AP 2012-03-08
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2012(三月)
英语课
1. President Barack Obama is meeting with Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two met for several hours at the White House with Iran's nuclear program being a major discussion point. Netanyahu said Israel is a sovereign nation with the right to defend itself.
2. Riot police in Moscow broke up an effort by protesters to occupy a downtown square. Dozens of people were arrested. They were challenging Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's victory yesterday in Russia's presidential election.
3. A blanket of wet snow is covering Henryville, Indiana and other parts of the region that was hit hard by Friday's tornadoes 1. A state official says 2-4 inches of snow will probably slow the clean-up effort. The storms that devastated 2 parts of five states claimed 39 lives.
4. A double-headed tortoise born five years ago in a zoo in Ukraine was on display in an exhibition at the Kiev science museum. The Central Asian Steppe tortoise has two heads, six legs, two hearts and two lungs, but only one tail and one stomach.
n.龙卷风，旋风( tornado的名词复数 )
- Tornadoes, severe earthquakes, and plagues create wide spread havoc. 龙卷风、大地震和瘟疫成普遍的毁坏。 来自互联网
- Meteorologists are at odds over the working of tornadoes. 气象学者对龙卷风的运动方式看法不一。 来自互联网
v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词)；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮adj.毁坏的；极为震惊的
- The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
- His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。