美联社新闻一分钟 2007-04-18
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. Police say a Virginia Tech student was behind the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. 23-year-old, Cho Seung-Hui was an English major and a native of South Korea. Tests put one gun at both shooting scenes. The gunman took his life at the end of the shooting rampage with a death toll 1 of 33.
2. Classes are cancelled the rest of the week at Virginia Tech. The university's president says this gives students time to grieve. Norris Hall, a classroom building where most of the shootings took place will remain closed for the semester.
3. Parts of the Eastern Seaboard remain without power and some communities underwater after a strong spring storm. Parts of New Jersey 2 got nine inches of rain. At least 16 deaths are blamed on the storm.
4. Today is the day the taxman coming. Taxpayers 3 have until midnight to file. But residents of the Northeast [b]battered 5 by strong storms get a two-day extension, just mark the return with April 16th storm or if filing electronically use the disaster feature.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. batter 4: verb
If a place is battered by wind, rain or storms, it is seriously damaged or affected 6 by very bad weather.
- 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。
- He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
- They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
- Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
- She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。
- 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。
- He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
- The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。