美国有线新闻 CNN 2012-11-07

 Obama: "You may not agree with every decision I've made, you may at times have been frustrated¹ by the pace of change. But you know what I believe, you know where I stand, you know I tell the truth, and you know I'll fight for you and your families every single day."

 

Romney: "The same path we're on means 20 trillion dollars in debt in four years. It means crippling on employment continues, it means stagnant² take home pay, depressed³ home values and a devastated⁴ military."

 

Obama: "Our fight goes on, Virginia, because, because we know this nation cann't succeed without a growing, thriving middle class. Our fight goes on because America's always done best, when everybody has a fair shot, and everybody is doing their fair share and everybody is playing by the same rules."

 

Romney: "If you believe we can do better, if you believe our America should be on a better course, if you're tired of being tired. Then I ask you to vote and work for real change, because Paul Ryan and I are gonna bring a real change to America from day 1."

 

If you think there were a lot of stuff on that maps, it's not even the half of it. Ohio, Wisconsin, Virginia, Colorado, Lowa, New Hampshire, Florida, Pennsylvania, the candidates are campaign hard in states that could go either way tomorrow. One of the things that they were talking about this weekend was a report that came out on Friday. It says the U.S economy added 171,000 thousand jobs in October. But that the nation's unemployment rate went up slightly, to 7.9%. But candidates focused on different parts of that report. President Obama referred to the added jobs and said it shows the economy is improving. Governor Romney looked at the unemployment rate, said it shows the economy is at a standstill.

 

The CNN election center is packed with interactive⁵ resources that can help you get geared up for election day, check this out.

 

This is Manav Tanneeru, I'm a senior producer at CNN.COM. And I'm here to tell you about a couple of features we have at our website that might help get a better idea about the election that's coming around. One of them, is what we call the CNN electoral map, it allows you to game out the presidential race by assigning different states to different candidates. The point of it is to see who gets the 270 electoral votes. Now after you make your selections and you come with a prediction, you can share with your family and friends, the social media, e-mail, different methods.

 

Another feature we have is called the CNN Campaign Explorer. We work with Google on this feature. And it shows you the different parts of data, it allows you to take a glance of fundraising data, ad spending data, candidate travel, and also polling.

 

The last feature we have is our polling interactive. It shows CNN poll of polls for the national race and different battleground states, like Ohio, and Florida, Colorado and Nevada. States you've heard a lot about in this presidential election.

1 frustrated   

adj.挫败的，失意的，泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
• The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 stagnant   

adj.不流动的，停滞的，不景气的

参考例句：

• Due to low investment,industrial output has remained stagnant.由于投资少，工业生产一直停滞不前。
• Their national economy is stagnant.他们的国家经济停滞不前。

3 depressed   

adj.沮丧的，抑郁的，不景气的，萧条的

参考例句：

• When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
• His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。

4 devastated   

v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词)；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮adj.毁坏的；极为震惊的

参考例句：

• The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
• His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。

5 interactive   

adj.相互作用的，互相影响的，（电脑）交互的

参考例句：

• The psychotherapy is carried out in small interactive groups.这种心理治疗是在互动的小组之间进行的。
• This will make videogames more interactive than ever.这将使电子游戏的互动性更胜以往。