Hourly News 每日新闻 2013-09-19

 China and Jordan to promote bilateral¹ cooperation

Chinese President Xi Jinping has met with visiting Jordanian King Abdullah to discuss bilateral ties.

Xi Jinping has described Jordan as a good friend of China.

King Abdullah says he admires the achievements that have been made here in China.

Abdullah also says he appreciate's China's work in trying to find a political solution to the Syrian conflict.

 

Syria has turned over materials to Russia

Syria has given evidence to Russia, which implicates² Syrian rebels were in last months' chemical weapons attack. 

Russia says it will turn the evidence over to the UN Security Council.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with visiting Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Wednesday.

Ryabkov said that Syria has turned the evidence over to Russia.

 

Several killed in rush hour collision between train and bus

Six people have been killed and 30 others injured in Canada, after a passenger train and double-decker city bus collided on the outskirts³ of Ottawa during Wednesday's morning rush hour. 

Glen Pilon, a Transportation Safety Board official, says investigators⁴ are trying to find the event recorder.

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says a reunification center has been set up for families and friends looking for passengers on the bus and train.

The collision comes just months after a runaway⁵ freight train crashed and the explosion killed 50 people in Lac-Megantic,Quebec.

 

Search and recovery operations after devastating⁶ floods in Colorado

Rescue work in flood hit Colorado is now shifting its focus from emergency airlifts to finding hundreds of people still unaccounted for, after last week's devastating flooding. 

Water is now reported to be receding⁷ and flowing east onto the Colorado plains, revealing toppled homes, buckled⁸ highways and fields of tangled⁹ debris¹⁰.

Experts say rebuilding efforts will cost hundreds of millions of dollars and could take months, if not years.

Meanwhile, the death toll¹¹ from two storms ravaging¹² Mexico in recent days has now risen to 57 across seven states.

Authorities say two tropical storms, Ingrid and Manuel, have affected¹³ 250 towns nationwide, forcing 39,000 residents to evacuate¹⁴ and causing 100 rivers to overflow¹⁵.

It is the first time since 1958 that two tropical storms have hit both the country's coasts within 24 hours.

 

Pentagon orders security reviews after shooting

U.S Defense¹⁶ Secretary Chuck Hagel says he has ordered two department-wide security reviews, after a deadly shooting this week in the Navy Yard in Washington. 

During a Pentagon press briefing, Hagel admitted "something went wrong" with security checks at the military facility. 

The reviews come as questions are raised as to how Aaron Alexis, a former Navy reservist with a history of mental health problems, was able to gain security clearance¹⁷ to enter the Navy Yard. 

Alexis used a valid¹⁸ pass on Monday to enter the facility where he killed 12 people, before police shot him dead.

 

U.S. Fed decides to keep bond purchases unchanged

The U.S central bank has decided¹⁹ to keep its bond purchases unchanged, as they fail to see any breakthrough in the economy's recovery.

The Federal Reserve announced it would continue it's 85-billion US dollars per month bond purchasing.

Tight fiscal²⁰ policy and higher mortgage rates have also been cited as the main reasons.

The statement comes as a surprise to the markets, when most economists²¹ had been expecting a scaling back at this month's meeting.

New U.S. private spacecraft launched to ISS

A new privately-owned U.S spaceship carrying food, clothing and other cargo²² is now on a demonstration²³ mission to the International Space Station. 

The Cygnus spacecraft, built by U.S firm Orbital Sciences Corp, was launched atop the company's Antares rocket from a regional spaceport on Wallops Island off the U.S east coast. 

It is a maiden²⁴ flight for Cygnus, and the second flight of Antares, which made a successful debut²⁵ in April. 

If everything all goes to plan, the Virginia-based company will begin regular cargo supply missions later this year.

 

Search for U.S. pilot continues in China

Rescuers are still searching for a missing U.S pilot after a light aircraft crashed into a lake in northeast China's Liaoning Province.

The accident happened Tuesday afternoon, when a Lancier aircraft with pilot David Riggs and a Chinese translator onboard crashed into Caihu Lake in Liaoning's capital city of Shenyang, during a trial flight. 

Rescue forces, including a 11-member team from the Beihai rescue bureau under the Ministry²⁶ of Communications, were dispatched to the scene immediately after the accident.

The translator was pulled from the water but died later in hospital. 

Riggs remains²⁷ unaccounted for.

