美联社新闻一分钟 AP NEWS 2007-12-09
时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. Shoppers have returned to the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska. It re-opened this morning, three days after a shooting rampage. The Von Maur department store where six employees and two customers were killed remains 1 closed.
2. Former Vice 2 President Al Gore 3 has arrived in Oslo, Norway. He is there to formally recieve the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday. Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be honored for bringing attention to the changing global climate.
3. NFL star Michael Vick's house is up for auction 4. The former Atlanta Falcons 5 quarterback owes nearly a million dollars to pay for the care of pit bulls seized from his dogfighting operation. The assessed value is just under 750,000 dollars.
4. A youth organization in Mexico is trying to set the record for the world's longest clothesline. So far they have 70,000 articles hanging on 29 miles of line.
- 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。
- 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。
- The fox lay dying in a pool of gore.狐狸倒在血泊中奄奄一息。
- Carruthers had been gored by a rhinoceros.卡拉瑟斯被犀牛顶伤了。
- They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
- They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。