美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2016-9-05
时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(九)月
This is AP news minute.
1. Residents up and down the east coast are bracing 1 for Hermine, after the storm tore through Florida early Friday, killing 2 one person, damaging property and cutting power to hundreds of thousands.
2. Former Stanford university swimmer Brock Tuner was released from jail Friday, after just serving half of a six-month sentence for rape 3, a sentence critics denounced as too lenient 4.
3. Samsung has suspended sales of its Galaxy 5 Note 7 smartphone after some of the phone's batteries exploded, as they were being charged. The company says affected 6 customers will be able to get an exchange.
4. Tens of thousands worshipers will be filling St.Peter square in just few hours, to witness the canonization of mother Teresa as a saint. Pope Francis will lead the canonization mass for the Nobel peace prize winner who died in 1997.
Ned Baker 7, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.
- The country is bracing itself for the threatened enemy invasion. 这个国家正准备奋起抵抗敌人的入侵威胁。
- The atmosphere in the new government was bracing. 新政府的气氛是令人振奋的。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
- He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。
- The judge was lenient with him.法官对他很宽大。
- It's a question of finding the means between too lenient treatment and too severe punishment.问题是要找出处理过宽和处罚过严的折中办法。
- The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
- The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。
- She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
- His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。