美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-05
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. Authorities say St. Louis Cardinals 1 pitcher 2 Josh Hancock was drunk and talking on his cell phone at the time of his fatal crash on Sunday. He also had marijuana in his vehicle. The team says the accident is a wake-up call to everyone about drinking and driving.
2. A firefight rages in Iraq captured by an Associate Press television crew embedded 4 with the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division. The incident happened Wednesday night near a Baghdad suburb.
3. Queen Elizabeth II continues her royal tour of the United States, seeing Jamestown Virginia, strolling around what became America's first permanent English settlement. Next on the itinerary 5, a visit to the Kentucky Derby.
4. This Boeing 737 was a long way from a runway stuck at a busy road in India. It was headed to a flight training school when the driver got lost and abandoned the fuselage, the plane's remains 6 becoming something of a local attraction.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. pitcher: n-count
In baseball, the pitcher is the person who throws the ball to the batter 7, who tries to hit it.
2. embed 3: verb
If an object embeds 8 itself in a substance or thing, it becomes fixed 9 there firmly and deeply.
3. fuselage: n-count
The fuselage is the main body of an aeroplane, missile, or rocket. It is usually cylindrical 10 in shape.
- cardinals in scarlet robes 身披红袍的枢机主教
- A conclave of cardinals was held to elect the new Pope. 红衣主教团举行了秘密会议来选举新教皇。
- He poured the milk out of the pitcher.他从大罐中倒出牛奶。
- Any pitcher is liable to crack during a tight game.任何投手在紧张的比赛中都可能会失常。
- The harpoon struck but did not embed.鱼叉击中了但并没有插入。
- This photo showed us how did the root of plant embed the soil deeply.这张照片显示植物的根是如何深入到土壤里去的。
- an operation to remove glass that was embedded in his leg 取出扎入他腿部玻璃的手术
- He has embedded his name in the minds of millions of people. 他的名字铭刻在数百万人民心中。
- The two sides have agreed on the itinerary of the visit.双方商定了访问日程。
- The next place on our itinerary was Silistra.我们行程的下一站是锡利斯特拉。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- The batter skied to the center fielder.击球手打出一个高飞球到中外野手。
- Put a small quantity of sugar into the batter.在面糊里放少量的糖。
- The compiler embeds only the type information that your application uses. 编译器只嵌入您的应用程序所使用的类型信息。
- Embeds an image or a video clip in the document. 在文档中嵌入图像或视频片断。
- Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
- Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。