美联社新闻一分钟 2006-10-28
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1. Condolences came from the White House Friday to the U. S. Forest Service following the deaths of four firefighters in a California wildfire. The spokesman for the President said in a phone conversation Mr. Bush told officials how sorry he was.
2. Human rights advocates have raised a red flag after Vice 1 President Dick Cheney's remarks in an interview about a controversial interrogation technique. The White House says Mr. Cheney's remarks were not condoning 2 the use of waterboarding on terror suspects to make a suspect believe he or she will drown.
3. Police now say prior to his execution, serial 3 killer 4 Danny Rolling gave his spiritual adviser 5 a confession 6 note. In it, he admits to three 1989 murders in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana.
4. Michael J Fox says he was not acting 7 in political ads that show him rocking back and forth 8. He has Parkinson's disease and was making pictures for political candidates who support embryonic 9 stem cell research.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. condolence: n-plural
When you offer or express your condolences to someone, you express your sympathy for them because one of their friends or relatives has died recently.
2. red flag: n-count
If you refer to something as a red flag, you mean that it acts as a danger signal.
3. confession: n-count
A confession is a signed statement by someone in which they admit that they have committed a particular crime.
4. embryonic: adj.
An embryonic process, idea, organization, or organism is one at a very early stage in its development.
5. stem cell: n-count 干细胞
A stem cell is an unspecialized cell that gives rise to a specific specialized 10 cell, such as a blood cell.
- He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
- They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
- I'm not condoning what he did, all right? 我并不是宽恕他的所作所为，好吗？ 来自电影对白
- Communist Party conservatives abhor the idea of condoning explicIt'sex. 党内的保守势力痛恨对赤裸性爱内容的宽容。 来自互联网
- A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
- Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗？
- 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。
- They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
- Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
- Her confession was simply tantamount to a casual explanation.她的自白简直等于一篇即席说明。
- The police used torture to extort a confession from him.警察对他用刑逼供。
- Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
- During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。
- The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
- He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
- It is still in an embryonic stage.它还处于萌芽阶段。
- The plan,as yet,only exists in embryonic form.这个计划迄今为止还只是在酝酿之中。
- There are many specialized agencies in the United Nations.联合国有许多专门机构。
- These tools are very specialized.这些是专用工具。