The year in pictures  (CNN)

January 1,  美国，纽约

Couples kiss in New York's Times Square to ring in the new year.

Times Square  时报广场

ring  敲钟

January 6, 美国，芝加哥        

Ice builds up along Lake Michigan at Chicago's North Avenue Beach. Chicago hit a low temperature of 16 below zero.

Lake Michigan 密歇根湖，著名的北美五大湖之一，是五大湖中唯一全部属于美国的湖。南北长517公里，最宽处190公里，近12万平方公里，芝加哥就矗立在密歇根湖的西南端。

January 6, 印度尼西亚

A cornfield in Karo, Indonesia, is covered with volcanic ash following the eruption of Mount Sinabung

西纳彭火山是印尼一座休眠火山，沉寂400年后突然不断喷发。

cornfield  玉米地

volcanic ash  火山灰

eruption  喷发, 爆发

Mount Sinabung  西纳彭火山 (印尼苏门达腊北部)

January 23，意大利

A trail of destruction is seen behind a boulder after a landslide in Ronchi di Termeno, Italy. The boulder missed the farmhouse at right but destroyed a barn before stopping in a vineyard. According to reports, the family living at the house was unharmed.

boulder  大石头

landslide  山体滑坡

barn  谷仓

vineyard 葡萄园

January 31， 叙利亚，大马士革

Refugees at the besieged al-Yarmouk camp, south of Damascus, Syria, wait to receive food distributed by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency. Millions of people have either fled Syria or become displaced because of the civil war there.

besieged  被围困的

Syria  叙利亚 

Damascus  大马士革 (叙利亚首都)

displaced   流离失所, 无家可归

civil war  内战

February 17, 中国，重庆

Children learn about disaster survival at a primary school in Chongqing, China.

February 17,  印度

A baby elephant sits stuck in a ditch near railway tracks in Assam, India. A group of wild elephants was crossing the tracks when the calf got injured and fell.

stuck  被困住，被卡住,

ditch  沟渠, 壕沟

railway track  铁路线

calf  小象

February 20， 乌克兰，基辅

Protesters in Kiev, Ukraine, catch fire as they stand behind burning barricades during clashes with police. Kiev's Independence Square had been the center of anti-government protests since November 2013, when President Viktor Yanukovych reversed a decision on a trade deal with the European Union and instead turned toward Russia.

Ukraine 乌克兰

Kiev  基辅（乌克兰首都）

barricade  路障

Viktor Yanukovych  维克多·亚努科维奇

reverse 推翻，撤销

European Union 欧盟

February 23， 印度

A leopard leaps near a furniture market in Meerut, India. The big cat sparked panic in the city when it strayed inside a hospital, a cinema and an apartment block.

leopard  金钱豹

spark panic  引发恐慌

stray  迷路，走失

英语可把“虎豹”称为 “cat”（猫科动物）, 也常把 “鸡,火鸡" 称为 “bird”，

February 26，土耳其，安卡拉

Riot police in Ankara, Turkey, disperse demonstrators trying to march to Parliament to protest Turkey's ruling party. Audio recordings that sounded like Prime Minister Erdogan giving his son money-laundering tips over the phone became a social media rage that poured out into the streets. Erdogan denounced the recordings, calling them "immoral edited material."

Ankara  安卡拉（土耳其首都）

riot police  防暴警察

disperse  驱散

ruling party  执政党

money-laundering  洗钱

denounce  谴责, 斥责

immoral  不道德的, 邪恶的

edited  经剪辑的