美联社新闻一分钟 2005-08-26
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2005
1:The Federal Base-closing Commission agrees to close Walter Reed Medical Center, crown jewel of the US Army's hospital system.
2:Tropical storm Katrina strengthens on its way toward Florida's heavily populated southeastern coast due to make a landfall overnight.
3:Iraq's Parliament speaker announces a one-day extension in the constitution talks, a fourth try winning Sunni support for the charter.
4:Hundreds of scavenger 1s swarm 2 over wreckage 3 of a Peruvian airliner 4 potentially undermining the probe into the crash that killed dozens.
5:And rescue workers conduct an airlift evacuation of a district in Switzerland's capital after flooding hits parts of central and southern Europe.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. crown jewel
2 crown jewel crown jewels
If you describe something as someone's crown jewel, you mean it is the most important or valuable thing they have.
The company is also willing to sell 20% of its crown jewel, its credit-card business.
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2. scavenge
scavenge scavenges scavenging scavenged
If people or animals scavenge for things, they collect them by searching among waste or unwanted objects.
Many are orphans 5, their parents killed as they scavenged for food.
Children scavenge through garbage.
The foxes come and scavenge the bones.
Cruz had to scavenge information from newspapers and journals.
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· scavenger scavengers
...scavengers such as rats.
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3. wreckage
1 wreckage
When something such as a plane, car, or building has been destroyed, you can refer to what remains 6 as wreckage or the wreckage.
Mark was dragged from the burning wreckage of his car.
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4. airlift
1 airlift airlifts
An airlift is an operation to move people, troops, or goods by air, especially in a war or when land routes are closed.
President Garcia has ordered an airlift of food, medicines and blankets.
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- He's just fit for a job as scavenger.他只配当个清道夫。
- He is not a scavenger nor just a moving appetite as some sharks are.它不是食腐动物，也不像有些鲨鱼那样，只知道游来游去满足食欲。
- There is a swarm of bees in the tree.这树上有一窝蜜蜂。
- A swarm of ants are moving busily.一群蚂蚁正在忙碌地搬家。
- They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
- New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。
- The pilot landed the airliner safely.驾驶员使客机安全着陆。
- The passengers were shepherded across the tarmac to the airliner.旅客们被引导走过跑道去上飞机。
- The poor orphans were kept on short commons. 贫苦的孤儿们吃不饱饭。
- Their uncle was declared guardian to the orphans. 这些孤儿的叔父成为他们的监护人。