AP美联社一分钟新闻(2010-06-18)
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2010(六月)
1. President Barack Obama toured the white sand beaches of the Florida Panhandle Tuesday, vowing 1 to fight the oil spill with (quote) "everything we got." The president spoke 2 in Pensacola to wrap up a two-day visit to the Gulf 3 Coast before returning to Washington for a prime time address. A new poll found the majority of Americans disapprove 4 of the president's handling of the spill, though far more blame BP for a sluggish 5 cleanup.
2. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill aren't much happy with other big oil companies, claiming they are no better prepared than BP to prevent a disaster. Executives from Chevron 6, Shell, Exxon and others are testifying before a House committee, its chairman called their spill response plans nothing more than paper exercises.
3. The death toll 7 in days of ethnic 8 rioting in the Kyrgyzstan city of Osh could be several times higher than previously 9 thought. The country's interim 10 president says the official count of 171 dead is likely much too low because many Muslim families keep a tradition to bury relatives the same day they die.
4. A rodent 11 expert says most of lower Manhattan subways are infested 12 with rats. Hundreds of them can live in just one wall of the rooms used to store collected trash. New York City officials say they are working to control the infestation 13.
- President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild its collapsed bridge. 布什总统承诺将帮助明尼阿波利斯重建坍塌的大桥。
- President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild this collapse bridge. 布什总统发誓要帮助明尼阿波利斯重建起这座坍塌的桥梁。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
- I quite disapprove of his behaviour.我很不赞同他的行为。
- She wants to train for the theatre but her parents disapprove.她想训练自己做戏剧演员，但她的父母不赞成。
- This humid heat makes you feel rather sluggish.这种湿热的天气使人感到懒洋洋的。
- Circulation is much more sluggish in the feet than in the hands.脚部的循环比手部的循环缓慢得多。
- He wore shoulderstrap rank slides with sergeant's chevrons.他佩戴标示级别的肩章，上面有中士的V形标志。
- The chevron or arrow road sign indicates a sharp bend to the left or right.V形或箭头路标表示有向左或向右的急转弯。
- 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。
- This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
- The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
- The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
- Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。
- The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
- It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。
- When there is a full moon,this nocturnal rodent is careful to stay in its burrow.月圆之夜，这种夜间活动的啮齿类动物会小心地呆在地洞里不出来。
- This small rodent can scoop out a long,narrow tunnel in a very short time.这种小啮齿动物能在很短的时间里挖出一条又长又窄的地道来。
- The kitchen was infested with ants. 厨房里到处是蚂蚁。
- The apartments were infested with rats and roaches. 公寓里面到处都是老鼠和蟑螂。
- The premises were treated for cockroach infestation.因蟑螂成灾，这些房屋集中进行了灭蟑活动。
- Parts of California are suffering from an infestation of oriental fruit flies.加利福尼亚的部分地区正遭受东方果蝇的大肆侵袭。