美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-20
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. President Bush uses his weekly radio address to praise Senators from both parties for reaching a deal overhauling 2 immigration policy. Debate on the measure begins Monday, but already some are denouncing it as amnesty.
2. British Prime Minister Tony Blair visits Iraq before leaving office. He is standing 3 by U.S.-led efforts overthrowing 4 Saddam Hussein and defending Iraqi leaders despite continuing violence.
3. Jerry Falwell is remembered in a commencement ceremony at Liberty University which he founded. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich telling graduates to carry on Falwell's spirit by confronting radical 5 secularism 6. Falwell died Tuesday at 73.
4. A 400-pound gorilla 7 on the loose at a zoo in the Netherlands. A woman he bit and dragged remains 8 hospitalized recovering from her injuries. The gorilla is back in its enclosure on public display.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. overhaul 1: verb
If you overhaul a system or method, you examine it carefully and make many changes in it in order to improve it.
2. secularism: n-uncount
Secularism is a system of social organization and education where religion is not allowed to play a part in civil affairs.
3. on the loose: phrase
If a person or animal is on the loose, thay are free because they have escaped from a person or place.
- Master Worker Wang is responsible for the overhaul of this grinder.王师傅主修这台磨床。
- It is generally appreciated that the rail network needs a complete overhaul.众所周知，铁路系统需要大检修。
- I had no chance of overhauling him. 我没有赶上他的可能。 来自辞典例句
- Some sites need little alterations but some need total overhauling. 有些网站需要做出细微修改，而有些网站就需要整体改版。 来自互联网
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
- They succeeded in overthrowing the fascist dictatorship. 他们成功推翻了法西斯独裁统治。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- I always delight in overthrowing those kinds of schemes. 我一向喜欢戳穿人家的诡计。 来自辞典例句
- 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。
- Unless are devoted to God, secularism shall not leave us. 除非我们奉献于神，否则凡俗之心便不会离开我们。 来自互联网
- They are no longer a huge threat to secularism. 他们已不再是民主的巨大威胁。 来自互联网
- I was awed by the huge gorilla.那只大猩猩使我惊惧。
- A gorilla is just a speechless animal.猩猩只不过是一种不会说话的动物。