美联社新闻一分钟 2005-10-01
时间：2018-12-01 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2005
1.New York Times reporter Judith Miller 1 testifies before a grand jury, ending her silence in the investigation 2 into whether White House officials leaked the name of a covert 3 CIA operative.
2.Sunni insurgents 4 hit two Shiite towns in two days with brutal 5 bombings that kill more than 110 people, apparently 6 aiming to scare Shiites from the polls ahead of a crucial vote on the new constitution.
3.Funerals were held for two Palestinians killed when Israeli soldiers raided the Ballata refugee camp outside the West Bank city of Nablus. Five Palestinian gunmen have been slain 7 by Israel in the West Bank in the last two days.
4.A school bus overturned on a New York expressway Friday, injuring dozens of children. Scores of emergency workers responded to the crash scene on the Major Deegan Expressway, where the bus, with 46 children and 8 adults, flipped 9 on to its side.
5.For the first time, biologists have documented the gorillas 10 in the wild, using simple tools to perform rudimentary tasks such as poking 11 a stick in a swampy 12 pool of water to check its depth. Until now scientists have seen gorillas use tools only in captivity 13.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. covert: a. Not openly practiced, avowed 14, engaged in, accumulated, or shown: covert military operations; covert funding for the rebels.
2. flip 8 : vi. To turn over
3. rudimentary: a. Of or relating to basic facts or principles; elementary
4. poke 15: vt. To push; thrust
- Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
- The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
- We should learn to fight with enemy in an overt and covert way.我们应学会同敌人做公开和隐蔽的斗争。
- The army carried out covert surveillance of the building for several months.军队对这座建筑物进行了数月的秘密监视。
- The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子，这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
- She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
- They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼，骨子里却是野蛮残忍。
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
- The soldiers slain in the battle were burried that night. 在那天夜晚埋葬了在战斗中牺牲了的战士。
- His boy was dead, slain by the hand of the false Amulius. 他的儿子被奸诈的阿缪利乌斯杀死了。
- I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
- Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。
- The plane flipped and crashed. 飞机猛地翻转，撞毁了。
- The carter flipped at the horse with his whip. 赶大车的人扬鞭朝着马轻轻地抽打。
- the similitude between humans and gorillas 人类和大猩猩的相像
- Each family of gorillas is led by a great silverbacked patriarch. 每个大星星家族都由一个魁梧的、长着银色被毛的族长带领着。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Malaria is still rampant in some swampy regions.疟疾在一些沼泽地区仍很猖獗。
- An ox as grazing in a swampy meadow.一头牛在一块泥泞的草地上吃草。
- A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see.动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
- He was held in captivity for three years.他被囚禁叁年。