美联社新闻一分钟 2006-09-23
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1. Health officials are investigating two more deaths possibly linked to taint 1ed spinach 3. A Maryland woman who was infected with E. coli died September, 13th. An Idaho toddler died Wednesday from a kidney disease associated with the deadly bacteria. Both had eaten spinach.
2. Police in east St. Louis are searching for three young children whose mother was killed, and apparently 4 had her fetus 5 cut from her womb. Jimella Tunstall's kids were last seen Monday. Police have a person of interest in custody 6.
3. President Bush says he was taken aback at a report that US threatened to bomb Pakistan after 9/11 if it didn't cooperate in the war on terror. General Pervez Musharraf says the threat came from then Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage who says there was no such threat.
4. A member of the space shuttle Atlantis crew collapsed 7 twice Friday during a welcome-home ceremony in Houston. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper joked with the crowd, "boy! If that's not a little embarrassing" before she collapsed a second time. NASA officials say it's not unusual for astronauts returning from space to become faint.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. taint: verb
If an unpleasant substance taints 8 food pr medicine, the food or medicine is spoiled or damaged by it.
2. toddler: n-count
A toddler is a young child who has only just learned to walk or who is still walks unsteadily with small, quick steps.
3. fetus: n-count
A fetus is an animal or human being in its later stages of development before it is born.
4. womb: n-count
A woman's womb is the part inside her body where a baby grows before it is born.
5. take aback: phrase
If you are taken aback by something, you are surprised or shocked by it and you cannot respond at once.
- Everything possible should be done to free them from the economic taint.应尽可能把他们从经济的腐蚀中解脱出来。
- Moral taint has spread among young people.道德的败坏在年轻人之间蔓延。
- The administration was tainted with scandal. 丑闻使得政府声名狼藉。
- He was considered tainted by association with the corrupt regime. 他因与腐败政府有牵连而名誉受损。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Eating spinach is supposed to make you strong.据说吃菠菜能使人强壮。
- You should eat such vegetables as carrot,celery and spinach.你应该吃胡萝卜、芹菜和菠菜这类的蔬菜。
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
- In the fetus,blood cells are formed in different sites at different ages.胎儿的血细胞在不同时期生成在不同的部位。
- No one knows why a fetus is not automatically rejected by the mother's immune system. 没有人知道为什么母亲的免疫系统不会自动排斥胎儿。
- He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
- He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。
- Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
- The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。