AP 2010-02-15
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2010(二月)
1. Washington is buried under a heavy blanket of snow. Roads are mostly impassable. President Obama has called the storm "Snowmageddon".
2. Despite the blizzard 1, some people in D.C. did venture outside for a chance to play. Snowballs were flying in normally bustling 2 Dupont Circle, a major Washington thoroughfare. Hundreds of people gathered for a snowball fight with words spreading through Facebook and Twitter.
3. An Iraqi defense 3 official says Shiite militants 4 have released a tape of a kidnapped Iraqi-American contractor 5, who was abducted 6 from central Baghdad last month.
4. The Washington Zoo's former panda Tai Shan spent a peaceful night in his new home in China. His keeper speaks English. But one of his first tasks will be to teach Tai Shan a few mandarin 7 phrases.
- The blizzard struck while we were still on the mountain.我们还在山上的时候暴风雪就袭来了。
- You'll have to stay here until the blizzard blows itself off.你得等暴风雪停了再走。
- The market was bustling with life. 市场上生机勃勃。
- This district is getting more and more prosperous and bustling. 这一带越来越繁华了。
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
- The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
- The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样，有几分要看地势而定。
- Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
- The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。