AP 2010-11-20
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2010(十一月)
1. An army staff sergeant 1 has been given a Medal of Honor. President Barack Obama awarded the medal to Salvatore Giunta, the first living service member from Iraq or Afghanistan wars to be so honored.
2. Congressman 2 Charles Rangel of New York is denouncing a decision of an ethics 3 panel to convict him on 11 counts. Rangel says he was deprived of due process rights and the right to counsel.
3. A judge has set a one-million-dollar bond for an Ohio man accused of keeping a 13-year-old girl bound and gagged in his basement. The girl’s brother, mother and a family friend remain missing.
4. Britain’s Prince William says it was a way of making sure that his mother, the late Princess Diana, didn’t miss out on the upcoming royal wedding. William says he’s given his fiancee Kate Middleton the engagement ring that was once worn by his mother.
- His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
- How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹？
- He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
- The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。