美联社新闻一分钟 2006-01-15
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1.Pakistan condemns 1 a deadly attack in which a purported 2 CIA airstrike unsucessfully targets al Qaeda’s No.2 man in a border village.
2.In Iraq, a court official says the chief judge in Saddam Hussein's trial has submitted his resignation, no immediate 3 word on if it's been accepted.
3.Denouncing the West, Iran's hardline leader says the International Community has no legal basis to restrict his country's right to nuclear research.
4.This weekend's presidential runoff in Chile pits a socialist 4 hoping to become the country's first female president against a multimillionaire business man.
5.And shoppers in Cairo snap up a veiled Muslim doll built as an alternative to Barbie.The doll's creators say she is single with no plans to marry.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. pit
4 pit pits pitting pitted
If two opposing things or people are pitted against one another, they are in conflict.
You will be pitted against two, three, or four people who are every bit as good as you are.
This was one man pitted against the universe.
VB: usu passive
2. snap up
snap up snaps up; snapping up; snapped up
If you snap something up, you buy it quickly because it is cheap or is just what you want.
Every time we get a new delivery of Donna's clothes, there is a queue of people waiting to snap them up.
One eagle-eyed collector snapped up a pair of Schiaparelli earrings 5 for just s6.
PHR-V
- Her widowhood condemns her to a lonely old age. 守寡使她不得不过着孤独的晚年生活。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The public opinion condemns prostitution. 公众舆论遣责卖淫。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- the scene of the purported crime 传闻中的罪案发生地点
- The film purported to represent the lives of ordinary people. 这部影片声称旨在表现普通人的生活。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
- We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
- China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家，也是一个发展中国家。
- His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。