美联社新闻一分钟 2006-01-28
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1. Violence rocks the Gaza Strip. Thousands of Fatah Party activists 1 took to the streets. Some burned abandoned cars; others shot guns in the air. The demonstration 2 comes after their party lost to the militant 3 Hamas movement during Wednesday's historic Palestinian parliament election.
2. The sole survivor 4 of the Sago mine tragedy continues to make slow and steady progress. Doctors say Randal McCloy Junior was able to stand with the help of medical aids for the first time in 3 weeks. The 26-year-old miner is recovering at a West Virginia rehabilitation 5 center after suffering long-term exposure to carbon monoxide.
3. A runaway 6 barge 7 remains 8 pinned against a bridge in Louisville, Kentucky, but officials have reopened the Ohio River 12 hours after the incident. An unknown amount of diesel 9 fuel and liquid asphalt leaked down during the crash.
4. Oprah Winfrey says she feels duped. The talk show queen confronted embattled author James Frey during her show. Frey is accused of embellishing 10 parts of his best-selling memoir 11 "A Million Little Pieces" about his drug addiction 12 and recovery
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. barge : noun [C]
a long boat with a flat bottom, used for carrying heavy loads on rivers or canals 驳船, 游艇
2. pin : verb [T + adverb or preposition] -nn-
to force someone or something to stay in a particular place by putting weight on them:
e.g. Her body was pinned under the weight of the car.
3. diesel : noun
a type of heavy oil used as fuel: 柴油
e.g. My new car runs on (= uses) diesel.
4. asphalt : noun [U]
a black sticky substance mixed with small stones or sand, which forms a strong surface when it hardens: 沥青
5. dupe : verb [T]
to deceive someone, usually making them do something they did not intend to do:
The girls were duped by drug smugglers into carrying heroin 13 for them.
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
- He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。
- Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
- He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
- The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
- There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。
- He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
- No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
- The police have not found the runaway to date.警察迄今没抓到逃犯。
- He was praised for bringing up the runaway horse.他勒住了脱缰之马受到了表扬。
- The barge was loaded up with coal.那艘驳船装上了煤。
- Carrying goods by train costs nearly three times more than carrying them by barge.通过铁路运货的成本比驳船运货成本高出近3倍。
- 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。
- We experimented with diesel engines to drive the pumps.我们试着用柴油机来带动水泵。
- My tractor operates on diesel oil.我的那台拖拉机用柴油开动。
- He kept embellishing it in his mind, building up the laughs. 他在心里不断地为它添油加醋，增加笑料。 来自辞典例句
- Bumper's each angle is embellishing the small air vent, manifested complete bikes's width to increase. 保险杠的每个角都点缀着小的通风孔，体现了整车的宽度增加。 来自互联网
- He has just published a memoir in honour of his captain.他刚刚出了一本传记来纪念他的队长。
- In her memoir,the actress wrote about the bittersweet memories of her first love.在那个女演员的自传中，她写到了自己苦乐掺半的初恋。
- He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
- Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。