AP 2010-12-10
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2010(十二月)
1. Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former vice 1 presidential candidate John Edwards, has died following a six-year battle with cancer. Her family released a statement Monday, saying her doctors determined 2 any further treatment would be ineffective. She was 61 years old.
2. Amid criticism from fellow Democrats 3 that he caved in to GOP demands. President Barack Obama says a compromise on the Bush-era tax cuts keeps his 2008 promise to protect the middle class from higher tax rates. He vowed 4 Tuesday to fight any long-term protection for the wealthy.
3. WikiLeaks says the legal troubles of its founder 5 and money woes 6 won't stop the flow of secret US diplomatic cables. Julian Assange has been jailed in Britain as he fights extradition 7 to Sweden on sex crime allegations. Extradition could take as many as two months.
4. It's not your grandparent's dreidel song, but this Hanukkah tune 8, put together by a New York a cappella group, is lighting 9 up YouTube. The video has gotten well over two million hits since it was first posted just over a week ago.
- He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
- They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
- I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
- He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
- I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
- He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
- According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
- Thanks for listening to my woes. 谢谢您听我诉说不幸的遭遇。
- She has cried the blues about its financial woes. 对于经济的困难她叫苦不迭。
- The smuggler is in prison tonight,awaiting extradition to Britain.这名走私犯今晚在监狱，等待引渡到英国。
- He began to trouble concerning the extradition laws.他开始费尽心思地去想关于引渡法的问题。
- He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
- The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。