AP美联社一分钟新闻(2010-08-01)
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2010(八月)
1. Today marks the 100th day since the start of the oil spill in the Gulf 1 of Mexico. Eleven people died in the explosion on the deep water horizons some 40 miles off the Louisiana Coast. That explosion and collapse 2 of the rig set off the worst oil spill in US history.
2. Officials are saying that all 152 people on board a plane that crashed near the Pakistani capital are dead. The plane was flying from Karachi to Islamabad and was trying to land during difficult weather.
3. A wild fire in California's Mojave Desert that has destroyed more than 30 homes is now 25% contained. The blaze has charred 3 some 500 acres. About 400 firefighters are working, trying to control the wild fire. Officials say beside to the homes' lost another 150 structures are threatened.
4. The Queen of Soul and a former secretary of state teamed up Tuesday night to raise money for charity. Aretha Franklin and Condoleezza Rice performed songs together in Philadelphia. Their aim was to raise money for children from Detroit to Philadelphia, as well as raise awareness 4 for music and the arts.
- 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。
- 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。
- the charred remains of a burnt-out car 被烧焦的轿车残骸
- The intensity of the explosion is recorded on the charred tree trunks. 那些烧焦的树干表明爆炸的强烈。 来自《简明英汉词典》