AP 2009-09-08
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(九)月
1.The White House says environmental adviser 1 Van Jones quit because of the controversy 2 over his past inflammatory statements. Spokesman Robert Gibbs says Jones didn't want to get in the way of the president's agenda. Jones said opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear 3 campaign against him.
2.Afghan President Hamid Karzai has 48.6% of the votes counted so far in last month's election. Top challenger Abdullah Abdullah has 30.1%. Karzai needs more than 50% to the final vote count to avoid a second round. Election officials say they've thrown out the results from 447 polling sites because of fraud allegations.
3.Seven of the eight people killed in a Brunswick, Georgia mobile home have been laid to rest. The brother of the man charged in the killings 4 insists he did not commit the crimes.
4.A 747 may have the horsepower advantage but it wasn't enough to win the battle against a Porsche race car. The two faced off on the tarmac at Singapore's airport. The event kicked off a series of races in Singapore.
- They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
- Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
- That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
- We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
- He has been spreading false stories in an attempt to smear us.他一直在散布谎言企图诽谤我们。
- There's a smear on your shirt.你衬衫上有个污点。