美联社新闻一分钟 2005-07-15
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2005
1. Authorities believe they've identified all 4 suicide bombers 1 who carried out the deadly attacks on London's subway trains and a bus.
2. A week after the blasts, Britain and the world pay silent tribute to the victims, in London only the tolling 2 of Big Ben breaks that silence.
3. In Iraq, 2 suicide bombers strike near a police station near Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone while a third attacker is caught.
4. In Aruba, a court says a Dutch teen must stay behind bars as authorities try to find out what happened to missing teen Natalee Holloway.
5. And NASA says it won't try again to launch shuttle Discovery until at least Sunday, saying even that is a "really optimistic good luck scenario 3".
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.tribute:n.something that you say, do, or give in order to express your respect or admiration 4 for someone.
eg.I'd like to pay tribute to (=praise and admire publicly) the party workers for all their hard work.
2.fortify:v.to build towers, walls etc around an area or city in order to defend it.
3.optimistic:adj.thinking that things will be better, easier, or more successful than is actually possible.
4.scenario:n.a situation that could possibly happen.
- 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》
- A remote bell is tolling. 远处的钟声响了。
- Indeed, the bells were tolling, the people were trooping into the handsome church. 真的，钟声响了，人们成群结队走进富丽堂皇的教堂。
- But the birth scenario is not completely accurate.然而分娩脚本并非完全准确的。
- This is a totally different scenario.这是完全不同的剧本。
- He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
- We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。