美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2011-01-13
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2011(一月)
1. A surgeon says Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords is able to communicate after being shot in the head yesterday. The doctor says Giffords responded to doctors' commands. The gunshot went through the left side of her head. Surgeons worked to reduce pressure from swelling 1 in the brain by removing bone fragments.
2. A millennium 2 mourn about some of the other victims. Nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green was one of six people killed. She was born September 11, 2001, featured in a book that chronicled one baby from each state born on that day.
3. An IranAir passenger jet carrying around 100 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing and broke into several pieces. Iran's official news agency says 70 people died while 32 survived.
4. Pope Benedict marked the end of the Christmas season by baptizing 21 newborns. The intimate ceremony took place in the Sistine Chapel 3.
- Use ice to reduce the swelling. 用冰敷消肿。
- There is a marked swelling of the lymph nodes. 淋巴结处有明显的肿块。
- The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.全世界都在倒计时迎接新千年的到来。
- We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.我们静候着时钟滴答走过千年的最后几秒钟。