美国有线新闻 CNN 2015-05-12

 Hope you had a happy Mother's Day weekend. I'm Carl Azuz, and this is CNN Student News.

 

First up this Monday, May 11th: Force protection Bravo. It's a threat level (at) U.S. military bases indicating an increase in predictable threat of terrorism. As you see, it's the third tier out of five.  

 

The reason we're telling you about it is because it was increased to Bravo at U.S. military bases last Friday. This applies to 3,200 military sites, including recruiting¹ stations, National Guard facilities, and ROTC detachments. It means more security at bases, though a military spokesman² didn't say exactly what that would be. 

 

The military says the level wasn't raised because of a specific threat, but because it's concerned about several recent incidents, including an attempted terrorist³ at an event in Texas we've told you about last week.

 

"Give me a clap."

 

It's hard to believe that a year ago, most people had not heard of ISIS. And now, hardly a week goes by without the FBI making a major arrest of ISIS' so-called "travelers". These are people who are trying to go overseas to join the fight, following the lure⁴ of the ISIS propaganda⁵ machine on the Internet. 

 

The interest in ISIS is not waning⁶ at all. If anything, it's still growing. We've got about 26 cases against Westerners and Americans trying to help ISIS since the beginning of this year.

 

"Six Minnesota men now charged. A 20-year-old woman reportedly runs away to join the terrorists⁷."

 

And what I'm told by U.S. law enforcement is that they're opening more cases than they're closing, which is actually a very scary prospect⁸.  

 

The result of having Westerners and Americans go over to Syria and Iraq to join with ISIS is now you have people in place, and they have friends back home that they have influence over and they can reach back to their homelands to try to get them to come. And that's exactly what we saw in the recent case in Minnesota.

 

And what this case represents is a sea change for U.S. law enforcement for these types of cases because they had the help of cooperators, someone who was inside. So, they were able to tell a lot more about how ISIS recruitment is organized. And I think what this means is that they're going to be able to use this to try to figure out where else this might exist, because they do believe that this represents the new normal, the future for ISIS recruitment cases.

1 recruiting   

招聘( recruit的现在分词 )； 吸收某人为新成员； 动员…（提供帮助）； 雇用

参考例句：

• We are recruiting a sales manager with responsibility for the European market. 我们正在招聘负责欧洲市场的销售经理。
• "Hoist the recruiting flag and hungry men will come. “插起招军旗，就有吃粮人。”

2 spokesman   

n.发言人，代言人

参考例句：

• The government spokesman gave a quick briefing to the reporters.政府发言人向记者们作了情况简介。
• They drew lots to decide who should be their spokesman.他们抽签决定谁是他们的发言人。

3 terrorist   

n.恐怖主义者，恐怖分子

参考例句：

• Without the gun,I'm a sitting duck for any terrorist.没有这支枪，我就成了恐怖分子下手的目标了。
• The district was put on red alert during a terrorist's bomb scare.这个地区在得到恐怖分子炸弹恐吓后作了应急准备。

4 lure   

n.吸引人的东西，诱惑物；vt.引诱，吸引

参考例句：

• Life in big cities is a lure for many country boys.大城市的生活吸引着许多乡下小伙子。
• He couldn't resist the lure of money.他不能抵制金钱的诱惑。

5 propaganda   

n.宣传，宣传机构

参考例句：

• A lot of propaganda has painted him as bad.大量宣传把他说得很坏。
• Art may be used as a vehicle for propaganda.艺术可以用作为宣传的媒介。

6 waning   

adj.（月亮）渐亏的，逐渐减弱或变小的n.月亏v.衰落( wane的现在分词 )；（月）亏；变小；变暗淡

参考例句：

• Her enthusiasm for the whole idea was waning rapidly. 她对整个想法的热情迅速冷淡了下来。
• The day is waning and the road is ending. 日暮途穷。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

7 terrorists   

n.恐怖主义者，恐怖分子( terrorist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The terrorists have halted their bloody campaign of violence. 恐怖分子已经停止了他们凶残的暴力活动。
• They were finally forced to capitulate to the terrorists' demands. 他们最后被迫屈从恐怖分子的要求。

8 prospect   

n.前景，前途；景色，视野

参考例句：

• This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
• The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。