美联社新闻一分钟 2008-05-22
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. Hours after a former Illinois police sergeant 1 suspected in his fourth wife's disappearance 3 turned himself in, he was released. Police had issued a warrant for Drew Peterson’s arrest in an unrelated weapons charge. Authorities are also investigating the death of Peterson's third wife.
2. Ted 2 Kennedy has left the hospital and is back home in Cape 4 Cod 5. Doctors say Kennedy has recovered remarkably 6 quickly from a brain biopsy. They say he'll recuperate 7 over the holiday weekend and wait for further test results.
3. President Bush has vetoed the 300 billion-dollar farm bill. He's calling it a tax increase on regular Americans at a time of high food prices but record farm profits. It's his 10th veto and one that's likely to be overridden 8 by Congress which passed the bill with a veto-proof majority.
4. If you fly American Airlines and want to check a bag, you are ready to pay 15 dollars for the privilege. American will become the first major carrier to institute a fee for the first piece of luggage. Just last month it joined a number of other airlines in charging 25 dollars for a second bag.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. recuperate: v.
to get better again after an illness or injury
2. veto-proof: adj.
Veto-proof describes those votes with a margin 9 sufficient to override 10 a veto, should it occur.
Since a 2/3 vote is required to override, a veto-proof majority is 290 in the House and 67 in the Senate.
- His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
- How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹？
- The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
- She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。
- He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
- Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
- I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
- She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。
- They salt down cod for winter use.他们腌鳕鱼留着冬天吃。
- Cod are found in the North Atlantic and the North Sea.北大西洋和北海有鳕鱼。
- I thought she was remarkably restrained in the circumstances. 我认为她在那种情况下非常克制。
- He made a remarkably swift recovery. 他康复得相当快。
- Stay in the hospital for a few more days to recuperate.再住院几天，好好地恢复。
- He went to the country to recuperate.他去乡下养病去了。
- The chairman's veto was overridden by the committee. 主席的否决被委员会推翻了。
- Property '{0}' is not declarable, and cannot be overridden. 属性“{0}”是不可声明的，不能被重写。
- We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
- The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。