CNN 2012-05-15

 Iam doctor * and you are listening to CNN student news.

Youknow Fridays are awesome¹ when I get names job and get someone like doctor * tobegin the show. He is going to pass along civil information later on, but firstof all today we are looking at some economic options. 

Westart this week with election results of France and Greece. Both countries are gettingready for a shift in political power. They are not the only ones for half ofdozens of European nations have some change government recently. 

Anda lot of them * to do is how the country’s leaders handle the economicstruggles. * adapts two different ways the governments can to try to turn thethings around. Growth is a very tricky² value Latin word right now. everyeconomy wants and needs growth but there’s many ways to get there, stimulus³ canproduce growth; austerity can produce growth; cutting taxes can produce growth,it’s very tricky and not every example is the same. It’s hard to compare somepeople hold us austerity on one side and stimulate⁴ us out on the other. In fact,some solution probably lies in the middle. Austerity is a program wheregovernment cuts back on its spending; it either cuts back on benefits orpayments to its citizens or payments to its business in order to get its debtsunder control. Governments typically don’t like to impose⁵ us austerity becausefocus don’t like austerity, voters, citizens like to get more money, they liketo get benefits from their governments, they like to have retirement⁶ * to somepoint. So governments don’t tend to impose austerity until it’s absolutely necessary.But many cases as to show creditor⁷ that the government has a discipline, andmany cases to balance the budgets because no more money is available, and in manycases it’s about paying down debts because it would take too long to take thatdebt down if austerity measures went brought in.   

Stimulusis one of governments’ getting vowels⁸ to transfer money or things like money toits citizens or its business to stimulate the economy and the economy worksbecause there’s demand: people work, they earn money, with that money they goand buy things with the money they used to buy things company expand and hiremore people those people have money they go out and buy things that is a virtuouscircle of demand. Stimulate that if the people have money that is stimulus. Austerityis not stimulus. 

Today’sShout out question is which city holds the first market Olympic? You know whatto do was it London, Rome, Cairo? You got three seconds, go. Ancient Greece thecity holds the first Olympic and holds the first modern games in 1896. That’syour answer and that’s your shout out. 

Greeceis always the starting point and one of its tradition is associated with OlympicGames, the tradition, the lighting⁹ of the Olympic Flame this ceremony yesterdaymarks start the new Olympic with held in the rules and ancient temples inGreece with actress explaining part of the traditional high phrased teams. Afterthe flame is lift it hit the road. The torchers will line the way over theUnited Kingdom next week then it will go out 8000 miles journey around thecountry before it eventually arrives in London for this year summer games. 

In2011, the unemployment rate for US military veterans who serve down * after tenyears with 12.1% that’s higher than over-all US unemployment rate which is only8.1%. A new CNN documentary¹⁰ that’s * warned some veterans’ efforts to find jobsas they come back home.

1 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

2 tricky   

adj.狡猾的，奸诈的；(工作等)棘手的，微妙的

参考例句：

• I'm in a rather tricky position.Can you help me out?我的处境很棘手，你能帮我吗？
• He avoided this tricky question and talked in generalities.他回避了这个非常微妙的问题，只做了个笼统的表述。

3 stimulus   

n.刺激，刺激物，促进因素，引起兴奋的事物

参考例句：

• Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
• Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。

4 stimulate   

vt.刺激，使兴奋；激励，使…振奋

参考例句：

• Your encouragement will stimulate me to further efforts.你的鼓励会激发我进一步努力。
• Success will stimulate the people for fresh efforts.成功能鼓舞人们去作新的努力。

5 impose   

vt.把…强加于，加重…负担；征收(税款)

参考例句：

• Don't impose yourself on people who don't like you.不要硬缠着不喜欢你的人。
• I don't want to impose on you.我并不想打扰你。

6 retirement   

n.退休，退职

参考例句：

• She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
• I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。

7 creditor   

n.债仅人，债主，贷方

参考例句：

• The boss assigned his car to his creditor.那工头把自己的小汽车让与了债权人。
• I had to run away from my creditor whom I made a usurious loan.我借了高利贷不得不四处躲债。

8 vowels   

n.元音，元音字母( vowel的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Vowels possess greater sonority than consonants. 元音比辅音响亮。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Note the various sounds of vowels followed by r. 注意r跟随的各种元音的发音。 来自超越目标英语 第3册

9 lighting   

n.照明，光线的明暗，舞台灯光

参考例句：

• The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
• The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。

10 documentary   

adj.文献的；n.纪录片

参考例句：

• This case lacked documentary proof.本案缺少书面证据。
• I watched a documentary on the Civil War.我看了一部关于内战的纪录片。