美联社新闻一分钟 2006-02-18
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1. Harry 1 Whittington says accidents do and will happen. The 78-year-old lawyer was released from a hospital Friday, 6 days after Vice 2 President Dick Cheney accidentally shot him during a quail 3 hunting trip in Texas.
2. As many as 1,500 people are missing after a landslide 4 wiped out an entire village on the Philippine island of Leyte. Initial estimates suggest at least 200 people are dead. The Pentagon is offering to help in the rescue and relief effort.
3. Women on the birth control patch are being urged to talk to their doctors. That's because a new study by the maker 5 of the Ortho Evra found the patch doubles a woman's risk of blood clots 6 in the legs and lungs. An estimated four million women have used the once-a-week patch.
4. it’s a first of its kind. The world's largest panda breeding center in southwest China just opened a kindergarten for 16 young pandas. The center hopes this will help the pandas find their mates more easily
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. a first :
an event that is described as a first has never happend before and is important and exciting.
e.g. This new surgical 7 technique is a first for (= has never been done before in) Britain.
- Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
- Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
- 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。
- Cowards always quail before the enemy.在敌人面前，胆小鬼们总是畏缩不前的。
- Quail eggs are very high in cholesterol.鹌鹑蛋胆固醇含量高。
- Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
- An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
- He is a trouble maker，You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼，你不要跟他在一起。
- A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。
- When you cut yourself, blood clots and forms a scab. 你割破了，血会凝固、结痂。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Milk clots when it turns sour. 奶变酸就凝块。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》