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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。 Im 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。 Its 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。 Ukraines 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。 Hes 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。 Its 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 Ukraines 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 youd want to see. 冰塞。几乎听起来就是你想象到的样子。 You dont, 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, its 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 for