美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-08-15

 I'm CarlAzuz. It's great to be kicking off a new school with you. We have, as you justsaw, a new show beginning. We've got some new segments, new graphics¹, and a newlook here in the CNN International Newsroom at CNN Global Headquarters. Sowe're up and running. And so are some U.S. embassies after they were closed fora week. That's our first story of this new school year. There are 19 locationslabeled on this map. In countries across parts of Africa and around the MiddleEast, on August 4th, the U.S. closed its embassies in all of them. Yesterday,it reopened 18 of them. Now, an embassy is a country's official place forgovernment business inside another country. The people who work there likeambassadors interact with the local government and other groups. And embassieshave a special status. An American embassy may be located outside the UnitedStates, but the facility is considered U.S. soil. So, the questions: why didthe U.S. closed these 19 embassies. U.S. intelligence organizations interceptedsome communications from the al Qaeda terrorists group. That group is behindattacks around the globe including the 911 terrorist attacks in 2001. Thiscommunication was a threatening message being sent between senior al Qaedamembers. U.S. officials responded by closing those embassies and issuingworldwide travel alert for Americans.

 

 

 

The one embassy that didn't reopen yesterday is in Yemen. That country is hometo al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. U.S. officials kept this embassy closedbecause of continuing concerns about a possible attack.

 

 

 

One of the embassies that reopened was in Egypt. That country's been in thenews a lot this summer for a different reason: the North African nation isgoing through a political crisis. Protests, violence, a forced change ingovernment, and it's not over. All this week, we're going to be recapping someof the big stories that happen while we were off for the summer. Today, we arelooking at the tension in Egypt over the past few months.

 

 

 

Egypt has spent this summer in turmoil². Images of civil unrest and violence areall over the news. What's behind it all - if you a regular STUDENT NEWS viewer,you may remember that in May and June of 2012 the country held elections andMohamed Morsi became Egypt's first democratically elected president. BeforeMorsi, President Hosni Mubarak had ruled Egypt for almost 30 years. He wasforced out of office in 2011. But a year into his term, many Egyptians wantedMorsi out, too. His party, the Muslim Brotherhood³, is Egypt's oldest andlargest Muslim organization. Its ideology⁴ is based on the teachings in the Koran,Islam's holy book. Some say, Morsi rushed adoption⁵ of a constitution that didnot guarantee freedom of religion. Some say he was trying to force the MuslimBrotherhood strict Islamic code into national laws. And other Egyptians opposedMorsi because they saw no improvement to the struggling national economy andcrime situation.

 

 

 

When Morsi issued an edict declaring that the country's courts could notoverturn his decisions, his opponents began taking to the streets again.

 

 

 

Eventually, the Egyptian military, which sided with the opposition⁶, gave Morsian ultimatum⁷: step aside or we will force you out. Morsi refused to go. On July3rd of this year, after days of angry protests, the military removed Morsi fromoffice. Although Egyptian military has a lot of influence in the government, it didn't hold on to power. Government control went to an interim⁸ civiliangovernment led by Adly Mansour, who also leads the country's Supreme⁹ Court.

 

 

The deposed¹⁰ Morsi is being held in an undisclosed military location. He facesseveral criminal charges. Since Morsi's removal, there've been protests andsittings in support of him by the Muslim Brotherhood as well as protestssupporting his ouster. Those who support Morsi say he was legally elected andshould remain as president. They called his removal from power an illegal coup¹¹.And they refused to accept it. Those who support Morsi's removal say it was acorrection, a continuation of the revolution that started with Mubarak'sremoval more than two years ago.

 

 

 

This months, President Obama sent Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham toEgypt to try to talk to both sides, but the protests and violence continue. Inrecent weeks, hundreds have been killed and thousand injured in Egypt and manyworry about the long term survival of democracy in the country.

1 graphics   

n.制图法，制图学；图形显示

参考例句：

• You've leveraged your graphics experience into the video area.你们把图形设计业务的经验运用到录像业务中去。
• Improved graphics took computer games into a new era.经改进的制图技术将电脑游戏带进了一个新时代。

2 turmoil   

n.骚乱，混乱，动乱

参考例句：

• His mind was in such a turmoil that he couldn't get to sleep.内心的纷扰使他无法入睡。
• The robbery put the village in a turmoil.抢劫使全村陷入混乱。

3 brotherhood   

n.兄弟般的关系，手中情谊

参考例句：

• They broke up the brotherhood.他们断绝了兄弟关系。
• They live and work together in complete equality and brotherhood.他们完全平等和兄弟般地在一起生活和工作。

4 ideology   

n.意识形态，(政治或社会的)思想意识

参考例句：

• The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
• The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。

5 adoption   

n.采用，采纳，通过；收养

参考例句：

• An adoption agency had sent the boys to two different families.一个收养机构把他们送给两个不同的家庭。
• The adoption of this policy would relieve them of a tremendous burden.采取这一政策会给他们解除一个巨大的负担。

6 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

7 ultimatum   

n.最后通牒

参考例句：

• This time the proposal was couched as an ultimatum.这一次该提议是以最后通牒的形式提出来的。
• The cabinet met today to discuss how to respond to the ultimatum.内阁今天开会商量如何应对这道最后通牒。

8 interim   

adj.暂时的，临时的；n.间歇，过渡期间

参考例句：

• The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
• It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。

9 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

10 deposed   

v.罢免( depose的过去式和过去分词 )；（在法庭上）宣誓作证

参考例句：

• The president was deposed in a military coup. 总统在军事政变中被废黜。
• The head of state was deposed by the army. 国家元首被军队罢免了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

11 coup   

n.政变；突然而成功的行动

参考例句：

• The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
• That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。