美国有线新闻 CNN 2015-08-22

 This Wednesday takes us out to the American West. There are almost 100 wildfires burning, directly affecting ten U.S. states from Washington and California, to Colorado and Montana and those in between.

Breaking down the numbers: hundreds of homes have been destroyed, more than a million acres, think a million football fields have burned. Twenty-five thousand firefighters are working to contain these things. For the first time since 2006, the U.S. military has been called in to help, about 200 active duty personnel. The military is also sending C130s, large cargo¹ planes to help douse² the flames.

Time for the first shoutout of the school year. Who famously said, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"? If you think you know it, shout it out.

Was it Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Washington, Winston Churchill, or Henry VIII?

You've got three seconds. Go!

These were the words of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, speaking to British pilots during the Battle of Britain. That's your answer and that's your shoutout.

That battle lasted from July to October, 1940. It was a series of relentless³ air raids on Britain by Nazi⁴ Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. Yesterday was the 75th anniversary of the battle's hardest day when British and German forces combined lost more than 130 planes. British pilots were ultimately successful in defending their country from the Nazis⁵. Still, Germany dropped so many bombs during the battle that even today, they're turning up in Britain.

London's darkest hour during World War II. Thousands upon thousands of German bombs raining down on the city.

"The air war has long been at peak."Eight months in history simply known as "The Blitz". Each dot here represents a strike in London. Pull back and you can see its enormity. But some never exploded and generations later, they are still being unearthed⁶.

The latest, a 500-pound bomb found by builders in East London. Authorities quickly evacuated⁷ more than 100 residents, some to a nearby school.

Residents maybe barely nonchalant about having an unexploded bomb in their neighborhood, just a few blocks away. But you have to remember, the 1940s, this death from above instilled⁸ absolute terror inside the people of London. Roughly 30,000 Londoners would lose their lives among the rubble⁹. Bomb disposal experts, veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan successfully diffused¹⁰ and removed the explosive. It's unknown how many bombs from World War II remained entombed under London.

1 cargo   

n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物

参考例句：

• The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
• A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。

2 douse   

v.把…浸入水中，用水泼；n.泼洒

参考例句：

• Men came with buckets of water and began to douse the flames.人们提来一桶桶水灭火。
• He doused the flames with a fire extinguisher.他用灭火器把火焰扑灭。

3 relentless   

adj.残酷的，不留情的，无怜悯心的

参考例句：

• The traffic noise is relentless.交通车辆的噪音一刻也不停止。
• Their training has to be relentless.他们的训练必须是无情的。

4 Nazi   

n.纳粹分子，adj.纳粹党的，纳粹的

参考例句：

• They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
• Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。

5 Nazis   

n.（德国的）纳粹党员( Nazi的名词复数 )；纳粹主义

参考例句：

• The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Nazis were responsible for the mass murder of Jews during World War Ⅱ. 纳粹必须为第二次世界大战中对犹太人的大屠杀负责。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 unearthed   

出土的（考古）

参考例句：

• Many unearthed cultural relics are set forth in the exhibition hall. 展览馆里陈列着许多出土文物。
• Some utensils were in a state of decay when they were unearthed. 有些器皿在出土时已经残破。

7 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

8 instilled   

v.逐渐使某人获得（某种可取的品质），逐步灌输( instill的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Nature has instilled in our minds an insatiable desire to see truth. 自然给我们心灵注入了永无休止的发现真理的欲望。 来自辞典例句
• I instilled the need for kindness into my children. 我不断向孩子们灌输仁慈的必要。 来自辞典例句

9 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。

10 diffused   

散布的，普及的，扩散的

参考例句：

• A drop of milk diffused in the water. 一滴牛奶在水中扩散开来。
• Gases and liquids diffused. 气体和液体慢慢混合了。