AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-07
时间：2019-02-03 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(八)月
1. Four people are dead and at least ten others have been wounded in a shooting at a suburban 1 Pittsburg health club. A local police superintendent 2 says the gunman walked right into the room where the shootings occurred as if he knew exactly where he was going. He is among the death.
2. Two American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee left North Korea with former president Bill Clinton and will be back in the US soon. The women have been serving stiff sentences for illegal entry and engaging in hostile act. But North Korea says its leader Kim Jong Il has given them a special pardon.
3. The US Senate has begun debate over whether to confirm Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic associate justice of the Supreme 3 Court. Republicans have been saying she's "too biased 4" while Democrats 5 are saying she's moderate. A vote could come as early as Thursday.
4. Paula Abdul has announced she's quitting "American Idol 6". In July, she said she was optimistic she could negotiate a new contract. But Tuesday, she made a posting on Twitter saying "with sadness in my heart, I decided 7 not to return."
- Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
- There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。
- He was soon promoted to the post of superintendent of Foreign Trade.他很快就被擢升为对外贸易总监。
- He decided to call the superintendent of the building.他决定给楼房管理员打电话。
- It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
- He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
- a school biased towards music and art 一所偏重音乐和艺术的学校
- The Methods: They employed were heavily biased in the gentry's favour. 他们采用的方法严重偏袒中上阶级。
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- As an only child he was the idol of his parents.作为独子，他是父母的宠儿。
- Blind worship of this idol must be ended.对这个偶像的盲目崇拜应该结束了。