CNN 2012-04-29

 Margo B is bracing¹ for the cost of her student loan to spike². It definitely makes lines ID go up several notches³. She is one of more than 7 million Americans who is federally subsidized, loan interest rate going to double to 6.8% when a law is set to expire in July. So this week, we only finish paying off our student loans, check this out, alright, I am the president of United States. He is going on the Jimmy Fellon show and pitching his message to college audience in battle ground states, north Carolina, Colorado and Iowa. Just the mention of college loans is in * line on campuses. I am assuming a lot of people here have federal student loans, anybody here can afford pay an extra thousand dollars right now? And the president needs these voters badly, in 2008 he won the youth vote by 66%, though 18 to 29 years old made up only a fraction of the elect rate, they were crucial to his victory, for example the president won north Carolina by just 1%, but he carried young voters by whopping 74%, hard to imagine that victory without the college crowd, but now times have changed, some who vote for won't go at all, and frankly⁴, this is one of kinds of groups that you can't forward to lose a percentage. The national unemployment rate among 20 to 24 years old is 5 points higher than the national average, and Americans, a one trillion dollars in student loan debt, this college republican says the talk on campus is not optimistic. I can't pay my suit, I can't find a job to help pay for that, and that's why that level of excitement just isn't here, I am not saying it. It seems the president is trying to stir enthusiasm, here squaring off against republican Congresswoman who isn't feeling a student's pain. I am just quote here, I am just quote, she said, she said students reckon up student loan debt are just sitting on their butts⁵, having opportunity dumped in your lap. He was roughly quoting republican Congresswoman Virginia Fox, what the president did not mention is that Mitt⁶ Romney has come out in favor of the extending the current low interest rates on college loans, now it's up to Congress to find the 6 billion dollar it will take to pay for that. 

1 bracing   

adj.令人振奋的

参考例句：

• The country is bracing itself for the threatened enemy invasion. 这个国家正准备奋起抵抗敌人的入侵威胁。
• The atmosphere in the new government was bracing. 新政府的气氛是令人振奋的。

2 spike   

n.长钉，钉鞋；v.以大钉钉牢，使...失效

参考例句：

• The spike pierced the receipts and held them in order.那个钉子穿过那些收据并使之按顺序排列。
• They'll do anything to spike the guns of the opposition.他们会使出各种手段来挫败对手。

3 notches   

n.（边缘或表面上的）V型痕迹( notch的名词复数 )；刻痕；水平；等级

参考例句：

• The Indians cut notches on a stick to keep count of numbers. 印第安人在棒上刻V形凹痕用来计数。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• They cut notches in the handle of their pistol for each man they shot. 他们每杀一个人就在枪托上刻下一个V形记号。 来自辞典例句

4 frankly   

adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说

参考例句：

• To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说，我一点也不赞成这个主意。
• Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说，我不反对改革。

5 butts   

笑柄( butt的名词复数 )； （武器或工具的）粗大的一端； 屁股； 烟蒂

参考例句：

• The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。
• The house butts to a cemetery. 这所房子和墓地相连。

6 mitt   

n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手

参考例句：

• I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
• Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。