AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-12-10
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 says he had no contact with the Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich who is arrested today on federal corruption 1 charges. Blagojevich is freed on his own recognizance. Federal prosecutors 2 say Blagojevich was allegedly involved in pay-to-play politics, including seeking bids to fill President-elect Obama's vacant Senate seat.
2. A congressional aide says a military fighter jet crashed into a San Diego neighborhood after both of its engines failed. The crash killed at least three people. But the search continues for a child who is believed to be a one-year-old.
3. Three New York City police officers surrendered and were charged with felonies Tuesday for an attack on a tattoo 3 parlor 4 worker who authorities say was sodomized with a baton 5 in a subway station. The incident happened in October. One officer is charged with aggravated 6 sexual abuse and assault. The two others are charged with hindering prosecution 7 and official misconduct.
4. You won't have to stay up as late to catch Jay Leno next year. He is going to be on NBC five nights a week at 10 o'clock. He is going to be on NBC five nights a week at 10 o'clock Eastern once he turns over the "Tonight Show" to Conan O'Brein. He says the new show will have many of the same features, like the monologue 8, but there will be no desk, because that now belongs to O'Brein.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. parlor: n.
a shop or type of business that provides a particular service
2. misconduct: n.
Misconduct is bad or unacceptable behaviour, especially by a professional person.
3. monologue: n.
a long speech by one person
- The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
- The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
- In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
- You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
- 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。
- She was lying on a small settee in the parlor.她躺在客厅的一张小长椅上。
- Is there a pizza parlor in the neighborhood?附近有没有比萨店？
- 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。
- If he aggravated me any more I shall hit him. 假如他再激怒我，我就要揍他。
- Far from relieving my cough, the medicine aggravated it. 这药非但不镇咳，反而使我咳嗽得更厉害。
- The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
- He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。