美联社新闻一分钟 2006-09-08
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1. It's been almost five years since the attacks on September 11th, and President Bush says enormous strides have been made in correcting US security vulnerabilities brought to light that day. He also says the country's campaign against terrorism has succeeded in protecting the homeland.
2. Phoenix 1 police say they have forensic 2 evidence connecting a man they arrested to two sexual assaults in the Baseline Killer 3 investigation 4. They say they are trying to find out if the 42-year-old in custody 5 is connected to any other attacks in the case.
3. Paris Hilton's publicist says Hilton has been known to have a drink or two. But she was clearly not intoxicated 6 when she got home after being released from jail Thursday. The spokesman said Hilton worked all day and then drank on an empty stomach before getting arrested on suspicion of DUI.
4. You won't believe where Salvadoran prison officials found these cellphones, inside four prisoners' intestine 7s. Authorities say the inmates 9 had inserted the phones into their rectums and were using them to direct criminal activity outside the prison.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. vulnerable:
Something that is vulnerable can be easily harmed or affected 10 by something bad.
vulnerability: n-uncount
2. forensic: adj.
Forensic is used to describe the work of scientists who examine evidence in order to help police solve crimes.
3. intoxicated: adj.
Someone who is intoxicated is drunk. (FORMAL)
4. intestine : n-count
Your intestines 8 are the tubes in your body through which food passes when it has left your stomach.
5. rectum: n-count
Someone’s rectum is the bottom end of the tube down which waste food passes out of their body. (MEDICAL)
- The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
- The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。
- The report included his interpretation of the forensic evidence.该报告包括他对法庭证据的诠释。
- The judge concluded the proceeding on 10:30 Am after one hour of forensic debate.经过近一个小时的法庭辩论后，法官于10时30分宣布休庭。
- Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
- The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
- 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。
- She was intoxicated with success. 她为成功所陶醉。
- They became deeply intoxicated and totally disoriented. 他们酩酊大醉，东南西北全然不辨。
- This vitamin is absorbed through the walls of the small intestine.这种维生素通过小肠壁被吸收。
- The service productivity is the function,including external efficiency,intestine efficiency and capacity efficiency.服务业的生产率是一个包含有外部效率、内部效率和能力效率的函数。
- Perhaps the most serious problems occur in the stomach and intestines. 最严重的问题或许出现在胃和肠里。 来自辞典例句
- The traps of carnivorous plants function a little like the stomachs and small intestines of animals. 食肉植物的捕蝇器起着动物的胃和小肠的作用。 来自辞典例句
- One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》