美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-02-06
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2013(二月)
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1. The National Rifle Association and gun control advocates are facing off at a Senate hearing on curbing 1 gun violence. The NRA says it favors enforcing exsisting gun laws. Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' husband will be testifying for gun curbs 2.
2. South Korea has carried out its first successful lauch of a satellite from its own soil. Today's launch comes weeks after North Korea sucessfully launched its own satellite.
3. Police in southern Alabama are trying to negotiate with a man who's holding a 6-year-old boy hostage. Authorities say the gunman got on a school bus Tuesday, shot the driver several times, grabbed the child and took off. The bus driver later died.
4. Andrew Borakove left Los Angeles and a job as a television comedy writer. Now he may be the world's pre-eminent gong dealer 3 - selling hundreds of gongs, stands and gong-banging mallets a year from his home in Lincoln, Nebraska.
n.边石，边石的材料v.限制，克制，抑制( curb的现在分词 )
- Progress has been made in curbing inflation. 在控制通货膨胀方面已取得了进展。
- A range of policies have been introduced aimed at curbing inflation. 为了抑制通货膨胀实施了一系列的政策。
v.限制，克制，抑制( curb的第三人称单数 )
- In executing his functions he is not bound by any legal curbs on his power. 在他履行职务时，他的权力是不受任何法律约束的。 来自辞典例句
- Curbs on air travel were being worked out and would shortly be announced. 限制航空旅行的有关规定正在拟定中，不久即将公布。 来自辞典例句