CNN News:俄罗斯突搞军演 坚称与乌克兰局势无关

Fridays are awesome!

星期五真是太棒了!

Welcome to CNN STUDENT NEWS with your lastshow of February.

欢迎收看2月最后的一期CNN学生新闻。

I'm Carl Azuz.

我是卡尔·阿祖兹。

Ukraine has seen a lot of changes in a short amount of time.

乌克兰在很短的时间发生了很多变化。

It's divided.

这个国家变得分裂。

Some Ukrainians want closer ties with the European Union, some like its ousted president, wantcloser ties with Russia.

一些乌克兰人希望与欧盟建立更紧密的联系,而一些则与被驱逐的总统一样希望与俄罗斯的联系更为紧密。

Ukraine's parliament voted out President Viktor Yanukovych last weekend after violent protestsin the capital.

在首都暴力抗议过后的上周末乌克兰议会投票让总统亚努科维奇下台。

He's taking refuge in Russia.

他在俄罗斯避难。

Yesterday parliament voted on a temporary government to hold things together until electionsin May.

昨天议会对一个维持直到5月选举的临时政府进行投票表决。

But then, there is Crimea.

但是,还有克里米亚。

It's a region of southern Ukraine where many people support the ousted president and wantcloser ties with Russia.

这是乌克兰南部的一个地区,许多人支持被驱逐的总统,希望与俄罗斯建立更紧密的联系。

Protesters there stormed the government building and raised the Russian flag yesterday.

这里的抗议者们昨天冲进政府大楼,升起了俄罗斯国旗。

And Russia has started military exercises near its border with Ukraine.

而且俄罗斯已经在乌克兰边境附近开始军事演习。

A Russian official says these were previously scheduled and not related to Ukraine's unrest.

一位俄罗斯官员表示这是以前计划好的而且与乌克兰的动荡无关。

Ice jam. It almost sounds like something you'd want to see.

冰塞。几乎听起来就是你想象到的样子。

You don't, if you leave anywhere near one.

而如果你居住在它们附近，就不是这样子了。

You know, it's been a brutally cold winter for the northern U.S.

如你所知, 美国的北部正经历着一个残酷寒冷的冬天。

Some rivers in the region have frozen, then melted then refrozen and crusted over with largethick chunks of crushed ice.

在该地区的一些河流已经冻结,之后经历融化再冻结的过程于是有了陈年非常厚的大块碎冰。

In the Kankakee River in Illinois, ice jam stretch for miles.

在伊利诺斯州坎河的冰塞绵延数英里。

Some people who live nearby are leaving their homes.

住在附近的一些人被迫离开家园。

One reason-how ice jams can affect areas near river.

其中一个原因是冰塞影响到了附近地区的河流。

Say, there is a bridge with supports in the water.

比如,有一座桥在水中有支撑物。

Drifting chunks of ice can get caught near them, clogging up the flow of water forming a dam.

漂流的大块冰可以在它们附近阻塞水流形成一个大坝。

Water needs somewhere to go, so it floods the river banks.

水需要地方流淌,所以洪水冲向河岸。

And that may not be the worst thing that can happen.

而这可能不是最糟糕的事情。

Everyone were talking who lives around here, says they've never seen this river looking like this.

每个住在这里的人都表示从未见过河流呈现这样的景象。

During the summer, this is a very popular place to go boating.

在夏天的时候,这是个非常受欢迎的划船好去处。

But right now, it looks like a glacier landscape in Alaska.

但是现在看起来像阿拉斯加的冰川景观。

Well, the water looks to be still, so nothing is moving.

嗯,水似乎仍然平静,所以没有移动。

And that seems like a good thing.

这似乎是一件好事。

But in fact, there is still water piling up underneath, making the pressure high.

但事实上,还有水堆积下面,使得压力升高。

So, all of a sudden, this is going to break free, break through, and you could see big pieces ofice in the people's homes.

所以,突然之间,平静将被打破,你可以看到大块的冰出现在人民的房子里。

You could see the ice dam up and big flooding go around it.

你可以看到冰筑的大坝还有大洪水。

There it goes! There it goes! There it goes!

它来了!它来了!它来了!

This is what it looks like, when an ice jam finally breaks.

这就是冰塞终于突破束缚后的样子。

Suddenly, the entire river started moving. Extremely fast, like a freight train.

突然,整个河流开始运动。快的就像货运列车一样。

This was Ohio's Rocky River last week.

这是上周俄亥俄岩石河的景象。