美联社新闻一分钟 2006-10-10
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1. Reports of chilling talk about North Korea behind the closed doors of a UN Security Council meeting. Ambassador John Bolton has reportedly told UN allies the US should view a North Korean attack on South Korea or Japan the same as it would a direct assault on the US.
2. Iraqi authorities have arrested the head of the mess hall where at least 350 Iraqi policemen suffered some kind of food poisoning. They are investigating whether the meal that breaks the daily sunrise-to-sunset fast during Ramadan was poisoned intentionally 1.
3. First spinach 2, now lettuce 3! Foxy brand lettuce sold in 7 western states is being recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination.
4. A 603-carat diamond, the world's 15th largest stone was bought by a South African diamond cutting company Monday, dub 4bed "The Lesotho Promise". It sold for more than 12 million dollars.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. mess hall : n-count
A mess hall is a large room where a particular group of people, especially members of the armed forces, eat meals together.
2. dub : verb
If someone or something is dubbed 5 a particular thing, they are given that description or name.
- I didn't say it intentionally. 我是无心说的。
- The local authority ruled that he had made himself intentionally homeless and was therefore not entitled to be rehoused. 当地政府裁定他是有意居无定所，因此没有资格再获得提供住房。
- 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。
- Get some lettuce and tomatoes so I can make a salad.买些莴苣和西红柿，我好做色拉。
- The lettuce is crisp and cold.莴苣松脆爽口。
- I intend to use simultaneous recording to dub this film.我打算采用同期录音的方法为这部影片配音。
- It was dubbed into Spanish for Mexican audiences.它被译制成西班牙语以方便墨西哥观众观看。