美联社新闻一分钟 2007-04-24
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died at the age of 76. He is credited with engineering the collapse 1 of the Soviet 2 Union and introducing a market economy to the former communist state.
2. Thousands of Virginia Tech students paid solemn tribute today to the victims of last week's massacre 3. A bell rang for those who died and moments of silence were observed before classes resumed at the university.
3. For the fresh vote of confidence from President Bush, Alberto Gonzales is vowing 4 to remain as Attorney General despite lingering questions over his department's firing of eight federal prosecutors 5.
4. And a French newspaper is reporting that follow-up tests on backup urine samples by Tour de France winner Floyd Landis have turned up traces of synthetic 6 testosterone.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. credit: verb
If people credit someone with an achievement or it is credit to them, people say or believe that they were responsible for it.
2. engineer: verb
If you engineer an event or situation, you arrange for it to happen in a clever or indirect way.
3. solemn: adj
Someone or something that is solemn is very serious rather than cheerful or humorous.
4. urine: n-uncount
Urine is the liquid that you get rid of from your body when you go to the toilet.
5. testosterone: n-count
Testosterone is a hormone 7 found in men and male animals, which can also be produced artificially.
- The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
- Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
- Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
- There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
- If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！
- President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild its collapsed bridge. 布什总统承诺将帮助明尼阿波利斯重建坍塌的大桥。
- President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild this collapse bridge. 布什总统发誓要帮助明尼阿波利斯重建起这座坍塌的桥梁。
- 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。
- We felt the salesman's synthetic friendliness.我们感觉到那位销售员的虚情假意。
- It's a synthetic diamond.这是人造钻石。