AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-08-12
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. Georgia's president says Russian troops have effectively cut the country in half. Troops have seized a strategic city that straddles the country's main east-west highway. Meantime, a State Department spokesman says the US wants to see the Russians stand down.
2. Six people were hospitalized after an early-morning fire ripped through three residential 1 buildings in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. Two responding police officers were treated on the scene for smoke inhalation. The Red Cross is helping 2 about 30 people who were left homeless.
3. Police in Montreal say they were trying to make an arrest when last night's rioting broke out. One police officer was shot, stores were looted and firefighters were pelted 3 with beer bottles. The rioting followed a peaceful protest a day after police shot three people, one fatally.
4. And this 700-pound man was once considered the world's most obese 4 person. Now for the first time in five months and with the aid of a forklift, Manuel Uribe has left his home. He traveled to the shore of a lake in northern Mexico without ever leaving his specially 5 designed bed.
- The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
- The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- The children pelted him with snowballs. 孩子们向他投掷雪球。
- The rain pelted down. 天下着大雨。
- The old man is really obese,it can't be healthy.那位老人确实过于肥胖了，不能算是健康。
- Being obese and lazy is dangerous to health.又胖又懒危害健康。