AP 2010-03-11
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2010(三月)
[1] Iraqis are looking forward to Sunday's elections, but some fear possible chaos 1. The vote is Iraq's second nationwide election and comes at a vastly different time than the first in 2005. US troops have all but vanished from streets, but attacks continue and militants 2 have threatened to target voters.
[2] UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has toured the heavily-damaged Chilean city of Concepcion. Firefighters showed him a 15-storey apartment building that had split and collapsed 3, killing 4 nine people. Ban says the international community will provide field hospitals, temporary bridges and other aid.
[3] President Barack Obama is turning up the heat for health care overhaul 5 again, using his weekly radio and Internet address to try to convince a skeptical 6 public of the need for his plan. He balked 7 Republicans' calls to start from scratch.
[4] Hundreds of sled dogs and thousands of fans lined up along Anchorage's 4th Avenue for the ceremonial start to the 1,100-mile Iditarod Dog Race. The actual competition starts on Sunday.
- After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
- The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
- Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
- The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- Master Worker Wang is responsible for the overhaul of this grinder.王师傅主修这台磨床。
- It is generally appreciated that the rail network needs a complete overhaul.众所周知，铁路系统需要大检修。
- Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
- Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。