AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-08-02
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(八)月
1.An army scientist committed suicide before federal prosecutors 1 could charge him with mailing anthrax-laced letters after the 9/11 attacks. Authorities say that the letters may have been part of a warped 2 plan by Bruce Ivins to test a vaccine 3 for the deadly poison. Five people died after being exposed to the toxin 4.
2.The manhunt for the gunman who opened fire on a group of swimmers at the Wisconsin-Michigan border has ended with the arrest of a suspect. Three teens and another man were killed in Thursday's attack. Police say it's still not clear why Scott Johnson allegedly shot the swimmers.
3.A man charged with stabbing and beheading a fellow Greyhound bus passenger appeared in court. Prosecutors in Canada asked for a psychiatric assessment 5 for the 40-year-old man accused of stabbing the victim dozens of times and then severing 7 the victim's head, displaying it and attempting to cut up the body.
4.It's enormous, but is it the world's largest egg? Cuban officials say a one-year-old hen laid the egg which weighs nearly 6.5 ounces.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.mail [transitive]v. especially American English
to send a letter or package to someone [= post British English]
2.anthrax [uncountable]n.
a serious disease affecting cattle and sheep, which can affect humans
3.lace
be lace with something
written to have some of a quality
4.warped adj.
someone who is warped has ideas or thoughts that most people think are unpleasant or not normal:
e.g.
a warped mind
You really have a warped sense of humour (=think strange and unpleasant things are funny).
5.toxin [countable]n.
a poisonous substance, especially one that is produced by bacteria and causes a particular disease
6.stab past tense and past participle stabbed, present participle stabbing [transitive]v.
to push a knife into someone or something
7.behead[transitive]v.
to cut off someone's head as a punishment
8.Greyhound bus灰狗巴士
Greyhound Lines is an intercity common carrier of passengers by bus serving over 3,700 destinations in the United States. It was founded in Hibbing, Minnesota, USA, in 1914 and incorporated as "Greyhound Corporation" in 1929. Today, it is headquartered in Dallas, Texas (United States operations) and Calgary, Alberta (Canadian operations), and is a subsidiary of the British bus operator FirstGroup plc.
9.psychiatric adj.
relating to the study and treatment of mental illness
10.sever 6 formal[intransitive and transitive]v.
to cut through something completely, separating it into two parts, or to become cut in this way
- In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
- You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
- a warped sense of humour 畸形的幽默感
- The board has warped. 木板翘了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
- She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。
- Experts have linked this condition to a build-up of toxins in the body.专家已把这一病症与体内毒素的积累联系起来。
- Tests showed increased levels of toxin in shellfish.检验表明水生有壳动物的毒素水平提高了。
- This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
- What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何？
- She wanted to sever all her connections with the firm.她想断绝和那家公司的所有联系。
- We must never sever the cultural vein of our nation.我们不能割断民族的文化血脉。