国外媒体:纪念诺曼底登陆65周年（在线收听）

6月7日，在法国西部的圣梅尔埃格利斯举行的纪念盟军诺曼底登陆65周年活动中，法国、德国和美国的伞兵从一架军用飞机上跳下。

Rather weather is deteriorated from those ceremonies earlier today when we get plenty of sunshine. Now, this is a pretty good imitation of what the soldiers, sailors and airmen must have faced 65 years ago. And D-Day mourning, it’s closed to evening in Normandy now, but in fact you can see the surf kicking out there quite a bit. It’s raining and back here on D-Day mourning there has fog, and I want to just point out the sort of difficulty that some of the servicemen had come in ashore here.

This is Omaha beach, part of Omaha beach, and coming on off the beach, they had to go up these cliffs, like you can see after my left, and in fact quite steep perhaps several hundred feet tall. And at the top were German gun policemen said “trenches”, and German were able to fire down directly onto the oncoming allied soldiers.

It was the kind of thing that was relived over and over again today in various parts of the beaches along here, the difficulty to come in ashore, to establish an beachhead and the amazing accomplishment those people who did it. President Barak Obama talked about that in his speech today, directly speaking to the very veterans here .

Obama: You, the veterans of our landing, so why we still remember what happened on D-day. You’re why we keep coming back, for you remind us that in the end, human destiny is not determined by forces beyond our control.

You remind us that our future is not shaped by mere chance or circumstance, our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. It has always been up to us.

All in all, a very moving occasion with all four leaders, the 2 presidents and 2 prime ministers, directly addressing the men who forced their way ashore here 65 years ago.

Jim Bittermann CNN from Omaha beach.1.deteriorate     

v. 恶化

例句与用法:
Food is apt to deteriorate in summer. 
食物在夏天容易变质。
Relation between the two countries have deteriorate sharply in recent week. 
最近几周那两个国家间的关系严重恶化了。

2.imitation     

n. 模仿,效法
adj. 假造的,冒充的

例句与用法:
Her innocence is only an imitation. 
她的天真只是一种伪装。
Pottery made in imitation of this earthenware. 
花饰上釉陶器模仿这种陶器制作的陶器
His style is a slavish imitation of his teacher's. 
他一味模仿教师的风格，毫无创意。

3.cliff    

n. 悬崖,峭壁

例句与用法:
The narrow path zigzags up the cliff. 
这条狭窄的小径曲曲折折地向峭壁伸延.
He managed to hang on to a piece of rock protruding from the cliff. 
他设法抓住了悬崖上向外伸出的岩石。
There are very few holds on the cliff face. 
峭壁的正面可供手攀或脚踏的地方很少.

4.veterans      

n. 退伍军人

例句与用法:
That veteran worker must be well over sixty. 
那位老工人准有60好几了。
It was billed as "the mother of all parades." And the organizers had promised that12 million pounds of confetti, a million yellow ribbons and6, 000 tons of ticker tape would be dropped on the veterans returning from the Persian Gulf war…. 
它被秒为“一切游行之母”。主办间单位承诺将投掷1200万磅彩色碎纸，100万条黄丝带，还有6000吨白色纸条[欢迎]自波斯湾战争归来的战士……。

5.circumstance   

n. 环境,状况,事件

例句与用法:
He was forced by the circumstances to do this. 
他做此事是为环境所迫。
Due to circumstances beyond our control the lecture was cancelled. 
由于无法控制的情况，讲座取消了。