美联社新闻一分钟 2005-09-22
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2005
1. As many as a million people along the Gulf 1 Coast are ordered to evacuate 2 as Hurricane Rita plows 3 across the Gulf of Mexico.
2. Rita could pummel Texas and bring more misery 4 to New Orleans as so far residents there are rushing to leave their already ravaged 5 city.
3. Hundreds of Iraqis in the Southern city of Basra protest what they called "British aggression 6" in the recent rescue of two British soldiers.
4. The US presses its case of the UN’s Nuclear Watchdog Agency to haul Iran before the Security Council over Tehran's nuclear activities.
5. And Indonesia plans a mass chicken slaughter 7 amid fears of a bird flu epidemic 8 after more children suspected of having the disease die.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. pummel
pummel pummels pummelling pummelled
If you pummel someone or something, you hit them many times using your fists.
He trapped Conn in a corner and pummeled him ferociously 9 for thirty seconds.
VB (AM) pummeling, pummeled
2. haul
2 haul hauls hauling hauled
If someone is hauled before a court or someone in authority, they are made to appear before them because they are accused of having done something wrong.
She was hauled before magistrates 10 for refusing to reveal her age to a policeman.
He was hauled before the managing director and fired.
VB: usu passive
- 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。
- We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
- They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
- Alex and Tony were turning awkward hands to plows and hoe handles. 亚历克斯和托尼在犁耙等农活方面都几乎变成新手了。
- Plows are still pulled by oxen in some countries. 在一些国家犁头仍由牛拖拉。
- Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
- He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。
- a country ravaged by civil war 遭受内战重创的国家
- The whole area was ravaged by forest fires. 森林火灾使整个地区荒废了。
- So long as we are firmly united, we need fear no aggression.只要我们紧密地团结，就不必惧怕外来侵略。
- Her view is that aggression is part of human nature.她认为攻击性是人类本性的一部份。
- I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle.我不忍看他们宰牛。
- Wholesale slaughter was carried out in the name of progress.大规模的屠杀在维护进步的名义下进行。
- That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
- The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。
- The buck shook his antlers ferociously. 那雄鹿猛烈地摇动他的鹿角。
- At intervals, he gritted his teeth ferociously. 他不时狠狠的轧平。
- to come up before the magistrates 在地方法院出庭
- He was summoned to appear before the magistrates. 他被传唤在地方法院出庭。