AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-12-29
时间：2018-12-01 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十二)月
1. The targets of Israeli bombing raids in Gaza now includes smuggling 1 tunnels, as well as a top Hamas security installation. Israel has called up 6,500 reserve soldiers, and moved tanks, infantry 2, armored units. But the country's foreign minister says there are no plans to occupy Gaza.
2. A top adviser 3 to President-elect Barack Obama says the slowing economy makes it even more important to cut taxes for the middle class. David Axelrod says it's also necessary to let President George W Bush's tax cut expire. Axelrod says those tax cut are geared toward the wealthy and the nation can't afford them.
3. Police in California say they found no explosives in a second car rented by a man dressed as Santa Claus who on Christmas Eve killed nine people. One rented car Bruce Pardo had driven was rigged and exploded outside his brother's home. Police found the second car late Saturday in Glendale.
4. An unusually weak Dungeness crab 4 harvest is compounding the financial woes 5 of West Coast fishermen who were already struggling with depressed 6 consumer demand and the unprecedented 7 collapse 8 of the Pacific Chinook salmon 9 fishery. Commercial fishermen say the downturn could force fishermen who depend heavily on crab and salmon to leave the shrinking ranks of the region's fishing fleet.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. reserve: n.
an extra military force that a country has in addition to its usual army, navy etc which can be used if needed
2. infantry: n.
soldiers who fight on foot
3. armored: adj.
armoured vehicles have an outside layer made of metal to protect them from attack
4. gear: v.
If someone or something is geared to or towards a particular purpose, they are organized or designed in order to achieve that purpose.
5. woes: n.
[plural] formal
the problems and troubles affecting someone
6. compound: v.
to make a difficult situation worse by adding more problems
7. Dungeness crab: n. 邓杰内斯蟹
An edible 10 crab common along the Pacific coast from Alaska to northern California.
邓杰内斯蟹得名于美国华盛顿州的老镇邓杰内斯。邓杰内斯蟹通常栖息于从阿拉斯加的阿流申群岛到美国加州的圣塔克鲁兹鳗草丛生的水底。该蟹肉质鲜美，是西北太平洋沿岸重要的商业蟹类。
8. Chinook salmon: n. 奇努克鲑鱼（也称王鲑）
A very large, commercially valuable salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) of northern Pacific waters, characterized by irregular black spots on its back. Also called king salmon, quinnat salmon.
王鲑是美国资源最少的一种鲑鱼，但又是五种太平洋鲑鱼中个体最大，价格最贵的品种。王鲑在北太平洋地区分布广泛。
- Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
- The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。
- The infantry were equipped with flame throwers.步兵都装备有喷火器。
- We have less infantry than the enemy.我们的步兵比敌人少。
- They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
- Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
- I can't remember when I last had crab.我不记得上次吃蟹是什么时候了。
- The skin on my face felt as hard as a crab's back.我脸上的皮仿佛僵硬了，就象螃蟹的壳似的。
- Thanks for listening to my woes. 谢谢您听我诉说不幸的遭遇。
- She has cried the blues about its financial woes. 对于经济的困难她叫苦不迭。
- When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
- His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。
- The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
- A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。
- The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。