美联社新闻一分钟 2005-11-27
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2005
1. Travellers zip through the first Palestinian-run border,the newly opened Rafah gate between the Gaza Strip and neighbouring Egypt.
2. US troops who burned 2 Taliban rebels' bodies face discipline, but the military says they won't be prosecuted 1 since hygiene 2 concerns prompt their actions.
3. A suicide bomber 3 kills 6 people at a gas station in central Iraq while a car bomb targeting a convoy 4 of foreigners in Baghdad kills 4.
4. Following a toxic 5 spill, China orders a prompt cleanup of benzene from the river that provides water for residents of the northeast city.
5,And a city in Bosnia unveils a statue of Kung-fu film star Bruce Lee, a small symbolic 6 step taking aim at easing that country's ethnic 7 divide.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. Rafah:
town in the present Gaza Strip on the Egyptian border. The ancient name was Raphia.
2. Gaza Strip:
a coastal 8 area in the Middle East, between Egypt and Israel, which belongs to Israel but is controlled by Palestinians.
3. hygiene:
n.卫生, 卫生学
the practice of keeping yourself and the things around you clean in order to prevent diseases// --the importance of personal hygiene // oral/dental hygiene // --a food hygiene training course// good/poor/proper hygiene // --The Consumers' Association blames poor hygiene standards.//
4. benzene:
->注意和＂benzine＂（汽油）的区分．
n.[化]苯
a liquid obtained from coal, used for making plastics
- The editors are being prosecuted for obscenity. 编辑因刊载污秽文字而被起诉。
- The company was prosecuted for breaching the Health and Safety Act. 这家公司被控违反《卫生安全条例》。
- Their course of study includes elementary hygiene and medical theory.他们的课程包括基础卫生学和医疗知识。
- He's going to give us a lecture on public hygiene.他要给我们作关于公共卫生方面的报告。
- He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
- Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。
- The convoy was snowed up on the main road.护送队被大雪困在干路上了。
- Warships will accompany the convoy across the Atlantic.战舰将护送该船队过大西洋。
- The factory had accidentally released a quantity of toxic waste into the sea.这家工厂意外泄漏大量有毒废物到海中。
- There is a risk that toxic chemicals might be blasted into the atmosphere.爆炸后有毒化学物质可能会进入大气层。
- It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
- The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。
- This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
- The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。