美联社新闻一分钟 2006-11-26
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1. An early morning shooting in the Queens Borough 1 of New York City has left one man dead on his wedding day. It is not clear what sparked the fatal shooting, but witnesses say police shot 3 men who had just left a bachelor party. Two other men in the group were hospitalized; one remains 2 in critical condition.
2. With dangerously cold temperatures predicted for Saturday night, the search is widened for 2 young brothers missing from the Red Lake Indian Reservation. The boys have been missing from their Minnesota home since Wednesday morning. The FBI is investigating the possibility of foul 3 play.
3. British detectives are now searching through hours of security video, looking for clues into who may have poisoned an ex-Russian spy. Alexander Litvinenko died Thursday from a fatal dose of a radioactive substance. Litvinenko, a fierce critic of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, left bitter words for him from his deathbed.
4. These images show icebergs 5 that have drifted unusually close to the coast of New Zealand. Large chunks 6 of one iceberg 4 have broken off, exposing a rare sight--the normally hidden underside of the iceberg.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. borough : N-COUNT
A borough is a town, or a district within a large town, which has its own council.
2. spark : VERB
If one thing sparks another, the first thing cause the second thing to start happening.
3. bachelor party : N-COUNT
A bachelor party (also called a stag party, stag night, or bucks 7 party) is a party held for a bachelor shortly before he enters marriage, to make the most of his final opportunity to engage in activities a new wife might not approve of, or merely to spend time bonding with his male friends (often in his wedding party afterwards).
4. foul play : UN-COUNT
Foul play is criminal violence or activity that results in a person's death.
5. break off : PHR
If part of something breaks off or if you break it off, it comes off or is removed by force.
6. underside : N-COUNT
The underside of something is the part of it which normally faces towards the ground.
- He was slated for borough president.他被提名做自治区主席。
- That's what happened to Harry Barritt of London's Bromley borough.住在伦敦的布罗姆利自治市的哈里.巴里特就经历了此事。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
- What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气！
- The ship hit an iceberg and went under.船撞上一座冰山而沉没了。
- The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。
- The drift of the icebergs in the sea endangers the ships. 海上冰山的漂流危及船只的安全。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The icebergs towered above them. 冰山高耸于他们上方。 来自辞典例句
- a tin of pineapple chunks 一罐菠萝块
- Those chunks of meat are rather large—could you chop them up a bIt'smaller? 这些肉块相当大，还能再切小一点吗？