AP 2011-03-19
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2011(三月)
- 1 AP 2011-03-19
1. Workers trying to prevent a meltdown at a Japanese nuclear power plant are being allowed to return to their jobs. That follows an evacuation overnight when radiation levels became too dangerous. The death toll 1 from Friday's earthquake and tsunami 2 is nearing 3,700, but nearly 8,000 people are still missing.
2. Clash between anti-government protesters and soldiers has become deadly in Bahrain. Witnesses and officials say at least six people are dead, believed to be three protesters and three police. Demonstrators were driven out of the main square in the capital with tear gas and armored vehicles.
3. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has visited Cairo's Tahrir Square, the site of the fight to oust 3
former President Hosni Mubarak. Clinton is on a two-day visit to Egypt to encourage the people and their government to follow through on promises of democratic reforms.
4. And it's a dog day at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. The zoo debuts 4 ten African wild dog puppies born in November - a litter from one of only three successful breeding programs in North America.
- 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。
- Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
- Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
- The committee wanted to oust him from the union.委员会想把他从工会中驱逐出去。
- The leaders have been ousted from power by nationalists.这些领导人被民族主义者赶下了台。