美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-12-14

 Winter, doesn't it officially start for another 11 days? The weather outside is frightful¹ right now. It is happening across the US: freezing temperature in part of California and Nevada, wind chills 40 below 0 in the middle west, snow and ice on the northeast. On Monday it was warmer and if you are across Alaska it was in St. Louis or Denver. If you drive or fly, this weird² weather can cause serious problem.

 

Snow, freezing wind and dangerous ice. Oh, my god. 

 

In F Texas,  residents catching⁴ these video showing sheets of ice cascading⁵ down from the roof tops. Oh, my god. And another early winter storm is reeking⁶ havoc⁷ across much part of the nation. The frigid⁸ storm put Dallas at a deep freeze over the weekend and make a mess from the Ohio valley to the northeast. Road cruisers were out of full force plowing⁹ and salting streets.

 

We are not going to stop working until the roads are clear. 

 

The wintry weather created tragic¹⁰ conditions on major road ways.

 

I think they aren't really rough. I think every people forget how to drive in the snow. 

 

The dangers make the snow and ice cause this fifty car pile upon the Pennsylvania turn pike, killing¹¹ at least one person. Roads and high ways in the Milwaukee area also have their share problems. Three separate wrecks¹² involving over a hundred cars, buses in ditches,  some ice trailers are jagged, causing a number of injuries.

 

It was bad like you could barely see out through, just over through  your cars and end up in a ditch. 

 

But it is not just the drivers feeling the impact, over 2800 flights were canceled nation wide on Sunday, and the number of cancellations continue to grow. This morning the trouble would be  airports along the busy I 95 court including Washington DC and Philadelphia. Heavy snow was the headline at least 4 NFL games on Sunday. Blowing snow made it nearly impossible for fans to tell exactly where the ball was. The football feel look more like ice ring players play slipping and sliding. And the eagles / games in Philadelphia, snow measured as high as six inches in the middle of the field.

 

Next up today we are heading to the east of Europe, where countries are being  pulled in opposite directions. For decades, Ukraine  was under Soviet¹³ rule.  It gained its independence in 1991. Now some Ukrainians think their country should lie with west Europe, and others wanna stay more connected to Russia. When Ukraine president recently refused to make a deal with European Union, the pro³-Europe site started protesting calling for change in the government. On Sunday these protests brought down the monument of the former Soviet Union leader. 

 

Well it was a symbolic¹⁴ activity sign, when the pro-European protesters toppling that statue of the Russia revolutionary Lenin in the center of Kiev, hacking¹⁵ it into pieces with hammers. The pro government supporters staged  their own demonstration¹⁶ nearby and made concerns that Ukraine, a country of nearly 45 million people is increasingly divided.  Hundreds of thousands have gathered in the capital of Kiev calling for the government there to step down. It is a wide spread anger after the Ukrainian president rejected closer ties with the European Union in favor of a trade packs with Moscow.

1 frightful   

adj.可怕的；讨厌的

参考例句：

• How frightful to have a husband who snores!有一个发鼾声的丈夫多讨厌啊！
• We're having frightful weather these days.这几天天气坏极了。

2 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

3 pro   

n.赞成，赞成的意见，赞成者

参考例句：

• The two debating teams argued the question pro and con.辩论的两组从赞成与反对两方面辩这一问题。
• Are you pro or con nuclear disarmament?你是赞成还是反对核裁军？

4 catching   

adj.易传染的，有魅力的，迷人的，接住

参考例句：

• There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
• Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。

5 cascading   

流注( cascade的现在分词 )； 大量落下； 大量垂悬； 梯流

参考例句：

• First of all, cascading menus are to be avoided at all costs. 首先，无论如何都要避免使用级联菜单。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• Her sounds began cascading gently. 他的声音开始缓缓地低落下来。

6 reeking   

v.发出浓烈的臭气( reek的现在分词 )；散发臭气；发出难闻的气味 (of sth)；明显带有（令人不快或生疑的跡象）

参考例句：

• I won't have you reeking with sweat in my bed! 我就不许你混身臭汗，臭烘烘的上我的炕！ 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
• This is a novel reeking with sentimentalism. 这是一本充满着感伤主义的小说。 来自辞典例句

7 havoc   

n.大破坏，浩劫，大混乱，大杂乱

参考例句：

• The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。
• This concentration of airborne firepower wrought havoc with the enemy forces.这次机载火力的集中攻击给敌军造成很大破坏。

8 frigid   

adj.寒冷的，凛冽的；冷淡的；拘禁的

参考例句：

• The water was too frigid to allow him to remain submerged for long.水冰冷彻骨，他在下面呆不了太长时间。
• She returned his smile with a frigid glance.对他的微笑她报以冷冷的一瞥。

9 plowing   

v.耕( plow的现在分词 )；犁耕；费力穿过

参考例句：

• "There are things more important now than plowing, Sugar. "如今有比耕种更重要的事情要做呀，宝贝儿。 来自飘（部分）
• Since his wife's death, he has been plowing a lonely furrow. 从他妻子死后，他一直过着孤独的生活。 来自辞典例句

10 tragic   

adj.悲剧的，悲剧性的，悲惨的

参考例句：

• The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
• Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。

11 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。

12 wrecks   

n.沉船( wreck的名词复数 )；（事故中）遭严重毁坏的汽车（或飞机等）；（身体或精神上）受到严重损伤的人；状况非常糟糕的车辆（或建筑物等）v.毁坏[毁灭]某物( wreck的第三人称单数 )；使（船舶）失事，使遇难，使下沉

参考例句：

• The shores are strewn with wrecks. 海岸上满布失事船只的残骸。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• My next care was to get together the wrecks of my fortune. 第二件我所关心的事就是集聚破产后的余财。 来自辞典例句

13 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

14 symbolic   

adj.象征性的，符号的，象征主义的

参考例句：

• It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
• The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。

15 hacking   

n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动

参考例句：

• The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
• We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。

16 demonstration   

n.表明，示范，论证，示威

参考例句：

• His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
• He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。