AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-08-14
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. Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney has died. Police say a suspect burst into Gwatney's office and fired three shots. Gwatney, a former state senator and Democratic superdelegate died at the hospital. The suspect also died after a 30-mile chase with police.
2. President Bush is demanding that Russia honor a ceasefire and end all military action in the former Soviet 1 Republic of Georgia. He also announced he's sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Paris to assist the West's diplomatic efforts on the crisis. Rice says that Russia must end military operations in Georgia now.
3. Fort Lauderdale Fire-Rescue crews rescued two workers after a scaffolding fell at a high-rise building. The rescuers had to rappel from the roof down the side of the building to save the two men left hanging by their safety harnesses. It's not known what caused the scaffolding to collapse 2.
4. Republican John McCain's wife has been treated for a “minor sprain” after someone at a campaign event in Michigan shook her hand firmly. A campaign spokeswoman says Cindy McCain had X-rays after an enthusiastic supporter squeezed a little bit too much. McCain's wife has had previous surgeries for carpal tunnel syndrome 3.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online
Merriam-Webster Online
1. honor: v.
to do what you have agreed to do.
2. scaffolding: n. 脚手架
a set of poles and boards that are built into a structure for workers to stand on when they are working on the outside of a building.
3. rappel: v.
to go down a cliff or rock by sliding down a rope and touching 4 the rock or cliff with your feet.
4. harness: n.
a set of bands used to hold someone in a place or to stop them from falling.
5. carpal tunnel syndrome: n. 【医】腕管综合症
a medical condition in which you have a lot of pain and weakness in your wrist.
- 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。
- The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
- The Institute says that an unidentified virus is to blame for the syndrome. 该研究所表示,引起这种综合症的是一种尚未确认的病毒。
- Results indicated that 11 fetuses had Down syndrome. 结果表明有11个胎儿患有唐氏综合征。