美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2016-7-10
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2016(七)月
This is AP News Minute.
An army veteran killed by Dallas police after the sniper's slayings of 5 policemen said that he wanted to kill white officers and that he acted alone. The shootings happened during a protest in response to the slayings of 2 black men by police earlier this week. Both were videotaped and widely distrubuted online.
President Barack Obama said that Americans are, quote, horrified 1 ver the events in Dallas, and that those responsible would be held fully 2 accountable. He spoke 3 from Warsaw where he was holding talks with NATO and European Union leaders.
And an attack on a Shiite shrine 4 north of Baghdad killed 37 people overnight Thursday with 62 people wounded. Civilians 5 had gathered inside the shrine to celebrate the end of Ramadan. The attack comes less than a week after a truck bombing in the capital that killed at least186 people. The Islamic State group claimed responibility for both.
The Barbarshop Harmony Society's international convention is underway in Nashville. And thousands of singers have descended 6 on the city for the cappella musical competition dating back to 1939.
Noreen Nasir, Associated Press with AP News Minute.
- The whole country was horrified by the killings. 全国都对这些凶杀案感到大为震惊。
- We were horrified at the conditions prevailing in local prisons. 地方监狱的普遍状况让我们震惊。
- The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
- They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
- They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。
- the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
- At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。