CNN 2010-04-26

A feature focus on a formidable feline¹. You know it. Fridays are awesome². Thank you for spending part of yours with CNN Student News, from the CNN center. I’m Carl Azuz.

First up, President Obama is asking Wall Street to be part of his efforts to reform Wall Street. We’ve talked about this issue of financial reform this week. The president and members of Congress are looking at the ways to protect the US economy from another financial crisis. Yesterday, President Obama took his message to New York, to Wall Street. He’s pushing a bill that is being debated in the Senate right now and he explained why he wants the financial industry to get behind it.

‘I’m here today specifically when I speak to the titans of industry here. ‘Cause I want to urge you to join us instead of fighting us in this effort. (Yeah.) I’m here. I’m here because I believe that these reforms are, in the end, not only in the best interest of our country but in the best interest of the financial sector³. ’

But some members of Wall Street didn’t agree with everything that President said and there has been some debate between Democrats⁴ and Republicans over how financial reform should be done. Some lawmakers are criticizing the president’s proposal because they say it’ll just end up helping⁵ Wall Street and costing taxpayers⁶.

‘Now, while the president says he wants to reform Wall Street and the bill that we have in front of us, and we’ll actually provide permanent bailouts for Wall Street and enshrine too big to fail. And things that our Republicans don’t do in our bill to reform the regulatory system.’

Quick follow-up on that story about an oil rig fire in the Gulf⁷ of Mexico, you can see it in this iReport from one of the rescue workers. The coast guard says the rig has sunk. That happened Thursday when we recorded this show yesterday. 11 people who’d been working on the rig were still missing.

Heading overseas to Thailand where grenade attacks in the capital city of Bangkok have killed at least three people. A Thail official said the grenades came from an area where people who were protesting the government were gathered together. The protesters say they are not responsible. They have been fighting with police for a while here you can see them throwing rocks and other things at police. They support the country’s former prime minister and they want the current leader to leave office. After these recent attacks, Thailand’s prime minister called an emergency meeting to figure out how to deal with the situation.

Moving from Thailand to the Persian Gulf now, where Iran is running a massive military drill expected to last three days. An Iranian official says the goal is to show off the country’s military strength. It might look like a real battle what you are seeing here is just practice. US Navy says Iran has done this sort of thing in the past. This one is getting more attention because Iran talked about it ahead of time.
 

1 feline   

adj.猫科的

参考例句：

• As a result,humans have learned to respect feline independence.结果是人们已经学会尊重猫的独立性。
• The awakening was almost feline in its stealthiness.这种醒觉，简直和猫的脚步一样地轻悄。

2 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.

3 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。

4 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 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。

6 taxpayers   

纳税人，纳税的机构( taxpayer的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
• She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。

7 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。