AP美联社一分钟新闻(2010-06-04)
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2010(六月)
1. BP says if all goes well, the spewing oil well in the Gulf 1 of Mexico could be contained sometime today. BP is using robots to slice away a broken pipe so engineers can put a cap over the well's opening. At the same time, the Justice Department has opened criminal and civil investigations 2 into the rig explosion and oil spill.
2. Afghan President Hamid Karzai is hosting a peace conference, appealing to the Taliban to make peace, saying that will lead to the departure of foreign troops from the country. But as the conference began, security forces had to battle Taliban suicide attackers. Officials say two of the suicide attackers were killed.
3. Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists 3 detained in the Israeli raid on the Gaza-aid flotilla have arrived in Jordan. The 124 activists crossed the Jordan River early Wednesday aboard five Israeli buses. Most of the activists come from countries without diplomatic ties with Israel.
4. Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has announced he's resigning. He made the announcement today after breaking a campaign promise to move a US marine 4 base off the southern island of Okinawa. The prime minister was facing growing pressure from within his own party to resign ahead of July elections.
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
- His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
- He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》