时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2012年(一)月


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 Controversy involving pardons issues by the governor of Mississippi.A pardon releases criminals from guilt 1.The President can grant pardon to federal criminals and many states governors have that power as well.Mississippi governor Haley Barbour handed out 200 pardons this week.Most of these people are already out of jail. Governor Barbour said the pardons were intended to help those people find jobs or to register to vote.But some of the pardons went to convicted murders.They are supposed to contact prison officials everyday but four of them took off.A state official said that they may start a man-hunt to track them down.The judge has issued a ruling stopping the release any other prisoners.He said some of the pardons including the ones for the four murders did't meet certain requirements.There's been are lots of debates around this story.What we are asking on our blog is thisWhat factors should President or governor taking into account when considering giving someone a pardon?We are interested here in your thoughts at CNN student news.com


 
Is this Legit,the Caribbean nation highlighted on this map is Jamaica. Not true.This is Haiti,which takes up about one third of the island of HY.
 
Well,yesterday we talked about the devastation 2 Haiti suffered when a powerful earth quake hit the country in 2010.Two years later,things are getting better but as you gonna see in this next report from Johnason Man that the recovery process has been slow.
Haiti has been so poor for so long.It was hard to imagine that things could get much worse.And two years ago that hard to imagine happened.A 7.0 magnitude killed estimated 220,000 people,made 1.5million more people homeless and turned Port-au Princess the capital into a sea of displaced families and crumbled 3 cement.Isolated 4 cases of *turned into a national epidemic 5.Things were bad before.Suddenly,they were utterly 6 broken.The best hope was then in a phrase that Haiti would build back better. Somethings are better.The International community has spent more than 2 billions through they promised twice as much.It helps move more than a million Haitians out of crowds on Senatey Camps. It's build hundreds of kilometers of pages roads.Have a look at this stretch of street.On the left,the after mass of quake.On the right,a look three month ago.
 
 
..that UN has built 193 new earth quake-resistance schools.They helped 753 children back to schools and that does't mean that there are challenges that remain.They are huge but there are reasons for opportunism.
But half a million people are still living under tense and .. and Haiti is still a nation where most people don't have running water,toilet,medical care or jobs.About three quarters of the country's workers are unemployed 7 or under employment.It's still Haiti.There is being no happy ending.JM reporting.
 
 
Following up the story we first reported on Monday.Cargo 8 ship that run around New Zealand has split in two.The officials were concerned that the thing could lead to new oil spill and that's exactly what happened.The ship leap around 300 tons of oil when it first crushed last October. Now it dumped ten more tons of oil into the water. Hundred of* have gone over the board.Some debris 9 from the ship washed up the local beach early this week. Officials described the reck was highly unstable 10.

1 guilt
n.犯罪;内疚;过失,罪责
  • She tried to cover up her guilt by lying.她企图用谎言掩饰自己的罪行。
  • Don't lay a guilt trip on your child about schoolwork.别因为功课责备孩子而使他觉得很内疚。
2 devastation
n.毁坏;荒废;极度震惊或悲伤
  • The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
  • There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 crumbled
(把…)弄碎, (使)碎成细屑( crumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 衰落; 坍塌; 损坏
  • He crumbled the bread in his fingers. 他用手指把面包捻碎。
  • Our hopes crumbled when the business went bankrupt. 商行破产了,我们的希望也破灭了。
4 isolated
adj.与世隔绝的
  • His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
  • Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
5 epidemic
n.流行病;盛行;adj.流行性的,流传极广的
  • That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
  • The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。
6 utterly
adv.完全地,绝对地
  • Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民,把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
  • I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。
7 unemployed
adj.失业的,没有工作的;未动用的,闲置的
  • There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
  • The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。
8 cargo
n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物
  • 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。
9 debris
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
10 unstable
adj.不稳定的,易变的
  • This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.这书橱很不结实,装不了这么多书。
  • The patient's condition was unstable.那患者的病情不稳定。
学英语单词
acoustic radiator
agogo bell
bird screen
black currants
buzzled
chauhans
Chiba-hantō
Chichibabinpyridine synthesis
chromene
colon-
commodity-trading
conjunctival tumor
coolee
cross-undertaking
cure meter
cypraea katsuae
david rittenhouses
defective water
enchymatous
enteromorpha prolifera
erminias
error message module
erythroid colony forming unit
fecal tumor
fluid carry-over
fudgelike
gaithers
get the wrong idea
giveaways
grid belt
harmonic amplifier
helium diving bell
hois
hydroreceptors
imaginary prime divisor
incitatives
kootered
kulingensis
lankened
Laurentians
laxative purgative
lid-retraction
logically-equivalent
made a bid for
made certain
mahons
make someone sit up and take notice
maken
Management-book
middle income
millettis
Monteverde's sign
mountain mint
Mr Right
Mysians
natural law jurisprudence
neopaints
nonprogrammable calculator
ofart
Oiuru
old crop
origin system
overdrinking
pars thalamica (radiationis tractus optici)
partial ordering relation
pay and display
pencz
Phanom Sarakham
plexus thyreoideus inferior
polygamise
pornophilia
preenrolment
prompt fission neutron
publicity materials
put a jerk into
real gross national product
Scleranthus annuus
simulation of data processing
sir seretse khamas
sleeve expansion joint
slimmed down
small stems
statement repertoire
steel-tank mercury-arc rectifier
steganalytical
subdata bases
super-dense lining
superlong wave
tamezs
task management program
teenaged
telangiectatic myxoma
THHP
trade-weighted exchange rate
transform into
unlearn
valve link pin
Viola macroceras
w hernia
water-soluble resin
Yoron-jima
zone synchronization