CNN 2009-11-02
时间：2019-01-07 作者：英语课 分类：cnn2009年(十一)月
Abdullah Abdullah announced earlier today, out just hours ago, that he didn't think Saturday's runoff election could be held without problems. The runoff was called after widespread fraud in that initial August election.
(Abdullah)"Leave the legal implications in consequences of my decision, but as far as I'm concerned, I have decided 1 for myself not to participate in the November the seventh elections.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Morocco this morning one day after trying to revive stalled Israeli-Palestinian Peace talks. Clinton met first to Palestinian authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Abu Dhabi. Palestinian chief negotiator describes the peace process there as "stuck". Clinton then flew to Israel to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, afterward 2, Clinton said Israel is making what she called unprecedented 3 concessions 4 on settlements.
To Ohio, six bodies, all women, all apparently 5 strangled to death. Police in Cleveland have arrested this man, fifty year-old Anthony Sowell, in connection with the six bodies found at his home. A coroner tells CNN that it appears these women were strangled, and their decomposing 6 bodies could have been in his home, they say, for weeks, possibly months, possibly years.
Pretty pictures from the White House, well, I guess, pictures. Now, there we go. Thank you, chief photographer, kind of a nice pretty orange glow on Halloween, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, kind of cool for kids. Two thousands kids got to go to the White House to trick or treat. We haven't been able to figure out what that thing was, some kind of leaf, thing, or, a…what a… anyway, lots of pumpkins 7, lots of fun. Uh, kids from 11 area schools ,Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. getting M&M's, cookies from the White House, the chef. Mrs. Obama did dress up with picture of her just a second as a "Cat Woman", there she is, and Mr. Obama as -- Mr. Obama.
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- Let's go to the theatre first and eat afterward. 让我们先去看戏，然后吃饭。
- Afterward,the boy became a very famous artist.后来，这男孩成为一个很有名的艺术家。
- 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 firm will be forced to make concessions if it wants to avoid a strike. 要想避免罢工，公司将不得不作出一些让步。
- The concessions did little to placate the students. 让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。
- 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 air was filled with the overpowering stench of decomposing vegetation. 空气中充满了令人难以忍受的腐烂植物的恶臭。
- Heat was obtained from decomposing manures and hot air flues. 靠肥料分解和烟道为植物提供热量。