美联社新闻一分钟 2007-01-24
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. President Bush is using his State of the Union address to try to revive his domestic agenda and deflect 1 criticism about the war in Iraq. He's arguing that success in Iraq is necessary to make American safer.
2. US officials say at least five civilians 2 were killed when a US helicopter crashed in Iraq. The chopper belonged to a private contractor 3 and an Iraqi defense 4 official says it was shot down.
3. Authorities in Oklahoma are hunting for two escaped inmates 6 who'd been on the loose since Monday. Prison officials say the men escaped by cutting their way through a fence in a recreation yard.
4. You could say it was a doggone good day for this golden retriever in Washington State. He was hauled to safety last night after the car he was in flipped 8 over and landed in marshy 9 water. His owner and another dog also survived the crash.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. deflect : VERB
If you deflect something such as criticism or attention, you act in a way that prevents it from being directed towards you or affecting you.
2. inmate 5 : N-COUNT
The inmates of a prison or mental hospital are the prisoners or patients who are living there.
3. doggone : ADJ
Extremely, used as an intensive
4. retriever : N-COUNT
A retriever is a kind of dog. Retrievers are traditionally used to bring back birds and animals which their owners have shot.
5. flip 7 over : PHR-V
If something flips 10 over, or if you flip it over or into a different position, it moves or is moved into a different position.
- Never let a little problem deflect you.决不要因一点小问题就半途而废。
- They decided to deflect from the original plan.他们决定改变原计划。
- the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
- At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。
- The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
- The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样，有几分要看地势而定。
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- I am an inmate of that hospital.我住在那家医院。
- The prisoner is his inmate.那个囚犯和他同住一起。
- One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
- Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。
- The plane flipped and crashed. 飞机猛地翻转，撞毁了。
- The carter flipped at the horse with his whip. 赶大车的人扬鞭朝着马轻轻地抽打。
- In August 1935,we began our march across the marshy grassland. 1935年8月，我们开始过草地。
- The surrounding land is low and marshy. 周围的地低洼而多沼泽。