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Modern Technology Taking Footage To Help People Envision World War I

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Welcome to CNN 10, I’m Carl Azuz at the CNN center. We have some tragic news to tell you about first today, it involves a shooting in a bar in Thousand Oaks, California.

Here’s what we know it took place on Wednesday night at a place called Borderline Bar and Grill. Students From California Lutheran University and Pepperdine University are believed to have been there at the time.

Officials estimate hundreds of people were. Police say a gunman forced his way into the bar and started shooting with a single handgun. A Ventura County Sheriff says officers got to the scene within three

minutes after the first emergency call was made. Two of them went into the bar after hearing shots and one of them, a law enforcement veteran was killed. At least 11 other people died in the incident, including

the suspected shooter. Police believe he killed himself. What they don’t know is why this happened. Police say the gunman was a 28 year-old military veteran. He had had run-ins with police before.

run-in [ˈrʌnɪn] n. 激烈的争执，争吵; 冲突

A sheriff says a crisis team that visited the suspect in the past, thought he might had a post-traumatic stress disorder, possibly from the time he served in combat. The mayor of Thousand Oaks, which is located about

40 miles west of Los Angeles, says his city is considered to be one of the safest in the country that was echoed by one of the witnesses to the shooting. Borderline Bar and Grill was hosting college country night

which is popular with students when the shooting happened.

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: 10 second trivia, veteran`s day originated with an observance that marked the end of what war? The U.S. Civil War, World

War I, World War II, or Vietnam War? The holiday observed on November 11 recalls Armistice Day, which marked the end of World War I.
 

armistice [ˋɑrməstɪs] n. 休战，停战；休战（或停战）协议

As its widely quoted, the armistice that ended the Great War went into effect on the 11th hour on of the 11th day of the 11th month. So this

Great War 大战（指第一次世界大战）

Sunday is the anniversary, and it will be exactly 100 years since the guns fell silent in the war to end all wars. Sadly, it didn`t live up to that
 

live up to 实践; 遵守, 坚持

name, with a larger, more brutal conflict of World War II beginning just 21 years after the First World War ended. But at the time, World War I ran

from 1914 to 1918. The world had never seen a conflict like it.

Millions of people from across the planet were killed, even a century after the war ended, some battlefields in France and Belgium still showed the

craters made by the shells. Some areas are still closed to the public because they`re filled with unexploded bombs and mines, tanks, machine

guns, fighter planes, chemical weapons, they were all used on a large scale for the first time. So the war made history, both for the destruction it

caused and the technology used to carry it out.

Now, modern technology is taking footage like this and helping people envision World War I and to look to those who fight it. This report by
 

envision [ɪnˋvɪʒən] v. 想象

Nick Glass helps bridge the past with the present.

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NICK GLASS, CNN JOURNALIST: The trains of course are so much faster now, just whistle through the station at Letchworth some 40 miles north of

London. The station building itself hasn`t changed that much in a century or so, the big difference on that summer`s day way back in August, 1914,

was the main platform was crowded with men in uniform going off to war. The way we remember the Great War has subtly changed. The images have been tinted. We`ve begun to see the war in color for the first time.
 

go off 动身, 离去

subtly [ˋsʌt!ɪ] adv. 微妙地

tint [tɪnt] v. 給……著色

DAN HILL (ph): This is Private Walter Splanders (ph) and Private Phil Johnson (ph). They had a tragically short war, in that these two chaps
 

chap [tʃæp] n.【口】家伙，小伙子，男人

were both killed by the same shell, buried alive.

GLASS: (Inaudible) Dan Hill (ph) is trying to identify all the men on the platform to find out what happened to them.

HILL (ph): This is Corporal Arthur Ernest Bordman (ph), he`s the very first man to fall.
 

corporal [ˋkɔrpərəl] n.【军】下士

GLASS: So far, Hill (ph) has identified 11 of the men in the photo, eight of them never came home. Their names are on the war memorial just 50 yards

from the railway station. Corporal Bordman (ph), Private Splanders (ph) and Johnson (ph), among the long list of other causalities.

