美联社新闻一分钟 2006-01-25
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1. By week's end, Samuel Alito is expected to be on the US Supreme 1 Court. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-8 along party lines Tuesday to send his nomination 2 to the full Senate. That vote is expected by the end of the week.
2. A seven-year-old girl was shot at a Germantown Maryland day-care center Tuesday morning. Police say an eight-year-old boy had a gun in his backpack, and the girl was wounded when the gun went off accidentally.
3. A twin-engine business jet crashed and burst into flames near Carlsbad, California Airport Tuesday, killing 3 all four people on board. The plane took off from an airport in Idaho, and was landing when it skidded 4 off the end of the runway and hit a shack 5.
4. They are the strangest bedfellows: a rat snake and a dwarf 6 hamster, a pair that became fast friends at one Tokyo zoo. The hamster was originally intended to be dinner for the reptile 7, but the four-foot snake decided 8 to play nice and invited the furry 9 creature to be his roommate. The hamster even climbs onto the snake's back to take naps
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. shack : noun [C]
a very simple and small building made from bits of wood, metal or other materials 小屋：简陋的小屋
2. bedfellow : noun [C]
a person connected with another in a particular activity: 伙伴，盟友
e.g. The priest and the politician made strange bedfellows in their campaign for peace.
3. hamster : noun [C]
a small furry animal with a short tail and large spaces in each side of its mouth which are used for storing food. It is often kept as a pet. 仓鼠
4. furry : adjective
covered with fur:
e.g. small furry animals
- It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
- He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
- John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
- Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- The car skidded and hit a lamp post. 那辆汽车打滑撞上了路灯杆。
- The car skidded and overturned. 汽车打滑翻倒了。
- He had to sit down five times before he reached his shack.在走到他的茅棚以前，他不得不坐在地上歇了五次。
- The boys made a shack out of the old boards in the backyard.男孩们在后院用旧木板盖起一间小木屋。
- The dwarf's long arms were not proportional to his height.那侏儒的长臂与他的身高不成比例。
- The dwarf shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. 矮子耸耸肩膀，摇摇头。
- The frog is not a true reptile.青蛙并非真正的爬行动物。
- So you should not be surprised to see someone keep a reptile as a pet.所以，你不必惊奇有人养了一只爬行动物作为宠物。
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。