AP 2011-10-20
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2011(十月)
英语课
1.IndyCar driver Dan Weldon was killed Sunday in a massive 15-car wreck 1 duringthe Las Vegas Indy 300 race. It's the first on-track fatality 2 in five years for the IndyCar Series.
2.President Obama begins a three-day bus tour to stop in Asheville, NorthCarolina today. He is trying to pressure Congress to pass individual pieces ofthe jobs bill that was blocked.
3.A now month-old occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow, nearly 300,000dollars has been donated and similar protests have begun around the world.
4.Salvage 3 crews are racing 4 to pump oilfrom a ship stuck on a reef off the New Zealand coast. Authorities believe thevessel will break apart or sink soon. Just 82 tons of oil has been removedwhile an estimated 1,400 tons remain aboard.
n.失事，遇难；沉船；vt.(船等)失事，遇难
- Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
- No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。
n.不幸，灾祸，天命
- She struggle against fatality in vain.她徒然奋斗反抗宿命。
- He began to have a growing sense of fatality.他开始有一种越来越强烈的宿命感。
v.救助，营救，援救；n.救助，营救
- All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
- The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。