Just colorizing old black and white stills obviously makes this story more accessible to a younger generation. During the same to moving footage has

been infinitely more dramatic.

UNKNOWN: It just brings it to life. I mean, some of these hit (ph) a long term interest (inaudible) all this last. Two or three years, when we`ve

been restoring this footage has been incredibly exciting.

I`m stunned you see the faces, you see the people, you see the humanity.

GLASS: Peter Jackson`s documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old, give us a rare insight into what is was like to fight in the trenches on the western

front. Both electrifying, funny (ph) and sobering, a film about camaraderie and animal savagery; we learn what it was like to be an ordinary soldier.
 

electrifying [ɪˋlɛktrəfaɪɪŋ] adj. 非常激动人心的；令人振奋的

sobering [ˋsobərɪŋ] adj. 令人清醒的

camaraderie [͵kɑməˋrɑdərɪ] n.【法】同志间的友爱和忠诚

savagery [ˋsævɪdʒərɪ] n. 凶猛；残忍

This is the Welch grandfather Peter Jackson never met. Sergeant William Jackson was machine-gunned at the battle of the Somme in France in 1916.
 

sergeant [ˋsɑrdʒənt] n. 陆军中士；海军陆战队中士

machine-gun [məˋʃin͵gʌn] v. 用机关枪射击

He was a lucky one. He survived. Private Ted Ambrose (ph) didn`t. He was 19 when he died. His suitcase was returned from the Somme to his mother in

England, she could hardly bear to open it. It was quickly consigned to her attic for most of the 20th century. Ted`s (ph) pipe and tobacco, his
 

consign [kənˋsaɪn] v. 使湮没无闻; 寄存

attic [ˋætɪk] n. 顶楼，阁楼；顶楼房间

cigarettes, including Army-issued red Hussars, a locket with pictures of himself and his sweetheart, and the service medals he never lived to
 

hussar [hʊˋzɑr] n. 轻骑兵

locket [ˋlɑkɪt] n. 盒式项链坠

receive. The artifacts amount to a rare discovery, a poignant time capsule.
 

amount to 总计为

poignant [ˋpɔɪnənt] adj. 辛酸的，惨痛的

We began the centenary of the Great War in 2014 with the moat of the Tower of London filled with a sea of surrounding poppies. Some of them have now
 

centenary [͵sɛnˋtɛnərɪ] n. 百年纪念；一世纪

moat [mot] n. 护城河，壕沟

poppy [ˋpɑpɪ] n.【植】罂粟；罂粟科植物[C]；罂粟花

migrated across the Thames to the Imperial War Museum, a cascade, a weeping window spilling down the building. Britain`s poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy
 

Thames [tɛmz] n.（伦敦）泰晤士河

cascade [kæsˋked] n. 瀑布状的东西

weeping [wipɪŋ] adj. 有垂枝的

has written a new poem to mark the centenary of the armistice. "The Great War," she writes, "is the wound in time. Will we ever remember it

with quite so much intensity again?" Nick Glass (ph), CNN, London.

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AZUZ: Well, from technology used to color film from the past, here`s an idea of how NASA is using tech to get extremely high definition views of

the international space station. Now I said an idea, and not a look. The reason? This is video in 8K. That means it has 16 times the number of

pixels that an HDTV has, it`s just too bad that for people, they can`t actually see this in 8K, because there aren`t a lot of monitors around that

have the ability to show it.

So while NASA can record in 8K, you`re probably just viewing this HD; which for some, will be the very high definition of disappointment. They`ll need

to see the problem come to a resolution before they`re 8-OK with it. They can mono-torn apart if their vision stops at a 10-peak from which they just

can`t pixel it to be anything better.

The issue liquid-crystal clear, someone will have to take the screen-time to sharpen it. I`m Carl Azuz, and Friday`s are awesome. CNN 10 wishes all

of you a wonderful Veteran`s day weekend. And to the veterans in our audience and those currently serving in the military, thank you for your

service.

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