美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-05-06

 A conservation cleanup project and an accidentalscholarship offer. That's coming up this Thursday on CNN student news. But ourfirst story involved the civil war in Syria. U.S. officials say they haveevidence that chemical weapons have been used in Syria. They don't know howthey were used, when they were used or which side used them. President Obamasays those details need to be sorted out.

 

The use of chemical weapons would be a gamechanger. That's not simply for the United States but for internationalcommunity we got to everything we can investigate and establish some certaintywhat exactly has happened in Syria, what is happening in Syria. When I ammaking decisions about America's national security and potential for takingadditional action in response to chemical weapons use. I've got make sure I gotfacts.

 

Chemical weapons can deploy¹ any number ofway they can be introduced into food or water, they can be spread fromairplanes can even be launched as artillery² shells. For example, this liquid poisonwould be blasted off, it would hit the ground as the liquid spread out it willturn into a gas that would simple affect everything in the region. That's theybelieve happen in several towns here in Syria. But here's insidious³ thing ifthey are really talking about sarin gas, it is colorless, it is odorless and ithas not test for people who are under attack would not even know it washappening to them. But they might have the symptoms because they could come onalmost immediately remember, this was developed as a pesticide⁴ and this is whatdoes to human to cause blurred⁵ vision, rapid breathing, heavy sweating,confusion, headaches nausea⁶ and at the very worst cases, convulsions, paralysisand death. What it is doing is attacking the nervous system. It's essentiallyshutting your body down. That is what kills people and why this is consideredsuch a bad thing. But there is a trick to all of these. The trick is even youhad a massive rocket barrage⁷ of sarin gas, you wouldn't necessarily know that’swhat happened, because even though it is lethal⁸, it’s not long lasting⁹, itdisperses very quickly. Well investigators¹⁰ now think, think they had someevidences that the Assad regime used sarin gas on people there, they would haveto work very hard to establish concrete proof.

 

Next today, new developments in BostonMarathon bombing investigation¹¹. Yesterday authorities announced that threeadditional suspects were in custody¹². They are friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, thesurviving suspects from last month terror bombings. The man in the gray hoodieis Tsarnaev. The two people to his left are A zamat Tazhayakov and DiasKadyrbayev. They are from Kazakhstan. They came to the U.S. on student visas.The third new suspect is Robel Philippos. He is a U.S. citizen. These three aren't suspects in the actual bombing. The charges they are facing suggest theyare accused of helping¹³ the suspected bombers¹⁴ after the attack. And officials told CNN that the two Kazakhs are suspected of taking things from Tsarnaev’sdorm room and then throwing them in the dumpster. The third suspect has been charged with making false statements to law enforcement officials during aterrorism investigation.

1 deploy   

v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开

参考例句：

• The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
• The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。

2 artillery   

n.(军)火炮，大炮；炮兵(部队)

参考例句：

• This is a heavy artillery piece.这是一门重炮。
• The artillery has more firepower than the infantry.炮兵火力比步兵大。

3 insidious   

adj.阴险的，隐匿的，暗中为害的，（疾病）不知不觉之间加剧

参考例句：

• That insidious man bad-mouthed me to almost everyone else.那个阴险的家伙几乎见人便说我的坏话。
• Organized crime has an insidious influence on all who come into contact with it.所有和集团犯罪有关的人都会不知不觉地受坏影响。

4 pesticide   

n.杀虫剂，农药

参考例句：

• The pesticide was spread over the vegetable plot.菜田里撒上了农药。
• This pesticide is diluted with water and applied directly to the fields.这种杀虫剂用水稀释后直接施用在田里。

5 blurred   

v.（使）变模糊( blur的过去式和过去分词 )；（使）难以区分；模模糊糊；迷离

参考例句：

• She suffered from dizziness and blurred vision. 她饱受头晕目眩之苦。
• Their lazy, blurred voices fell pleasantly on his ears. 他们那种慢吞吞、含糊不清的声音在他听起来却很悦耳。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 nausea   

n.作呕，恶心；极端的憎恶(或厌恶)

参考例句：

• Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕期常有恶心的现象。
• He experienced nausea after eating octopus.吃了章鱼后他感到恶心。

7 barrage   

n.火力网，弹幕

参考例句：

• The attack jumped off under cover of a barrage.进攻在炮火的掩护下开始了。
• The fierce artillery barrage destroyed the most part of the city in a few minutes.猛烈的炮火几分钟内便毁灭了这座城市的大部分地区。

8 lethal   

adj.致死的；毁灭性的

参考例句：

• A hammer can be a lethal weapon.铁锤可以是致命的武器。
• She took a lethal amount of poison and died.她服了致命剂量的毒药死了。

9 lasting   

adj.永久的，永恒的；vbl.持续，维持

参考例句：

• The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.持久的战争使美元贬值。
• We hope for a lasting settlement of all these troubles.我们希望这些纠纷能获得永久的解决。

10 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》

11 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

12 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

13 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。

14 bombers   

n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟

参考例句：

• Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》