美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-07
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. There is a TB talk on the Hill. Two committees probe the case of Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta lawyer who crossed international borders with a rare drug resistance strain of tuberculosis 1. "I was also told I was not contagious 2. I was told I was not a threat to anyone. I was told there was no need to sequester 3 me."
2. A Vatican spokesman says the man who tried to jump onto the Pope mobile showed signs of mental imbalance. Earlier today the man vaulted 5 over a barricade 6 and grabbed down to the vehicle for a few seconds.
3. The parents of the missing Kansas teenager say they don't recognize the man shown in the surveillance video taken at a Target Store. He is shown leaving the store moments before 18-year-old Kelsey Smith's abduction.
4. An animated 8 Olympics logo has been removed from its official website after complaints it triggered epileptic seizures 10. The 800,000-dollar London 2012 animation 11 is now slated 13 for a reedit.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. strain: N-COUNT usu N of n
A strain of a germ, plant, or other organism is a particular type of it.
2. contagious: ADJ
A disease that is contagious can be caught by touching 14 people or things that are infected with it.
3. sequester: VERB be V-ed
If someone is sequestered 15 somewhere, they are isolated 16 from other people. (FORMAL)
4. Pope: N-COUNT usu the N; N-TITLE
The Pope is the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
5. vault 4: VERB V n, V prep
If you vault something or vault over it, you jump quickly onto or over it, especially by putting a hand on top of it to help you balance while you jump.
6. barricade: N-COUNT
A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
7. grab: VERB V n, V n by/round n
If you grab something, you take it or pick it up suddenly and roughly.
8. abduct 7: VERB be V-ed, V n
If someone is abducted 17 by another person, he or she is taken away illegally, usually using force.
9. logo: N-COUNT
The logo of a company or organization is the special design or way of writing its name that it puts on all its products, notepaper, or advertisements.
10. epileptic: ADJ
Someone who is epileptic suffers from epilepsy.
11. epilepsy: N-UNCOUNT
Epilepsy is a brain condition which causes a person to suddenly lose consciousness and sometimes to have fits.
12. seizure 9: N-COUNT
If someone has a seizure, they have a sudden violent attack of an illness, especially one that affects their heart or brain.
13. slate 12: usu passive, be V-ed
If something is slated, it is criticized very severely 18. (BRIT JOURNALISM)
14. reedit: 重新编辑，修订（金山词霸）
Wiki Item: Target Store
- People used to go to special health spring to recover from tuberculosis.人们常去温泉疗养胜地治疗肺结核。
- Tuberculosis is a curable disease.肺结核是一种可治愈的病。
- It's a highly contagious infection.这种病极易传染。
- He's got a contagious laugh.他的笑富有感染力。
- Everything he owned was sequestered.他的所有财产都被扣押了。
- This jury is expected to be sequestered for at least two months.预计这个陪审团将至少被隔离两个月。
- The vault of this cathedral is very high.这座天主教堂的拱顶非常高。
- The old patrician was buried in the family vault.这位老贵族埋在家族的墓地里。
- She vaulted over the gate and ran up the path. 她用手一撑跃过栅栏门沿着小路跑去。
- The formal living room has a fireplace and vaulted ceilings. 正式的客厅有一个壁炉和拱形天花板。
- The soldiers make a barricade across the road.士兵在路上设路障。
- It is difficult to break through a steel barricade.冲破钢铁障碍很难。
- The police caught the man who tried to abduct the boy for ransom.警察抓住了那个企图拐走这男孩以便勒索赎金的家伙。
- The news that we see those use network abduct children sometimes filled with apprehension.我们有时看到那些利用网络诱拐儿童的新闻都心惊肉跳。
- His observations gave rise to an animated and lively discussion.他的言论引起了一场气氛热烈而活跃的讨论。
- We had an animated discussion over current events last evening.昨天晚上我们热烈地讨论时事。
- The seizure of contraband is made by customs.那些走私品是被海关没收的。
- The courts ordered the seizure of all her property.法院下令查封她所有的财产。
- Seizures of illicit drugs have increased by 30% this year. 今年违禁药品的扣押增长了30%。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Other causes of unconsciousness predisposing to aspiration lung abscess are convulsive seizures. 造成吸入性肺脓肿昏迷的其他原因，有惊厥发作。 来自辞典例句
- They are full of animation as they talked about their childhood.当他们谈及童年的往事时都非常兴奋。
- The animation of China made a great progress.中国的卡通片制作取得很大发展。
- The nominating committee laid its slate before the board.提名委员会把候选人名单提交全体委员会讨论。
- What kind of job uses stained wood and slate? 什么工作会接触木头污浊和石板呢？
- Yuki is working up an in-home phonics program slated for Thursdays, and I'm drilling her on English conversation at dinnertime. Yuki每周四还有一次家庭语音课。我在晚餐时训练她的英语口语。
- Bromfield was slated to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. 布罗姆菲尔德被提名为美国农业部长。
- The jury is expected to be sequestered for at least two months. 陪审团渴望被隔离至少两个月。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Everything he owned was sequestered. 他的一切都被扣押了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
- Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
- Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
- The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。