美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-19
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. Rejection 1 at the White House. Congressional Democrats 2 don't get their way on a stripped-down spending bill for the war in Iraq. One provision even gave President Bush the right to not comply with the wartime table.
2. An arrest in the attack of this woman in a New York church caught on surveillance video. The woman fought off the attacker with her pen. He was later spotted 3 by an off-duty firefighter who recognized him from news coverage 4.
3. Rescuers hope underwater whale sounds lure 5 this humpback and her calf 6 back to sea. The pair is up the Sacramento River in northern California, 90 miles from the Pacific Ocean. They are nursing wounds from a boat propeller 7.
4. He didn't have an appointment, but that didn't stop this young bear from visiting a medical clinic near Albuquerque, New Mexico. A cellphone camera captured the 125-pound bear inside. He was drugged, then released into the wild.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. humpback: n-count
A humpback or a humpback whale is a large whale with a curved back.
- He decided not to approach her for fear of rejection.他因怕遭拒绝决定不再去找她。
- The rejection plunged her into the dark depths of despair.遭到拒绝使她陷入了绝望的深渊。
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
- Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
- There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
- This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
- Life in big cities is a lure for many country boys.大城市的生活吸引着许多乡下小伙子。
- He couldn't resist the lure of money.他不能抵制金钱的诱惑。
- The cow slinked its calf.那头母牛早产了一头小牛犊。
- The calf blared for its mother.牛犊哞哞地高声叫喊找妈妈。