美联社新闻一分钟 2008-05-13
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(五)月
1. Rescue workers in central China are frantically 1 searching for survivors 2 in rubble 3 like this. Heavy rain continues to fall in the area after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake killed about 10,000 people. Chinese officials say there is a push to clear roads and restore electricity as soon as possible.
2. It's been a spring plagued by strong storms. Severe weather in Missouri, Oklahoma, Georgia and Alabama has killed at least 26 people. In Maryland, one emergency official says the state is experiencing possibly its worst flooding in five years.
3. The Democratic presidential hopefuls are making their final push as voters go to the polls Tuesday in West Virginia's primary. While Barack Obama leads in both pledged and super delegates in the fight for the nomination 4, Hillary Rodham Clinton expects a big win in the Mountain State.
4. And next time you stop to smell the roses, they could be less fragrant 5. A group of scientists now say pollution is tainting 6 the molecular 7 build-up that causes a flower to smell so sweet.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.Mountain State: 【俚】山峦州(美国西弗吉尼亚别名)
A molecule is the smallest amount of a chemical substance which can exist by itself. Molecular means relating to or involving molecules 9.
- He dashed frantically across the road. 他疯狂地跑过马路。
- She bid frantically for the old chair. 她发狂地喊出高价要买那把古老的椅子。
- The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
- survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
- After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
- After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
- John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
- Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
- The Fragrant Hills are exceptionally beautiful in late autumn.深秋的香山格外美丽。
- The air was fragrant with lavender.空气中弥漫薰衣草香。
- The research will provide direct insight into molecular mechanisms.这项研究将使人能够直接地了解分子的机理。
- For the pressure to become zero, molecular bombardment must cease.当压强趋近于零时，分子的碰撞就停止了。
- A molecule of water is made up of two atoms of hygrogen and one atom of oxygen.一个水分子是由P妈̬f婘̬ 妈̬成的。
- This gives us the structural formula of the molecule.这种方式给出了分子的结构式。