 

China launches emergency response for Usagi

An emergency response has been issued for tropical storm Usagi, which may become one of the strongest typhoons to hit China's southeastern coastal²⁸ regions in the next few days.

A fourth-level emergency response, the lowest level, has been announced by the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters. 

Authorities say Usagi will hit the coast near Guangdong Province on Sunday. 

IT is the 19th tropical storm of the year to hit China.

1 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

2 implicates   

n.牵涉，涉及（某人）( implicate的名词复数 )；表明（或意指）…是起因

参考例句：

• This confession implicates numerous officials in the bribery scandal. 这一供认会使许多官员牵连到受贿的丑事中。 来自辞典例句
• Did you tell him that the recording implicates President Logan in Palmer's assassination? 你有没有告诉他录音显示洛根总统跟帕尔默被杀有关？ 来自电影对白

3 outskirts   

n.郊外，郊区

参考例句：

• Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
• They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。

4 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 runaway   

n.逃走的人，逃亡，亡命者；adj.逃亡的，逃走的

参考例句：

• The police have not found the runaway to date.警察迄今没抓到逃犯。
• He was praised for bringing up the runaway horse.他勒住了脱缰之马受到了表扬。

6 devastating   

adj.毁灭性的，令人震惊的，强有力的

参考例句：

• It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
• Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。

7 receding   

v.逐渐远离( recede的现在分词 )；向后倾斜；自原处后退或避开别人的注视；尤指问题

参考例句：

• Desperately he struck out after the receding lights of the yacht. 游艇的灯光渐去渐远，他拼命划水追赶。 来自辞典例句
• Sounds produced by vehicles receding from us seem lower-pitched than usual. 渐渐远离我们的运载工具发出的声似乎比平常的音调低。 来自辞典例句

8 buckled   

a. 有带扣的

参考例句：

• She buckled her belt. 她扣上了腰带。
• The accident buckled the wheel of my bicycle. 我自行车的轮子在事故中弄弯了。

9 tangled   

adj. 纠缠的，紊乱的 动词tangle的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• Your hair's so tangled that I can't comb it. 你的头发太乱了，我梳不动。
• A movement caught his eye in the tangled undergrowth. 乱灌木丛里的晃动引起了他的注意。

10 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• 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。

11 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。

12 ravaging   

毁坏( ravage的现在分词 )； 蹂躏； 劫掠； 抢劫

参考例句：

• It is believed that in fatigue there is a repeated process of ravaging the material. 据认为，在疲劳中，有一个使材料毁坏的重复过程。
• I was able to capture the lion that was ravaging through town. 我能逮住正在城里肆虐的那头狮子。

13 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。

14 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

15 overflow   

v.(使)外溢，(使)溢出；溢出，流出，漫出

参考例句：

• The overflow from the bath ran on to the floor.浴缸里的水溢到了地板上。
• After a long period of rain,the river may overflow its banks.长时间的下雨天后，河水可能溢出岸来。

16 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

17 clearance   

n.净空；许可(证)；清算；清除，清理

参考例句：

• There was a clearance of only ten centimetres between the two walls.两堵墙之间只有十厘米的空隙。
• The ship sailed as soon as it got clearance. 那艘船一办好离港手续立刻启航了。

18 valid   

adj.有确实根据的；有效的；正当的，合法的

参考例句：

• His claim to own the house is valid.他主张对此屋的所有权有效。
• Do you have valid reasons for your absence?你的缺席有正当理由吗？

19 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

20 fiscal   

adj.财政的，会计的，国库的，国库岁入的

参考例句：

• The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
• The government has two basic strategies of fiscal policy available.政府有两个可行的财政政策基本战略。

21 economists   

n.经济学家，经济专家( economist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
• Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》

22 cargo   

n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物

参考例句：

• 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。

23 demonstration   

n.表明，示范，论证，示威

参考例句：

• His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
• He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。

24 maiden   

n.少女，处女；adj.未婚的，纯洁的，无经验的

参考例句：

• The prince fell in love with a fair young maiden.王子爱上了一位年轻美丽的少女。
• The aircraft makes its maiden flight tomorrow.这架飞机明天首航。

25 debut   

n.首次演出，初次露面

参考例句：

• That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
• The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。

26 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

27 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

28 coastal   

adj.海岸的，沿海的，沿岸的

参考例句：

• The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
• This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。