美联社新闻一分钟 2007-01-30
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. The "Scooter" Libby perjury 1 trial continues in Washington. On the stand today, former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, testifying about his discussions with reporters about an outed CIA operative.
2. A Palestinian suicide bomber 2 attacked a bakery in a southern Israeli town, killing 3 himself and three others. It was the first suicide bombing in Israel since April of 2006 when 12 people were killed in a Tel Aviv restaurant.
3. A 70-year-old California man who survived a mountain lion attack has been transferred to a San Francisco hospital. His condition was recently downgraded from fair to serious following emergency surgery.
4. And it's opening day for this fifty-million-dollar high-tech 4 rehabilitation 5 center in San Antonio, Texas. The facility is designed to serve the growing number of disabled and injured soldiers returning home from war.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. scooter : N-COUNT
A scooter is a type of child's bicycle which has two wheels joined by a wooden board and a handle on a long pole attached to the front wheel. The child stands on the board with one foot, and uses the other foot to move forwards.
2. rehabilite : VERB
To rehabilitate 6 someone who has been ill or in prison means to help them to live a normal life again. To rehabilitate someone who has a drug or alcohol problem means to help them stop using drugs or alcohol.
- You'll be punished if you procure the witness to commit perjury.如果你诱使证人作伪证，你要受罚的。
- She appeared in court on a perjury charge.她因被指控做了伪证而出庭受审。
- He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
- Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。
- 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 economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展，这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
- The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。
- He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
- No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
- There was no money to rehabilitate the tower.没有资金修复那座塔。
- He used exercise programmes to rehabilitate the patients.他采用体育锻炼疗法使患者恢复健康。