AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-08-22
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(八)月
1. Torrential rains from Tropical Storm Fay trigger new flooding along Florida's northern Atlantic coast. Jacksonville residents are now being told to expect the brunt of the storm later today.
2. Two little girls from New Jersey 1 were reunited with their father and will be returning home soon. The girls were trapped by violence in the Republic of Georgia for two weeks. They were in the region spending part of their summer with their grandparents.
3. The mother of a missing Central Florida toddler is now free on bail 2. There's hope that Casey Anthony will now open up to investigators 3 about what happened to three-year-old Caylee who vanished in June.
4. And starting tomorrow, the government will allow food producers to start zapping fresh spinach 4 and iceberg 5 lettuce 6 with just enough radiation to kill E.coli and other dangerous germs. The move is in response to increasing outbreaks from raw produce.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online
Merriam-Webster Online
1. brunt: n.
to receive the worst part of an attack, criticism, bad situation etc.
2. zap: v.
to quickly attack or destroy something, especially using a beam of electricity.
3. spinach: n. 【植】菠菜
4. iceberg lettuce: n. 【植】卷心莴苣
- He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
- They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
- One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
- She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。
- 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》
- Eating spinach is supposed to make you strong.据说吃菠菜能使人强壮。
- You should eat such vegetables as carrot,celery and spinach.你应该吃胡萝卜、芹菜和菠菜这类的蔬菜。
- The ship hit an iceberg and went under.船撞上一座冰山而沉没了。
- The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。