美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2015-6-8
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2015(六)月
英语课
1. Former Texas Rick Perry has entered the Republican presidential race in a re-do of his failed 2012 bid. His entry brings the number of major candidates vying 1 for the GOP prize to 11 so far.
2. Delaware residents gathered at the state capitol to pay their respects to former attorney general Beau Biden. Beau Biden lay in honor in the Senate chamber 2 following a procession from Wilmington to Dover. Biden, eldest 3 son of vice 4 president Joe Biden, died of brain cancer Saturday at age 46.
3. Pro-Russia separatist fighters were being treated in a hospital at rebel-held area of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine following heavy fighting against Ukrainian troops. A major battle erupted on the western edge of the main separatist stronghold a day earlier, the most severe in months.
4. A bear cub 5 is making its way back home to the wild after being badly burned in a Washington wildfire last year. The two-and-half-old cub Cinder 6 was found by rescue team burned and missing claws in the largest wildfire in Washington State's history.
adj.竞争的；比赛的
- California is vying with other states to capture a piece of the growing communications market.为了在日渐扩大的通讯市场分得一杯羹，加利福尼亚正在和其他州展开竞争。
- Four rescue plans are vying to save the zoo.4个拯救动物园的方案正争得不可开交。
n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所
- For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
- The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。
adj.最年长的，最年老的
- The King's eldest son is the heir to the throne.国王的长子是王位的继承人。
- The castle and the land are entailed on the eldest son.城堡和土地限定由长子继承。
n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的
- He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
- They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
n.幼兽，年轻无经验的人
- The lion cub's mother was hunting for what she needs. 这只幼师的母亲正在捕猎。
- The cub licked the milk from its mother's breast. 这头幼兽吸吮着它妈妈的奶水。