CNN 2012-05-21

 It's Friday, TGIF, it's owesome. I am Carl Azuz. Thank you for raping¹ up your week with CNN student news. And congratulations to still Water high and still water Acoholma who got our social media ... question right this week. Now it's under the day's headlines.

 

First up,this is the first day when everyone can buy stock in Facebook. If you willing to pay for it. The social network site was scheduled to make its IPO this morning it stands for initial public offering. And it means that facebook stock is now being traded on Wall Street. The company has been building up to this for months. Exacutives have the meeting with protential investors² figuring out what the price should be for each share of the Facebook stock. That price was finalized³ yesterday during its IPO each share was originally priced at 38 dollars. 

Some of the investors, mostly financial insitution made orders in advance. Everyone else had to wait until the stock market open this morning.

 

With that share price of 38 dollars, facebook is expected to raise 16 billion dollars with this initial public offering. That would be the biggest IPO ever for attack company, and it will be the third biggest IPO in US history.

 

For the business world it's also keeping an close eye of what's happening right now in Greece. The country held polimentary elections earlier this month, but the political party who won seats couldn't find the way to come together in a collition. 

 

Greece will hold new elections in June. Does the business world care about this for a reason? Yes! Greece has a major debts crisis and it intends to get bailout from other European countries. The concern is if Greece doesn't have a working government in place soon, it could miss making payments on its debts. There have serious consequence for Greece, since what happens in one country can impact the economy of others, this kind of crisis could have a ripple⁴ effects around the globe. 

 

Today's first shoutout goes out to Miss M, and first graduating class of W ...high school and W Texas. What country operates the SU spacecrafts?

Here we go! Is it China? Russia? France? Or India? You got 3 seconds, go!

The SU is a Russian spacecraft and there is one part at the international space station. That's your answer and that's your shoutout. 

 

In fact, the first croud ever went to the International space station got there inside the SU rocket. So did the most recent arrivals. This spacecraft got found on Tuesday carrying one U.S. astronaut and 2 Russian cosmonauts. Eventhough the SU is a Russian vehicle, it launches from a space pad in the nearby country of C.

 

The ship arrived the space station yesterday, one of the men onboard said the docking went very smoothly⁶. The 3 new crew members are scheduled to be on the ISS for 4 months, 4 months on space. They're joining 3 other men who have been living on this space station since April.

 

The U.S Millitory is no stranger to technology. Got night vision gargle, you've heard of unman drone aircraft, we reported on our show. Now there is a new kind of robot that let troops see through walls around the corners. A reports on how the machine works and how it's maker⁷ hope it can help save lives.

 

You can toss it over a wall or even drop it from a 3-story-building. Known as the throw-bot, this is helping⁸ the soldiers and marines detect in surgents and IEDs in Afghanistan. 

 

It it essentially⁹ one point two pounds reconosence device that soldiers, marines, ...teams ...teams use for situation. You can take it, throw into the room and you can get a live video of the field what's going on. You s...  the robot by remote control and you see what it sees.

The re.. can be deployed¹⁰ in less than five seconds, it ... Inter⁵ sensors¹¹ let it to see in the dark and it is small enough to fit a bag pack or a pocket. Thing I makes this robot unique is its size, back...  A lot of the big systems are 30 pounds 50 pounds or what it care for soldiers. US millitary is using over 2000 systems and more than 400 police swateams are using this throwbot. Some like this can save lives, if this goes first... you get eyes inside before you go in.

1 raping   

v.以暴力夺取，强夺( rape的现在分词 )；强奸

参考例句：

• In response, Charles VI sent a punitive expedition to Brittany, raping and killing the populace. 作为报复，查理六世派军讨伐布列塔尼，奸淫杀戮平民。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The conquerors marched on, burning, killing, raping and plundering as they went. 征服者所到之处烧杀奸掠，无所不做。 来自互联网

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 finalized   

vt.完成（finalize的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• The draft of this article has been finalized [done]. 这篇文章已经定稿。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The draft was revised several times before it was finalized. 稿子几经删改才定下来。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4 ripple   

n.涟波，涟漪，波纹，粗钢梳；vt.使...起涟漪，使起波纹； vi.呈波浪状，起伏前进

参考例句：

• The pebble made a ripple on the surface of the lake.石子在湖面上激起一个涟漪。
• The small ripple split upon the beach.小小的涟漪卷来，碎在沙滩上。

5 inter   

v.埋葬

参考例句：

• They interred their dear comrade in the arms.他们埋葬了他们亲爱的战友。
• The man who died in that accident has been interred.在那次事故中死的那个人已经被埋葬了。

6 smoothly   

adv.平滑地，顺利地，流利地，流畅地

参考例句：

• The workmen are very cooperative,so the work goes on smoothly.工人们十分合作，所以工作进展顺利。
• Just change one or two words and the sentence will read smoothly.这句话只要动一两个字就顺了。

7 maker   

n.制造者，制造商

参考例句：

• He is a trouble maker，You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼，你不要跟他在一起。
• A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。

8 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。

9 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

10 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

11 sensors   

n.传感器，灵敏元件( sensor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There were more than 2000 sensors here. 这里装有两千多个灵敏元件。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Significant changes have been noted where sensors were exposed to trichloride. 当传感器暴露在三氯化物中时，有很大变化。 来自辞典例句