美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-15
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. The Coast Guard says all passengers have been evacuated 1 from the Empress of the North cruise ship which ran aground off Alaska's coast this morning.
2. Parents are outraged 3 after staffs at one Tennessee elementary school staged a gun attack on students during a school trip. The principal is calling it an act of poor judgment 4.
3. German-based Daimler Chrysler will sell almost all of the money-losing Chrysler Group to a private equity 5 firm for 7.4 billion dollars. Cerberus has agreed to take on the company's pension and retiree health care costs.
4. And as the search for missing Briton Madeleine McCann continues, media reports say more than 5 million dollars has been added to a reward fund. Celebrity 6 benefactors 8 include American Idol 9 judge Simon Carl and Harry 10 Potter author J. K. Rowling.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. aground: adv
If a ship runs aground, it touches the ground in a shallow part of a river, lake or the sea and gets stuck.
2. outrage 2: verb
If you are outraged by something, it makes you extremely shocked and angry.
3. benefactor 7: n-count
A benefactor is a person who helps a person or organization by giving them money.
- Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
- The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
- When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
- We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。
- Members of Parliament were outraged by the news of the assassination. 议会议员们被这暗杀的消息激怒了。
- He was outraged by their behavior. 他们的行为使他感到愤慨。
- The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
- He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。
- They shared the work of the house with equity.他们公平地分担家务。
- To capture his equity,Murphy must either sell or refinance.要获得资产净值，墨菲必须出售或者重新融资。
- Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
- He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。
- The chieftain of that country is disguised as a benefactor this time. 那个国家的首领这一次伪装出一副施恩者的姿态。
- The first thing I did, was to recompense my original benefactor, my good old captain. 我所做的第一件事, 就是报答我那最初的恩人, 那位好心的老船长。
- I rate him among my benefactors. 我认为他是我的一个恩人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- We showed high respect to benefactors. 我们对捐助者表达了崇高的敬意。 来自辞典例句
- As an only child he was the idol of his parents.作为独子，他是父母的宠儿。
- Blind worship of this idol must be ended.对这个偶像的盲目崇拜应该结束了。