美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-25
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. President Bush says he doesn't expect the violence in Iraq to abate 1 anytime soon. He says he expects heavy fighting to continue for the next few months with more American and Iraqi casualties.
2. The head of the UN nuclear agency says he agrees with CIA estimates that Iran is 3-8 years from being able to make nuclear weapons. The agency says the best way to keep Iran from acquiring nuclear arms is for the US and other powers to hold talks with the nation.
3. Scientists are taking a break in their efforts to lure 2 a pair of injured whales back to the Pacific. The mother whale and her calf 3 were last spotted 4 swimming about 70 miles from the ocean. They both have injuries that scientists say were likely caused by boats.
4. A Maryland woman is fighting to get her monkey back. She kept this little guy as a pet and treated him like a baby until state officials confiscated 6 him. A new state law forbids anyone from importing, selling, breeding or having such animals.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. abate: verb
If something bad or undesirable 7 abates 8, it becomes much less strong or severe. (FORMAL)
2. confiscate 5: verb
If you confiscate something from someone, you take it away from them, usually as a punishment.
- We must abate the noise pollution in our city.我们必须消除我们城里的噪音污染。
- The doctor gave him some medicine to abate the powerful pain.医生给了他一些药，以减弱那剧烈的疼痛。
- Life in big cities is a lure for many country boys.大城市的生活吸引着许多乡下小伙子。
- He couldn't resist the lure of money.他不能抵制金钱的诱惑。
- 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。
- The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
- Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
- The police have the right to confiscate any forbidden objects they find.如发现违禁货物，警方有权查扣。
- Did the teacher confiscate your toy?老师没收你的玩具了吗？
- Their land was confiscated after the war. 他们的土地在战后被没收。
- The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。
- They are the undesirable elements among the employees.他们是雇员中的不良分子。
- Certain chemicals can induce undesirable changes in the nervous system.有些化学物质能在神经系统中引起不良变化。