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Happy Saint Patrick's Day.

圣帕特里克节快乐。

Welcome to our March, 17th edition of CNNSTUDENT NEWS.

欢迎收看3月17日的CNN学生新闻。

I'm Carl Azuz.

我是卡尔·阿祖兹。

First up, voters in Crimea went to the polls yesterday and overwhelmingly chose to becomepart of Russia?

首先,克里米亚的选民们昨天参加投票,获得压倒性的胜利选择成为俄罗斯的一部分?

The local government is sending a delegation to Moscow to apply for that.

当地政府派出一个代表团前往莫斯科申请。

Russia welcomes the vote and will likely be willing to redraw its borders.

俄罗斯对投票表示欢迎而且可能会愿意重划边界。

But Ukraine, the European Union and the United States, all say the vote doesn't count.

但乌克兰,欧盟和美国都表示不认可投票。

That a region of Ukraine can't just break away from the rest of the country and become part ofanother one.

乌克兰的一个地区不能脱离这个国家成为成为他国的另一部分。

Ukraine's been divided over whether to forge closer ties with Europe or Russia.

乌克兰一直就是否与欧洲还是俄罗斯建立更紧密的联系产生分歧。

Its former president favored Russia, but violent protests in the capital led to his ouster lastmonth.

这个国家的前总统青睐俄罗斯,但上个月在首都的暴力抗议导致他下台。

Now, with the U.S. and European Union supporting a unified Ukraine and Russia supportingCrimea's secession,

现在,美国和欧盟支持统一的乌克兰而俄罗斯支持克里米亚半岛的分裂,

the country's political future is unclear.

这个国家的政治前景仍不明朗。

There's still no sign of a Malaysian Airlines plane that vanished in mid- flight more than a weekago.

一个多星期前的马来西亚航空公司飞机在飞行中的消失仍然没有迹象。

But U.S. intelligence officials think the captain and copilot might have had something to dowith the disappearance, that it was not an accident.

但美国情报官员认为机长和副驾驶员可能与消失有关,而且这并非一次意外。

Part of the reason, the plane stopped transmitting information at what one official called theperfect place to disappear.

部分解释是飞机在一位官员所说的完美消失的地方停止发送信号。

Investigators have taken a flight simulator from the captain's house.

调查人员已经将机长家中的飞行模拟器带走进行调查。

They are examining that for clues.

他们正在研究其中的线索。

The search now includes 25 countries, the area is tremendous.

现在的搜索包括25个国家,面积令人震惊。

Take off from Kuala Lumpur 12:41 a.m. local time last Saturday, Flight 370 headed north alongits planned route to Beijing.

马航370航班上周六从吉隆坡当地时间12:41起飞,按预定计划向北飞行前往北京。

But then, two communication systems stopped working within minutes of each other.

不过,几分钟内两个通信系统停止工作。

And investigators now believe someone almost surely turned them off.

而调查人员现在相信肯定是有人把它们关掉。

At 1:07 a.m., near the East Coast of Malaysia, the system known as ACARS stops transmittinginformation about the plane's operating condition, and that was before the last radiotransmission.

在1：07分，马来西亚东海岸附近,被称为ACARS的系统停止发送飞机的操作信号,就在最后的无线电传输之前。

All right, good night indicating everything was normal.

好吧,晚安时段，显示一切正常。

1:21 a.m., the transponder, which identifies the aircraft on radar, stops transmitting.

而在1：21时。检测雷达上飞机信号的应答器停止传输信号。

Was someone trying to hide the plane?

有人试图隐藏飞机吗?

We also now know blips then seen on Malaysian military radar were in fact Flight 370 headedwest,

我们现在也清楚马来西亚军用雷达上的信号事实上显示370航班向西飞行,

and authorities say there's every indication someone was in control.

而当局称有充分的迹象表明有人在控制飞机。

Up until the point, at which it left military primary radar coverage,

直到此刻，它是在离开主要军事雷达的覆盖,

this movements are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane.

这一动作是机上某人经过深思熟虑所采取的行动。

Still unclear, whether it was a pilot or a hijacker.

还不清楚,是否是飞行员或劫机者所为。

CNN has confirmed, the plane made erratic changes in altitude.

CNN已确认,飞机所做出的高度不稳定的变化。

It was flying what officials describe as a "strange path".

官员们称飞机飞行的是“奇怪的路线”。