美联社新闻一分钟 2005-07-12
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2005
1.Gulf 1 Coast residents begin hurricane cleanup the day after hurricane Dennis hit the storm-weary Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast with less force than feared.
2.The death toll 2 from London's terrorist bombings continues to rise as workers search for more bodies and Londoners return to riding subways and buses.
3.President Bush expressing solidarity 3 with Britons says terrorists are trying to break the will of the world's democracies by killing 4 innocent people.
4.World leaders join 50,000 marking the anniversary of the Serb massacre 5 of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica 10 years ago.
5.And for the first time since the 2003 Columbia disaster, a NASA countdown is under way for Wednesday's lift-off of the Space Shuttle Discovery.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.clearup:n.a process by which you get rid of dirt or waste from a place.
eg.The cleanup of the oil spill took months.
2.weary:adj.very tired or bored, especially because you have been doing something for a long time.
eg.She found Rachel in the kitchen, looking old and weary.
3.solidarity:n.loyalty 6 and general agreement between all the people in a group, or between different groups because they all have a shared aim.
4.countdown:n.the period of time before something happens, such as a spacecraft being launched, when someone counts backwards 7 until the event happens.
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
- The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
- The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
- They must preserve their solidarity.他们必须维护他们的团结。
- The solidarity among China's various nationalities is as firm as a rock.中国各族人民之间的团结坚如磐石。
- 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。
- There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
- If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！
- She told him the truth from a sense of loyalty.她告诉他真相是出于忠诚。
- His loyalty to his friends was never in doubt.他对朋友的一片忠心从来没受到怀疑。