CNN 2010-08-17

Two weeks since this crisis and finally we are seeing pictures of President Asif Ali Zardari out meeting victims of this flood in Northern Sindh near the hearted town of Sakar, which has been the focus of so much of this rescue effort. Of course, President Zardari has come in for stinging criticism for going ahead with his visit to Europe, to the UK, to meet British Prime Minister David Cameron and to visit his family's French chateau¹ in Normandy while the death toll² here spiraled higher and higher and the number of people affected³ reached into the millions, and now stands of course at 14 million.

 

What's the extradition⁴ means, exactly? I don't understand what...

 

An extradition means you can require that the governor of Michigan send an extradition warrant to you, down here to me, requiring your return to Michigan. That takes some time. That takes about three months.

 

Right.

 

You'll be sitting in the Fulton County Jail while that takes place.

 

And why should I wait 90 days, right?

 

Well, that's something for you to decide.

 

I mean, that's the most common sense. It sounds more logical to go right now than waiting 3 months, is that correct?

 

That sounds that way to me.

 

Okay.

 

Yeah. I think you have too much sensitivity ... and not enough sense of humor.

 

So it's OK to say nigger?

 

It depends how it's said.

 

Is it OK to say that word? Is it ever OK to say that word?

 

It's, it depends how it's said. Black guys talking to each other seem to think it's OK.

 

But you're not black. They're not black. My husband is white.

 

Oh, I see. So, a word is restricted to race. Got it. Can't do much about that.

 

I can't believe someone like you is on the radio spewing out the nigger, and I hope everybody heard it.

 

I didn't spew out the nigger word.

 

Right, I said that's what you hear.

 

Everybody heard it.

 

Yes, they did.I hope everybody heard it.

 

I hope everybody heard it.

 

They did, and I'll say it again.

So what makes it OK for you to say the word?

Nigger is what you hear on HB…

Why don't you let me finish a sentence?

29-year-old Gigi Johnson had fallen asleep and that's when her car veered⁵ off Adoma Drive, a worker pouring concrete in one of the columns, radioed it in, and a supervisor⁶ from PCL Civil Construction rushed to the scene, Darryl Schriner says he grabbed a tool to break windows, known as a center punch from a Tampa police officer and then jumped in the dirty water, swam over to Johnson who had been frantically⁷ trying to break the windows with a baseball bat for several minutes, but it's all in vain.

She was really scared, she was trying to break the window from the inside, couldn't get it broken. So, uh, I just want to broke the window and help her get out of the car.
 

1 chateau   

n.城堡，别墅

参考例句：

• The house was modelled on a French chateau.这房子是模仿一座法国大别墅建造的。
• The chateau was left to itself to flame and burn.那府第便径自腾起大火燃烧下去。

2 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

3 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。

4 extradition   

n.引渡（逃犯）

参考例句：

• The smuggler is in prison tonight,awaiting extradition to Britain.这名走私犯今晚在监狱，等待引渡到英国。
• He began to trouble concerning the extradition laws.他开始费尽心思地去想关于引渡法的问题。

5 veered   

v.（尤指交通工具）改变方向或路线( veer的过去式和过去分词 )；（指谈话内容、人的行为或观点）突然改变；（指风） （在北半球按顺时针方向、在南半球按逆时针方向）逐渐转向；风向顺时针转

参考例句：

• The bus veered onto the wrong side of the road. 公共汽车突然驶入了逆行道。
• The truck veered off the road and crashed into a tree. 卡车突然驶离公路撞上了一棵树。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 supervisor   

n.监督人，管理人，检查员，督学，主管，导师

参考例句：

• Between you and me I think that new supervisor is a twit.我们私下说，我认为新来的主管人是一个傻瓜。
• He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员。

7 frantically   

ad.发狂地, 发疯地

参考例句：

• He dashed frantically across the road. 他疯狂地跑过马路。
• She bid frantically for the old chair. 她发狂地喊出高价要买那把古老的椅子。