美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-23
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. At a memorial service today in Charleston, South Carolina, thousands turned out to mourn nine firefighters killed in a warehouse 1 fire. Meantime officials say they are making progress in the investigation 2 into what sparked the blaze.
2. An Ohio sheriff says a baby found on a doorstep does not belong to a missing pregnant woman. Hundreds of volunteers have been searching for Jessie Davis who is nine-month pregnant. She vanished last week.
3. The space shuttle Atlantis has landed at California's Edwards Air Force Base after a two-week mission to the International Space Station. Clouds and rain in Florida forced NASA to land the shuttle at a backup landing site.
4. New York is about to become quieter at least a little. The noise code has been revised for the first time in 30 years and now has new restrictions 3 on trucks in residential 4 neighborhoods. It even reins 5 in the levels on rover, more than ten minutes of barking could result in a ticket for the owner.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. sheriff: n-count
In the United States, a sheriff is a person who is elected to make sure that the law is obeyed in a particular county.
2. backup: n-count
If you have something such as a second piece of equipment or set of plans as backup, you have arranged for them to be available for use in case the first one doesn't work.
- We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
- The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
- I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
- a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制
- The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
- The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。