美联社新闻一分钟 2008-05-14
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(五)月
1. Authority investigators 1 are looking for one or more arson 2 suspects linked to several wildfires burning across central portion of the state. A witness told investigators someone in a car was spotted 3 dropping something into an open field and fires started soon after that. So far the blazes have destroyed or damaged about 100 homes. Winds are forecast to slow today.
2. More than 12,000 people are thought to be dead and another 18,000 may still be buried in the rubble 4 after yesterday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake in China. Officials say the death toll 5 was likely declined as soldiers and rescue teams reach the areas closer to the quake's epicenter.
3. Officials in western Indian say at least 60 people have been killed after six bomb blasts ripped thorough crowded areas. Another 150 people are reportedly wounded. Authorities say a seventh bomb was defused before it exploded.
4. And the New York Knicks introduce Mike D’ Antoni as their new coach. The team is hoping his high-scoring brand of basketball will turn around the squad 6 with seven straight losing seasons.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. defuse: v.
If someone defuses a bomb, they remove the fuse so that it cannot explode.
2. squad: n.
a group of players from which a team will be chosen for a particular sports event.
- 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》
- He was serving a ten spot for arson.他因纵火罪在服十年徒刑。
- He was arraigned on a charge of arson.他因被指控犯纵火罪而被传讯。
- The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
- Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
- After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
- After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
- The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
- The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。