CNN 2011-11-03

 Not happy news for you basketball fans.The NBA season was supposed to start tomorrow.Not gonna happen.The League and team monors have locked out the players.The NBA already cancelled the first two weeks of its season.Friday,the League announced that it was scrapping¹ all of its games from the month of November.The two sides were talking about the owners and players they've been negotiating.They're working on how to split up the money the League makes.And they're trying to agree on rules for players' salaries.There're reports they are close to an agreement on something,but not on others.

Last week,NBA Commissioner² David Sterns said,quote,there's no deal on anything unless there's a deal on everything.

NASA plans to spend some time studying the weather and how it changes,but not from down here on earth.The agency wants to take a view from above.And that's what this is for.Two new weather satellites that launched early Friday cost 1.5 billion dollars and are designed to spend the next five years collecting information on short-term and long-term climate change.So it's going to be looking at the ocean,clouds,ice and it will do all of that from around 105 miles above the planet surface.

Today's shoutout goes up to Mr Collins and Mr Ward's social studies classes at Mahtomedi middle school and M middle soda³.What is the fear of houses called?

Here we go.Is it dematophobia?Claustrophobia?Kenophobia?or kairophobia?Three seconds to XX up an answer.Go.Dematophobia is the fear of houses or being stuck in the house.That's your answer and that's your shoutout.

All right.So for regular houses,maybe not so much.But ii's natural to experience dematophobia around this time of year with so many haunted houses popping up.A lot of folks don't wanna get stuck in one of those.The dark domiciles are at Halloween tradition,but when Robert XX visited one recently,hr found out that some haunted houses are a-year-round industry.And yet some first-hand experience on their sophisticated scare tactics.Check this out.

I always enjoy meeting new friends at Halloween.This is some of their creatures from another world of haunted guys.Do you mind if I take a look inside?Take it as yes.

XX is the owner of this world of XX places.Massive.It's gonna be a year around operation.

Oh,yes.We work on this thing,absolutely all year long.We conceptionized it.We work on all creatures.Then we begin construction as early as Febuary.What we're going to do now,though ,we're gonna make you one of the creature.We'll transform you into a monster.That your mother will be proud of you.

I feel fatigued⁴.I feel fatigued.

Nightmares came.You're going to scare some kids.

So XX bar right here.Are you American?

Yes,This is American.

All right.What's it called?What's the game for it?

Yes,that's my first scream.

Every night,they light up around the block in haunted houses like these across America,bring an estimated 300 million dollars a year.

The haunted house industry changed dramatically in the last 15 or 20 years.But you really need to XX 360.everything's gonna be good.And the technology is increasing.We have considered a lot of XX sophisticated characters that move.We use a lot of projections⁵.We use a lot of illusions.So we're constantly up in the any to get customers more used to the guys jumping out.It scared them,although that is the core of what we do.

Well,that is essentially⁶ overload⁷.We're gonna haunt the houses and XX rush.But outside.

All right.It is October 31st.We're keeping up with the Halloween theme here.We've asked you to send an eye report with your created pumpkin⁸ carvings⁹.XX came up with this awesome¹⁰ idea Love it Belly¹¹.Meanwhile from California used the skills to honor his farmers of an American chapter.And XX in northern Carolina went the decorative¹² XX and showed her love for CNN student news.Great work from all three of them.They did it out of the godness of their own hearts.Thanks for everyone who sent us an eye report.We hope you'll have a very safe and happy Halloween.

For CNN student news.I'm Carl A.

1 scrapping   

刮，切除坯体余泥

参考例句：

• He was always scrapping at school. 他在学校总打架。
• These two dogs are always scrapping. 这两条狗总是打架。

2 commissioner   

n.（政府厅、局、处等部门）专员，长官，委员

参考例句：

• The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
• He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。

3 soda   

n.苏打水；汽水

参考例句：

• She doesn't enjoy drinking chocolate soda.她不喜欢喝巧克力汽水。
• I will freshen your drink with more soda and ice cubes.我给你的饮料重加一些苏打水和冰块。

4 fatigued   

adj. 疲乏的

参考例句：

• The exercises fatigued her. 操练使她感到很疲乏。
• The President smiled, with fatigued tolerance for a minor person's naivety. 总统笑了笑，疲惫地表现出对一个下级人员的天真想法的宽容。

5 projections   

预测( projection的名词复数 )； 投影； 投掷； 突起物

参考例句：

• Their sales projections are a total thumbsuck. 他们的销售量预测纯属估计。
• The council has revised its projections of funding requirements upwards. 地方议会调高了对资金需求的预测。

6 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。

7 overload   

vt.使超载；n.超载

参考例句：

• Don't overload the boat or it will sink.别超载，否则船会沉。
• Large meals overload the digestive system.吃得太饱会加重消化系统的负担。

8 pumpkin   

n.南瓜

参考例句：

• They ate turkey and pumpkin pie.他们吃了火鸡和南瓜馅饼。
• It looks like there is a person looking out of the pumpkin!看起来就像南瓜里有人在看着你！

9 carvings   

n.雕刻( carving的名词复数 )；雕刻术；雕刻品；雕刻物

参考例句：

• The desk was ornamented with many carvings. 这桌子装饰有很多雕刻物。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Shell carvings are a specialty of the town. 贝雕是该城的特产。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 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.

11 belly   

n.肚子，腹部；(像肚子一样)鼓起的部分，膛

参考例句：

• The boss has a large belly.老板大腹便便。
• His eyes are bigger than his belly.他眼馋肚饱。

12 decorative   

adj.装饰的，可作装饰的

参考例句：

• This ware is suitable for decorative purpose but unsuitable for utility.这种器皿中看不中用。
• The style is ornate and highly decorative.这种风格很华丽，而且装饰效果很好。