AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-12-08
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十二)月
1. President-elect Barack Obama has named retired 1 General Eric Shinseki as his Veterans Affairs secretary. Shinseki served as Army chief of staff in the Bush administration but left after testifying that it might take several hundred thousand US troops to control Iraq after the invasion.
2. The New York Times is reporting that three New York City police officers have been indicted 2 in an assault case at a subway station. The 24-year-old tattoo 3 artist claims two officers held him down while another sodomized him with a baton 4 back in October.
3. NBC has named David Gregory to become permanent moderator on "Meet the Press". Gregory, the NBC News chief White House correspondent calls it "an incredible honor" to replace Tim Russert.
4. Nearly three million Muslim pilgrims have been performing a ritual of forgiveness on a rocky desert hill outside Mecca in Saudi Arabia. It marks the climax 5 of the annual hajj and is the most spiritual moment of the pilgrimage.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. sodomize: v.
formal or law a sexual act in which a man puts his sex organ into someone's anus, especially that of another man
2. hajj: n.
a journey to Mecca for religious reasons, that all Muslims try to make at least once in their life
- The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
- Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
- The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
- He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。
- I've decided to get my tattoo removed.我已经决定去掉我身上的纹身。
- He had a tattoo on the back of his hand.他手背上刺有花纹。
- With the baton the conductor was beating time.乐队指挥用指挥棒打拍子。
- The conductor waved his baton,and the band started up.指挥挥动指挥棒，乐队开始演奏起来。