美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-12-07

 Yesterday, we reported on a train accident in that brought of New York City. 4 people were killed and more than 60 other were injured when 7 cars jumped the tracks. The big question now is what happened. Was the train going too fast? Was there a problem with the breaks? Was human error involved? Investigators¹ are getting information of the vent² recorders that were on the train and some of the passengers are giving their stories of what happened.

 

"I got thrown across back and forth³ and it came like a halt. And there were just people screaming."

 

Early Sunday, a throne of rescue workers s. the grisly thing one rail car nearly plunging⁴ into the river where divers⁵ checked for bodies under water.

 

"I can see some people flying from my left like the r. side. People from the back...It's just crazy."  

 

At 7:20 AM, the commuter⁶ train carrying 150 passengers on its way to Grand Central Station from P. approached an extremely sharp curve that required a speed limit of 30 miles per hour along the H. River. Compared to the straight way prior, requiring a speed limit of 70 miles per hour.

 

"The curve has been here for many many years, right? And trains take the curve but it can't just be the curve."

 

The train conductor said he tried to apply the breaks but says it didn't work as all 7 cars derailed barreling off the tracks.

 

"By the time I looked up, there was completely going off its track and there was just like a rubble⁷ from the tracks like flying at my face."

 

Only 1,700 feet away from a previous July derailment. That's where 10 garbage freight cars flipped⁸ on their side.

 

"We don't know what the train speed was. We will learn that from the vehicle event reporters." 

 

This is the 2nd passenger train derailment in 6 months from m. In May, an east bound train derailed in Bridgeport, Connecticut and was hit by a west bound train. 76 people were injured. Sunday's crash nearly similar to the train that derailed in northwestern spin killing⁹ 79 passengers. In that crash, the train was approaching a sharp turn. Security video showed the shocking moment the train going more than twice the speed limit hurdle¹⁰ of the track. Officials are looking into what role. If any speed play in the Bronx accident.

 

Next story today, M. is 85 years old. He's an American lives in California. In October, he took a 10-day tour of North Korea. He never left North Korea. The country shut itself off most of the world. It's run by a dictator, Kim Jong-un who can be unpredictable. So, it's hard for other countries to know what the North Korea government is doing or why. M. was detained by North Korea officials right before his plane left. Another American, K. Beth was arrested in North Korea last year. They can be released soon but as one expert says when it comes to North Korea, nobody knows very much. 

 

"I can understand that in US, in western countries, there is misleading information and propaganda about DPRK."

 

North Korea state media released this video over the weekend of detained American tourist, 85-year old M. reading a handwritten apology. Pyongan saying N. admits his guilty of big crimes when he fought for US in the Korean War killing civilians¹¹, working with anticommunist g. and planning now, 60 years later, to try to meet up with them. The video shows N. signing the 4 page statement read on camera dated November 9th and sealing it with his thumb print in red ink. What happened to him next isn't clear. After being held since late October, taken of a plane just as his tour group was leaving. The White House is now weighing in. A spokeswoman saying the US is deeply concerned, calling on North Korea to release N. and fellow American K. Beth now held for more than a year but one expert says that could complicate¹² an already sensitive situation.

 

"North Korea doesn't want to give the impression to the world that North Korea is giving into the demand or pressures coming from Washington." 

 

Former UN ambassador, Bill Rich., who says his North Korean contacts aren't responding, told CNN on Sunday that Kim Jong-un isn't following North Korea's usual pattern of releasing Americans after getting the proprted confession¹³.                    

 

"So, this is baffling. This is a newly regime of the new leader and I suspect he's sending different signals but nobody knows what those signals are."

1 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 vent   

n.通风口，排放口；开衩；vt.表达，发泄

参考例句：

• He gave vent to his anger by swearing loudly.他高声咒骂以发泄他的愤怒。
• When the vent became plugged,the engine would stop.当通风口被堵塞时，发动机就会停转。

3 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

4 plunging   

adj.跳进的，突进的v.颠簸( plunge的现在分词 )；暴跌；骤降；突降

参考例句：

• War broke out again, plunging the people into misery and suffering. 战祸复发，生灵涂炭。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• He is plunging into an abyss of despair. 他陷入了绝望的深渊。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 divers   

adj.不同的；种种的

参考例句：

• He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人，要他们和他作伴。
• Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作，同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。

6 commuter   

n.(尤指市郊之间)乘公交车辆上下班者

参考例句：

• Police cordoned off the road and diverted commuter traffic. 警察封锁了道路并分流交通。
• She accidentally stepped on his foot on a crowded commuter train. 她在拥挤的通勤列车上不小心踩到了他的脚。

7 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

8 flipped   

轻弹( flip的过去式和过去分词 )； 按（开关）； 快速翻转； 急挥

参考例句：

• The plane flipped and crashed. 飞机猛地翻转，撞毁了。
• The carter flipped at the horse with his whip. 赶大车的人扬鞭朝着马轻轻地抽打。

9 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

10 hurdle   

n.跳栏，栏架；障碍，困难；vi.进行跨栏赛

参考例句：

• The weather will be the biggest hurdle so I have to be ready.天气将会是最大的障碍，所以我必须要作好准备。
• She clocked 11.6 seconds for the 80 metre hurdle.八十米跳栏赛跑她跑了十一秒六。

11 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

12 complicate   

vt.使复杂化，使混乱，使难懂

参考例句：

• There is no need to complicate matters.没有必要使问题复杂化。
• These events will greatly complicate the situation.这些事件将使局势变得极其复杂。

13 confession   

n.自白，供认，承认

参考例句：

• Her confession was simply tantamount to a casual explanation.她的自白简直等于一篇即席说明。
• The police used torture to extort a confession from him.警察对他用刑逼供。