AP 2011-08-19
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2011(八月)
英语课
1. President Obama's bus tour rolls through northeastern Iowa today. Obama will be promoting rural economic policies, the second day of the three-day tour of three states.
2. Lingering questions about the stage collapse 1 that killed 5 people at the Indiana State Fair. Fair organizers haven't said whether the stage and rigging that collapsed 2 Saturday night had been inspected. The fair reopened Monday after a memorial ceremony for the victims.
3. An Australian citizen is due in a Louisville, Kentucky court today. Investigators 3 say Paul Peters broke into a family's home in Sydney nearly two weeks ago and chained a fake bomb to a teenage woman's neck. It could take two months for him to be extradited.
4. And a little with the tree, now New Zealanders are saying enough with the snow. Snow plows 4 worked through the night, but many residents of the capital were unable to get to work or even leave their neighborhoods. And there's another 6 to 12 inches in the forecast by Tuesday night.
vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷
- The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
adj.倒塌的
- Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
- The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
- 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》