美联社新闻一分钟 2006-01-20
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1. A new audiotape supposedly from Osama bin 1 Laden 2, and Al-Jazeera has aired it. A voice identified as bin Laden says Al Qaeda is making preparations for attacks in the US, but offers a truce 3 to build Iraq and Afghanistan.
2. Islamic Jihad has phoned the Associated Press to claim responsibility for today's suicide bombing in Tel Aviv's central bus station. A police commander says the blast wounded 15 people. Witnesses say the bomber 4 pretended to be a peddler in a crowded mall.
3. More videotape of US reporter Jill Carroll was aired by Al-Jazeera television today. The 28 year-old was kidnapped in Iraq. Her captors threaten to kill her tomorrow, if all female Iraqis in U.S. military custody 5 aren’t freed.
4. A fiery 6 train collision in Alabama kept hundreds of people away from their homes overnight. About five hundred people were evacuated 7 after a train carrying sodium 8 cyanide caught fire when it rear-ended another train. The huge cloud of billowing black smoke could be seen forty miles away.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. peddler : noun [C]
one who travels about selling wares 9 for a living; a hawker
2. captor : noun [C]
someone who is keeping another person prisoner
e.g. He managed to escape from his captors.
3. sodium cyanide :
a poisonous white crystalline compound, NaCN, used in extracting gold and silver from ores and in dye manufacture 氰化钠
4. rear-end : verb
to hit the back of one car with another in an accident:
e.g. My new car was rear-ended while it was parked outside the station.
5. billowing : adj. (Dictionary.com)
moving in surges and billows and rolls:
e.g. billowing smoke from burning houses
- He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
- He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。
- He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
- Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。
- The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦。
- She had thought of flying out to breathe the fresh air in an interval of truce.她想跑出去呼吸一下休战期间的新鲜空气。
- He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
- Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。
- He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
- He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。
- She has fiery red hair.她有一头火红的头发。
- His fiery speech agitated the crowd.他热情洋溢的讲话激动了群众。
- Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
- The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
- Out over the town the sodium lights were lit.在外面，全城的钠光灯都亮了。
- Common salt is a compound of sodium and chlorine.食盐是钠和氯的复合物。