美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-11-14

 Hi, I'm Carl Azuz. This is your Friday edition of CNN Student News. Most of you watching this are probably in school. Most students in the Philippines are not. Yesterday, there was a storm bearing down on the country and it was a monster. Possibly one of the strongest ever, typhoon Haiyan. The Philippines is an archipelago, a group of islands, more than 7000 of them. This storm is so big. Its clouds are effecting 2/3 of the country. A typhoon is the same kind of storm as the hurricane. On Thursday, Haiyan was the strong as the category 5 hurricane. It was still that strong when it made landfall today. Before it hit, Andrea Stevens was reporting on what the Philippines was expecting and how it was preparing.

 

We're expecting dusts of up to 300 kilometers an hour. That's almost 200 miles an hour. Plus, a big storm surge and heavy, heavy rain. Authorities have been taking measures to get people to safe ground, not only the low line coastal¹ areas but also in the hills where there's a danger of landslides². 

 

Is this legit? An IPO is the first time a company sells its stock to the public? It's true. IPO stands for initial public offering. Specifically offering shares of a company stock.

 

A popular social media service launched its IPO this week. Twitter, the initial offer went pretty well. On Thursday, more than 130 million shares of Twitter were bought or sold on the stock market. The stock price at the end of the day puts company value at around 24 billion dollars. Now, Twitter has to show potential buyers that is worth that investment.

 

"I am making history here as the first president to live tweet."

 

"This movement that was started on Facebook and Twitter that then took on the life of its own."

 

"People that I work with do not shut up about Twitter."

 

"It's the most high-tech³ IPO since Facebook. Twitter began trading here at the New York Stock Exchange instead of NASDAQ after Facebook's famous though there." 

 

"The messy debut⁴ played by a technical difficulties but today call it about face as Mark Zuckerberg and friends celebrate shares near record highs. But Twitter's financial aren't as strong. The company is losing money, unlike Facebook which is already earning a billion dollars a year when it went public. Facebook also has 900 million users. Twitter has far fewer."

 

"Hard to get that half billion. How to get to a billion? And I think ultimately, we believe that story but I think that's going to be the biggest challenge."

 

"A challenge Twitter insists it can overcome."

 

"We've seen tremendous organic growth in our users, particularly internationally;"

 

"And when it comes to social media, it pays to be popular."

 

"Advertising⁵ always flows to where eyeballs go."

 

"So far, advertisers are flowing in and are buying mobile aids. That's the holy grail. Twitter gets  70% of its total ad revenue from mobile. Facebook only 3% when it went public but can Twitter keep the momentum⁶ going?"

 

"Twitter has to prove the value of the platform because if they are gonna ask people to come and spend money on the site and they are asking company should come and buy ads on Twitter. They need to show that money is well spent."

 

"Some are optimistic that there is big money to be made. 140 characters at a time."

 

"We don't think it's actually a question of well that make money. It isn't if or when they make money question."

 

Next up today, partially⁷ hydrogenated oils and you might now know exactly what those are but chances are you've eaten them. They are major sources of transfats or transfatty acids. They are used to increase flavor in some foods or help the foods last longer but the food and drug administration, the FDA says those partially hydrogenated oils are no longer recognized as safe.

 

"Transfats are bad for several reasons. They raise your bad cholesterol⁸ and they lower your good cholesterol. So, that`s why the FDA says that getting them out could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths each year. Now, transfats are relatively⁹ common in products such as donuts and biscuits and cookies. And some restaurants also fry in oil that contains transfats. Now, many restaurants over the years have stopped using transfats, McDonalds and other restaurants. And now the FDA is saying, that they are taking the first step so that no one would be able to use transfats."

 

The Grocery Manufacturers Association says that since 2005, food companies have voluntarily cut more than 73% of transfats out of their products. A new FDA policy could remove them entirely¹⁰. But this is still very early. It has to finalize¹¹ the decision and to get input¹² from food companies about how long it would take to phase out all these transfats. Right now, there is no timetable.

1 coastal   

adj.海岸的，沿海的，沿岸的

参考例句：

• The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
• This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。

2 landslides   

山崩( landslide的名词复数 )； （山坡、悬崖等的）崩塌； 滑坡； （竞选中）一方选票占压倒性多数

参考例句：

• Landslides have cut off many villages in remote areas. 滑坡使边远地区的许多村庄与外界隔绝。
• The storm caused landslides and flooding in Savona. 风暴致使萨沃纳发生塌方和洪灾。

3 high-tech   

adj.高科技的

参考例句：

• The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展，这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
• The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。

4 debut   

n.首次演出，初次露面

参考例句：

• That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
• The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。

5 advertising   

n.广告业；广告活动 a.广告的；广告业务的

参考例句：

• Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
• The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。

6 momentum   

n.动力，冲力，势头；动量

参考例句：

• We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
• The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。

7 partially   

adv.部分地，从某些方面讲

参考例句：

• The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
• The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静，宵禁部分解除。

8 cholesterol   

n.（U）胆固醇

参考例句：

• There is cholesterol in the cell of body.人体细胞里有胆固醇。
• They are determining the serum-protein and cholesterol levels.他们正在测定血清蛋白和胆固醇的浓度。

9 relatively   

adv.比较...地，相对地

参考例句：

• The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
• The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。

10 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。

11 finalize   

v.落实，定下来

参考例句：

• Let us finalize tonight.让我们今天晚上干完
• 。At the same time,industrial designers work with engineers to finalize components and assembly.同时，工业设计师和工程师一道来完成部件和组装部分的工作。

12 input   

n.输入(物)；投入；vt.把(数据等)输入计算机

参考例句：

• I will forever be grateful for his considerable input.我将永远感激他的大量投入。
• All this information had to be input onto the computer.所有这些信息都必须输入计算机。