美联社新闻一分钟 2005-07-28
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2005
1. Police raiding homes in Britain arrests a Somali man,believed to be one of the fugitive 1 bombers 2 in last week's failed London transit 3 bombings.
2. Iraq's prime minister calls for a quick withdrawal 4 of American troops. A top US commander says a fairly substantial pullout could begin next spring.
3. The terror group Al-Qaeda in Iraq claims killing 5 two kidnapped Algerian diplomats 6, the second reported slaying 7 of Arab envoys 8 in Iraq this month.
4. NASA says a chipped thermal 9 tile on Shuttle Discovery does not appear to be a serious problem based on what engineers have seen so far.
5. And India's strongest rains ever recorded, 37 inches in one day, shut down its financial capital Bombay, killing hundreds in the area.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. fugitive :N-COUNT;fugitive,fugitives
A fugitive is someone who is running away or hiding, usually in order to avoid being caught by the police.
eg. The rebel leader was a fugitive from justice.
eg. ...the fugitive train robber.
2. chip :V-ERG;chip,chips,chipping,chipped
If you chip something or if it chips, a small piece is broken off it.
eg. The blow chipped the woman's tooth.
eg. Steel baths are lighter 10 but chip easily.
· chipped :ADJ-GRADED
eg. The wagon's paint was badly chipped on the outside.
eg. They drank out of chipped mugs.
3. tile :N-VAR;tile,tiles
Tiles are flat, square pieces of baked clay, carpet, cork 11, or other substance, which are fixed 12 as a covering onto a floor or wall.
eg. Amy's shoes squeaked 13 on the tiles as she walked down the corridor.
eg. ...a broken piece of tile.
- The police were able to deduce where the fugitive was hiding.警方成功地推断出那逃亡者躲藏的地方。
- The fugitive is believed to be headed for the border.逃犯被认为在向国境线逃窜。
- Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
- The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。
- The police were forced to make a tactical withdrawal.警方被迫进行战术撤退。
- They insisted upon a withdrawal of the statement and a public apology.他们坚持要收回那些话并公开道歉。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
- The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The man mimed the slaying of an enemy. 此人比手划脚地表演砍死一个敌人的情况。
- He is suspected of having been an accomplice in the slaying,butthey can't pin it on him. 他有嫌疑曾参与该杀人案，但他们找不到证据来指控他。
- the routine tit for tat when countries expel each other's envoys 国家相互驱逐对方使节这种惯常的报复行动
- Marco Polo's travelogue mentions that Kublai Khan sent envoys to Malgache. 马可波罗游记中提到忽必烈曾派使节到马尔加什。
- They will build another thermal power station.他们要另外建一座热能发电站。
- Volcanic activity has created thermal springs and boiling mud pools.火山活动产生了温泉和沸腾的泥浆池。
- The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
- The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。
- We heard the pop of a cork.我们听见瓶塞砰的一声打开。
- Cork is a very buoyant material.软木是极易浮起的材料。
- Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
- Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。