美联社新闻一分钟 2006-02-12
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1. In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remains 1 in a coma 2 following emergency surgery Saturday morning to remove about 20 inches of his large intestine 3. He was rushed into surgery after doctors noticed abdominal 4 swelling 5 and detected dead tissue. The hospital director says with each passing day, Sharon's chances of coming out of the coma are lower.
2. Israeli police fire stun 6 grenades to disperse 7 a crowd of Palestinian youths trying to burn Danish flags in protest over a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad. As similar protests continue worldwide, Turkey’s prime minister is urging world leaders to help keep the cartoon controversy 8 from splitting the Islamic and Christian 9 worlds.
3. It was a rocky landing, but adventurer Steve Fossett completed the longest non-stop flight in aviation history Saturday, more than 26,000 miles in about 76 hours.
4. And a winter storm is heading for the East Coast. Blizzard 10 warnings
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. large intestine : noun [C usually singular] SPECIALIZED
the lower part of the bowels 11 in which water is removed from digested food before it is excreted as solid waste [解]大肠
2. abdominal : noun [C] SPECIALIZED
the lower part of a person's or animal's body, which contains the stomach, bowels and other organs, or the end of an insect's body
3. stun grenade : noun
a weapon that is designed to stun temporarily rather than kill or cause serious injury 震撼手榴弹(一种不会伤人,却有强闪光及大声响,使人迷茫失措的手榴弹)
4. blizzard : noun [C]
a severe snow storm with strong winds:
e.g. We once got stuck in a blizzard for six hours.
- 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。
- The patient rallied from the coma.病人从昏迷中苏醒过来。
- She went into a coma after swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills.她吃了一整瓶安眠药后就昏迷过去了。
- 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。
- The abdominal aorta is normally smaller than the thoracic aorta.腹主动脉一般比胸主动脉小。
- Abdominal tissues sometimes adhere after an operation.手术之后腹部有时会出现粘连。
- Use ice to reduce the swelling. 用冰敷消肿。
- There is a marked swelling of the lymph nodes. 淋巴结处有明显的肿块。
- When they told me she had gone missing I was totally stunned.他们告诉我她不见了时，我当时完全惊呆了。
- Sam stood his ground and got a blow that stunned him.萨姆站在原地，被一下打昏了。
- The cattle were swinging their tails to disperse the flies.那些牛甩动着尾巴驱赶苍蝇。
- The children disperse for the holidays.孩子们放假了。
- That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
- We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
- They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
- His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
- The blizzard struck while we were still on the mountain.我们还在山上的时候暴风雪就袭来了。
- You'll have to stay here until the blizzard blows itself off.你得等暴风雪停了再走。