CNN 2011-12-04

   Awesome¹ art and awesome way to start out show, thanks to those students, thanks all of you who spending part of your Tuesday with CNN Student News.

       First Up today, we’re looking at a combined effort to try to support the global economy, the Federal Reserve, the Fed is the United States central bank that means it’s the country’s main financial authority which is responsible for printing up money and setting financial policies. Yesterday, the Fed announced a plan that involved five other central banks from around the world, they’re teaming up to make it easier and cheaper for banks in any country to borrow U.S. dollar and other global currencies. Sometimes banks need to borrow money in order to keep doing business that’s especially true when there’s a financial crisis like the one happening in Europe right now. So this plan might sound like good news, that could help the European economy it seemed to go overwhelm with the investors², global stock markets went up yesterday. But some analysts³ are saying this plan isn’t actually good news that it won’t solve Europe’s debt crisis, they believed it just showed how worried these central banks are about the crisis getting worse, and possibly spreading to other parts of the world. 

       Is this legit? Government and employees work in the public sector⁴. This one is true. The public sector is a part of an economy that provides basic government services. 

Those services can be different from country to country. Some examples are public sector jobs might include police officers, some transportation worker or public school teachers. Those were some of the folks who walk off the job yesterday in the United Kingdom. Strikes swept across the country, the employees stopped working to protest government plans to reduce their pensions, those are the benefits that workers get after they

retire. The British government said the strikes didn’t have much impact on public services, though more than half the country’s schools were closed because of the strikes. Dan Rivers looks up to the buildup to this dispute between the government and workers. 

      In Britain the age of austerity is getting increasingly bitter and acrimonious⁵. First the students fought battles over the rising cost of education, now the protest spreading, this time over pension reform. From closed schools where teachers won’t turn up to chaos⁶ at airport boarding agency staffs were also working out, even some none urgent operations at hospital has been canceled as staff strike. All in protest government plans to cut state worker retirement⁷ plans, unions are linking it into a general strike, substitute scope and potential effect. The phrase general strike evokes⁸ echoes of the 1926 action, the crippled Britain, 2011 won’t be as bad but it’ll still cause major disruption. Everyone should be clear, there is going to be disruption, and reason for that disruption, the responsibility of that disruption, I swear they will trade union leaders who decide on the strike even while the negotiations⁹ are ongoing¹⁰. I think that is irresponsible, I think it’s wrong, people should know whom to blame.

       The union blame the bailout of banks for the current sway of cut backs just the short distance from the glittering financial quarters of // is once all closed for the day. Peoples at George Greens may be smiling at a thought of an extra days off lessons, but it’ll cause headaches for the parents. Teacher // is going on strike for the first time in her 37-year-career.

I’ve never been in a strike when I was a teacher for the 80s when every second day seemed to be a strike, but I don’t really believe in striking, but I just don’t feel there’s anything else we can do.

       U.S. Secretary of States Hillary Clinton is doing something that hasn’t happened in 50 years. A U.S. Secretary of States is visiting the country of Myanmar. This is the country the U.S. government says it knows the least about. The south east Asian country is reclusive, Myanmar which is sometimes called Burma tends to keep itself apart from the rest of the world. The Secretary Clinton is hoping to learn more about it during her two-day visit there. She was met by officials when she landed the country’s capital yesterday. A military government ruled Myanmar for nearly 40 years, and reportedly used harsh policies against its people. The country has a new government now, and it’s been making some reforms. Secretary Clinton says she wants to see how serious Myanmar is about those changes.

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 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

3 analysts   

分析家，化验员( analyst的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
• I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。

4 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

5 acrimonious   

adj.严厉的，辛辣的，刻毒的

参考例句：

• He had an acrimonious quarrel with his girlfriend yesterday.昨天他跟他的女朋友激烈争吵了一番。
• His parents went through an acrimonious divorce.他的父母在激烈吵吵闹闹中离了婚。

6 chaos   

n.混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
• The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。

7 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。

8 evokes   

产生，引起，唤起( evoke的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The film evokes chilling reminders of the war. 这部电影使人们回忆起战争的可怕场景。
• Each type evokes antibodies which protect against the homologous. 每一种类型都能产生抗同种病毒的抗体。

9 negotiations   

协商( negotiation的名词复数 )； 谈判； 完成（难事）； 通过

参考例句：

• negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
• Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。

10 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。