美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-09-18
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2013(九月)
英语课
1. Secretary of State John Kerry opened two days of meetings with his Russian counterpart in Geneva Thursday. They hope to settle on the outlines of a plan to secure and destroy Syrian chemical weapons stockpiles and avoid US strikes.
2. In Colorado, at least three people are dead and some mountain communities left isolated 1 after heavy rain sent walls of water crashing down mountainsides early Thursday. Boulder 2 County was hit the hardest, as the flooding forced people from their homes and caused mud and rockslides.
3. The US government posted a narrower budget deficit 3 in August compared with a year ago, keeping the annual gap on track to be the smallest in five years.
4. And NASA says its Voyager 1 probe has crossed a new frontier, becoming the first spacecraft to leave the solar system. Thirty-six years after it was launched from Earth, the plutonium-powered probe is more than 11.5 billion miles from the Sun.
adj.与世隔绝的
- His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
- Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
n.巨砾；卵石，圆石
- We all heaved together and removed the boulder.大家一齐用劲，把大石头搬开了。
- He stepped clear of the boulder.他从大石头后面走了出来。