CNN 2010-01-29

we've taken on a pretty special project this week at CNN. We are looking at where the $158 billion in stimulus¹ funds. That's nearly 57,000 projects, by the way. Have gone, or where they are going. So our team is looking at projects that really stimulate² the economy, and those which you might ask, well, is that's really helping³. Stimulus at work, setting aside $1 billion for police, setting jobs in high demand.

CNN's Jim Spellman has more on this part of the money in a certain state from Inglewood, Colorado.

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JIM SPELLMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Swing shift roll call at the Englewood, Colorado PD. Two rookies are ready to roll.

OFFICER EDDIE BLACKWELL, ENGLEWOOD POLICE: A new recruit. I just got hired as of October 12th.

OFFICER PATRICK DUNN, ENGLEWOOD POLICE: I just started three days ago.

SPELLMAN: Hundreds of people applied⁴ for their jobs, jobs that came courtesy of the federal government.

DUNN: If it wasn't for the stimulus, I probably wouldn't have been hired.

SPELLMAN: An engineer by trade, Officer Dunn was laid off numerous times before finally losing his job for good last March. At 42 years old becoming a cop wasn't an easy decision to make.

DUNN: We've had one income. My wife has handled the whole income. We have three kids. I have 5-1/2-year-old daughter and 20- month-old twins. And so there was a lot of pressure put on her.

SPELLMAN: Officer Dunn says so far so good.

DUNN: This has probably been the best three days of my life.

BLACKWELL: I said I always wanted to become a police officer.

SPELLMAN: After 11 years on the job as a probation⁵ officer, 40- year-old Eddie Blackwell decided⁶ to chase his dream.

BLACKWELL: The stimulus package open the opportunity, gave me the golden opportunity to become a police officer, so I jumped on it.

CHIEF TOM VANDERMEE, ENGLEWOOD POLICE: Our slice of this stimulus package I can tell you has been extremely rewarding for this community.

SPELLMAN: In March, 2009, Chief Tom Vandermee applied for a chunk⁷ of a billion-dollar federal grant program design to put more cops on the street for community policing.

VANDERMEE: We submitted our application in March just like 7,000 other cities across the country. And we really didn't expect that we would be successful with it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: 453.

SPELLMAN: But sure enough, his department received $697,000 to hire three new officers at Forma Community Policing Unit. They've dubbed⁸ the impact team.

Sgt. Christian⁹ Contos will lead the new squad¹⁰.

SGT. CHRISTIAN CONTOS, ENGLEWOOD POLICE: Drug activity, transients, coming and going, alcohol, stolen cars.

SPELLMAN: Its houses like this the impact team will focus on, recurring¹¹ issues out in neighborhoods that can be hard for police to deal with.

CONTOS: We will be able to devote 100 percent of our time to solving problems like this house or quality of life issues that the patrol officers don't otherwise have time to solve.

SPELLMAN: For the new guys, these are stimulus funds well spent.

DUNN: I think the stimulus package in areas like this is a great thing. Fire departments, police departments, anything that serves the people, that we need to protect the people.

BLACKWELL: It's definitely a win-win situation. Yes, we win as new recruits and also the community wins.

SPELLMAN: Jim Spellman, CNN, Englewood, Colorado.

 

1 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。

2 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。

3 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

4 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

5 probation   

n.缓刑(期)，(以观后效的)察看；试用(期)

参考例句：

• The judge did not jail the young man,but put him on probation for a year.法官没有把那个年轻人关进监狱，而且将他缓刑察看一年。
• His salary was raised by 800 yuan after his probation.试用期满以后，他的工资增加了800元。

6 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。

7 chunk   

n.厚片，大块，相当大的部分（数量）

参考例句：

• They had to be careful of floating chunks of ice.他们必须当心大块浮冰。
• The company owns a chunk of farmland near Gatwick Airport.该公司拥有盖特威克机场周边的大片农田。

8 dubbed   

v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制

参考例句：

• Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
• Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

10 squad   

n.班，小队，小团体；vt.把…编成班或小组

参考例句：

• The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
• A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。

11 recurring   

adj.往复的，再次发生的

参考例句：

• This kind of problem is recurring often. 这类问题经常发生。
• For our own country, it has been a time for recurring trial. 就我们国家而言，它经过了一个反复考验的时期。