美联社新闻一分钟 2007-01-09
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
- 1 美联社新闻一分钟 2007-01-09
1. President Bush is slated 1 to address the nation at 9 pm Eastern time Wednesday. On the agenda, his new approach for the war in Iraq which will reportedly include a surge of 20,000 US troops in the war-torn country.
2. Officials are probing the source of a mysterious gas-like odor wafting 3 to the streets of Manhattan. Despite temporary transit 4 disruptions and building evacuations, Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he is confident the air is safe to breathe.
3. Fierce 150-mile-per-hour winds whipped up fallen snow along the foothills of the Rocky Mountains creating near blizzard-like conditions and forcing the shutdown of various schools and roads.
4. And a group of researchers says it has discovered stem cells in the amniotic fluid of pregnant women. The find will allow scientists to sidestep the controversy 5 over destroying embryos 6 for research.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. be slated to : PHR
If something is slated to happen, it is planned to happen at a particular time or on a particular occasion.
2. waft 2 : V-ERG
If sounds or smells waft through the air, or if something such as a light wind wafts 7 them, they move gently through the air.
3. whip up : PHR-V
If a force such as the wind whips up dust or water, it makes it rise up.
...clouds of smoke and sand whipped up by a strong wind.
4. amniotic fluid : N
The fluid within the amnion(羊膜）that surrounds the fetus 8 and protects it from injury.
- Yuki is working up an in-home phonics program slated for Thursdays, and I'm drilling her on English conversation at dinnertime. Yuki每周四还有一次家庭语音课。我在晚餐时训练她的英语口语。
- Bromfield was slated to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. 布罗姆菲尔德被提名为美国农业部长。
- The bubble maker is like a sword that you waft in the air.吹出泡泡的东西就像你在空中挥舞的一把剑。
- When she just about fall over,a waft of fragrance makes her stop.在她差点跌倒时，一股幽香让她停下脚步。
- But that gentle fragrance was clearly wafting from the window. 但那股淡淡的香气，却分明是从母亲的窗户溢出的。 来自互联网
- The picture-like XueGuo, wafting dense flavor of Japan, gives us a kind of artistic enjoyment. 画一般的雪国，飘溢着浓郁的日本风情，给人以美的享受。 来自互联网
- His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
- The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。
- That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
- We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
- Somatic cells of angiosperms enter a regenerative phase and behave like embryos. 被子植物体细胞进入一个生殖阶段，而且其行为象胚。 来自辞典例句
- Evolution can explain why human embryos look like gilled fishes. 进化论能够解释为什么人类的胚胎看起来象除去了内脏的鱼一样。 来自辞典例句
- A breeze wafts the sweet smell of roses. 微风吹来了玫瑰花的芬芳（香味）。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- A breeze wafts the smell of roses. 微风吹送玫瑰花香气。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》