre.

 

Most people don't realize that it was John Wilkes Booth and a handful of his colleagues and friends. They were going to kill the president, the vice⁸ president, secretary of State and really this, their concept was take down the entire Union government and hopefully the South would rise again.

 

I had an axe⁹ put into my hands at once.

 

Today, Ford's Theatre is equal parts playhouse, museum and shrine¹⁰. Paul Tetreault is the director and something of a historian. We asked him how the assassin got so close to the president.

 

John Wilkes Booth was a famous actor of the time. I mean I often tell people today, imagine, you know, if Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp went after the president. The president's valet actually let Booth in the president's box. Booth squeezed the trigger on this single shot Derringer pistol and shot Lincoln in the back of the head.

 

This was the bloody¹¹ knife that he had cut Major Rathbone. He held that up when he landed on stage and yelled, "Sic semper tyrannis," which, of course, is "thus always to tyrants¹²." And that's the actual knife.

 

Lincoln was taken across the street to The Petersen House. He never regained¹³ consciousness.

 

Why does every presidential candidate running, why does every president wrap themself in Abraham Lincoln? Because he still matters.

 

Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln. 

 

Abraham Lincoln. 

 

Land of Lincoln.

 

Everyone wants to follow in his footsteps. Lincoln's words and ideas and memories still hold and form us and shape us and likely will for the next 150 years, as well.

1 cargo   

n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物

参考例句：

• The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
• A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。

2 hostilities   

n.战争；敌意(hostility的复数)；敌对状态；战事

参考例句：

• Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities. 墨西哥要求立即停止敌对行动。
• All the old hostilities resurfaced when they met again. 他们再次碰面时，过去的种种敌意又都冒了出来。

3 afterward   

adv.后来；以后

参考例句：

• Let's go to the theatre first and eat afterward. 让我们先去看戏，然后吃饭。
• Afterward,the boy became a very famous artist.后来，这男孩成为一个很有名的艺术家。

4 assassinated   

v.暗杀( assassinate的过去式和过去分词 )；中伤；诋毁；破坏

参考例句：

• The prime minister was assassinated by extremists. 首相遭极端分子暗杀。
• Then, just two days later, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. 跟着在两天以后，肯尼迪总统在达拉斯被人暗杀。 来自辞典例句

5 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。

6 tolled   

鸣钟（toll的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• Bells were tolled all over the country at the King's death. 全国为国王之死而鸣钟。
• The church bell tolled the hour. 教堂的钟声报时。

7 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。

8 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

9 axe   

n.斧子；v.用斧头砍，削减

参考例句：

• Be careful with that sharp axe.那把斧子很锋利，你要当心。
• The edge of this axe has turned.这把斧子卷了刃了。

10 shrine   

n.圣地，神龛，庙；v.将...置于神龛内，把...奉为神圣

参考例句：

• The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
• They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。

11 bloody   

adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染

参考例句：

• He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
• He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。

12 tyrants   

专制统治者( tyrant的名词复数 )； 暴君似的人； （古希腊的）僭主； 严酷的事物

参考例句：

• The country was ruled by a succession of tyrants. 这个国家接连遭受暴君的统治。
• The people suffered under foreign tyrants. 人民在异族暴君的统治下受苦受难。

13 regained   

复得( regain的过去式和过去分词 )； 赢回； 重回； 复至某地

参考例句：

• The majority of the people in the world have regained their liberty. 世界上大多数人已重获自由。
• She hesitated briefly but quickly regained her poise. 她犹豫片刻，但很快恢复了镇静。