美联社新闻一分钟 2007-02-10
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. The mother of Anna Nicole Smith blames drugs for her daughter's death, saying she was too drugged up. A medical examiner in Broward County, Florida performed an autopsy 1 Friday, trying to determine what killed the 39-year-old Playboy playmate and model.
2. The snow keeps coming in parts of New York State - 88 inches in some towns in Oswego County and maybe 100 inches in certain spot. Another 2 feet of snow is possible.
3. A violent clash between Muslim worshippers and Israeli police at a Jerusalem holy site. Worshippers threw stones, bottles and trash and police fired stun 2 grenades and tear gas to disperse 3 the crowd. They are upset about renovation 4 work Israelis are doing nearby.
4. And in Brazil, a man rescues his 8-year-old grandson from a 16-foot long, 77-pound snake. The anaconda wrapped itself around the boy. The grandfather beat the snake with rocks and a knife for half an hour. The boy got 21 stitches in his chest where he was bitten.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. autopsy: n-count
An autopsy is an examination of a dead body by a doctor who cuts it open in order to try to discover the cause of death.
2. anaconda: n-count
An anaconda is a large non-venomous arboreal 5 snake of tropical South America that kills its prey 6 by suffocating 7 it in its coils.
3. stitch: n-count
A stitch is a piece of thread that has been used to sew the skin of a wound together.
- They're carrying out an autopsy on the victim.他们正在给受害者验尸。
- A hemorrhagic gut was the predominant lesion at autopsy.尸检的主要发现是肠出血。
- When they told me she had gone missing I was totally stunned.他们告诉我她不见了时，我当时完全惊呆了。
- Sam stood his ground and got a blow that stunned him.萨姆站在原地，被一下打昏了。
- The cattle were swinging their tails to disperse the flies.那些牛甩动着尾巴驱赶苍蝇。
- The children disperse for the holidays.孩子们放假了。
- The cinema will reopen next week after the renovation.电影院修缮后，将于下星期开业。
- The building has undergone major renovation.这座大楼已进行大整修。
- Man was evolved from an ancestor that was probably arboreal.人大概是从住在树上的祖先进化而来的。
- Koala is an arboreal Australian marsupial.考拉是一种澳大利亚树栖有袋动物。
- Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
- The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。
- After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating.和父母呆了几个星期后，她感到自己毫无自由。
- That's better. I was suffocating in that cell of a room.这样好些了，我刚才在那个小房间里快闷死了。