CNN 2011-05-09

This is a symbolic¹ site of the extraordinary sacrifice that was made on that terrible day almost ten years ago. What happened on Sunday, because the courage of our military and the outstanding work of our intelligence, sent to message around the world, but also sent message here back home that when we say we will never forget, we mean what we say.

No matter what we learn about the events that proceeded to killing² Osama Bin³ Laden⁴. We still have vital national security interests in this region to fight against Al Qaeda and other extremist groups that threaten the United States and our allies is far from over. Going forward, we have to act thoughtfully and no matter what we have to remember the big picture. The real conflicts is not between the United States and Pakistan, but within Pakistan itself. The battle is over, what sort of nation Pakistan will become.

French police have reportedly retrieved⁵ the first body from the wreckage⁶ of the air France flight that crashed into the Atlanta nearly two years ago. The air bus A-33, remember, was travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, 228 people on board when it went down. The wreckage was found last month 13,000 feet down.

We certainly do not need to be minimizing, what's facing us is delivery crashes, what we are trying to do is getting better to find so people can make better planes. But this threat is not diminished in any way. There will be somethings to occur that are to us unknown now up the time they occur. And that's just nature of world, and the environment that we all work in, we don't want to sensationalize, we don't want to be alarmists. But on the other people, we don't want people sitting back and saying: we dodge⁷ that bullet, again that bullet hadn't been fired yet. It's in the process of coming out into the chamber⁸ and it's going to be a slow move into death site. There's going be a lot of damage when this kind of water does what is apparently⁹ doing as it comes downstream, it can be with us for many, many days.

1 symbolic   

adj.象征性的，符号的，象征主义的

参考例句：

• It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
• The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。

2 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

3 bin   

n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件

参考例句：

• He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
• He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。

4 laden   

adj.装满了的；充满了的；负了重担的；苦恼的

参考例句：

• He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
• Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。

5 retrieved   

v.取回( retrieve的过去式和过去分词 )；恢复；寻回；检索（储存的信息）

参考例句：

• Yesterday I retrieved the bag I left in the train. 昨天我取回了遗留在火车上的包。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He reached over and retrieved his jacket from the back seat. 他伸手从后座上取回了自己的夹克。 来自辞典例句

6 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

7 dodge   

v.闪开，躲开，避开；n.妙计，诡计

参考例句：

• A dodge behind a tree kept her from being run over.她向树后一闪，才没被车从身上辗过。
• The dodge was coopered by the police.诡计被警察粉碎了。

8 chamber   

n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所

参考例句：

• For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
• The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。

9 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。