美联社新闻一分钟 2008-05-16
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. The California Supreme 1 Court overturns a ban on gay marriage, making it the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry. The justices say domestic partnerships 2 already allowed are not a good enough substitute for marriage.
2. Wildfires that burned thousands of acres in Florida may have been sparked by a Molotov cocktail 3. A 31-year-old man in police custody 4 says he tossed a cigarette out of his car, but an eyewitness 5 told police the man threw a large object, the glass bottle with an accelerant.
3. Barack Obama says comments President Bush made to the Israeli parliament about appeasing 6 terrorists and radicals 7 is a false political attack on him. The White House says the comments by Bush were not directed at Obama.
4. These pandas are on the move in China after the devastating 8 earthquake that rattled 9 the country. All the pandas are safe. The quake hit the world's most famous panda preserve in Wolong with 86 of the creatures.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. Molotov cocktail: n. 莫洛托夫鸡尾酒瓶炸弹(用一瓶汽油和引燃布条等制成)
An incendiary bomb made from a breakable container, such as a bottle, filled with flammable liquid and provided with a rag wick. Used by the Soviets 11 against the invading German armies in World War II, these bombs were nicknamed after V. M. Molotov, a foreign minister of the Soviet 10 Union at that time.
- 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。
- Partnerships suffer another major disadvantage: decision-making is shared. 合伙企业的另一主要缺点是决定要由大家来作。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
- It involved selling off limited partnerships. 它涉及到售出有限的合伙权。 来自辞典例句
- We invited some foreign friends for a cocktail party.我们邀请了一些外国朋友参加鸡尾酒会。
- At a cocktail party in Hollywood,I was introduced to Charlie Chaplin.在好莱坞的一次鸡尾酒会上，人家把我介绍给查理·卓别林。
- He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
- He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。
- The police questioned several eyewitness to the murder.警察询问了谋杀案的几位目击者。
- He was the only eyewitness of the robbery.他是那起抢劫案的唯一目击者。
- Mr. Chamberlain had cherished the hope of appeasing and reforming him and leading him to grace. 张伯伦先生则满心想安抚他，感化他，教他温文知礼。
- A pleasing preacher is too often an appeasing preacher. 一昧讨好的传道人通常是姑息妥协的传道人。
- Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals. 一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The worry is that the radicals will grow more intransigent. 现在人们担忧激进分子会变得更加不妥协。 来自辞典例句
- It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
- Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
- The truck jolted and rattled over the rough ground. 卡车嘎吱嘎吱地在凹凸不平的地面上颠簸而行。
- Every time a bus went past, the windows rattled. 每逢公共汽车经过这里，窗户都格格作响。
- Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
- Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。