高中英语 CNN听力2012年02月合辑（文本+翻译）20120210素材

1、CNN英语听力2012年02月合辑（文本+翻译）：20120210Hi, Im Carl Azuz. Thank you for spending part of your Tuesday with CNN Student News. You know how we do things here, 10 minutes, no commercials, global headlines delivered right to your class.First up today, the U.S. embassy closed. The British ambassador called home

2、. The U.N. Security Council, tense. All of this is over the crisis happening in the nation of Syria. Its been going on for 11 months now. It started with people speaking out against Syrias president and calling for change there.The government responded with violence, and United Nations officials say

3、 thousands of people have died.That includes more than 50 people who were reportedly killed in Syria on Monday. Intense blasts rattled some cities as the fighting went on. The U.S. closed its embassy in Syria, pulled all of its staff out. The British ambassador to Syria was called back to England fo

4、r consultations.As we told you about yesterday, the U.N. Security Council did not pass the resolution that would have demanded an end to the violence in Syria. Some members of the council are furious with Russia and China. Those are the two countries that voted against the resolution.Russia and Chin

5、a say they want the fighting to stop, but they didnt agree with the language in the resolution. One Syrian protector said Syrias government stepped up its crackdown after the resolution failed to pass in the U.N. The protesters said, quote, "The U.N. gave them the green light to inflict more vi

6、olence."Next up, were looking at some extreme winter weather thats pounding countries all over Europe. Some spots are getting more snow than they have in decades.Spain, Italy, Belgium and other parts of Western Europe are dealing with the winter storms, but Eastern Europe seems to be getting hi

7、t especially hard. Were talking about countries like Rumania, Russia and Poland.Sarajevo in Bosnia is suffering through the biggest snowfall since 1999. Some of the snowdrifts got up to 43 inches high. Thats almost four feet of snow. Schools there have shut down for the entire week. Ukraine may be g

8、etting the worst of it. In that nation, the highest temperatures of the day are still below freezing. Hundreds of people have died across Europe, and Matthew Chance looks at one way in which Ukrainian officials are trying to help their citizens survive these frigid conditions.Well, Europe really is

9、in a deep freeze. And no country has suffered more than Ukraine. Its experienced some of the lowest temperatures in recent days. Its also had the highest death tolls.Health officials say 135 people have lost their lives because of these icy, frigid conditions. Most of them are homeless, and so what

10、the authorities are doing is setting up tents like these.Look, this ones called Mabil Nicht Punt Obrivu (ph), which means a mobile heating point where people can just come in for a few days when theyve got nowhere else to go, a few hours, and warm themselves and escape this ice and snow.All right, s

11、o here we are, and you can see there are a number of people who are - have gathered here to try and escape from the cold. Theyre warming their hands around this room heating stove fueled by wood.And its a very basic situation inside, but the smells not great. Theyre offering some basic foods over he

12、re, some - (speaking foreign language). Kasha? Its porridge. Its porridge and bread, so basically - and some hot tea as well.Theres also a computer over the back there, where you can watch movies and I think even get on the Internet. But generally people are coming here, as you can see, this guy war

13、ming up his feet, to just try and escape from the icy, frigid conditions outside. And everybody here weve spoken to knows that if it werent for places like this, theyd be in real trouble.Well, there you have it. These oases of warmth in the center of this freezing continent. The bad news is that the

14、 icy temperatures weve been experiencing here arent expected to get any warmer any time soon - Matthew Chance, CNN, Kiev.If you go to the "Spotlight" section on our home page, youll find a link to CNNs Election Center. Its where you can get tons of information about the U.S. presidential e

15、lection process. You can read up on the candidates, learn more about some of the top political issues and check out the calendar to see when the next primaries and caucuses are happening.We can tell you that right now. Theyre today. And well do better than tell you where theyre happening, well show

16、you.Colorado and Minnesota are holding caucuses today, and theres a primary taking place in Missouri. So thats where the Republican candidates are focusing their attention. Theyre out on the trail, working to rally support as they try to win these individual contest.Theyll get a little breather afte

17、r today. The next votes wont be cast until the end of the month when Arizona and Michigan hold their Republican primaries.嗨,我是卡尔·阿祖兹。谢谢你在周二花时间观看CNN学生新闻。你知道我们做事情的风格,10分钟,没有商业广告,倾情奉献给你全球的热点新闻。首先,今天美国大使馆关闭。英国大使被召回。联合国安全理事会称局势紧张。所有这一切都是发生在叙利亚这个国家的危机所致。已经进行了11个月,起源于有人站出来反对叙利亚总统并呼吁改变。政府以暴制暴,联合国官员表示数以

18、千计的人死亡。据报道叙利亚包括超过50人在星期一死亡。一些城市也爆发了强烈战斗，而斗争仍在继续。美国已经关闭驻叙利亚使馆,遣散所有雇员。英国驻叙利亚大使被召回英格兰进行磋商。就像我们昨天报道的,联合国安理会没有通过要求结束在叙利亚暴力的决议。委员会的一些成员对于俄罗斯与中国感到不满。因为这两个国家投票反对这项决议。俄罗斯和中国表示也想要战争停止,但并没有同意这项决议。还有一名叙利亚抗议者表示叙利亚政府在联合国未能通过在决议后反而加大其镇压力度。这里引用抗议者的原话“联合国给他们开了绿灯以施加更多的暴力。”接下来,我们看袭击整个欧洲一些国家的极端寒冷气候。一些地方出现了几十年从未有过的积雪越来越

19、多的局面。西班牙、意大利、比利时和其他西欧国家正在应对冬季暴风雪,但东欧似乎非常辛苦。我们正在谈论的是罗马尼亚、俄罗斯及波兰这样的国家。波西尼亚的塞拉耶佛正在遭受自1999年以来最大的降雪。一些地方的降雪达到43英寸。这几乎是四英尺的积雪。学校整个星期被迫关闭。乌克兰的条件最为糟糕。在那个国家,一天最高温度仍然低于冻点。成百上千的人死于欧洲各地、马修· 卡斯看到乌克兰官员正试图帮助他们的公民在这极冷条件下生存，为人民找条活路。嗯,在欧洲真的是非常寒冷。没有国家比乌克兰遭受的还要严重。它在最近几天经历了一些最低温度。也达到了最高的死亡人数。卫生官员表示135人失去了他们的生命,权因这些冰冷、极寒的天气。他们中的大多数人无家可归,所以当局所做的是为这些人搭建帐篷。看,这叫做马布里·尼奇特&#