美联社新闻一分钟 2005-11-28
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2005
1. Iraqi police arrest eight Sunni Arabs in Kirkuk for allegedly plotting to assassinate 1 the judge who prepared the case against Saddam Housein.
2. An earthquake measured at least magnitude 5.9 shakes a sparsely 3 populated area of Southern Iran, flattening 4 seven villages and killing 5 ten people.
3. Running water is restored to Haerbin, China, five days after a chemical spill forced a shutdown in the city of 3.8 million people.
4. Chechnya, a Southern Russian Republic plagued by violence, corruption 6 and squalor, begins voting in the latest of series of parliamentary elections.
5. And the night sky of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, is set ablaze 7 with the light from millions of tiny bulbs adorning 8 a huge floating Christmas tree
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. sparse 2
Something that is sparse is small in number or amount and spread out over an area.
Traffic was sparse on the highway.
ADJ-GRADED
· sparsely
...the sparsely populated interior region, where there are few roads.
ADV-GRADED: usu ADV -ed
2. squalor
squalor
You can refer to very dirty, unpleasant conditions as squalor.
He was out of work and living in squalor.
N-UNCOUNT
3. set ablaze : 烧起, 燃起
4. bulb
1 bulb bulbs
A bulb is the glass part of an electric lamp, which gives out light when electricity passes through it.
The stairwell was lit by a single bulb.
N-COUNT
= light bulb
- The police exposed a criminal plot to assassinate the president.警方侦破了一个行刺总统的阴谋。
- A plot to assassinate the banker has been uncovered by the police.暗杀银行家的密谋被警方侦破了。
- The teacher's house is in the suburb where the houses are sparse.老师的家在郊区，那里稀稀拉拉有几处房子。
- The sparse vegetation will only feed a small population of animals.稀疏的植物只够喂养少量的动物。
- Relative to the size, the city is sparsely populated. 与其面积相比，这个城市的人口是稀少的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The ground was sparsely covered with grass. 地面上稀疏地覆盖草丛。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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。
- The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
- The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
- The main street was ablaze with lights in the evening.晚上，那条主要街道灯火辉煌。
- Forests are sometimes set ablaze by lightning.森林有时因雷击而起火。