AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-08-04
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. The Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church held a memorial service in honor of the two people killed in a shooting rampage a week ago. Six others were hurt. The suspect in the case is due in court Tuesday.
2. A British man who was attacked during his Caribbean honeymoon 1 has died. Benjamin Mullany was declared dead at a Wales hospital. He and his wife Catherine were attacked last week while they vacationed in Antigua, she was killed immediately.
3. One hundred and forty-five people were killed in a stampede at a Hindu temple in northern India. The pilgrims were attending a nine-day religious festival. Dozens of people fell over the edge of a mountain path when a railing gave way.
4. Brett Farve will return to the Green Bay Packers' roster 2 effective Monday afternoon. Farve announced his retirement 3 in March. The NFL commissioner 4 held off on granting Farve's request for reinstatement for nearly a week, hoping he and the team would resolve their differences.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. Unitarian Universalism: n. 一位论-普救派
A religious association of Christian 5 origin that has no official creed 6 and that considers God to be unipersonal, salvation 7 to be granted to the entire human race, and reason and conscience to be the criteria 8 for belief and practice.
2. stampede: n.
If a lot of people all do the same thing at the same time, you can describe it as a stampede.
3. Hindu: adj.
Hindu is used to describe things that belong or relate to Hinduism(印度教).
4. railing: n.
A fence made from metal bars is called a railing or railings.
5. roster: n.
a list of the names of people on a sports team, in an organization etc.
6. hold off: v.
If you hold off doing something, you delay doing it or delay making a decision about it.
7. reinstatement: n.
Reinstatement is the act of giving someone back a job or position which has been taken away from them.
- While on honeymoon in Bali,she learned to scuba dive.她在巴厘岛度蜜月时学会了带水肺潜水。
- The happy pair are leaving for their honeymoon.这幸福的一对就要去度蜜月了。
- The teacher checked the roster to see whom he would teach this year.老师查看花名册，想了解今年要教的学生。
- The next day he put himself first on the new roster for domestic chores.第二天，他把自己排在了新的家务值日表的第一位。
- She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
- I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。
- The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
- He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
- They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
- His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
- They offended against every article of his creed.他们触犯了他的每一条戒律。
- Our creed has always been that business is business.我们的信条一直是公私分明。
- Salvation lay in political reform.解救办法在于政治改革。
- Christians hope and pray for salvation.基督教徒希望并祈祷灵魂得救。