AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-05-17
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(五)月
1. The Hubble Space Telescope has a new high-tech 1 gadget 2, helping 3 it uncover the secrets of the universe. Spacewalking astronauts installed an 88-million-dollar spectrograph designed to detect faint light from faraway quasar.
2. President Barack Obama reaches across the partisan 4 aisle 5, appointing Republican Utah Governor Jon Huntsman to a key post - ambassador to China. Obama says the post will be critical to solving many of the world's problems.
3. A car bomb in Pakistan tears through an Internet café and a bus with handicapped children on board. The blast in Peshawar killed at least 11 people, wounding many more.
4. President Obama switched to being a soccer dad, taking in a game whose players included seven-year-old daughter Sasha, whose team scored at one point, to the delight of the commander in chief.
- The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展，这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
- The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。
- This gadget isn't much good.这小机械没什么用处。
- She has invented a nifty little gadget for undoing stubborn nuts and bolts.她发明了一种灵巧的小工具用来松开紧固的螺母和螺栓。
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- In their anger they forget all the partisan quarrels.愤怒之中，他们忘掉一切党派之争。
- The numerous newly created partisan detachments began working slowly towards that region.许多新建的游击队都开始慢慢地向那里移动。