美联社新闻一分钟 2005-12-07
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2005
1．An Iranian military transport plane trying to make an emergency landing crashes into a Tehran apartment building, killing 1 at least 128 people.
2．Two suicide bombers 2 strike Baghdad's police academy, killing at least 43 people as insurgents 3 claim they've kidnapped a US security consultant 4.
3．Her voice disguised and testifying from behind a curtain, a woman says she was assaulted and tortured by Saddam Hussein's agents.
4．Germany's Chancellor 5 says the United States admits botching the case of a German national who claimed he was wrongfully imprisoned 6 by the CIA.
5．And the World Wildlife Fund says a catlike creature photographed by camera traps on Borneo Island is likely a new species of carnivore
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. botch
1 botch botches botching botched
If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily. (INFORMAL)
It is a silly idea and he has botched it.
...a botched job.
VB
= bungle 7
2. carnivore
1 carnivore carnivores
A carnivore is an animal that eats meat. (TECHNICAL)
N-COUNT
- 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。
- 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》
- The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子，这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
- He is a consultant on law affairs to the mayor.他是市长的一个法律顾问。
- Originally,Gar had agreed to come up as a consultant.原来，加尔只答应来充当我们的顾问。
- They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
- He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。
- He was imprisoned for two concurrent terms of 30 months and 18 months. 他被判处30个月和18个月的监禁，合并执行。
- They were imprisoned for possession of drugs. 他们因拥有毒品而被监禁。