美联社新闻一分钟 2007-03-21
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. The White House has offered a plan for congressional investigators 1 looking into the firings of eight federal prosecutors 2. Presidential advisor 3 Karl Rove and former counsel Harriet Miers will be made available for questioning, but not testimony 4 under oath.
2. A homecoming for a Boy Scout 5 lost in North Carolina, lost since last Saturday. A tracking dog helped find 12-year-old Michael Auberry on a wooded ridge 6 weak and dehydrated about a mile from where he wandered away.
3. The baseball season is on for Bluffton University less than three weeks after the team's bus toppled off an Atlanta overpass 8 killing 9 five players. The players made the decision after getting approvals from the families of their dead comrades.
4. A purse snatching caught on tape in Denver. First the grab, then the victim goes after the robber who is now driving a car. She hangs on, but eventually falling away from the vehicle. Police want your help in finding the suspect.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. ridge n-count
A ridge is a long, narrow piece of raised land.
2. dehydrate 7 verb
If you dehydrate or if something dehydrates you, you lose too much water from your body so that you feel weak or ill.
3. wander verb
If a person wanders from a place where they are supposed to stay, they move away from the place without going in a particular direction.
4. hang on
If you hang on, you avoid failure in spite of great difficulties or opposition 10.
- This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
- The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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。
- They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
- The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
- The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
- He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。
- He was mistaken for an enemy scout and badly wounded.他被误认为是敌人的侦察兵，受了重伤。
- The scout made a stealthy approach to the enemy position.侦察兵偷偷地靠近敌军阵地。
- We clambered up the hillside to the ridge above.我们沿着山坡费力地爬上了山脊。
- The infantry were advancing to attack the ridge.步兵部队正在向前挺进攻打山脊。
- People can very quickly dehydrate in the desert.人在沙漠里很快就会脱水。
- Without these structures, many warm-blooded animals would quickly dehydrate,especially in dry climates.没有这样的结构，许多温血动物将很快脱水，特别是在干燥的气候条件下。
- I walked through an overpass over the road.我步行穿过那条公路上面的立交桥。
- We should take the overpass when crossing the road.我们过马路应走天桥。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
- The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。