美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-12
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. On California Santa Catalina Island, firefighters turned back flames threatening the island's main city. About 3,800 people have been evacuated 1. Wildfire worries are easing with the favorable forecast and the arrival of fire trucks and tankers 2.
2. No bail 3 for the 6 Muslim men suspected of plotting to shoot US soldiers at Fort Dix. Prosecutors 4 said the men are a flight risk all born outside the United States. Court documents say Fort Dix was a target because it was familiar. One of the men delivered pizzas there.
3. It's graduation day at Virginia Tech a month after a shooting spree left 32 students and faculty 5 dead. Today's events kept some families of shooting victims away. Others say they had no choice but to come. Graduate students were the first to receive degrees.
4. On a farm in Wisconsin, a breeder is calling this calf 6 a freak of nature. It's got 2 noses, one on top of the other and they both work. A breeding specialist says the calf is just fine with the bonus nose.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. favorable: adj
Favorable conditions make something seem more attractive.
2. spree: n-count
If you spend a period of time doing something in an excessive way, you can say that you are going on a particular kind of spree.
3. freak: n-count
If you refer to someone as a freak, you mean that they are physically 7 abnormal in some way. This use could cause offence.
- 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。
- They should stop offloading waste from oil tankers into the sea. 他们应当停止从油轮上往海里倾倒废弃物。
- The harbour admits large tankers and freighters. 这个港口容得下巨型油船和货轮。
- One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
- She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。
- In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
- You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
- He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
- He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。
- 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。
- He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
- Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。