美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-08
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. The death toll 1 from Friday's F5 tornado 2 continues to climb. Officials now say at least ten people are dead in Greensburg, Kansas. Rescuers are continuing to search the rubble 3 for possible survivors 4.
2. Two retirees are missing in Ohio after setting off a shopping trip and never coming back. The women haven't been seen or heard from in two weeks. Authorities say there is no evidence of foul 5 play.
3. The White House is rolling out the red carpet for Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen arrived at the White House Monday morning and is attending a white-tie dinner tonight. That's the most formal dinner the White House can offer.
4. When nine-year-old Jesse Courtney complained of earaches 6, doctors found an unexpected source of the pain--two spiders. Both of the spiders were dead when the doctors flushed them out. And Jesse is keeping them as souvenirs.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. foul play: n-uncount
Foul play is criminal violence or activity that results in a person's death.
- The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
- The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
- A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
- The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
- After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
- After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
- The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
- survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
- Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
- What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气！