美联社新闻一分钟 2006-03-27
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1. Tragedy on the race track. IndyCar driver Paul Dana was killed in a two-car crash during this morning's warm-up for the season-opening IRL race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The other driver, Ed Carpenter, is awake and alert at a Miami hospital.
2. Conflicting reports about a clash at a mosque 1 in eastern Baghdad. Radical 2 Shiites say 18 people were killed by U.S. and Iraqi forces. Iraqi police say 22 people died, and the American military says 16 insurgents 3 were killed by Iraqi special forces with U.S. troops on the scene as backup.
3. The grim task of sift 4ing through debris 6 for victims of Hurricane Katrina continues. Crews found a body of a child believed to be 10 years old yesterday. The young victim (was) found in the uninhabitable Ninth Ward 7.
4. Tourists are flocking into the nation’s capital for the annual Cherry Blossom Festival. The two-week event is expected to bring about 1 million people to the city. The blossom is expected to hit their peak bloom tomorrow
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. alert :adjective
quick to see, understand and act in a particular situation:
e.g. I'm not feeling very alert today - not enough sleep last night!
2. on the scene :
to arrive:
e.g. I phoned the police and they were on the scene within minutes.
3. backup :noun [C or U] (ALSO back-up)
(someone or something that provides) support or help, or something that you have arranged in case your main plans, equipment, etc. go wrong:
e.g. We're going to need some professional backup for this project.
4. grim :adjective grimmer, grimmest
worried or worrying, without hope:
e.g. When he lost his job, his future looked grim.
5. sift :verb [T]
to make a close examination of all the parts of something in order to find something or to separate what is useful from what is not:
e.g. The police are sifting 5 the evidence very carefully to try and find the guilty person.
6. uninhabitable :adjective
if a place is uninhabitable, it is impossible to live in
e.g. Much of the country is uninhabitable because it is desert.
7. peak :adjective
used to talk about the best, highest, or greatest level or amount of something
e.g. Gasoline prices are 14% below the peak level they hit in November.
- The mosque is a activity site and culture center of Muslim religion.清真寺为穆斯林宗教活动场所和文化中心。
- Some years ago the clock in the tower of the mosque got out of order.几年前，清真寺钟楼里的大钟失灵了。
- The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
- She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
- The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子，这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
- Sift out the wheat from the chaff.把小麦的壳筛出来。
- Sift sugar on top of the cake.在蛋糕上面撒上糖。
- He lay on the beach, sifting the sand through his fingers. 他躺在沙滩上用手筛砂子玩。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- I was sifting the cinders when she came in. 她进来时，我正在筛煤渣。 来自辞典例句
- After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
- Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。